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NeedsMaintenance_ t1_jaohww8 wrote

Reply to comment by StoviesAreYummy in TIFU by being a boy by [deleted]

100% agreed. OP clearly believes the old "boys will be boys" crap.

u/Still_Ad5703, if you want to be a man, dispense with that idiotic nonsense ASAP.

We all have our shit, but blaming it on anyone or anything other than ourselves is often worse than the thing we've done, and that attitude provides us with all the excuse needed to do even worse things.

YOU did this, not your Y chromosome. Stop using your gender as an excuse. You're obviously young so I assume someone is teaching you this garbage in some way. "Boys will be boys" is a lie.

Time to own your shit, stop blaming it on everything else.

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NeedsMaintenance_ t1_j6id1ub wrote

I mean, ya fuck the CEO and Home Depot for this.

But this isn't the place and you're just being obnoxious, you're being the person who just can't help but scream their moral outrage everytime someone does something you don't like.

OP isn't to blame for what rich assholes are doing.

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NeedsMaintenance_ t1_j54ogl3 wrote

Sorry, you just seem childish to me; nothing in your reply to me has changed my mind.

He said something that sounded like "I don't care" probably because he doesn't.

He doesn't have to, either. It isn't his job to manage your feelings, he manages the people that work for your company.

>I believe that I am the one that is not being taken seriously even though I can be on almost every position and I am being used.

Most people feel that way, which is why that other commenter accused you of main character syndrome. I'd love for my employer to give me choicier assignments and take me more seriously than they do. But that shit is earned, not entitled. The sooner you accept that, the happier you will be.

And yes you are being used, that's how employment works. The exchange is your time for whatever paid compensation you and your employer agreed to. As long as the employer is paying you, they get to use you for the time that's on your contract.

Unless you have legitimate medical reasons for not doing a task, any request you make for a different task is just that - a request; one they're entitled to decline.

Your only other option is to quit and maybe you can find a job that suits you, but you're being silly with all your moaning.

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NeedsMaintenance_ t1_j530fx4 wrote

You do seem young.

You're going to get shit assignments, especially if you're lower in seniority, and you're going to get them often.

It's not fair, I guess, but it's generally how things work; I've never been in a work place where that hasn't been true.

Part of how you get better assignments is, yes wait to gain some seniority, but also to just do the work without complaining.

A lot of managers also (rightfully imo) operate under the belief that if a worker can't handle the worst assignments (which still need to be done), then why should they get the best ones?

And sometimes shit just isn't fair. There could be reasons you don't know about as to why you got assigned the crappy job twice in a row, suck it up. If it becomes an ongoing problem for a longer time then you've maybe got an argument for being picked on. As far as I'm concerned, you're being silly right now.

Attitude gets noticed at work, and you often get treated accordingly. Try growing up a little, maybe you'll start seeing a change in how things are for you in the workplace.

Your FU wasn't signing the thing, it was having a shitty attitude.

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NeedsMaintenance_ t1_j2beun5 wrote

I agree with you, and I've definitely had moments where I've questioned the necessity of something Butcher has thrown into Harry's narrative to us.

That said, it has gotten better and so I think since such a big part of your point is that authors make their choices for and against things, it's only fair to point out that Butcher has made the choice to do better, and not sexualize characters as much.

The other thing is that Harry has a darker half, an alter-ego that we don't know tons about yet and apparenty will in Mirror, Mirror, but it's there; of impulse and drives and darkness. I suspect that Harry's rage and his lust problems are going to bite him in the ass soon, which is probably building towards a narrative of "these flaws of Harry's hurt him and those around him", just like they do to a person in real life. I think we're building towards realistic consequences for Harry's toxic traits.

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NeedsMaintenance_ t1_issn44n wrote

I'm so much more productive if I'm working while listening to something; podcast, music or audiobook.

If I get bored, my mind wanders.

When my mind is wandering, my productivity drops.

If I'm listening to something, I'm not bored, my mind doesn't wander and productivity is great.

I also have depression and anxiety, so if just left to my thoughts, the bad ones start to seep in eventually.

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