(Probably) Not Wrong

Fucking Tories.

wanderlogged:

I think one of the PMs is trying to kill us. He keeps making calls longer and cutting breaks and talking to us on breaks about work and just not letting up. The guy is falling apart but he’s going to try and take us with him. And the schedule for next week is ludicrous too; two days in a row with 9.5 hour calls with a meal penalty (meaning no meal break).

Guh. If the hours/commuting don’t kill me, I need to think of something awesome to do with all this overtime.

Yeah—that’ll be David Cameron. And that’s pretty much how things have been since the Coalition formed. 

dlynnm:

“conference and event planning specialist” and “communications specialist” (AKA A WRITER) jobs posted in the marketing department today.

TELL ME WHAT TO DO, PEOPLE. do i apply just in case? can i just do ALL the jobs? ugh. such great opportunities while i’m the middle of (hopefully) taking another.

Oh, apply absolutely, of course! There are no just-in-case situations when looking for the next rung of the latter. Never base an employment or job search on something that might come through. That’s true in even a good job market, and especially in this one.

Look at it this way:  Even if you’d been in the new position for quite some time, the most you’d be expected to give is a two-week notice.  Once you’re in on a contract basis as senior management or partnership—Vice President and up—that extends to one week’s notice for each year you’ve been with them.

Most companies use a rule of thumb that an employee takes around six months before they begin operating past the break-even point of their training investment. So…if you find you’re ever in a position of leaving a job before you’ve been in it six months, it’s usual to offer an extended notice, but not typical the company will insist on it—they’ll let you free sooner than that.

It doesn’t matter if the job is running a drive-through at a fast food franchise or Senior VP at Google. The rule is you don’t give someone grief about pursuing or taking a job that improves their standing, lives, or position. Every ethical company and manager operates this way. It’s also a fundamental truth in business that there’s an inverse relationship between what you pay your employees and how long they stay. If they don’t want their employees to be going elsewhere, they pay them enough to make their existing job more attractive than any other offers.

* There is only one exception: That’s when you have a contract or commitment with someone where they’ve invested in training, completion bonds, or project and you have agreed in exchange for that training you will stay for a minimum period so they get a return on investment.  But even in those cases there’s usually a buy-out price which can be negotiated.

bemusedlybespectacled:

if you ever think mythology is boring or serious business or whatever shit

just remember that cerberus, the hell-hound and guard dog of the underworld, comes from the root indo-european word ḱerberos, which evolved into the greek word kerberos, which got changed to cerberus when it went from greek to latin

ḱerberos means “spotted”

that’s right

hades, lord of the dead, literally fucking named his pet dog spot

Never underestimate human macular proclivities of canine nomenclature.

johnwatsonandjenniferjareau:

do you ever listen to broadway music and think

they just wrote a song about women killing their husbands

and its good

I bet there are more songs about women killing their husbands than we can ever know. Clytemnestra was onto something.

Entitled Generation: ME ME ME

ishouldbewhat:

This is something I wrote a long time ago, but it coincides with that post going around Tumblr with the TIME cover.






This phrase, this “entitled twenty something” moniker being thrust upon pretty much everyone in my peer group is getting out of fucking hand. At this point I’ve heard people who are barely thirty something use it, and that’s just sort of the straw that broke the camel’s back, isn’t it? Considering everyone who is thirty something is basically the bane of anyone who is fifty-something’s existence? What’s the tagline for these fucks, huh? If they’re not entitled, what are they? People who grew up in the 90s are what? Apathetic? No idea.

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Huge Payoff

I have hit a milestone. My classical Greek, which is still extremely wobbly, has risen to where perusing Sappho has blown my mind.

The translations don’t even start to show how brilliant these are. Sappho cuts exquisite diamonds and the translation says “colorful white rock.” Not to mention the Bowdlerizing of much of it.

I can see there’s still much going over my head, though—which makes learning more very exciting.