Write how someone finally snapped while working in retail and how they became the worlds greatest villain.
Saki From Retail, as she calls herself, became the world’s greatest villain.
Not because she ever ruled the world, or shrank the moon, or defeated every hero in her path. She’s still sorta new to this, even if she’s taking to it really well. But she’s well known as the world’s greatest villain… to work for.
Henchmen and henchwomen all over the world flock to her once news got out she wasn’t executing them for failures, that they got full benefits, dental, and a pretty fair cut of the profits. Working hours were really flexible, and even the more ridiculous demands were given a much more reasonable timeframe – even the top shark tank maker in the business has named her his favorite customer, because she actually understands it takes time to wrangle the best sharks, and to make those things shark-proof, and that sometimes the sharks just aren’t in the mood at the moment. She talks to her people like, well, people, even the janitors (especially Rodney, the guy who deals with radioactive waste, also one of the best in the business).
It’s not all roses, and she does lose her temper, but she’s still never executed a henchperson out of rage. She got betrayed once and flared up, interrogated him until she found out that his family was being threatened – she got the crew, rounded up the heroes threatening his family, let him push the button on the shark tank, and compensated him and his family for the trouble. That news got out, and now she’s got practically all of the henchpeople community rooting for her.
Of course, that sorta miffed the rest of the villains, and that’s how she got taken down, villains and heroes working together to take care of a shared inconvenience. They had her in the cell for about 2 days and then she got sprung out – by the whole friggin’ prison. Word is she’s already got her empire back up and running.
Speaking of which, there’s an opening if you want in.
Is um. Is there a listing on Indeed or does she have an application form on her own website or
Don’t feel bad if you’re sensitive to negative feedback because apparently after one particular bad review Hans Christian Andersen was found just sobbing while lying face down in the dirt
YOU LEFT OUT THE BEST PART THOUGH! HE WAS CRYING FACE DOWN IN THE DIRT IN CHARLES DICKENSEN´S YARD!!
WHERE HE HAD BEEN STAYING FOR WEEKS, LONG OVERSTAYING HIS WELCOME, AND WAS ANNOYING THE FUCK OUT OF DICKENS
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This is so unique, reblogging on the off chance anyone is interested!
These women must not get away with it. Here’s the link to the article.
Spread it like wildfire!
I think they thought this was a how to article.
I live in Kansas City and watch that news station. My family noticed she disappeared but of course it wasn’t until recently that we learned why.
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Well, that article definitely is a “conversation starter”
If I never hear the phrase “strategic tears” again it will be too soon.
That said, no one should have gotten fired over it.
We COULD have had a standard that off-the-job behavior and beliefs are irrelevant and you shouldn’t be fired for them… We could have.
But instead we have culture total war.
The problem with that is “Sue keeps saying Jewish people should be violently ethnic cleansed, but she waits until 5:01 pm to mention it, so we can’t do anything.”
I do think there’s some sort of sane middle ground where people can have controversial opinions in their downtime and in contexts where they don’t exist as A Representative Of [Company] but as a private individual, but where even in your off time horrifying displays of hate speech can lead to your boss deciding you’re not a good fit for the company.
I mean, there’s a pretty significant difference between saying “when this certain group of people does this certain behavior it pisses me off” even if there are legitimate issues that some people have with your take, and “this certain group of people should be killed off and/or enslaved and/or generally punished for existing”.
True. I just thought that “either we have the idea that off the job beliefs don’t matter at all or we have culture total war” was oversimplified.
On-air talent has a position of power within a TV station. As we’ve seen, people notice their absence, unlike some intern or editor or production assistant. That means she has a certain responsibility to avoid making a statement that says, in effect, that a whole class of people lacks valid feelings and only displays emotion as a cynical manipulative tactic aimed at her.
Now clearly she doesn’t have quite as much institutional power as she thought she did, seeing as she got fired, but she still had a wide set of tools with which to put those white women under her in their place. We really don’t know how many careers she stifled and human beings she immiserated by living out this bankrupt, self-flattering ideology.
The concept of “white women’s tears” is gaslighting: your feelings aren’t real, I’ll tell you what you actually feel. In romantic relationships, we can see how that can be toxic. In “discourse” it’s cheap point-scoring, especially in an online environment that rewards performance of pain. It’s an assertion free of content used to manipulate and belittle, which is why it’s so popular with Tweeters who build personal brands with over-the-top clapbacks at people who can’t or won’t clap back in turn.
That’s exactly how you don’t want someone with some power over people below her to think.
But I still don’t think it was a fireable offense.
First off: people shouldn’t be fired for private posts on Facebook. Social media has blurred the line between public and private action as it relates to your job, but we should reinforce it. This even goes for celebrities, for if we don’t see forgiveness practiced with celebrities, then who will we model it from?
Second off: These critics actually have something resembling a point wrt “white women tears.” They mangle it badly, but still, there’s a point.
The SJ-critical types have long noted that there is a certain power dynamic to someone being a “better victim” than you. If they are better at performing pain and sadness, and have other traits that make their sadness look narratively correct, rather than evidence of weakness and disgusting, then political fights with them can be frustrating and even scary. They can hurt you and you’re supposed to laugh it off, do the same to them, and you’re a criminal, etc. While many critics who have brought up this argument have been distasteful (because sometimes they were quite eager to harass people), it’s a phenomenon we should at least recognize and has explanatory power even over non-harassing disputes.
Articles like this are just people within SJ noticing that power dynamic too. However because you can’t really call out the pitfalls with a victim mentality in that movement, well, it has to be re-framed into identity-groups with aspects like “punching up” added. So it becomes a problem to be concerned about… but only for white women. And while the critique is originally about specific behavior, now it gets transmuted to being another group-trait, and treated with the viciousness of all arguments starting with “Group X does this bad thing…”
Third off: Critique of this behavior fails though when it assumes “because this is inconvenient and serves a purpose for my opponent, therefore it is fake and their feelings aren’t real.” All of the people people are reporting in the culture wars – right, left, fear of harassment, fear of social outrage mobs, even fear of immigrants and black helicopters – is real pain that can not be analyzed away by dismissing it as cynical and performative.
So, fun fact for all of you history dorks, but you know that legend about Cleopatra being so rich and trashy that she would drink her wine with crushed up pearls in it?
Pearls are mostly Calcium Carbonate. When they mix with acids (such as those in wine) they produce carbon dioxide like little balls of fancy alkaseltzer.
What Im saying is, call Cleopatra a trashy hoe all you want, but she was the trashy hoe who invented instant champagne. Bitch was living in 3018 while everyone else was in 18
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Just remembered that the first time I ever heard this story
about Cleopatra was in an article by a historian who’d been arguing with
another historian about whether or not it was true – Other Historian insisted
it was just a legend because pearls could not be dissolved in wine.
OP Historian eventually bought a couple of small cultured
pearls, dissolved them in wine or possibly wine vinegar (it did take a few days
at least), made a salad dressing and served it to Other Historian at a dinner
party as a gotcha.
“Folks, there’s nothing left from the Linguistics division. We lost all the indigenous languages collection: the recordings since 1958, the chants in all the languages for which there are no native speakers alive anymore, the Curt Niemuendaju archives: papers, photos, negatives, the original ethnic-historic-linguistic map localizing all the ethnic groups in Brazil, the only record that we had from 1945. The ethnological and archeological references of all ethnic groups in Brazil since the 16th century… An irreparable loss of our historic memory. It just hurts so much to see all in ashes.”
This is a tragedy. I know I have some folks that are indigenous or who work with indigenous languages and cultures. The Brazil Natural Museum folks are trying to reach out to anyone that might have pictures, documents, anything, in hopes of being able to rebuild at least something.
Mutuals, can you please reblog this even if it’s not really in line with your blog theme? This is really important and deserves to get spread around. Information and knowledge like this should not be lost, and this, well, I can’t think of a better word except tragedy. 😦
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