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alternative post title: how can I grow a thicker skin, so I simply stop caring what my coworkers think or say?...

cross-posted from: lemmygrad.ml/post/5093256...

basically I’m the quiet one and even though she never was my supervisor, she acted like it. I was doing my job and she kept pestering me to help her with something she could do alone. I told her to wait, she kept calling me. I ignored her to do my job, she kept calling until I exploded:...

what bad thing is going to happen at night, that they feel the need to expend the energy

Well since I’ve been mostly in customer service jobs I’d like for people to know that the reps don’t make the rules or decisions. When there is something about a store or service that’s undesirable such as prices then it’s something to bring up to upper management or just let them lose you as a customer. But you can be...

If you had to recommend only one piece from the linked library, what would it be and why? I keep seeing (really good) Rosa Luxemburg quotes but I have never read her.

Basically, I currently work in a digital cinema company as a helpdesk for them and the job pays ok but is pretty stable as my colleagues have all been there for years. I have an interview soon for a FAANG company to be on their IT Helpdesk. It’s a job that will give me a lot of good experience, but it is a 6 month contract...

I have recently started using RSS feeds to get news and other information. It is quite time-saving....

Feel free to share any life experiences or anecdotes.

I’m visiting extended family for the first time in a long time, and one of my nieces has reached the impressionable age where she keeps mimicking things that she sees me do. what’s a really funny but fairly harmless thing I should teach her to do?

My friends keep begging me to go swimming at this location. I’ve been told by locals that it’s not a wise decision. I was wondering how I can tell? I don’t think it’s about bacteria, but more there are a ton of boats, planes and former industrial waste in the area. Can I tell from these tests?...

I am low on money these days and my life is hell for it. I have to do with substandard everything in my life I recently had an incident where an elderly woman asked me for money while roaming the street with her family begging for money. I had no money to spare, but had I had any, I wouldn’t have given a penny to her (Life is...

cross-posted from: linux.community/post/1144192...

I’m trying to get a gauge of what people here are interested in.

I have heard a few different strategies for this. For example “Upvote everything, even if you disagree with it, if it contributes to discussion”. But my concern with this strategy is that it means the first posted comments just get upvoted the highest regardless of their quality relative to other comments (as all comments...

Would you be horrified, that some furred abomination is walking around on the streets and commit to the 40K way of cleansing them?...

What are some passive aggressive signals or signs you see? Could be from co workers, strangers, that supposed friendly baker last week....

I’ve actually skipped work just to help a homeless guy get his beard trimmed. Bought him pizza too. Kinda hard to get anywhere in life when you look like shit....