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Today, we might start to get some relief on the "floor vents smelling like the anus of Cerberus" problem.
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I'm so sorry! :(
e-Hugs!
EDIT: but with clothes on, dang it! *dressed*
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Today, we might start to get some relief on the "floor vents smelling like the anus of Cerberus" problem.
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Coincidentally, I have a (very mild) diarrhea today...
I don't recall having one in ages. I blame the meat I ate yesterday.
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So.
This is a big day.
I would be lying if I said I had not wished for or dreamed of this day for many years. My boss is an older Caribbean man and he ran my job just as an older Caribbean man might. There are aspects of my job that are very much mired in 2005 thinking, if not older. I have longed for modern technology to take a step into my workplace, although in some ways it may be too late to introduce the kind of thinking and practices that it would entail. Still, I hope to use his absence to try to make some positive changes.
That said, his departure is under something of a cloud. We were informed quite brusquely and in my opinion, unprofessionally at my job that we were considered to be part of the city employees who needed to be inoculated against COVID by the end of last month. I was waiting for a specific vaccine to hit the states that was dragging its feet, so I had no problem getting a more common vaccine that was more readily available. Because I got it when I did I'm supposed to get no small amount of reward money. However there are several people whom I work with who held to more negative theories regarding the vaccine and refused to get it. As a result, they are considered on unpaid leave until the end of this month, when they will be fired officially. My boss definitely left/ retired early because he didn't want to get this vaccine and is moving to a less vaccine restrictive state. Some hail him as a hero for doing so. Others don't. Right now, however, it means that I don't have a staff for my program beyond one person. Other programs attached to mine are in simular situations- one person is the head of TWO programs now actually. So I am not sure how this is all going to go. I can't do my job with just one other person on staff, it's physically impossible. Ditto the other programs. Some feel corporate is trying to merge all our programs into one gigantic thingie. Right now they would most definitely have a very good reason to do so. But I don't know if that is something I would be up for professionally. Which brings me to my second thing.
I did a phone interview with an organization similar to my second job last week. They liked what they heard and I have a second interview on Thursday. Which happens to be my dad's birthday. So whether or not I get this opportunity, I will see it as being a sign from him. There is a chance that this could very much be dream job territory, despite the unusual hours(11-7) and the fact that it is in the Bronx(whut). I am VERY excited, and I am very much looking forward to the second interview. But I cannot help but wonder what this all means for the job I have now. Would leaving now be awful? Treacherous? Or would it be just fine considering that noone other than my now former boss, a departed co-worker, and the guy who is starting to cover(temporarily? Permanently? Who knows?) former boss said ANYTHING to me, positive or negative, about the incident at work in September. Something about facing down someone with a knife and it being kinda...forgotten...has me feeling less than fanatically loyal to my job at the moment. But I guess that's a story for second interview day, after all, they could want a third interview before hiring me or just plain go with someone else. But that's all wrapped up on fate and dad I guess. For now, I am going to go to work for the very first time without my boss breathing down my neck for the first time in over a decade. Let's see what happens.
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Today, we might start to get some relief on the "floor vents smelling like the anus of Cerberus" problem.
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I'm so sorry! :(
e-Hugs!
EDIT: but with clothes on, dang it! *dressed*
Hey, I'm just happy that Miz Daisy finally agreed to get the problem looked at! Something is *happening*!
And she's paying for the plumber *even though we can't afford to pay our monthly rent/equity payment right now*.
Now, if WW could just get a Spocking job, life would be pretty sweet!
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So.
This is a big day.
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You are absolutely not a traitor for thinking about leaving now. You are doing what you need to do for your happiness, your future, your mental health.
And I'm praying you get it. Even if it means commuting to the Bronx.
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Today, we might start to get some relief on the "floor vents smelling like the anus of Cerberus" problem.
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Wooow...
...we had ONE sink draining under the house for a month and it was very, very bad.Can't imagine how much worse your situation is.
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So.
This is a big day.
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Job loyalty is a corporate construct to convince people to accept unacceptable conditions. If you're offered something better, leave and don't look back.
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Today, we might start to get some relief on the "floor vents smelling like the anus of Cerberus" problem.
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...wow.
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Today, we might start to get some relief on the "floor vents smelling like the anus of Cerberus" problem.
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I'm so sorry! :(
e-Hugs!
EDIT: but with clothes on, dang it! *dressed*
Hey, I'm just happy that Miz Daisy finally agreed to get the problem looked at! Something is *happening*!
And she's paying for the plumber *even though we can't afford to pay our monthly rent/equity payment right now*.
Now, if WW could just get a Spocking job, life would be pretty sweet!
here's hoping. Here's praying.
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Well, there's nothing unusual about it (almost exactly the right time of year), but to cheer up Freehold: It was 61°F in the living room this morning, meaning it's just about time to turn on the heat* for the winter.
*I already cleaned the heaters and lit the pilots, and we've run them a couple of times, but once the lows get into the 40s at night it's time to leave the heaters on overnight. Set at 58°F, but still turned on.
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Today, we might start to get some relief on the "floor vents smelling like the anus of Cerberus" problem.
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Just make sure the plumber checks for otyughs...also, glad that is getting fixed...guessing everyone's noses are too!
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So.
This is a big day.
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My advice? Go for it and good luck, and escape if you can. I'm debating similar exit strategies from my retail not-quite-prison. Even up to and including taking a 'pay cut' by going on Unemployment.
A couple of weeks ago they told us to order EXCESSIVE amounts of holiday related product, because if we 'didn't order it now, we we won't be able to later'.
We're supposed to be in a 'masks required' store. Well, the health of our customers and our team is Far Less Important to Management than 'getting the sale'. Management leads that charge by wearing their masks down nearly around their necks where they do jack-all if they actually coughed or sneezed.
So much so that they don't enforce the mask rule (and sent tens of thousands of masks we special ordered so we could keep the customers masked on request because it was hitting us in inventory dollars back to the warehouse).
So much so that they're complaining about productivity and lack of customer service because we try to step away and maintain social distancing from customers and they're offended because we try to maintain that distance on our own.
A decade ago, a particularly noxious manager (who is no longer with the Company) told me to apologize to someone who had jabbed me with a box cutter (rather than review it on camera or even take my word over the customer despite having a cut that was bleeding).
At the time, the job was more important than that incremental destruction of self.
Now? I'm not alone in saying I'm sick and tired of being treated like crap, and it has only gotten worse since that time.
Loyalty is a precious commodity that Management likes to squander like it's toilet paper in a non-pandemic time.
No. If you get something good, RUN... no... SPRINT to it. May the winds carry you safely!
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We might not have been paid well at Toys R Us but at least we were treated like people.
I credit the management team , there were a couple that were annoying but they were all good people.
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Have I mentioned how incensed I get with poorly-implemented network stacks?
I think Bose now wins the, "Your entire network programming staff should be fired," award:
(1) Power goes out
(2) Power comes back on
(3) Bose boots in 20 seconds; network router takes over 120 seconds to boot
(4) Bose sends out a DHCP request, doesn't get a response, flags itself as offline, and permanently gives up.
Yep. That's right. Hours later. Days later. Doesn't matter. The Bose has decided it doesn't have a network connection and nothing you can say will convince it otherwise. Every time our power goes out, I have to wait for the network router to fully boot, then unplug the Bose for at least 30 seconds to let it forget its failed network request, then plug it back in.
Just...
...wow...
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Eve texted me today to let me know that Hermione's horse is dying.
Combination of old age (he's almost 30) and Cushing's disease.
And, thanks to WW, she won't get to see him to say goodbye.
And of course she texted me this in the middle of the school day, so I had to hide my weeping from my students by inventing a need to go to the supply closet.
Can any part of my life not Spocking suck for ten Spocking minutes? Please?
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Eve texted me today to let me know that Hermione's horse is dying.
Combination of old age (he's almost 30) and Cushing's disease.
And, thanks to WW, she won't get to see him to say goodbye.
And of course she texted me this in the middle of the school day, so I had to hide my weeping from my students by inventing a need to go to the supply closet.Can any part of my life not Spocking suck for ten Spocking minutes? Please?
Oh man. I am so sorry. That is a very long life for a horse and she has EVERY right to say goodbye to her old friend. I'm sorry WW is being a BH.
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Really sorry to hear about that Lisa. Life can be a real crap pile. I only hope the old boy passes as easy and painless as he can, I know all too well what watching beloved animals pass is like. One of the few things in this world that makes me cry, and it is okay to do so, it shows how much we care for them.
May his pasture in the next be ever green and the sun always warm.
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Anyone here play much 5e?
Long story short, after doing exactly -0- minutes of research I created a Life Domain cleric. Two levels in, she's pretty amazingly useless. I talked to our resident 5e expert (Impus Minor), and his response was basically, "Yeah, you really blew it. There are good clerics, but it's all based on your domain, and the Life domain is the worst one because it overlaps a bunch of stuff clerics already get."
Fortunately, her character arc has driven her screaming into the role of party paladin. So, questions:
(1) Is Impus Minor correct? Are life domain clerics useless enough that I'd have a hard time enjoying playing her? (Don't forget that I played a Pathfinder rogue for 18 levels and managed to enjoy it anyway.)
(2) Is multiclassing to paladin a reasonable solution, or would we lose too many utility spells?
The party makeup right now is fighter-monk-warlock-cleric-bard. So paladin would make us seriously frontline-heavy.
EDIT: Full disclosure: I have never played a paladin in another GM's game because I have very strong opinions about paladins. I've GM'ed three paladins (even Lisamarlene's), but this'll the first one I've played.
EDIT 2: "What do you mean, 'Pretty amazingly useless?'"
- Every offensive weapon or spell she has is a straight up 1d8. Everyone except the bard averages well over twice that.
- The warlock's Faerie Fire debuff is far more effective than any buff or debuff she can cast (of her whopping 3 casts per day).
- A life domain's cleric channeled energy can only heal creatures to a maximum of half their hit points, so unless the entire party gets nearly killed by a Fireball, it's not particularly useful. And even then, "Congratulations! You're up to half hits!" isn't something your fighters will ever appreciate hearing.
So I typically love playing clerics because of their pocket-knife-like utility in choosing from the entire spell list every day, but the spell list is unimpressive and with so few casts per day she spends most combats hoping to slip in one or two 1d8 hits during a combat where the frontliners are doing 1d10+11 or so.
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And it's official: The clouds rolled in, the temperature dropped into the 50s, so I set the indoor temperature to 65°F and both furnaces are blazing away.
Winter is Here.
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Anyone here play much 5e?
Long story short, after doing exactly -0- minutes of research I created a Life Domain cleric. Two levels in, she's pretty amazingly useless. I talked to our resident 5e expert (Impus Minor), and his response was basically, "Yeah, you really blew it. There are good clerics, but it's all based on your domain, and the Life domain is the worst one because it overlaps a bunch of stuff clerics already get."
Fortunately, her character arc has driven her screaming into the role of party paladin. So, questions:
(1) Is Impus Minor correct? Are life domain clerics useless enough that I'd have a hard time enjoying playing her? (Don't forget that I played a Pathfinder rogue for 18 levels and managed to enjoy it anyway.)
(2) Is multiclassing to paladin a reasonable solution, or would we lose too many utility spells?
The party makeup right now is fighter-monk-warlock-cleric-bard. So paladin would make us seriously frontline-heavy.
EDIT: Full disclosure: I have never played a paladin in another GM's game because I have very strong opinions about paladins. I've GM'ed three paladins (even Lisamarlene's), but this'll the first one I've played.
EDIT 2: "What do you mean, 'Pretty amazingly useless?'"
- Every offensive weapon or spell she has is a straight up 1d8. Everyone except the bard averages well over twice that.
- The warlock's Faerie Fire debuff is far more effective than any buff or debuff she can cast (of her whopping 3 casts per day).
- A life domain's cleric channeled energy can only heal creatures to a maximum of half their hit points, so unless the entire party gets nearly killed by a Fireball, it's not particularly useful. And even then, "Congratulations! You're up to half hits!" isn't something your fighters will ever appreciate hearing.So I typically love playing clerics because of their pocket-knife-like utility in choosing from the entire spell list every day, but the spell list is unimpressive and with so few casts per day she...
I mean... the spell bless is, like... right there.
:V
(It is one of the few core options to entirely break the bounded accuracy limits of 5e.)
reddit's take on life domain cleric. Cleric guide: life domain rates pretty highly (all domain spells blue and green, except its ninth level spell, which sucks). It suggests you'll want heavy armor and shield. You're really not there to deal damage so much as defend and mitigate.
(For comparison sake, the guide considers the nature and war domains worse; and considers the forge, light, order, peace, and twilight domains better; arcana, death, grave, knowledge, tempest, and trickery as roughly equal.)
For multiclassing, cleric generally comes recommended as a low-level dip, but not anything beyond that (because of "dead levels"). Paladin is broadly admired as a multiclasser, but it emphasizes charisma (and also probably strength). Generally fighter, monk, paladin, and rogue are recommended for cleric. If you "main" paladin, cleric seems less recommended.
From here:
Cleric
Fighter 1 or 2 / Cleric (Any) X: Starting with Fighter gets you proficiency in Constitution saves, which is a huge help with Concentration checks. It also gets you heavy armor if your domain doesn’t provide it and a Fighting Style. Two levels gets you Action Surge, allowing you to do things like casting two spells in the same turn without running into the limitation on Bonus Action spells. Action Surge only works once per Short or Long Rest, but it’s still noteworthy. You might go to three levels for a subclass, but that’s uncommon.
Monk (Any) 1 / Cleric (Any) X: Unarmored Defense and Martial Arts are interesting options for clerics that don’t get heavy armor proficiency. Grab a monk weapon and focus on Dexterity and Wisdom, and many domains which offer a version of Divine Strike can be considerably more effective in melee. The second attack from Martial Arts will be redundant for War Domain, but other domains like Grave Domain or Light Domain gain a reliable way to make more than one weapon attack per turn. Unarmored Defense also allows you to hit 20 AC (though this requires quite a few Ability Score Increases) without using armor or a shield, which means that you can keep a hand free to perform spellcasting components without reluing on War Caster or juggling your weapon.
Paladin (Any) 2, 5, or 6 / Cleric (Any) X: Two levels of paladin offers Divine Smite, which combined with the cleric’s better spell progression (and therefore larger pool of spell slots) offers more smites and generally better martial options for the Cleric. You won’t get proficiency with Constitution saves like you would with a Fighter class dip, but If you can manage 6 levels Aura of Protection can help compensate or you can take Resilient. Unfortunately, this build can be very MAD since paladins are already MAD and you’re adding a Wisdom requirement. Most likely, you’ll have better results attempting the same build with a Divine Soul Sorcerer.
Rogue (Any) 1, 2, or 3 / Cleric (Trickery) X: The Trickery cleric makes sense in a stealthy party, but lacks the core proficiencies brought by a rogue, and doesn’t have access to finesse weapons better than a dagger. If you want to replace a rogue with a trickery cleric, starting with a level of rogue gets you all of the rogue’s proficiencies and a splash of Sneak Attack damage. Two levels gets you Cunning Action so you’ve always got a good use for your Bonus Action without pouring spell slots into Spiritual Weapon, and three levels gets you a bit more Sneak Attack and a subclass. Personally I would go for Arcane Trickster for the spellcasting or Mastermind for Master of Tactics to complement the cleric’s support capabilities.
Humorously, the multiclass guide and the cleric guide disagree on multiclassing suggestions. :D
That said, I'm definitely not a consistent player of 5e, but my recollection of cleric is predominantly support and "safety net" in case things go bad fast. That said, if you like doing damage but also being an emergency healer, paladin generally has you covered.
Aaaaaaalso, are you remembering what's a bonus action and what's not? I obviously don't know how you're playing your game, so... salt grains! But I do remember that entirely turning around one dude's game when he remembered he had some things that were bonus actions that he wasn't considering.
Hope it helps.
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[ooc]<cleric stuff>I mean... the spell Bless is, like... right there.
:V
Assumption: Standard fighter who needs a 12 to hit = 45% chance to hit
Bless: Average increase = 2.5. Fighter needs a 9.5 to hit = 57.5% chance to hitFaerie Fire: Fighter gains advantage and needs a 12 on one of two die rolls = (1 - (11/20)^2) = 69.75% chance to hit
Faerie Fire both provides a better chance to hit, and gives everyone in the party advantage instead of just three players.
Yes, one could argue that the fact that creatures hit by Faerie Fire get a save whereas Bless doesn't need a save makes Bless a better spell, but between the Bless, Faerie Fire, and Bardic Inspiration on our fighters, the only one in our boss fight yesterday that turned misses into hits was Faerie Fire, because that reroll is potent.
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EDIT: Full disclosure: I have never played a paladin in another GM's game because I have very strong opinions about paladins. I've GM'ed three paladins (even Lisamarlene's), but this'll the first one I've played.
So...you don't play yourself?
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Anyone here play much 5e?
Long story short, after doing exactly -0- minutes of research I created a Life Domain cleric. Two levels in, she's pretty amazingly useless. I talked to our resident 5e expert (Impus Minor), and his response was basically, "Yeah, you really blew it. There are good clerics, but it's all based on your domain, and the Life domain is the worst one because it overlaps a bunch of stuff clerics already get."
Fortunately, her character arc has driven her screaming into the role of party paladin. So, questions:
(1) Is Impus Minor correct? Are life domain clerics useless enough that I'd have a hard time enjoying playing her? (Don't forget that I played a Pathfinder rogue for 18 levels and managed to enjoy it anyway.)
(2) Is multiclassing to paladin a reasonable solution, or would we lose too many utility spells?
The party makeup right now is fighter-monk-warlock-cleric-bard. So paladin would make us seriously frontline-heavy.
EDIT: Full disclosure: I have never played a paladin in another GM's game because I have very strong opinions about paladins. I've GM'ed three paladins (even Lisamarlene's), but this'll the first one I've played.
EDIT 2: "What do you mean, 'Pretty amazingly useless?'"
- Every offensive weapon or spell she has is a straight up 1d8. Everyone except the bard averages well over twice that.
- The warlock's Faerie Fire debuff is far more effective than any buff or debuff she can cast (of her whopping 3 casts per day).
- A life domain's cleric channeled energy can only heal creatures to a maximum of half their hit points, so unless the entire party gets nearly killed by a Fireball, it's not particularly useful. And even then, "Congratulations! You're up to half hits!" isn't something your fighters will ever appreciate hearing.So I typically love playing clerics because of their pocket-knife-like utility in choosing from the entire spell list every day, but the spell list is unimpressive and with so few casts per day she...
2nd edition Pathfinder fixed that.
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New guy: You know, you don't have to sweep up until the end of the day!
Me: Yeah, but I'll be able to work a lot better knowing that there isn't any rock on the roadway that a car can ricochet into my head or something
New guy: Oh shit, I didn't even think about that!
Me: As you get older you'll find a whole new world of death opening up before you.
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g'night John Boy
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So.
This is a big day.
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Treacherous? No, absolutely not. As long as someone puts their 2 weeks in, businesses don't really have any leg to stand on when someone leaves. Unless you had some kind of contract in which case I would be more worried about legal stuff.
When I gave an ultimatum to my manager to work with my school schedule, it was more "...You guys kinda forced this. I didn't really want to do this. You could have just gave me a raise when I asked because I do actually like working here, but I can't save any money or afford an emergency."
Speaking of work drama...
So this past week at work has had some glorious drama. We're already shortstaffed on leadership. Each supervisor has to lead a team of about 34ish people in a call center-like department. Last week, one of our supervisors at another center sent out a company wide email talking about an undocumented payroll change in how overtime and holiday pay interact. (Which was basically "Holiday Pay hours doesn't count towards your Overtime) Needless to say, folks were not pleased and there were a number of people "Reply All"-ing emails to the entire company.
IT did some magic and purged the email from everyone's inbox a few hours later too. Later HR basically said "It's technically legal and that guy has no idea what he's talking about." Which is funny because literally anyone can look at their paystubs and see the discrepancy between last year and this year. Later another email went out that was a little too "WORKERS RISE UP, SEIZE THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION" for me to take it seriously sadly. It also got purged SUPER fast which might be illegal? I dunno.
There's like a reddit thread and facebook group now. I wish them the best, but I'm basically in maintenance mode till I get outta trade school so I don't have much of a horse in this race. My manager had a fun meeting where he basically gave us all 5 minutes to vent. My feedback was super simple. "You don't incentivize for success or disincentivize for failure. This isn't sustainable and using ASR for overflow, cutting holiday pay, AND cutting all overtime makes people not feel like they have any job security."
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So.
This is a big day.
** spoiler omitted **...
Treacherous? No, absolutely not. As long as someone puts their 2 weeks in, businesses don't really have any leg to stand on when someone leaves. Unless you had some kind of contract in which case I would be more worried about legal stuff.
When I gave an ultimatum to my manager to work with my school schedule, it was more "...You guys kinda forced this. I didn't really want to do this. You could have just gave me a raise when I asked because I do actually like working here, but I can't save any money or afford an emergency."
Speaking of work drama...
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We have something similar going on right now at work.
With less than four weeks to spend it, I have two and a half weeks of vacation to burn. The week of Thanksgiving is straight out, as in the past someone abused holiday pay and vacation pay. So we're trying to squeeze a couple in this week and one or two next week hopefully with the remainder to be burnt the first week of December.
This *wouldn't* be such an issue normally, but we're so short-staffed that I cannot take an actual *week* off of work, as I have to be there for admin duties on Wednesday.
The additional rub, as I think I mentioned earlier is that I have jury duty on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. So I can't take vacation AND serve on a jury at the same time due to someone in the past pulling shenanigans via that.
Try to go in early? Get yelled at because 'needed for coverage later'. Go in late for any of a number of reasons? "Bad, don't do that again... "
Get all the work done and feel accomplished for a day? Next day Management starts whining about all the stuff that didn't get done (and wasn't even mentioned as being on the radar or daily objectives).
Don't get all the work done and feel like crap going home? Next day Management starts hollering about poor work ethics and an unwillingness to do the work . Why did you take ten minutes to go to the bathroom once during your shift? Couldn't you have done that at home?
This doesn't cover dealing with the stress of *redacted* customers who come in without masks sounding like they're at death's door yelling that they 'aren't getting good customer service'.
We're not allowed to confront about a lack of properly worn masks. We're not supposed to stop what we're doing and run away from unmasked ill customers -- yet that's what I've been doing for the past year and a half without consequence...
EDIT: When someone who's been working for nearly three decades with the company gets treated like garbage, there are amazing opportunities for being nearly djinn-esque in interpretations of work requirements, and those instances are becoming more and more common.
I mean... the spell Bless is, like... right there.
:V
Assumption: Standard fighter who needs a 12 to hit = 45% chance to hit
Bless: Average increase = 2.5. Fighter needs a 9.5 to hit = 57.5% chance to hit
Faerie Fire: Fighter gains advantage and needs a 12 on one of two die rolls = (1 - (11/20)^2) = 69.75% chance to hitFaerie Fire both provides a better chance to hit, and gives everyone in the party advantage instead of just three players.
Yes, one could argue that the fact that creatures hit by Faerie Fire get a save whereas Bless doesn't need a save makes Bless a better spell, but between the Bless, Faerie Fire, and Bardic Inspiration on our fighters, the only one in our boss fight yesterday that turned misses into hits was Faerie Fire, because that reroll is potent.
Bless
1st-level enchantment
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S, M (a sprinkling of holy water)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minuteYou bless up to three creatures of your choice within range. Whenever a target makes an attack roll or a saving throw before the spell ends, the target can roll a d4 and add the number rolled to the attack roll or saving throw.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, you can target one additional creature for each slot level above 1st.
So, it's three other party members, it grants a bonus to attacks and saves, and it doesn't just increase your average, it also allows you to potentially exceed your maximum.
That average 2.5 relative increase to your bonus is the same as gaining eight character levels.
Aaaaaaaalso the benefits of advantage, while strong, fluctuate based on how much you need to hit. All that said, you're right that faerie fire is often better, but you can't both be rocking faerie fire (and why would you care to compare yourself with that anyway?) and also it is less valuable in certain circumstances.
But as an aside, with c. siiiiix of you playing and the GM - if my vague mental guestimation of your group size are correct - then bless covers half your group, while also providing saving throws, and granting you slightly better than eight levels for them. I'unno, that still seems stupendously powerful. That's like granting a PF character a +5 bonus to saves and attacks with the same item^.
^
EDIT: fix formatting.
So.
This is a big day.
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Treacherous? No, absolutely not. As long as someone puts their 2 weeks in, businesses don't really have any leg to stand on when someone leaves. Unless you had some kind of contract in which case I would be more worried about legal stuff.
When I gave an ultimatum to my manager to work with my school schedule, it was more "...You guys kinda forced this. I didn't really want to do this. You could have just gave me a raise when I asked because I do actually like working here, but I can't save any money or afford an emergency."
Speaking of work drama...
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We have something similar going on right now at work.
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I'm so sorry, my dudes. e-Hugs.
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That footage was shot last fall though, and there'll probably be a longer one in a couple of weeks.
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** spoiler omitted **So.
This is a big day.
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Treacherous? No, absolutely not. As long as someone puts their 2 weeks in, businesses don't really have any leg to stand on when someone leaves. Unless you had some kind of contract in which case I would be more worried about legal stuff.
When I gave an ultimatum to my manager to work with my school schedule, it was more "...You guys kinda forced this. I didn't really want to do this. You could have just gave me a raise when I asked because I do actually like working here, but I can't save any money or afford an emergency."
Speaking of work drama...
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We have something similar going on right now at work.
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That was religion, and now econoooomics
That footage was shot last fall though, and there'll probably be a longer one in a couple of weeks.
Awesome!
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Eve texted me today to let me know that Hermione's horse is dying.
Combination of old age (he's almost 30) and Cushing's disease.
And, thanks to WW, she won't get to see him to say goodbye.
And of course she texted me this in the middle of the school day, so I had to hide my weeping from my students by inventing a need to go to the supply closet.Can any part of my life not Spocking suck for ten Spocking minutes? Please?
many many many hugs
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If I'm going to condemn them 95% of the time, I need to praise them when they do things "right".
My "every 90 day" VPN password reset failed (don't get me started on mandatory password changes) so I was locked out of the corporate network.
(1) In the body of the password reset email: "If you have any trouble, go to this Slack channel."
(2) On signing in to the Slack channel: "Here are the 10 most-common issues with links to the resolutions." VPN password reset was listed.
(3) I clicked the link and was immediately brought to the super-sekret, "Reset your VPN password without needing VPN" web site.
(4) The site worked perfectly.
Nice job, IT! You fixed my problem in under 5 minutes without my having to talk to a single human being. And that is how IT should work.
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A quick follow-up for those who are curious: After reviewing the higher-level cleric spells in 5e, it looks like cleric is a perfectly reasonable way to go. Very much like Pathfinder, the first few levels of cleric are painful, but by the time you start getting 3rd-level spells you're getting some good utility.
"Unfortunately", from a story perspective, my young cleric has been exposed to just HOW evil and horrible things can be in the big, bad world (a hag corrupted a town to start murdering their own), so storywise she needs a couple levels of paladin to start some hag smitin'.
She's very, very angry right now, and buffing other people so that THEY can beat on the hag isn't very satisfying for her.
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Not even going to get into what a fraggin NIGHTMARE it is when my VPN access gets messed up. Thankfully it happens only very rarely, and is always some weird "oh sorry we totally fragged your logins by accident" thing when it does. But a coworker of mine has been waiting three weeks for her VPN access to be restored, three weeks of her being able to only do 1/3 of her job.
I wish that excellent Nobody story was how our internal IT department worked, and I work for an IT company...odd that.
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There is something very satisfying about a hag beat down.
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If you're a gambling person, today's the day for lottery tickets!
Our first choice for the position just accepted and we're fast-tracking the hiring process to get him onboard in less than a month (Global Megacorporation is infamous for taking 3-4 months to hire people, resulting in them finding other work at companies with decent hiring processes).
We may have a new team member for Christmas!
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Well, it finally happened. The cold killed my prized jalapeno plants overnight. This is actually the first year I've ever taken any interest in gardening and the three that I had were actually gifts from a neighbor across the street who saw that my little family had taken to filling our balcony with all manner of vegetables and other decorative plants this past spring.
In all the three plants gave us about fifteen small peppers that were large enough to eat and cook with, twenty or so tiny peppers that gave up on growing after about 3cm, and then another six (All of these came from the SAME plant, the other two were lazy I guess) that were fairly "grocery/restaurant" sized. Of those six one of them was red, I don't know why it was red, and neither does the wider Google first page results but I have to say that while the edible ones were FANTASTIC (I mean seriously, they say no food tastes as good as that which you've grown but I was SHOCKED how good freshly harvested peppers could actually be) the five larger green ones were knock-it-out-of-the-park delicious and spicy and the red one... oh my gods, that red one was not like any pepper I've had in my whole life. The singular red jalapeno that it produced was just about as spicy as the rest of them, perhaps a bit more heat but it was also way sweeter than I ever knew they could be and the heat from it (I put it on a traditional beefheart coney dog) lasted in my mouth for, no joke a whole half hour.
I'm at peace knowing they produced so well and I'm motivated to start trying to research how and why exactly one of the three turned out so well (I kept a few underdeveloped peppers to try and replant from that one) and how I can encourage it to grow more red jalapenos because for real if I can nail this down they are so good that I would easily pay $2-$5 per med-large size pepper of that quality from a store.
I've never been a green thumb in my whole life, but the results from these three hobby plants makes me want a plot of land and enough construction materials for a greenhouse. Does anyone here have any insights into how to encourage pepper growth and color?
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So.
This is a big day.
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We have something similar going on right now at work.
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More stuff because I sympathize:I've stated upfront to my manager that nobody takes our quality metrics seriously because there are no consequences for failing. I've had people who couldn't pass a quality check from the beginning of the year who are actively messing with people's lives. It was pretty frustrating but I'm at a point now where I've accepted that management doesn't actually care about the service quality.As for holiday time, I burn through mine so fast that I can't relate. Since I've been alone I haven't really felt the desire to take a vacation so I mostly use it to cover sick days when I feel lazy/mental health days. If I'm good about my work I can get most of my monthly duties done in 3 weeks and basically spend the last week chilling at my desk doing busywork.
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This is a big day.
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Treacherous? No, absolutely not. As long as someone puts their 2 weeks in, businesses don't really have any leg to stand on when someone leaves. Unless you had some kind of contract in which case I would be more worried about legal stuff.
When I gave an ultimatum to my manager to work with my school schedule, it was more "...You guys kinda forced this. I didn't really want to do this. You could have just gave me a raise when I asked because I do actually like working here, but I can't save any money or afford an emergency."
Speaking of work drama...
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That was religion, and now econoooomics
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That's why I'm learning a trade. :D
I also thought about applying to work at USAA but as much as getting 21$/h sounds, I really dont want to work another call center job.
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Wow. Just... wow.
Shiro got us top-tier tickets to Halestorm/Evanescence tonight, including getting to sit in on the sound check and a post-concert Q&A with Evanescence.
This morning he got a text from Ticketmaster that we all have to be there by 3:00 pm for an 8:00 pm concert in order to qualify for all the stuff he paid a hefty sum for.
He's pretty darned pissed, and rightfully so. I'm a peon. I can drop a half day at the drop of a hat. He's an executive. He can't just cut work because he feels like it.
Stay tuned for more of this fiasco...
EDIT: Impus Major continues to be inscrutably wise for his age. We polled the group, and Impus Major's response was, "Honestly, I don't need all that stuff, and I don't want to have to sit around the arena for 3.5 hours just to get it. I'd rather just accept the good seats, see a good show, and let the rest go."
And that is what we decided on doing, because it will give US the most happiness.
What will happen to Ticketmaster after screwing over a "C-level executive of a Fortune 500 company" (as Shiro describes himself) should be quite entertaining. Shiro seems like a mellow, "Whatever happens, happens," guy. But he can get really mean when people cheat him.