once I did an Americorps position & I won’t get into exact details but two months in my one other coworker & I were rly frustrated bc we weren’t doing anything in our job description or the contract we signed whatsoever & instead we were basically being used as extremely underpaid retail staff and slowly the ppl in charge of us were cornering us more and more into that until I was finally like okay….what the hell? I opened up the work contract I signed and realized I hadn’t done a single thing listed in my role so I sent a long (professionally worded) complaint email to Americorps and they called me an hour later in total outrage because it turned out the work we were being made to do was explicitly prohibited by the program and we were being 100% exploited for cheap labor and the very next day we got a new supervisor and spent the rest of our year doing what we signed up to do and it rocked.
“Nobody likes a complainer but they’re needed for a functioning society. You know how humanity gets compared to frogs in boiling water and everything is getting bad so gradually we won’t even notice? Not if l’m around”. End of ID.]
I have often been asked: “Why do Scandinavians complain and criticise so much? You have it so good!”
Answer is: “To keep it being good and push for even better. If you stop complaining, the greedy and the power hungry will slowly remove more and more of the good ideas.”
No joke you guys NEED to get more comfortable blocking people. No more insulting people in public over different blorbo opinions no more making 2k long posts on how whatever ship you don’t like shouldn’t exist we’ve grown past that shit. Consistent posts about shit that make you uncomfortable? Block. Rancid blorbo opinions? Block. Is mildly annoying in your replies? Block. Pisses you off for reasons so petty you could never admit it publicly? Block. YOUR mental health will improve from not being upset 24/7, THEIR mental health will not be at risk of you lashing out because you happened to catch their posts on a bad day, and EVERYONE ELSE will benefit from not seeing the most embarrassing arguments known to man on their dash. “Oooh but they didn’t deserve it-” dude you’re presumably running a personal blog as a hobby not a public service. Who fucking cares.
we’re working on 15 new Joker movies. we’re working on 40 new Star Wars movies. we’ve got 57 distinct LotR spinoff shows coming soon to 57 different streaming services. we’re expanding the Gumbyverse
tumblr: constantly be aware of your own privilege. constantly be aware of your capacity of be evil. hey i know you really like that new piece of media but make sure you’re aware of all of the problematic elements all the time. hey i noticed you reblogged a post from a designated Bad Person so please make sure you do a thorough background check on everyone you reblog from to make sure they’re not bad, otherwise people might get the wrong idea about you. always be aware of everything bad that’s happening in the world all the time because silence is violence. i see you not reblogging this post btw. activist burnout is a privilege so be aware of that. xyz people are required to reblog this post. if you’re not constantly fighting against designated Bad People you are inherently complicit and therefore a Bad Person.
people with ocd:
And it really doesn’t help that those same people that are like “you’re a good person because you out effort into being one!” Are starting to move more towards “thought crimes are real” and if they were ever privy to some people’s REAL intrusive thoughts (not just impulse thoughts like “haha what if I licked this” I mean actual upsetting INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS. NAMED SO BECAUSE THEY INTRUDE ON YOUR MIND AND IT UPSETS YOU THAT THEY ARE THERE) those same people would think I’m a fucking monster. Many of them already do.
