Reblogged gandalfsbignaturals
the bog gave me a vision
Reblogged manicpixel
having a tumblr blog is cool because you can scroll back for years to realize you’ve never been normal about any of your interests so why start now
leabe me alonne
Reblogged butchboyboy
laios egg cracking arc when
okay seriously, given how happy he was to turn into a dwarf and displaying even more eagerness at the possibility of turning into a monster, laios it's time to do some deep introspection
I could genuinely make a compilation of every single scene that makes me do the lord farquaad point while saying EGG
someone start the gofundme so laios can get hrt
normal cis behavior
Reblogged problematicmilf
i couldn’t not make this
Reblogged weasellyferret
today was the day we finalized the migration of essential software at work from some old and busted shit that was ready to die at any time, to the new cloud version of the same software that we are no longer responsible for maintaining. which is good because no one was actually maintaining ours. it's just been slowly crufting into unusability for a decade. so anyway they set aside an hour for a teams meeting where they'd walk us through the different interface and how to go through normal processes.
"it's not that big a change," they said. "it's all the same stuff, it just looks a little different," they said.
they did not account for the fact that the primary user of this software is someone who doesn't actually know how it works or what it's doing. they learned how to do their job entirely through rote memorization. they know which buttons they are supposed to press in which order, and that is the full extent of what they know. they also did not account for the fact that this person's processes were learned thirdhand from other people who were not using this software normally to begin with.
it's like. imagine if someone had only ever used tumblr in the app. and you try to get them to use it in a desktop browser, but they cannot figure out how to post. and you go through explaining where the button is and how to format text and add tags, even though you could have sworn it was all the same in the app. but then they're like, "okay, but what's the phone number" and you're like "what" and they're like "the phone number to call to make a post?" and it turns out somehow they still had the ability to post by calling a phone number, and every time they posted on the app they called the post in first and then edited the audio post to transcribe it into text before screenshotting the text for a photo post. and nothing you can say to them will make them understand that none of that is necessary or correct. they shouldn't have even been able to do some of that. they can just type into the post box now, like a civilized person. "okay," they say, "but what is the phone number, though? because when i made my account my friend gave me this checklist and the first thing on it is to call the number."
so anyway we were on that teams call for almost three hours and they still don't have a handle on the new software
details have been changed but i want you to imagine that this software is used in part to record payments and send out updated invoices. in this software there is a special process to send invoices to collections. generally, you use special filters to determine what does and does not get sent off to collections. but this person kept asking that poor trainer to run the collections wizard on all invoices. every one of them. unpaid. paid. brand new. all of them. and the trainer is like. i am not doing that actually. and the person keeps insisting. "i need the report" they keep saying. "this isn't a report" the trainer keeps explaining.
as far as anyone can tell, decades ago, the person who first worked with this software added a custom report that prints before you can run the collections wizard. they would go through that report manually highlighting every invoice going to collections, with a highlighter, because they didn't trust the software. because this was old software without any kind of autosave functionality, they could just abort the collections wizard after they got the report, before doing it again and manually flagging the invoices they highlighted. everyone using this software since then has just. done that. assuming it was necessary for some reason.
"please," the trainer kept saying. "can you tell me what the report is called. what is the report. can you scan the report and send it to me. we can just run the report. we don't need to run the collections wizard. we actually specifically should not. there is no report here. we would need to add that in if you want that. but you won't need to run this wizard to get that report. you can just get it. the report. without doing this."
"it's fine," they kept saying. "i can show you the report. just hit okay on the wizard and it should pop up."
@grison-in-space your tags pass peer review
Having had actual significant success with these people:
- learn to identify them immediately: if someone starts asking you about "the collections wizard", and it makes no sense, stop, stop trying to explain it to them with shortcuts, and ask them to take you through their old process. This will ascertain for certain that you are dealing with This Person.
- once you have identified them - and this is very important - accept that they did things by rote, and that ergo any change to that rote process is not, actually, "just a little bit different". It is a whole new process.
- No seriously just fucking accept it. Accept it immediately. You are now working with someone who has never used the kind of software or process or thing you are trying to teach them before. They have arrived before you a blank slate. You are starting from the beginning.
- if for some reason you are too rigid to do this, or do not have enough time, or just want to commit murder, this is the point where you run the opposite direction or hire someone else. but tell the someone-else this much.
- if you're not too rigid or overloaded: now you need to make them understand that this new process is Totally Different.
- Explain to them: forget about the old way. I'm so sorry - this is a total new way. I know. I know it's awful. It's Head Office's Fault. It's just how it is. I know they told you it would just be a little change. They lied. You can't do anything the old way anymore.
- I don't care if this isn't really true. It doesn't matter if it's really true. It's true for them, because they knew this new way by-rote, not by-understanding-the-underlying-principles. They now have to learn a new rote.
- (please note: if you are still going 'but it's just a little bit different - !' YOU are now, in fact, this person. Your by-rote is insisting that learning works the way it worked for you, and that using a system requires the way that you interact with the system. It doesn't! Remember that you also have to be flexible, as you demand someone change their system (that used to work fine for them) For You.)
- Stop trying to short-cut this step. Short-cutting this step will just make you both cry. Just accept you have to do this the long way. It's good for you. It'll build character.
- You will indeed get more pushback/upset at the beginning if you admit that you're needing them to learn something Entirely New. But it will be less than the rage/frustration/betrayal/resentment you get when you told them it was just a little change, and they end up having to re-learn everything they ever knew about doing their job, AND now they feel like either you lied to them or you're condescending to/judging them, and they hate you.
- Yeah that's totally a lot of work, isn't it. But you gotta do it! (You do GOTTA do it, right? You didn't just decide to change things Because It's Neater This Way or for another reason that prioritized your sense of what's Correct over that of those actually doing the job, right - it was for a reason?) (Oh good, glad to hear it, so I reiterate: yeah, it's a lot of work but you gotta do it.)
- Plan for this to take a realistic amount of time, which is about three times as long as the amount of time you wanted to tell the person you report to it should take, which is still going to be less time than it'll take if you DON'T just fucking plan for the fact that you'll need to retrain people from the ground up and then end up with three hours of a teams meeting and people crying because nobody understands at the end of it.
- Finally: if you hire someone else to do it, do make sure THEY understand all of the above as well, and aren't going to be a dick to your staff about it.
You're welcome!
COSIGNED
Reblogged weasellyferret
One difference between the Lord of the Rings books and the Peter Jackson films that I find really interesting is what the hobbits find when they return to the Shire.
In the books, they return from the War, only to see that the war has not left their home untouched. Not only has it not left their home unscathed, battle and conflict is still actively ravaging the Shire. They return, weary and battle-scarred, to find a home actively wounded and in need of rescue and healing. All four launch themselves into defending their home and rousting those harming it, and eventually succeed. But their idyllic home has been damaged, and even once healed, is never quite again the Shire they set out to save.
In contrast, in the Jackson films, they return to a Shire shockingly untouched by the horrors of war. The hobbits of the Shire talk, in the Green Dragon in Fellowship of the Ring, about not getting involved with issues "beyond our borders," and it seems those issues have not invaded their sanctuary. After having been bowed to by kings, dwarves, elves, and men alike at the coronation in Gondor, their only acknowledgment upon returning home is a skeptical head shake from an older hobbit.
One of the most poignant scenes to me in Return of the King (and there are a considerable amount) is the scene where Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin are sitting in the Green Dragon. The pub patrons bustle around them, talking loudly, clapping excitedly, drinking cheerfully, just as they had in the beginning of the story. But the four hobbits sit silently, watching almost curiously at what was once familiar but is now foreign to them. Their home has not changed. But they have.
Which is the deeper hurt? To come to your home to find it irrevocably changed, despite all you did to keep it untouched and the same? Or to return home but no longer feeling at home, because it is only you that is irrevocably changed?
LOTR Heritage Post
Reblogged weasellyferret
caats
THEY’RE ING THE CAT!!!!!
Reblogged gudakko
tomboyism is so funny to me. gender non-conformity for girls is acceptable for like two minutes between the ages of 8 and 10. beyond that it’s appalling and you’re a freak but for those two years…… they could’ve had it all
Reblogged weasellyferret
lookupmedicalmisogyny
Elderly women are an extremely important demographic for feminism. If a woman cannot be childless and then live comfortably taken care of in her old age, then there is still coercive incentive for children. Social security and elderly womens programs are very important.
“The orphaned elderly” is terminology used in the elder law field to describe those who, due to a lack of younger family members/or lack of relationship with said family members, find themselves in precarious positions as they age and need more support both financially and physically.
I was just watching a video earlier on the amount of women confessing they only had kids more than once because they realized people in their life would care about their health and well-being while they were pregnant. Their survival mattered in the context of motherhood.
Reblogged touhouweed
lets be protected by mama
Reblogged brownsugarhunnny
He just proved the earth is round
Source: instagram.com
Reblogged elecmon
shorthands for dumbassery that i have grown to love deeply
- "how dare you say we piss on the poor" in response to someone misinterpreting your post
- "_ isnt gonna fuck you" for suck up behavior
- "woah. should we tell everyone? should we throw a party?" for who the fuck cares
- "and what if the world was made of pudding" for when would this ever matter.
- "and sharks are smooth both ways" for a group of people heatedly arguing with 1 guy who is fucking with them all
- ".. but its about a witch in the alps finding her lost cat" for someone trying to sanitize something to the point of absurdity
this is prime proof that this ENTIRE WEBSITE is autistic because nowhere else would a no tags post that's just an informative list about slang get this much traction.
anyway more addittions
- “what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament” for how do you know that without being a part of it.
- “anyone in this thread smoke weed” for the shit you people are saying is so off topic this might as well be a general discussion forum
- “dogs are boys and cats are girls” for ooh ur mindset did not grow past 4th grade, huh
- “color theory in a childrens hospital” for bending over backwards to not agree that YEA, that thing Came Off Weird
- “you are a tar pit” for someone finding any reason to respond with outrage.
- “is the __ in the room with us right now?” for I Don’t Think That’s Real.
- “bean soup? im allergic to beans!” for ik this doesn’t work for you, but that’s not a flaw. not everything can be for you.
- “people irl: hey man hows it going” for this will Never Matter irl
Reblogged maguneedsalife
Name: Little Beepo
Skill: Fucking Miserable
Quote: Please let me have some grease from the stovetop. I’ll cry if you don’t let me have some grease. I need it.
no grease for you, little beepo. im sorry, but its for your own good
Little Beepo’s misery is increasing. Little Beepo’s misery is increasing. Little Beepo’s misery is increasing. Little Beepo’s misery is increasing.
Reblogged wingedarrows
SHE HAS BEEN FREED