3n- she/her/they/them-Exophile- mild nsfw, but tags accordingly-- feminist
im doing art fight again this year.
Months of not coloring or drawing and I’m shotgunning folks with art of their OCS. And the tablet I’m using isn’t logged into my other accounts so that’s gonna be fun, shuffling all that around.
*guy who hasn’t eaten lunch voice* been really into the idea of picking a direction and running as fast as I can in a straight line until I collapse and die
If you are in a position to answer a survey based on a service someone did for you, and they did a good job.
Give them the highest score! Often times anything other than the highest score is a fail and they’ll get in trouble.
Source, anything lower than a 9 (out of 10) is a fail for me.
This ^ I have so many failed that have nothing to do with me
That will get people like me FIRED, they absolutely WILL fire us all DO NOT do this
This ESPECIALLY goes for the service advisor at a car dealership! When ex husband worked for dealerships, our ability to pay bills hinged on his survey results. Like, the amount of money he took home in a month was directly correlated to the score on the surveys and anything below 90% average halved what we could expect his monthly “bonus” to be. (Bonus in quotes because that was the only thing that made it a living wage at the time.)
Even the questions not related to the advisor’s work might reflect on them. For instance, if you deduct points on a question about the cleanliness/comfort of the waiting area, that may still affect the advisor’s score.
On top of that, as OP explained, low scores can get someone fired! Ex was fired from a job because anything under 90% average for the month was considered a failing score and was a terminal offense if it happened more than once in a row. Literally only one survey gave him less than four or five stars in the second month, but because he was teetering between 89 and 90, the survey that came in with a 10% (the two questions about him were perfect but the ones about the business received 0/5 stars) dipped him under the 90% threshold.
I may not be my ex husband’s biggest fan, but his customer service skills are superb and he didn’t deserve to lose his job because one person thought the business was awful.
Hey, maybe businesses shouldn’t be able to fire you based off of things like this
lol you’re only learning japanese because you like anime, you’re only interested in history because you like the anime girl king king arthur series, you’re only broadening your horizons and becoming a more learned and fulfilled person because your sincere enjoyment of something not considered intellectual enough to be worthy of recognition provided you with a small window into a few of the many wonders of culture and knowledge the world has to offer and you want to obtain a deeper understanding of them
A lot of people resonated with a post I made a long time ago about lesser known ADHD symptoms and I figured I would post more of them because more people need to be aware about how much of a debilitation ADHD is:
Rejection sensitivity. It hurts a lot more than you think for us to be told that something we like is not cool or our plans were turned down by someone.
Often, a lot of times, ADHD people feel out of place and it causes us to just want to leave social situations or discord servers or friend groups. It’s not our fault, we just feel like no one wants us there or that we’re too much to handle.
Wild Behavior Swings. Messy room to pinnacle of cleanliness. Late as hell to 20 minutes early. Perfectly organized to couldn’t care less. It’s a coin flip and we hate it more than you do.
Talking out loud. Less a symptom and more a solution. It helps us stay on track because when your brain moves as spastically as ours does, it pays to say things out loud.
Random errors in writing and spelling. Your brain is spinning at Mach three. You’re bound to forget words and letters at that speed.
Horrifyingly inconsistent short and long-term memory. My inability to remember things and conversations has literally destroyed relationships.
Window Shopper’s Attachment. Seeing something and NEEDING to buy it or it’s going to bug you for the next five years whether you have the money or not.
Social anxiety. I may have mentioned this, but when you are constantly overthinking everything, every interaction can be an uphill battle and it just gets worse if you’re an introvert.
All of this.
And some things that are not exactly symptoms of ADHD but have an interestingly high correlation with ADHD and other neurodivergencies:
Walking on tip toes, aka Idiopathic Toe Walking
Picking at my skin as a stim
Strabismus - having a ‘crossed eye’. Even my opticians over the years messed up explaining what this was and I didn’t even find out the name(mine is Esotropia) until two years ago.
Sleep-disordered breathing - an estimated one third of ADHD patients might also suffer from sleep apnoea
“oh they’re not taking away chronological dashboard, well everything’s okay then” they also said in the post they’re making reblogs collapsed (like comments on twitter) so you won’t see the full conversation in a post. they also won’t get rid of tumblr live despite it being an annoying and cancerous data-miner that isn’t legal in much of the world. they won’t even let you opt out of tumblr live for more than seven days. they implemented a terrible photo viewer that mimics tiktok and makes it so you can’t zoom in on images. they took away the ability to view prev tags. they’re making it so you have to sign in with your email to view almost any thing on tumblr. they’ve already made it so you have to sign in to send asks, even on anon. they’re slowly phasing out custom blog themes.
the things that make tumblr at all usable and favored by us– the older web blog features, the anonymity– that is still being taken away. it HAS been being taken away for some time now. i am urging you people to reveiwbomb the tumblr app. force them to acknowledge that users do not like these changes.
Good news! You can let Tumblr Staff know what you think about every version of Tumblr in a way that they might listen to! Here is a long survey from a blog associated with Staff and here is a short survey from the same blog. The blog, although full of surveys, does not allow reblogs. However, I took the long survey and later they improved one thing I complained about, so there is a chance more people complaining about changes could halt their enshittification. I cannot retake the surveys, so I must ask you all to send feedback where I cannot.
Pasting these links all at the end too for ease of access:
Does anyone remember what happened to Radio Shack?
They started out selling niche electronics supplies. Capacitors and transformers and shit. This was never the most popular thing, but they had an audience, one that they had a real lock on. No one else was doing that, so all the electronics geeks had to go to them, back in the days before online ordering. They branched out into other electronics too, but kept doing the electronic components.
Eventually they realize that they are making more money selling cell phones and remote control cars than they were with those electronic components. After all, everyone needs a cellphone and some electronic toys, but how many people need a multimeter and some resistors?
So they pivoted, and started only selling that stuff. All cellphones, all remote control cars, stop wasting store space on this niche shit.
And then Walmart and Target and Circuit City and Best Buy ate their lunch. Those companies were already running big stores that sold cellphones and remote control cars, and they had more leverage to get lower prices and selling more stuff meant they had more reasons to go in there, and they couldn’t compete. Without the niche electronics stuff that had been their core brand, there was no reason to go to their stores. Everything they sold, you could get elsewhere, and almost always for cheaper, and probably you could buy 5 other things you needed while you were there, stuff Radio Shack didn’t sell.
And Radio Shack is gone now. They had a small but loyal customer base that they were never going to lose, but they decided to switch to a bigger but more fickle customer base, one that would go somewhere else for convenience or a bargain. Rather than stick with what they were great at (and only they could do), they switched to something they were only okay at… putting them in a bigger pond with a lot of bigger fish who promptly out-competed them.
If Radio Shack had stayed with their core audience, who knows what would have happened? Maybe they wouldn’t have made a billion dollars, but maybe they would still be around, still serving that community, still getting by. They may have had a small audience, but they had basically no competition for that audience. But yeah, we only know for sure what would happen if they decided to attempt to go more mainstream: They fail and die. We know for sure because that’s what they did.
I don’t know why I keep thinking about the story of what happened to Radio Shack. It just keeps feeling relevant for some reason.
“Think of the two major possibilities here: Either the studios owe untold millions to their talents and paying it out will decimate their stock prices, or they owe so little because there really is no money in streaming and the bubble of their entire 21st century business model will burst in spectacular fashion. And make no mistake: this is a bubble. This is the inevitable climax of a stockholder-driven hunger for infinite growth, despite the fact that, by design, such a thing cannot and should not exist. The infection of Wall Street has overwhelmed the entertainment industry beyond repair, leading to cultural vandals like David Zaslav to be appointed with the callous duty of strip-mining decades’ of artistic beauty for pennies of tax write-offs. The past and future are frivolous in comparison to the short-term demands that the line keep going up.”
