A compassionate, inclusive, short and sweet self-help book on how to care for yourself, your family, and your space when things are difficult. It’s optimized for neurodivergent readers but also includes content specific to parents, non-parents, people going through situational hard times like grieving periods, and people with trauma surrounding household tasks.
The hold lines at the library may be long right now, but if you can get your hands on this book, it’s so worth it.
i wish genders could be tradable, since i wanted your past gender and now you currently have present mine
this has been sitting in my inbox for a bit bc i wasn’t sure how i wanted to respond but honestly i’m a little baffled by the phrasing. i suppose you… could, define me in the past as having a different gender, but honestly i don’t view it like that. i’m a guy. i have always been a guy. i just didn’t have the words to understand or express that prior to 2013.
but let’s address what’s really going on here. if you want to trade genders, then maybe you should consider that… that’s really what you want. just because i view myself as always having been a guy, doesn’t necessarily mean that all trans people view themselves that way. if you wish you could trade genders, meaning you wish you were a different gender than you are, have you considered that you, yourself, may also be trans? if you don’t vibe with being a guy, maybe you’re not one. i’m not even saying maybe you’re a girl. do some exploring. anyone who’s followed me for… oh jeez, 12? years now? has seen me go from thinking i was genderfluid, to bigender, to a demiboy, and whatever else i was considering in between until i realized that i was a guy. exploration is a good thing, and i encourage you to do it. and who knows, maybe you stick with realizing that maybe you’re still a guy who would prefer to present more femininely, or a girl who presents masc. there’s all sorts of options! but even if you discover that you’re still cis, then hey, you explored, and you know yourself even better than you did before.
“But what if I can’t afford to hire more employees?”
If you have more customers than your employees can handle and you’re still not making enough, then you need to sort out your finances. Raise prices if necessary.
Your overhead isn’t worth more than your workers’ health.
“And if that’s not enough, then just buy more money!”
Listen. If you cannot afford to pay all your employees a living wage and employ a number of people equal to the workload, then you are bad at business management and should consider exploring other career paths. Such as being a cashier.
y’all might be thinking that small businesses would get the short end here. but the thing is, all the small businesses i’ve ever worked for or been involved with, when they didn’t have enough employees to cover the time, the owner worked it themselves, or they closed early/opened late.
the places that consistently shortstaff are big franchises, especially fast food chains. they prey on desperate workers who can’t afford to say no, and use them up like they’re disposable. it’s disgusting and it should be as illegal as hiring 9 year olds or holding paychecks hostage.
i feel so bad for nikola tesla like imagine spending years beefing with a guy who has conned the public into believing he’s some sort of supergenius when in reality it’s his overworked employees developing all of his world-changing inventions and you end up dying broke and starving and alone and then 100 years later another guy cons the public into believing he’s some sort of supergenius when in reality it’s his overworked employees developing all of his world-changing inventions and he’s doing it all IN YOUR NAME. he must be rolling in his grave like a fucking rotisserie chicken
