i definitely think minecraft won’t be the game for everyone in the end and that’s just how things are no problem but i do think *some* people who don’t get the hype of it just need to play with their friends and build a house with them. its also for doing things like this.
Good for this person. This is exactly what you do. Screw the job.
I had a job that made me work an all nighter, 30 hours straight, over Thanksgiving. I resigned that Monday and it was one of the most satisfying decisions I’ve ever made.
Please pay attention to all the manipulation tactics this boss uses, because they’re pulling out every trick in the book.
“I’m not your boss, I’m your friend”
“Other people will be hurt by this and it’s your fault and I’m going to tell them all that”
Mocking language
Jobs are important too
“Be a team player”
“We’re your family too”
Talking as if this is a thing you must do
“We all make sacrifices”
Undermining your authority
“You caused all of this, really”
Accusing you of being “unprofessional”
“Look at the money you cost us”
“Just laugh it off and come back to work”
This is like a 101 course in how employers use guilt trips to coerce you into putting up with their bullshit. This is precisely why you should never trust those employers who insist that they’re “like a family.” They are not. It’s just a ruse so that your boss can neg you into putting your job ahead of your actual life.
Okay team, today’s fish is Neoclinus blanchardi, the sarcastic fringehead.
The first fact I have for you is that when threatened they look like this:
Great, I’ve got your attention.
Okay, so sarcastic fringeheads are blennies that live off the west coast of North America, they’re only about a foot long, and they DON’T HAVE SCALES.
This scale-less-ness is actually quite normal for fish in their family, Chaenopsidae, who also don’t have a lateral line as most fish do. Normally, lateral lines allow fish to orientate themselves in a water current, and give them information about their spatial environment via several thousand sensory organs, the neuromasts.
But anyway, blennioids (yes, that’s a word: it’s the blennies) in the family Chaenopsidae don’t have lateral lines, so we’ll learn about those later.
So why, you ask, that ridiculous face?
First of all, rude. It’s a majestic face! Those draping skin flaps! Those enraptured eyes!
All that skin is for face-offs between fringeheads to compare sizes; when threatened by another fringehead for mating partners or dens, these spectacular little blennioids open their jaws to compare size.
The goal with this face-off is to avoid a fight where one could be injured; however, if that’s not worked out in the face-off, they will start to push each other. With their big open mouths.
Hey, psa: there is a Dove ad at some movie theatres that begins with a warning “sensitive content” and the Dove logo and the song is “you are so beautiful to me.” The nature of the “sensitive content” is eating disorders. If this triggers you, please immediately bury yourself in your phone or close your eyes until the song ends because it otherwise may be upsetting.
If you could let your friends know, that might help them!
