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Manager denies injured nurse working light duty, despite receiving multiple doctors' notes about her

Posted by Emma Saven

https://cheezburger.com/43648261/manager-denies-injured-nurse-working-light-duty-despite-receiving-multiple-doctors-notes-about-her

Well, that's bound to hit a guilty nerve…After all, it's technically the manager's fault for denying her nursing employee light-duty work after she announced her Achilles injury…When you hurt yourself, doctors will normally tell you to get some rest, not run marathons around the hospital you work at, so you can reach all your patients…Because that will most likely lead to worsening your injury! But this manager seemed to take her chances regarding her employee's limits. Limits that now leave her limping around, searching for her very own nurse.

It's not as if the manager wasn't warned either, she received not one, not two, but multiple doctors' notes regarding the state of her employee's foot. Will choosing to ignore this information put her job on the line…? Because not only was this one nurse affected, but many of her coworkers are feeling uneasy about their manager's 'unethical' choices. Because last time we checked, a hospital is a place that's meant to heal the injured, not contribute to breaking them further…

https://cheezburger.com/43648261/manager-denies-injured-nurse-working-light-duty-despite-receiving-multiple-doctors-notes-about-her

Current Mood: cold
Current Location: Rat te Kāinga

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Cold weather is not currently seasonable

All of my cold weather clothing is either military surplus or hand me downs from cousins in the oil fields.

I might need to figure this out. (This is JANUARY weather, not December!)

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fluffing,
international honor your influences week,
linkage,
litcrit,
music

“i just found this smile to think about you / you’re a saturday night far from the madding crowd”

A link for you, and a link for you, and, yes, a link for you, too. All three are for the anonymous gifter of a paid account -- thank you, whoever you are:

Drone videos of black sand beaches in Iceland.

There I Ruined It presents Santa Claus Is Coming to Town as sung by Radiohead, to the tune of “Creep.” (via)

A contemporary (1813) review of Pride and Prejudice. That Mr Collins was considered a recognizable type and not a caricature is interesting. (via lost)

---L.

Subject quote from On Grafton Street, Nanci Griffith.

Management demands 24/7 availability without extra pay for routine work that could wait until Monday

Posted by Etai Eshet

https://cheezburger.com/43632901/management-demands-247-availability-without-extra-pay-for-routine-work-that-could-wait-until-monday

An office job undergoes a sudden shift for the worse when management decides employees must be eternally available for non-urgent requests without pay, turning weekends into unpaid consultation hours nobody signed up for.

What started as a normal clock-in-clock-out situation morphed into a lifestyle brand where personal time became company property. No contract change, no bonus, no actual emergencies, just vibes and entitlement dressed up as workplace culture. Management discovered they could text employees during family dinners and call it teamwork. Missing a Saturday message now counts as corporate betrayal, even though the thing needing attention could marinate until Tuesday without consequence. The beautiful irony lives in the meeting about responsiveness trends, as if attendance to imaginary crises deserves performance reviews.

Companies love inventing obligations that cost them nothing. Calling it reachability instead of on-call means dodging compensation while harvesting free labor from guilt and fear. It is capitalism at its most efficient, getting workers to donate their lives without ever asking directly. The job wants total access but offers partial respect. Every text becomes a test of loyalty to a place that would replace anyone in a standard two-week window.

https://cheezburger.com/43632901/management-demands-247-availability-without-extra-pay-for-routine-work-that-could-wait-until-monday

The Warner Bros. Acquisition Will Make Going to the Movies as Expensive as Going to the Theater

Posted by Ben Weiss

https://cheezburger.com/36812551/the-warner-bros-acquisition-will-make-going-to-the-movies-as-expensive-as-going-to-the-theater

There has been a lot of uncertainty as to what the future will look like for the film industry. Will streaming overtake theatrical moviegoing entirely? Will mid-budget and independent films cease to exist? Most pressingly, will the acquisition of one major studio be the first domino to fall, thereby causing the demise of the entire Hollywood system as we know it?

The short answer is that only time will tell, but there is a longer answer. The recent announcement of Netflix's acquisition of Warner Bros. was met with widespread panic across the entertainment industry. Several journalists and critics declared this move to be the beginning of the end of theatrical releases, physical media, and the financial infrastructure that has supported countless creatives in this business.

Then, things got even juicier, as Paramount's CEO David Ellison launched a hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros. If this were to successfully pan out, a Paramount acquisition would be concerning for its own plethora of reasons, namely that the mega-studio could potentially become a conservative empire.

For now, there are tons of regulatory proceedings that need to happen before either deal can go through. Still, regardless of who ends up acquiring Warner Bros., one outcome is certain: moviegoing will become more expensive than ever before. What was once a medium that was accessible to people from all economic backgrounds will now become an exclusive one.

Anyone who has ever been a fan of the theater industry, and the history of Broadway in particular, might recognize what's about to happen to the movies. As a fan of both industries, I predict that like live theater, cinema is not going to disappear entirely. However, the question of who gets to access and enjoy film will unfortunately be reduced to the ultra-wealthy.

https://cheezburger.com/36812551/the-warner-bros-acquisition-will-make-going-to-the-movies-as-expensive-as-going-to-the-theater

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Books and Media

1. ( Reread: Georgette Heyer mysteries )

2.( Reread: almost all my DWJ books )

3.( Reread: Agatha Christie Parker Pyne short stories )

4. ( Wake Up Dead Man, the new Benoit Blanc movie )

5. ( Heated Rivalry )

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Archive News

My archive book list was running low, so I decided to spend some time poking around the archive catalogs again to see what else I might find. And to my shock, I discovered a book I somehow completely missed on my first go round: a hitherto unsuspected book by Edward Eager!

“Edward Eager wrote more books?” I gasped, for I’d always thought the famous seven were the only seven.

Yes, quoth Wikipedia, Edward Eager wrote three books beyond the famous seven. The other two I’ll get to in good time, but the one in the archive was Mouse Manor, which just so happens to be set at Christmas (although not a Christmas Book), so of course I had to read it right away.

Mouse Manor is a slim children’s novel about Miss Myrtilla Mouse, the sole inhabitant of Mouse Manor, who on Christmas Day decides impetuously to go up to London. (Mrs. Felina Thompson mentioned that she was on her way to London to look at the queen, you see, and Miss Myrtilla found herself saying she was on her way to London too.)

And so away she went! She hid in a hamper on the train, hitched a ride in Charles Dickens’ coat pocket, and met a dashing mouse in a checked suit who took her into the palace kitchens to try to nab a bit of sauce for the plum pudding that Miss Myrtilla had fortuitously brought… only the cooks caught sight of the two mice, and the dashing mouse distracted the cooks so Miss Myrtilla could flee, only to find herself in the throne room where the cats were taking their yearly Look at the Queen!

Just charming. I loved the illustrations by Beryl Bailey-Jones, too, especially Miss Myrtilla’s delicious candy-cane striped Christmas skirt, which swirls about her as she bustles about planning her trip to London. A cute quick read for any Edward Eager fan.

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Hard Landing by Algis Budrys

Starmen marooned in barbaric America!

Hard Landing by Algis Budrys

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misc tv,
tv talk

TV Talk: The Pitt & Tracker

9-1-1: On hiatus until Jan 8.

Matlock: Now there are two eps mom and I haven’t watched.

The Pitt: I have heard a lot of good things about this show and was excited when I found out that TNT was going to air the first season. I’ve watched the first three eps so far, and my comments have spoilers for all three eps. ( spoilers )

Tracker: Dang! I was right about the cliff-hanger, but wrong about who would be involved. ( spoilers )

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[ ICONS ] TSUKINO USAGI, SAILOR MOON R

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Middle-aged woman hesitant to purchase home with long-term boyfriend after 5 years of dating, as his

Posted by Emma Saven

https://cheezburger.com/43632389/middle-aged-woman-hesitant-to-purchase-home-with-long-term-boyfriend-after-5-years-of-dating-as-his

Blending families is never easy, especially as children get older and become more hyper-analytical about every detail of their parents' partners. It can be for many different reasons, but not all step-children are willing to welcome their 'new' mom or dad with open arms…And that is okay. But there comes a point where some children, especially young adults, put their interest or distaste for a step-parent above their parents' own future and happiness. So, where does one draw the line between 'coming to terms' with their changing family, and being straight-up unreasonable?

Well, is this daughter the perfect example of the latter? Her father has been in a long-term relationship for a while now, yet, she can barely acknowledge her father's girlfriend's existence. At first, we thought perhaps it was because she was a certified 'daddy's girl' and feared the idea of having to share his attention…and maybe that is why…But all we know is that this whole "her or me" approach is making his girlfriend rethink their whole relationship…specifically, the part where he suggests they buy a home together!

https://cheezburger.com/43632389/middle-aged-woman-hesitant-to-purchase-home-with-long-term-boyfriend-after-5-years-of-dating-as-his

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Rec-cember Day 16: A Song of Ice And Fire /Game of Thrones

Surely no one needs an explainer on this fandom, right? If you do, google is your friend, I reckon.

The tv show ended the way it did (the less said, the better), and we will never see the book series completed; having got these two elephants in the room out of the way, let's concentrate on what drew me to this fictional world: medieval-England-like politics, fantasy, lots of intrigue, a sprawling cast of characters with endless permutations of shipping possibilities... ASoIaF/GoT really had a lot going for it. And I think this is why it attracted so many talented authors.

I've read extensively in this fandom, and if you had the patience to trawl through the sheer mass of fic posted, you were simply bound to find something to your taste. When it comes to single out the stories I enjoyed the most, I think I'm going to have to take two different approaches: the ship way (my favourite was, unsurprisingly, Jamie/Brienne, but I've read pretty much any pairing under the sun, lol) or the astounding-author way.

Let's start with the latter. I'm just going to list who my favourite authors are and give you a couple of recs for each of them, sure in the knowledge that whatever work of theirs you will read is pretty much awesome. I'll keep the shippy recs for another day. One last warning: something I found particularly satisfying in this fandom is AUs of the canon divergence kind, because changing one single fact and seeing how the consequences span out is extremely interesting in an intricate and politically fraught world as Westeros. So most of the stories I'm going to rec here fall under this category. Last but not the least, for me, this fandom is all about the women.

arbitrarily. My top pick: the joinery. 14K words. Cersei/Ned, Cersei/Jaime. by what right does the wolf judge the lion -- ned stark takes the iron throne, and with it, a lannister for a wife.

lareinenoire. My top picks: 1)Reap the Whirlwind. 6K. The circumstances under which Cersei Lannister finds herself Princess of Dragonstone are not the ones she anticipated.; 2)False Sorrow's Eye 18K. Elia Martell/Lyanna Stark. Two women survive Robert's Rebellion and everything changes.

Net_girl_y2k. She writes mostly femslash and it's ALL excellent. My top picks: 1)Had A Dream I Was The Queen (woke up, still the queen). 7K words. Rhaegar marries Lyanna Stark, and runs away with Elia Martell; 2) The Sisters BlackNight gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no husband and bear no children. I shall wear no gowns and no jewels. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life's blood to the Night's Watch, for this night and all the nights to come. The Night's Watch is for women. Lyanna Stark survived and was forced to take the black. Arya decides to follow in her aunt's steps. Podfic available!

vixleonard. My top picks: 1) No Featherbed For me 154K. Arya Stark wanted to be a knight; she wanted to find glory and adventure with Needle in her hand. But that is not an appropriate life for a highborn lady, and that was all Arya of House Stark was allowed to be. This is the definitive Arya story. What an epic journey. 2) The Evening Star. 38K. Some day people will tell tale of Ashara Dayne, the tragic and beautiful sister of the great Ser Arthur Dayne, who flung herself from the Palestone Sword with a broken heart. They will whisper about the man who dishonored her at Harrenhal, the man who got a bastard on her. But they will never get the story right.

astolat. Keeping in mind I'll rec the shippy bits elsewhere, my top picks: 1)The Price of Bread and Salt 12K. “The girl asks for more deaths than she is owed. The Many-Faced God may grant it. But for this, there will be a price. And a man cannot say what the price will be. A girl must pay. A man must pay. A girl’s brother must pay, if he agrees.” Podfic available. 2)Royal Flush. Robb Stark had swept his entire hand of cards off the table, and Tyrion couldn’t see how to make a single play at all.

The Pitt

Compiling this rec list made me realize arbitrarily has written for The Pitt too and I didn't notice! So I went on a good ol' binge-reading and come offering this gem runner's high. 7K. Robby/McKay/Abbot threesome, woot. Jack joins a run club, Cassie’s raw-dogging a 10k, and Robby’s sweating. Can't believe I'd missed this.

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The Day in Spikedluv (Monday, Dec 15)

Today is Sister A’s b-day! She’s the baby; 10-years younger than me.

I hit Walmart, Dollar Tree and Agway while I was downtown. Dollar Tree was for cards; Agway was for a gift card because I forgot Pip’s dad’s b-day! I was reminded at the Bear’s Dinner and I was like o_O I couldn’t believe I had forgotten it.

I visited mom, hand-washed dishes, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, scooped kitty litter, and showered. I also mailed more cards at the post office, returned a book to the library, and hit the bank drive-thru. AND I shoveled the sidewalk again.

I watched Tracker and an HGTV program. Dr. Pol was my evening background tv.

Temps started out at 8.8(F) and reached 25.3. I’m not loving this cold.

Mom Update:

Mom was not doing great. ( more back here )

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Interesting Links for 16-12-2025

1. Vocabulary Test: How Many English Words Do You Know? (I scored 21,900, above 92% of native speakers): (tags:language quiz )
2. I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.: (tags:kenya english language ai style )
3. The giant heat pumps designed to warm whole districts (in Germany. UK is miles behind): (tags:heating Technology germany )
4. Hungary is leading the world in solar adoption (25% of its electricity is solar): (tags:solarpower hungary europe )

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dark souls,
games

So

... I just beat Ornstein and Smough.

For anyone who would like context -- Symbalily meets and gets to grips with O&S, from the timestamp: https://youtu.be/3TKhwbveyVE?si=14uuwYlVq1ywUwRk&t=5681

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Ominous music sting for the right shoulder

My right shoulder has been making itself felt with a very small uncomfortable pain since I finished the first triplet sweater last Thursday. (Or before.)

You may remember that last spring I knitted way too much and did Something to it. When I consulted the health center advice, it said that barring certain more severe symptoms, you should rest it and take painkillers and just give it time and that it could take three months to feel better. So I did, and it didn't keep hurting after that. So I haven't talked to a doctor about it.

And that's why I was trying SO HARD to not knit too much when I started knitting again last month. I tried to knit only a few hours a day, though I did get into hyperfocus and knit for five hours a couple times. A couple of weeks ago I hit upon the idea of making myself read one complete paperback book per day to constrain how much time I could spend knitting. I thought it was going pretty well, but just the last few days I noticed this minor discomfort... I hoped it would go away with a few days of rest. But I've kept free of knitting, sewing, and even drawing and writing for five days now, and taken paracetamol even though it's not really that painful, more like mild discomfort.

But it's still like this! I'm afraid to start knitting in case it sproings again! And I'm even worried that targeted stretches might make it worse instead of better!

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[ ICONS ] SOARA, SOARA AND THE HOUSE OF MONSTERS

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Fic: How Sussie Got His Hat

I was trying to get up to 50K written in 2 weeks (for reasons, and I succeeded), but I didn't have enough brain to write my book, so I asked for fic prompts and someone suggested a Kpop Demon Hunters prompt of "How Sussie ended up with Derpy's hat" and I thought, I can do that!

In an ideal world, you would go read this over at my Patreon and become a member there if you're not already, but nobody's going to strike you down for reading it here. :)

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FTH Fanbinding: "Winter of the White Wolf" Vol. 7 by K. LeCrone

It took me a while, but I managed to finish my Marvel Trumps Hate offering (auction 1051) from last year this September. K. LeCrone won my fanbinding auction and asked me to bind what is to become the 7th volume of her epic MCU fic “Winter of the White Wolf”.

I had basically free reign on the design and since this particular part of the story focusses on Bucky’s fracturing mind, I decided to run with a darker Winter Soldier theme.

The colours were a no-brainer - grey, black, blue, and red as an accent colour seemed like the way to go. I decided early on that I wanted the red star on the cover, and I really liked the idea of having the paper be somewhat transparent, with a picture of the Winter Soldier underneath.
It’s easier to see in real life - I struggled with the transparent paper, and of course the glue made it a bit wavy, but overall I think the effect worked well enough.

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genre (and not) links

Netflix cancels Boots after one season

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