I’m sure someones already said this but I often see Tumblr described as a hellsite. This is fundamentally incorrect.
Tumblr is the faesite. Everybody is super confused and lost, you keep running into random places. Somehow you end up stuck there forever after interacting a couple of times. The people are all strange, everybody simultaneously seems to be from the future and the past as if time is meaningless.
YES
also technology breaks at random, and sometimes you just suddenly feel a thousand years old
everybody has a half dozen names and none of them are their “real” name.
which name(s) you know gives you different powers over them.
there are Rules but you mostly have to figure them out for yourself.
getting the Rules wrong or breaking them can cost you more than you ever even knew you had.
Maximum Horny at all times
be careful what you wish for or you just might get it
–Children under 14 (13 for agricultural labor) can only be employed by their own parents/guardians
–14-15 year olds are limited to 3 hours per day, 18 hours per week during the school year (up to 8 hours on weekends/holidays), and 8 hours per day, 40 hours per week when school is not in session.
–They are also limited to working 7am-7pm (or 9pm during the summer), and only outside of school hours
–Only a specific list of jobs are permitted for children of this age (relevant to this, they are allowed to reheat food, wash dishes and equipment, and do some limited cooking/food prep such as washing vegetables). Any work outside this list is prohibited.
–There is also a broad list of jobs/duties they are prohibited from (including any work with ladders, or work with powered meat slicers or several types of powered baking equipment)
(An entirely different set of rules apply to agricultural work, and for working directly for one’s parents or family. There are also some jobs allowed to children under 14. I’m not going into those.)
Now, I’m not opposed to 14 and 15 year olds working appropriate jobs. I babysat at that age, other kids mowed lawns, raked leaves, life guarded at pools, etc.
But there is something a little predatory about this sign, particularly going up now.
And as people have pointed out, kids that age don’t know their rights. They don’t know the laws. And even if they do, they don’t know that the laws are there to *protect* them. I’ve known plenty of teenagers who think they boss is *doing them a favor* by allowing them to work outside their limited hours, or continue working while clocked out for their lunch break. When I worked as a waitress, my manager suggested this as a way to earn extra tips. Heck, I was almost THIRTY, and you wouldn’t believe how many little ways they tried to wriggle around the rules to get a little more work out of me. (Unless you’ve worked this kind of job, then you’d absolutely believe it.)
Another thing–these jobs are *exhausting.* I’ve worked manual labor, I’ve worked in schools, retail, all kinds of jobs, but nothing made me end the day, back throbbing, fling-myself-into-bed tired like working in a restaurant. I don’t know what it is, maybe the hectic pace of the busy hours, maybe the way you’re expected to be busy every second of your time there, maybe it’s the fact that I spent most of each day walking as fast as I could from one end of the building to the other. I don’t know. But I wouldn’t wish that on any 14-year-old.
So, anyway, I’m looking at this little flyer, and I’m concerned. Not because I don’t think a 14-year-old should ever work. But because I’m trying to think why a BK would put out a sign SPECIFICALLY asking for the youngest age they can employ, with NO details suggesting this is a special youth-support or training program, only A FEW WEEKS before summer vacation, and targeted to their PARENTS who, let’s face it, are probably eager to get some time away from the kids after the last year.
Why would any business make this SPECIFIC ad? I don’t know, but every answer I come up with doesn’t sit well with me.
With the current shortage of adults willing to work an exhausting job at a non-living wage, they are looking for anyone else they can exploit. A business should be considered failing if it can’t pay its adult employees enough to get by.
Also relevant: these kids are almost certainly not vaccinated, and its extremely clear they will not be protected, especially as places relax mask mandates. In 2020 being a line cook was the most dangerous job in the country, the conditions that caused that danger haven’t changed. This will get some of these kids killed.
no doctor who moment will EVER top donna being completely fucking oblivious to the god-knows how many alien invasions and threats that cropped up on earth over the past like 5 years, the doctor is going through a dozen simultaneous aneurysms trying to comprehend how one woman has missed every single fuckin thing - sycorax and slitheen and robot santas and autons - and donna’s just like ‘i was busy.’
And the most amazing Doctor Who glow up was when she taught herself to sniff out alien activity so well that she literally bumped into the Doctor because a new diet company seemed iffy in a way that was slightly different from all the other iffy diet companies
don’t mind me just testing beta photosets to see if they fixed anything
So far there’s an annoying glitch where I can’t move images to the far right of other images, the bar shows up in a flash and then disappears. I have to move the image to the left, then move the other image to the left to put it on the right side. Very annoying.
EDIT: Photoset works on dashboard, but on the website itself you can only click and view one image at a time, it won’t scroll through them like it’s supposed to. Gonna report to staff. I suggest other people try to make posts like this, test them out, and report the glitch to tumblr ASAP. Maybe, by some miracle, they’ll actually fix it.
one thing that NEVER fails to crack me up about the lightning thief is how everyone is like oh haha percy is so SLOW on the uptake, but it’s ABSOLUTELY not his fault nobody explains SHIT to him lol
percy: hi mr brunner
chiron: oh that’s not my name actually
percy: um okay. does mr d stand for something?
dionysus: names are
powerful things. you don’t just go around using them for no reason.
percy: can someone tell me what the hell is going on
chiron: did ur mom not tell u anything?
percy’s mom: *is now dead, had been keeping secrets because it was dangerous to tell him which chiron should KNOW because HE DID THE SAME THING
*percy sees the oracle* what’s up there?
chiron: not a single living thing
luke: you’ll be in cabin eleven until you get claimed.
percy: how long will that take?
*nobody answers*
and the ALL TIME WINNER:
annabeth: Monsters don’t die, Percy. They can be killed. But they don’t die.
percy thru the entire first half of the lightning thief:
