this is why cats domesticated themselves in the first place. finally. some cats doing what they wanted all along. so wholesome
LIKE if you would have a beer with Gozer.
REBLOG if you would hunt rats with him.
IGNORE and your heart will be destroyed.
CHOOSE THE FORM OF THE DESTRUCTOR
Reblogged, obviously.
I’m one of the two brewers at Empirical Brewery, and I love these little bastards!
Sadly, Gozer passed away last year due to feline leukemia. However, the other three - Venkman, Egon and Raymond - are all still around and active!
Venkman is the “leader” of the group, and by far the most curious - he explores and investigates everyone and everything that comes through the brewery. He also has a great sense of when somebody’s taking a picture of him and poses accordingly. He’s not interested in having humans pet him and will run away from you.
Raymond, however, seems to have been feral for all of thirty seconds before Treehouse picked him up: He will meow for attention, and either rub up against your hand to demand pets, or flop down on the ground so you can scratch his belly. He and Venkman are close pals.
Egon is the most skittish of the bunch, and barely likes you to even look at him. He’ll investigate new things, but spends most of his time hiding and sleeping. He has a special hiding spot on top of a pipe, and he somehow has the uncanny ability to sleep with all four paws dangling completely off of it without ever falling of.
This is how they spend most of their day. If you ever find a stray cat hair on one of your six-packs, it’s probably Raymond’s. The guy sheds like mad.
Venkman’s curiosity occasionally gets the better of him. This is what happened when a new pump came into the brewery. He managed to escape handily enough, though.
Like I said, Venkman likes to pose.
Buddies. <3
Come by Empirical Brewery sometime, and maybe you’ll get to see them!
TL;DR: Dude came in asking for a recommendation regarding consoles. Very quickly became rude and implying things that were WAY uncomfortable…
So I work at the UK purple gaming store and it’s not uncommon to get asked by customers whether we recommend Xbox or Playstation more.
This one guy comes in and asks said question. I end up telling him what I tell everyone: “it comes down to what you want - if you want to play online with your friends then you’re best getting what they’re all on, otherwise it’s worth looking at the exclusive games and seeing what most appeals to you there.”
Bear in mind that my senior sales is standing next to me for more or less the entirety of this conversation.
Guy: “Well I’m not looking to play online with anyone and I’m not completely sure about the exclusives. What would you recommend in terms of the exclusive games?”
Me: “My game of the year is Persona 5, which you can only get on the Playstation, so yeah I’d recommend that.”
Guy: “Oh? Why would you recommend it?”
Me: “I’m a big fan of RPGs, the soundtrack is amazing, and it’s so easy to get sucked into the world. I mean I’ve already sunk over 60 hours into it.”
Guy: “Wow… You need a job…”
Me: *In uniform - part of which is a bright pink hoodie that’s pretty hard to miss* “Um… Ok?”
Senior Sales (SS): “Most people will watch TV for a few hours when they get home after work. We just play video games instead. It’s easy to rack that many hours up.”
Guy: “Well then you need a girlfriend.”
SS: “… I’ve been married for 10 years…”
Me: “I’ve been going out with my partner for a year and a half now…”
Guy: *Laughs* “Well then you should be doing more ‘extra-marital activities’.”
SS: “Dude, I had 3 kids in the space of 5 years…”
*Awkward silence*
Guy: “Well uh… Thanks for your help. Bye.”
I hope I never see that guy again. Firstly, dude, what I do in the bedroom is none of your fucking business. I’ve literally never seen you before, so it’s not even like we kinda know each other or have any sense of rapport. So why would you even make that joke? Plus who the fuck are you to step on someone’s hobby? I hope every console you buy gets fuckin’ bricked the second you try to play it…
Hey I get that compulsive heterosexuality is a thing and all but can we maybe stop trying to convince bi girls that they aren’t actually attracted to guys….I mean can we get rid of the idea that a bi girl who lusts after men is somehow doing a great disservice to the wlw community or being disloyal to who she “really” is…compulsive heterosexuality is real but guess what bisexuality is too and it’s a very valid identity
You may be 98% sure she’s not really bi and you can still keep your damn mouth shut
Hell, you can be absolutely right, and in a year she’s gonna laugh and say ‘haha I thought I liked men, can you believe it?’ And you can still keep your damn mouth shut
Let every girl explore and discover her identity at her own pace in her own way.
Let every girl choose the labels that make her the happiest and most comfortable
I id'ed as pan ace for half a year before I started seeing myself as a lesbian. And honestly, had someone tried to chew me out for that or called it a phase I would’ve been crushed.
I can only imagine how much worse it feels for actual bi and pan girls
Let bi girls be bi girls and let girls-who-you’re-pretty-sure-are-not-actually-bi be bi girls because that’s their label to pick.
There is no part of this diatribe that is not amazing or 100% true.
my brother works at a sears and regularly pulls 12 to 14 hour days. he’s exhausted CONSTANTLY. just last week they told him to take an hour lunch break so that he wouldn’t go above 40 hours and 45 minutes, because it’s apparently only when he hits 41 hours that they owe him benefits
minimum wage customer service jobs are exploitative and infinitely harder than any office job could ever dream of being.
I work at a craft store in texas and Homecoming starts our hell season. We keep one floor person on the homecoming section the entire time because there are so many people who are completely lost in everything or who trash the section. So my coworker was in homecoming, cleaning up carts worth of ribbons just thrown on the floor, and a lady comes up to her shoves a basket full of crap into her hands and says “Here you don’t look busy.”
My co-worker was almost in tears by the end of the day. It takes a full hour with 2 or more people cleaning to get that section looking nice again (and that’s 2 aisles of the store. There’s still another almost 100 aisles to recover.)
I’ve done both and can assure you customer service jobs both pay less and are frankly MUCH harder on a median day than that office job was on a crunch day.
Not to mention no benefits for when (not if) you need inserts or even surgery on your feet for the ridiculous always standing standard US businesses have. I was told my feet were basically trashed and to get inserts before it led to surgery being Required.
If you can, work at Aldi. Their prices are better, workers wages start at $11/hr and since it’s German owned the cashiers get to SIT which does not impede their work at all.
Wait, American cashiers don’t sit?
Nope
We don’t get to sit at all. Ever.
If you’re on cashier duty, you stand in the same place all day. If you’re on the floor, you’re usually either standing in the same place all day cleaning up the same mess over and over again (see the above story about the ribbon) or you’re sent running back and forth from one side of the store to the other for eight hours straight.
One time I worked for a company that only had one chair in the break room/office and the manager was always sitting in it, so when you finally got your precious ten minute break you couldn’t even sit then.
This abuse also holds true to other minimum wage positions in other industries as well. I worked as a production assistant (a “PA”) on various film sets here in Los Angeles for a while. PA’s are the entry level position. You make minimum wage, you do all the grunt work that the higher-ups don’t feel like doing. If someone has to stand a mile out in the desert holding a signal flag for twelve hours, it’s a PA they make do it. If someone has to dig a trench in the mud in the rain, it’s a PA they make do it.
The thing about the film industry is that there’s a lot of standing around doing nothing while shots are actually being filmed, though. And do those poor PA’s who just spent hours standing in the rain or the hot sun get to sit down during that time? Nope. They have to stand there, stock-still, not shuffling or making a sound while the “more important” crew (who have jobs one-tenth as hard) get to chill. If a PA sits, they’re fired.
Tl:dr. The US’ ultra-capitalist society thrives on exploiting the low-wage workers in all industries and punishing them when they show any sign of respect for themselves or their health. And because this system benefits our current societal system and we low wage workers need the jobs and can’t risk rocking the boat, the companies continue to do it unchecked.
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
