Dull Men's Club
An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.
1. Relevant commentary on your own dull life. Posts should be about your own dull, lived experience. This is our most important rule. Direct questions, random thoughts, comment baiting, advice seeking, many uses of "discuss" rarely comply with this rule.
2. Original, Fresh, Meaningful Content.
3. Avoid repetitive topics.
4. This is not a search engine
Use a search engine, a tradesperson, Reddit, friends, a specialist Facebook group, apps, Wikipedia, an AI chat, a reverse image search etc. to answer simple questions or identify objects. Also see rule 1, “comment baiting”.
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5. Keep it dull. If it puts us to sleep, it’s on the right track. Examples of likely not dull: jokes, gross stuff (including toes), politics, religion, royalty, illness or injury, killing things for fun, or promotional content. Feel free to post these elsewhere.
6. No hate speech, sexism, or bullying No sexism, hate speech, degrading or excessively foul language, or other harmful language. No othering or dehumanizing of anyone or negativity towards any gender identity.
7. Proofread before posting. Use good grammar and punctuation. Avoid useless phrases. Some examples: - starting a post with "So" - starting a post with pointless phrases, like "I hope this is allowed" or “this is my first post” Only share good quality, cropped images. Do not share screenshots of images; share the original image.
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Congrats on the 10 year anniversary!
Some employers don't care. After 10 years you've likely shown to provide value without being horrible towards others. We still try to do something but being small sometimes things fall through the cracks.
Given you're on Lemmy, you likely wouldn't appreciate an Alexa device or Chromecast.
What would you have appreciated? What are the sort of gifts are not overly specific but would still be suitable?
Considering it's a "career" I've felt stuck in for a few years now, one of the only things holding me back from just enjoying myself is/was my sense of loyalty to an entity that is wholly incapable of returning the sentiment. That means the last thing keeping me here now is just the paycheck.
By ignoring me completely on this day, they've essentially given me one of the greatest gifts they possibly could have: they have freed me from the very last vestiges of me caring. I simply DGAF anymore. I'll still show up every day and do my tasks. Maybe document something. Shoot the shit with whomever is at the coffee machine or water cooler.
But come 17.00 I will close all my windows, including the ones titled "urgent!", turn off my PC and go home and simply REFUSE to even entertain a single thought about all of this. All that time is mine now, 100%.
Thanks for the liberty. Anything else honestly would've had me feeling guilty again and second guessing my next steps. Not anymore though.