This is a great question and I wanna know too. The first time I set foot on a tarmac was probably when I was 22, and I had flown dozens of times before then.

Bean-posting is the inside joke around Lemmy. Every once in awhile, the whole place goes ape over beans.

Had a similar situation happen at one of my old workplaces. Super culty. You’ll survive.

In addition to what others said (namely, that companies tend not to give “references” anymore, but instead give “verification”, which is where they confirm the dates of employment), if you need references, I recommend getting coworkers who liked you to write a letter of recommendation and send it directly to you for you to include with your job applications.

You can whip up a “letter of recommendation” template to send to your work friends, then just ask them not to include a date on their letter. I’ve been reusing some old letters of recommendation for years and future employers seem to appreciate that I include them in my app.

Yep, this approach exactly.

I hope you like beans

I was at a Meyers-Briggs workshop one time (company-mandated) and the facilitator said something that made a lot of sense to me: “At any given time, your personality is about 33% who you want to be, about 33% who the people around you want you to be, and about 33% who you really are”.

I think we adapt based on our context.

For me this is less about “being yourself” and more about not overly bending on your values to please others.

We are communal beings, and sometimes that means you have to act in certain ways to get along with the group. However, you should not have to compromise on the things that are most important to you in order to get along with the group. If you do constantly compromise, you’ll probably be liked, but you may never find YOUR group and always feel a bit like an outsider.

(If your friends like to say “that’s fire” And “yeet” and you don’t, that probably shouldn’t be a dealbreaker. If your friend group always expects you to drink when you’re hanging out and you don’t like to drink, then it’s probably a sign the fit isn’t perfect. Try not drinking around them and see if they accept you or else if they push you out and create room for you to find a different group. It’s scary to do, but results in deeper relationships in the long run.)

I would go on long nighttime walks on the nature trails near my home.

1. I wouldn’t mind the bugs because I’m a tiger.
2. I wouldn’t get tired or sweaty because I’m a tiger.
3. I wouldn’t be arrested for walking on the trails at night because I’m invisible.
4. The hobos who live on the trails wouldn’t be able to see me because I’m a tiger and I’m very stealthy.

Knew what it was before even clicking

GIMME CHOCOLATE

I heard universities have been closing entire staff departments because of the DEI cuts. Business schools all over the country do DEI research with government grants. That money is gone now.

I actually think the bad one shot is kind of part of the joke.

For instance: Someone posts a petty revenge story about getting back at their ex boyfriend for cleaning out their bank account.

I comment on that post with my request to aihorde along the lines of “a drag queen lifting a champagne glass as a toast to how delightfully petty someone is being”.

AIHorde will then generate the image.

Regardless of how good or bad the gen is, my original intent will come across because the OP can still see that my AIHorde prompt was intended to compliment OP. The bonus is if AIHorde comes up with an awesome output, it will be hilarious. It the output is terrible, also hilarious. If the output is so-so, the original intent of a compliment was still delivered.

At least, that’s my thinking.

As an example: Slack kind of had this functionality when sending GIFs awhile back. If you had the Giphy integration, you’d just type “/gif {topic}” and the integration would select a random gif that was returned from searching your topic. This GIF would be posted in the chat without you having the chance to review it first. Sometimes the GIF returned was irrelevant result, but everyone brushed it off because they knew how random the integration could be. Other times, it returned the perfect GIF and the potential randomness of result made a good GIF result even more satisfying.

Reduce social anxiety by being able to do stupid human tricks when hanging out with people.

https://youtu.be/2OELGeTEwNU

This is gold and I’m so thankful for this knowledge.

I wish I could limit the response to just one picture so I could use this as a meme generator in response to user comments.

Cordyceps fungus. Prion diseases like Chronic Wasting Disease.

Both are horrible

Damn, I’m the only one using Mlem?

Age is also something that matters here. Are you middle-aged yet? I ended up pulling the brakes on my career to get a better work-life balance, but it ended up stunting my career trajectory a bit.

Once I had more free time and realized I wanted to earn more, I had to hustle to get back to a top-of-market position.

In short: there’s always time on the future to pivot to Option B. If there’s more value to extract where you are, milk it for all it’s worth and then exit before it goes south (as all jobs do).

I don’t really know anything about China, so I really can’t say.

Yup. It’s phuckin awesome

FLUSH THE TOILET AFTER YOU’VE HAD A SHIT

This. Blocking communities you find annoying is the better solution.