The bond that links your true family is...respect and joy in each other's life.

I'm taking a couple days off from work, so it's Saturday again! Sort of!

My thoughts watching the new Fantastic Four trailer:

*there must be a reason that screenshots from this keep showing up on my tumblr dash...

*oh, they're gonna have a baby!

*lol Pedro Pascal, I guess baby Franklin IS kind of like Grogu...

*is that why the screenshots? I thought the Mandalorian was over...

*hang on, lemme just look these people up

*ooooohhhhhh, it's because the actor who's playing Johnny Storm also played Eddie in Stranger Things

*yeah, as soon as the hair color was different I was never gonna recognize him

*he looks shorter? (then I remembered I've never actually seen Stranger Things)

*I mean, it might be a fun movie?

::silver surfer shows up to warn everyone that Galactus is gonna eat the planet::

*no, never mind

(Look, if this was gonna be a fun superhero movie about baby Franklin boggling the shit out of his parents and uncles, that sounds hilarious. I love it. But it sounds like it's gonna be an un-fun superhero movie that's mostly an excuse to spend tons of money creating special effects of the Silver Surfer and Galactus blowing stuff up, buildings being destroyed, etc, etc. They're probably going to be very impressive! I just don't care about that part.)

The Talking Cure, by DariaHernandez

“Tim, would you say your family has been supportive of your relationship with another man?” Alan probes gently.

“Please. That’s the least of their problems with me,” Jason laughs.

One of the 'new and improved' performance review metrics that was rolled out this year was 're-grading' every employee.

(IDK, I guess they put all of us in grades (aka tiers, aka they're absolutely just re-inventing the top-down hierarchy) before, but then it was a SECRET. Now they've changed how many grades there are, and it's NOT SECRET.)

Not EXACTLY secret, anyway. I was told my grade during my annual review, and after some pushing (I tried to be tactful? I am not good at it, though), I was provided a 'general overview' of the tiers. Then my boss asked if I had any questions about it.

(I did, obviously. My job title was LITERALLY listed in the grade above the one I was given. But the company had already put out a video that was VERY CLEAR in saying 'if you think you've been graded wrong, you weren't' in almost those exact words, so I definitely wasn't going to ask about THAT.)

So instead I asked, as delicately and tactfully as I could (still not very, unfortunately), if my boss was allowed to tell me if everyone on the team was the same grade. (There are only three of us.) Cue the loooooooooooooooong pause. The answer was immediately obvious. To my boss' credit, they did eventually say yes, they could tell me, and no, the rest of the team was graded differently.

IN CONCLUSION: I no longer need to feel guilty any time I feel like my coworkers have been asked to do things I haven't! (I mean, I often do still feel guilty, but at least now I can tell myself to chill out about it.) Obviously I still feel salty about this entire situation, but I'm trying very hard to see the upsides, which even I can admit are numerous.