What Are You Doing?

This reminds me of a Black Mirror episode. Completely nuts.

 

Yes, in Sales...

 

‘Chubby little thumbs checking him out? Loser.’

...

Ach, who can say...sorry...

 

It's very true, especially in image professions. It's also required for a lot of writing jobs, because the employer wants to see that you know how to promote your articles and grow a dedicated readership of followers.

ETA: Also, I'm with @Homer Potvin on this one. You have to know how your employees conduct themselves on social media. If it's a businesses with a lot of trade secrets, NDAs, or it's a business that's especially dependent on what people post on social media and other internet sites such as Yelp, TripAdvisor, etc., damn right you'd better know what your employees are saying.

Came back to add: I do take issue with employers who post photos of their employees on the internet, however. Doing so makes it extremely difficult for battered women or people who have been stalked. It also makes reporters' jobs inherently more dangerous. At least make our stalkers or crazy exes who want to kill us work for it, FFS.

 

Nothing to do with the creative arts ...[sulk blues]...

 

Long day again. Heat is back, yay. Friend is coming by noon tomorrow and this humidity will welcome him. Hehe.

Time for some reading of that new book I brought. After an hour, I'll most likely hit the hay.

See ya space cowboys.

 

Sitting on my ass. My DnD server's gone radio silence and I'm starting to get freaked out by a lack of activity on my GR groups

 

Brainstorming while listening to orchestral mixes and drinking tea. I made a cheese sandwich to go with the tea, but my meds have got me tensed up enough that I dont think I could stomach it.

 

Which is why I have multiple, one nice safe and moderately engaged in trivial issues under my full real name to give to HR, and others to rant about subterranean Nazis putting chemicals in the water supply.

 

Listening to a bud run through a piano piece on Discord, eating dinner, and waiting for a grocery delivery.

 

I realise I'm an old fart, and times have changed. But that really REALLY puts me off. It's an invasion of privacy ...and a DEMAND for an invasion of privacy. It's the same as demanding a tap on somebody's phone, or requiring them to wear a microphone at all times. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Really. No. But hey. I'm a retiree. My thoughts don't really matter and are obviously out of date. I did work in the food service industry for years, built up an extremely good work record... and am trying to think of how I would have reacted if a prospective boss had demanded this sort of thing. Honestly? I think I would have refused the job. I refused one once that required back x-rays to weed out potential health issues. And that, at least, made some sort of sense. But no. I think you have to draw the line somewhere. For me, this is it.

 

I struggle enough with social media without worrying about whether my employer is searching for me on it as well. Currently, I am trying to avoid my sister on there. Because of that, I don't have a picture of my face shown publicly. I have one photo of me and CT, but that is only visible to me.

 

It puts me off, too. Less for invasion of privacy reasons, because if I didn't want something on the internet, I'd just not put it there, but because if a place wants the bartender to promote for them, I really don't think it should fall to the bartender's personal accounts to do it. I've worked bar, and I've promoted it on Facebook and Instagram, but it was always the bars accounts I did the promoting on and my personal pages reflect nothing of the work I've done there with maybe the exception of telling my friends that that's where I'm working now. Besides, it's not really self promotion if they're promoting the establishment rather than themselves.

 

"I was a contract killer, and used Facebook to receive my instructions. I'm happy to let you browse, but then I'll have to kill you."

 

Fought another hand sized mosquito. Seems like they're making one last push before the season ends. Too bad for them, I've got the big zapper in hand; the Excalibur of this land.

Feeling the onset of a throat infection as well. Wish it was legal to punch people who cough without covering up. Shame it's not. I'm kidding. Or am I? Eh.

Onward to breakfast.

 

To The Waffle House : A Moon's Journey.

 

Thanking Fuck it’s Friday.

 

Checked reservations for tonight - everything is in the green. Haven't been to the "21 club" before, so it'll be fun to eat there. Chose the less fancy part to eat in, since it looks more interesting.

Spoiler: we'll be eating here

 

Deciding whether or not to rewrite my Shifterverse drafts. I really need to stop watching Godzilla flicks

 

Phew boy, this sickness is hitting me harder than I thought it would. Perhaps today should be a rest day, seeing how I've got that dinner coming up.

Feels like a bag of bricks landed on my back and and I can't shake it off. Bleh. Should walk around in a biohazard suit to avoid nasty New Yorkers.

 

on my lunch break.
I was trying this thing where I'd pull a random idea out of my "discarded ideas" file and just write to see where it goes. One discard was simply a scene of a man standing in front of an unmarked grave where he buried his children.
I turned it into a 1587 word short story.

It'll take me about a month to edit and get it to a point where its not just ramblings and worth sharing

 

Sounds good, JT. A striking image.

 

Waiting for column vacuum. Takes forever in these microscopes. Likely passing the time writing.