• funkajunk 🇨🇦@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I live my life asking these 3 questions:

    1. Does this need to be said?

    2. Does this need to be said right now?

    3. Does this need to be said right now, by me?

  • Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world
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    Always at my job.

    My manager is a micromanager and I don’t mesh well with a lot of the ways we do things. So I’ll try to start a project to make things better for me and I’ll mention it or ask if I should continue when we meet. Every single time I get told no after some very fake deliberating from my manager.

    I really really need to learn to keep my mouth shut and just do the thing that’s going to help me

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    Without going into much detail, my workplace sells a product that’s makes use of an industrial computer that has two regular off-the-shelf hard drives in it. For some reason both hard drives are similar, but were sourced from different manufacturers. We got a notification from the provider that manufacturer B would cease production and proposed us to use two drives from manufacturer A instead.

    I had the genius idea of giving my two cents and suggested we accept as it will work, they are just standard hard drives after all.

    Now I became the hard drive expert at work, got dragged into endless meetings and being asked the dumbest of questions regarding this change. It’s been a year and the change hasn’t been approved by higher ups yet.

  • somethingDotExe@lemmy.world
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    My wifes sister had their first baby, and I had no knowledge what-so-ever about babies at the time. She was born with some weird “wrinkely”-ears, which I just thought were normal after they were born, a lot looks funny untill they grow a bit. So it just came out of my mouth, that I thought she “looked like a little mma-warrior with those funny ears”. Not my proudest moment, since everyone at the dinner table just looked at me at said: “Sometimes you should just shut up bro…” Didn’t know it would follow their daughter for life though, then I would ofc not had made fun of it.

  • Twongo [she/her]@lemmy.ml
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    Speaking your mind is good to filter the people you surround yourself with. :) just be careful with your job or if speaking your mind can bring you in serious jeopardy (e.g. talking to homo-/transphobic parents about certain stuff while you rely on them providing you housing)

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    I started questioning our role in the World War 2 during a history lesson when I was in, like, 4th grade. I’m from Russia.

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    When I was asked my by colleagues how I did on an exam and told how I was allowed to take it then they went and asked administration about this using my name… won’t trust colleagues again.