Trans bird girl trying her best! 26, Ace, and looking for ways to retry my younger years.
studies show that this would make my tail wag and i would cherish this beast with my whole heart
i think a lot about how every fast food drive-thru in the country has been gaming the metrics for 10 years by asking every customer to pull forward so the order timer stops. corporate has to know it's going on, unless this is the most effective "snitches get stitches" campaign in history, which to be fair I can believe and respect
fuck metrics, if you want to know if people are working you can come out and fucking watch. if you don't trust your employees it's because you know you're not paying them enough and never any other reason
every time i see a big scary red timer hanging over the drive-thru window at a restaurant i make sure to be extra nice to the people behind the counter
Everywhere I've ever worked that had aggressive metrics — basically, everywhere I've ever worked, sooner or later — has had things in common. Namely:
Man I fucking hate metrics, or "Key Performance Indicators" as they've been called in my previous jobs. Because of KPIs I've had to
Also, Maplin were really sloppy with their metrics. The stick they were trying to beat me with about Margins, Average sale, Multisales, P&C sales.... all of that shit... also showed my Year to Date figures. Let me tell you, seeing that your gross YTD being deadass £300,000, with a margin of 54% (i.e. how much revenue was made after stock price and logistics) fucking radicalised me man. I was earning £11k a year back then. Knowing that I generated over £150,000 for the company and saw less than 1/10th of that myself... and seeing the regional manager on 5 times my salary turn up in his company bmw X5 twice a month to play peggle in the managers office aaaaand seeing that the company still went bust 2 years afterwards...
It just made me see the absurdity of it all. You look at a company like that and see that it's losing all of its money to exec paycheques and loan repayments and just go... why tho. The stores made money hand over fist. Literally was the monthly finances '£12000 on Robux' "help me my family are starving" meme
he's tiny
he's noodle
he carries a gameboy link cable around his waist
it's hub!
more art from last year, this is my noodle dragon sona "hub" who i created for when i feel small and flexible. his colors are based around the purple gba colors, and the lighter spots on his purple body are supposed to indicate a kind of shimmering scales. his eyes glow like a power led.
his basic backstory is that he's a kind of wish/luck dragon that was born from the need to have a gameboy link cable! when your friend wants to trade pokemon and you're looking for your link cable but you just can't find it!!! and you think "ohhh please let me find it".... but then! all of a sudden you find it right there and you're so relieved..... that's all thanks to hub's magic!
or to generalize it, his power is connecting people, to create friendships, through technology/cables. but... sadly his services are no longer needed as much in the age of wi-fi and internet gaming...... tragic!
he sometimes branches out to provide other types of cables such as usb charging cables but otherwise he's just enjoying his retirement, though always on the lookout for a retro gaming enthousiast in need!