Just Being A Friend

Hiccup: Okay, um…

Snotlout: Specifically a son.

Hiccup: …Are you talking about my mom?

I felt... compelled

Flowey and the 7 httyd class systems:

Why is she comparing her and Hicupps relationship to Dagur and Malas when their relationship has NEVER been the same as theirs???

Why is she upset that Hiccup isn't being someone he has NEVER been??? Why is she upset he was acting the way he has ALWAYS been??? She knew what she was getting into with a relationship with him. Like it was said, multiple times, they have known each other for YEARS.

Like. I'm not saying she can't be upset about things in their relationship, I'm just saying, she knew that was who he was and accepted that as the person she was going to be in a relationship with.

Do exactly what you're paid for and nothing more

Absolutely refuse to be available to contact when you're off the clock

Never prioritize work over your own health, wellbeing, or family because that would be insane, it's just a job.

Have a little glass of wine

Take as long as you feel like for lunch

Deeply understand that work doesn't matter

Old Millennial American speaking here. I need you to adopt this mentality as early as possible and hold to it. The older you get, the harder it is to begin this practice and claw back the extremely unhealthy effects of a workaholic lifestyle. I am speaking from 20 years of experience.

This does not mean having a shitty attitude at work, or not doing your job, or relying on co-workers to carry your water.

This means you do what it says above. It also means not making work and productively your entire personality; not tying your productivity to your value; and not becoming so emotionally enmeshed in your work and workplace so that you are living and dying by what happens there.

While this is the gist of our work ethics, we sometimes need to be reminded of that ourselves.

Older generations were a bit like making work their priority in some fields.

But now? Yeah, we tend to not give a damn about emails after hours or calls after hours.

Companies could get in trouble for that. Unless you have something in your contract telling you you can be on call, companies aren't allowed to expect you to answer yout phone/answer emails out of work hours.

But anyway, we usually don't answer our phones or emails after hours. It's called the "Droit de deconnexion" (right to disconnect). Home is home, work is work.

By law, lunch breaks could be 20 minutes long but in reality it's 45 minutes minimum.

The month of May is also one of the months we take the most vacations. There are holidays when we don't work, and when it's in the middle of the week, (like the holiday is on a tuesday or a thursday), you can take a day off (monday/friday) to get a nice extra long weekend

Why? Well, why not? And as we get 25 vacation days, we have to take them between june 1st and may 31st. Other than thzt they are lost. So people strategically take them.

If you have pto, take it, you earned it. TAKE. IT.

You all know this classic fantasy trope that dragons love sleeping on gold. But Toothless sleeps on runes 😝