truly one of the most demoralising things about being in the job market atm is "only successful applicants will be notified" is practically a universal standard. so you spend hours, sometimes days filling out applications, writing CVs and cover letters only to be ghosted as the only form of communication. Not even a "thank you but this time you've been unsuccessful" email. You're in a constant state of "did I not get it or have they not contacted me?" and you just have to eventually conclude you were unsuccessful without so much as courtesy, "sorry, but thank you for your application." A literal thankless cycle for months and months and months. You'd think with all the ways to automate these processes they would at least have the time, means and decency to acknowledge your submission and let you off the hook, but no. You're just in limbo in every possible way in the name of "efficiency". Solidarity with everyone going through this because it is truly dehumanising and demoralising to work so hard on putting yourself forward constantly without acknowledgement or useful communication of any sort for long periods of time, and most ppl simply will not have any compassion for what that's like.

dandelions are magic. literally tiny suns in the grass that turn into the moon and then the stars when you blow on them. fucking insane.

holy shit

[[Comic ID: Three colorful panels illustrated with markers, showing off the dandelions as the sun, moon, and stars with the original text overlaid. Bright yellow rays erupt from a scattering of sunny dandelions in the first image, spiraling into the surrounding greenery like a Van Gogh painting. Then one massive dandelion puff, viewed from below, takes up the whole night sky. White ripples surround the dandelion, making it look like a dark pond peeking through the grass. In the last, a child blows on a dandelion from a grassy patch shaped like a lily pad. From high above, we see the distinctly botanical seeds turn into stars and sparkles where the wind catches them. End ID]]

people should be allowed to have low ambition, and also be able to feed a family on the salary of a cashier at a convenience store.

who remember vine 😂 that shit was funny or not, depending

Resteraunt servers have the funniest and most surreal workplace stories of any profession. They have the job that mean nurses think they have. The entire world is working against them the entire shift. And then you feel terrible for laughing. It’s not funny that you tripped and spilled an entire ice tea all over a toddler and the kid started screaming at the top of his lungs. Nobody was having a good day, thank God it wasn’t a hot coffee. That’s not funny. I did laugh so hard tears started rolling down my face when you recounted this mortifying ordeal though.