#not non binary

am I trans??? No it doesn't feel right

Am I non binary ??? Still doesn't feel right

Am I cis?? No

If there is a meeting that you are required to go to for work, even if you’re not doing your regular job, they still have to pay you. Yes, even if it’s only a meeting because insurance requires it. Yes, even if it’s just sitting around talking. Yes, even if some kind of fun activity is also involved.

I was wondering about this, because my workplace had a mandatory employee meeting, but acted like they didn’t have to pay us for it (and we don’t get paid for anything not on our time card). This is the advice I got from a now retired corporate lawyer I know-

“If you are required to attend that meeting— then your employer is required to pay you your wage rate for the time you spent at the required meeting.”

Also, a few other things I learned as I went through the seemingly legally-iffy things in my workplace rulebook:

If you are paid hourly wages, your employer cannot dock your pay below federal minimum wage.

They must pay you for any time you spend working. If they tell you to come in 15 minutes before your shift to set up, you include those 15 minutes in your hours. If you need to come in earlier to fulfill your job requirements, you include all of that time. This may seem obvious, but workplaces can and do try to convince you to put down less time than you actually worked, especially when you’re new to the workforce.

Not really a law, but unionize! If you aren’t able to, at the very least get to know your coworkers and have a good relationship with them- collective bargaining for smaller things doesn’t need a union. If your employer is trying to cheat you out of pay or you want something to change, there is strength in numbers when you go to tell them to stop.

Also not a law, but if your employer isn’t going to pay you, don’t work. One of my workplace’s rules is that if you show up tardy without letting the manager on duty know beforehand, you will be counted as a no-show (and therefore won’t get paid). In that situation, if they’re not going to pay you, don’t work!

Basically, don’t work for free. Your employers will try to get you to do so, don’t let them.

Bloodhound is non binary. It’s cannon.

Feeling comfortable in your body and being okay with how your body looks takes more than just finding clothes you like. It’s important to have friends who will appreciate your appearance. Affirmations help, and returning them builds supportive friendships.

Improving your self esteem is part receiving support and part proving your brain wrong. If your brain is telling you that you’re not skilled enough for x, learn how to do x!

You can ask for help with anything. People generally don’t want to make your life harder than it has to be, and they will be glad you asked for help. This applies to basically everything.

You will start feeling better about yourself once you gain independence. You’ll be able to figure out who you are without adults watching your every move, and the feeling of freedom that comes with that is wonderful.

A little bit of kindness goes a long way. I know it’s cliché, but it’s true. If you’re respectful and kind, not only will people be more respectful and kind back, you will also notice more opportunities and connections opening up. People want to do things for people who are nice to them.

Listen to what your body and brain are telling you. Society today encourages us to push ourselves past our limits and then ignore the signs that we’re about to collapse. Please, please don’t. If you are tired, rest, take a break. If you need a break from a situation, give yourself permission to step away. If you’ve overcommitted, communicate that, and drop some of your commitments.

The chain of command exists up until it’s inconvenient. If something needs to be done, but the person immediately in charge of you refuses to do anything, you can go to the person in charge of them. If you want to do something but can’t get permission, go up the chain. If someone is being unjust, go up the chain of command until you reach someone who will do something. If someone gives you permission to do something, take it, even if they’re not technically who you were supposed to ask.

So I use mobile almost exclusively, and in true Tumblr style, it isn’t showing me any asks that people send me. So if you have a question, you’ll have to message me (I’m hoping I still get those).

I realize that this means that being anonymous isn’t exactly an option, so sorry about that! If you really want to be anonymous, you might be able to send messages from sideblogs, so you could create a throwaway sideblog to send messages with, though I know that’s obviously not the easiest thing.

If you want your ‘ask’ that you message me to be published on this blog because you think it might be a question other people have as well (or information other people might want to know), just let me know when you send me your message, and I can post it on my blog. If you want it posted with credit to you, I will tag you in the post, and if you would like it to be anonymous, I will state that it’s from an anonymous person. If you don’t specify in your initial message, I’ll ask whether or not you want it posted and with credit or not, so don’t worry about having to remember all of that.

But this one blog that I decided to block wasn’t an ad blog. It was a stock trading blog where whoever ran it had a job as a stocks trader or however that works, and just. reblogged memes about their job trading stocks??

I didn’t realize that was even a side of tumblr that existed! And you’re probably wondering, “Planty, that doesn’t fall under your DNI! Why’d you block them?”

I didn’t realize that I might have to specify this here, but I’m very anti-capitalist. Capitalism=bad, here at Disobey Binary. So I blocked the random blog who really enjoyed capitalism, because that’s not who this blog is for. Also, just. Why??

Questions for you to answer:

1) who are you? (Can be your name, a general description of you (ex: a wonderful enby), or something else! It just has to answer the question)

2) what’s something about you that you think is pretty cool?

3) what’s something you really enjoy?

4) where would you hide a cherished object if you could hide it anywhere (even if it’s against the laws of physics or something)

5) how’re you?

Questions for me to answer: