I recently got an on-campus job. During the interview process, I requested that I not be scheduled on Friday nights or Saturdays as I am a Jewish student.
My boss immeadiately brightened and rushed to explain - “Of course ! Of course! We want to accomodate you! We have another worker who takes off for Ramadan. Do you need to take off for Ramadan?”
I shook my head, incredibly confused. “Uh. That’s. Not my jurisdiction. I’m good.”
Boss nodded but was sure to add “Let me know if that ever changes. We can help you with Ramadan.”
I’m scheduled to work with him tomorrow morning so will find out then 🫡 .We’re both STEM majors who use the early empty hours to study so I will report if I get more than a grunt out of him about it.
another stupid-early morning, and between our respective course loads- him organic chemistry and me pathophysiology- I asked for the full story in how he got all of Ramadan off.
He sighed, and let me know that he did indeed try to explain to our manager that all he needed was to get shifts not around sunrise or sunset. But that in him explaining what Ramadan was, the plot very quickly got lost into this unhinged confusion where our boss was trying to google how people could survive an entire month without food or water.
So halfway through, he decided to pivot and go along with it, expecting less shifts in March because that’s a difficult academic time anyway. Then, he had to keep a straight face when the end-product was the entire time off with paid leave.
So, now, he’s in a hell partially of his own making where his boss genuinely believes he doesn’t eat for a month and is trying to offer all non-Christian workers March off.
I offered him time off for Hanukkah. He hit his head against the desk, and groaned.
Shit man, this trojan war is fucked. I just saw a guy raise his hands to the sky and say “grey-eyed athena, strengthen my spear” or some similar shit, and he felled 27 men at once before being whisked away by divine mist. The narrator didn’t even mention him, that’s how common shit like this is. My ass is stuck with a bow and 2 arrows. I think I just heard “would to god my rage, my fury would drive me now to hack your flesh away and eat you raw” two groups over. I gotta get the fuck outta here.
I mean it’s kinda the real life tragedy of love exaggerated, innit? Irl people die young or one person dies old and another person dies even older. At the end of it all someone gets left behind and has to learn how to move on after that. And for the one who dies you know you’re leaving them behind. You know you’re dooming them to moving on and if you believe in an afterlife god only knows how long you’ll be waiting for them on the other side. The tragedy of the immortal loving the mortal takes those feelings we all know about and rips your heart out about it.
just realised that Hetty must have said “ even in these difficult times we must be precise ” at least 3 times. the 2 times on screen and at least 1 time off screen because Trevor was not there the 1st time but still remembered the phrase
Anything that catches my fancy.
