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Leoshi


I don't judge. Out loud.

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  • 38 weeks
    [Humility] Unlocking the Unfinished Experiment

    Well, I wasn't able to keep my promise. I began work on Humility's updated version, made some nice headway on it, and then...just...so much happened. But I'm not going to echo the same excuses. Stuff happened, and Humility sat incomplete, and...I keep thinking about it and feeling like I left part of my best work unfinished. I suppose that's true.

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  • 177 weeks
    [Ikusa] Original Novel

    Not sure if this'll reach many people but I figure it's worth a shot. Hi! I know that a long, loooooong time ago, I was sharing some details on my game project. It started here, but continued in different ways and for

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  • 203 weeks
    Fullmetal Pony Resources

    Seems I can't do anything right the first time. Well, here's the in-progress collection to every single resource, note, draft, scrap, and plan I had for FMP. This is everything except the private messages between me and Twilight Is The BEST. And even now I'm still not done cleaning and formatting all of the documents in it.

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  • 262 weeks
    Voice Acting: Highlight Reel for Karasutengu

    I was recently cast in a fandub for Inverted Crown Productions, in the role of Karasutengu, the villain. I got permission from the project director to make a reel of my performance, and it took me all afternoon to get it hosted properly. So:

    Karasutengu Highlight Reel

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  • 264 weeks
    A Couple'a Silly Prompts

    I asked my buddies in a Discord server to give me some writing prompts because I wanted to create without rules. They came up with two, and they seemed to like 'em. So, I'm gonna share them here too.

    A prompt about that humpback whale found in the rainforest.

    And...

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Apr
15th
2014

[Rant] So She Put in her Two Weeks’ Notice… · 8:57pm Apr 15th, 2014

Over at my job, I’m the co-lead for a very small but very demanding department in a marketplace store. Alongside two others, it’s been my responsibility to verify prices, keep accurate signs, and replace price tags on about forty-two-thousand items day by day. And in case you missed that, I did say two others. Meaning that there have been only three of us for a long time, handling a store’s prices, while the size of the store would normally necessitate twice that manpower.

We’re miraclemakers. Each week, we need to report on our weekly scan totals, of which our goal is ten-thousand. We split the workload up into manageable sections, but often, we go into Fridays with less than half of what we need. However, one thing never fails - we crack down when we need to, put our heads to the job, and end up over our quota week after week.

Nothing about my job is particularly difficult. It’s just demanding, and there is a veritable legion of tasks to do each hour of each day. It’s not possible to really get true downtime, simply because in a store of forty-two-thousand prices, there are always a few dozen that require attention, often at opposite ends of the building. To put things in perspective, my last store ran about twelve-thousand prices, but also had a team of three full-time hands.

Anyway, late last week, we had our yearly Tag Audit. It’s our grade to show how much integrity we really have. Is the price we charge the same as what we show? Are there items missing prices altogether? How many UPCs are lost in the system and need to be temporarily linked to another in order to sell? What’s priced too high? Too low? What tags didn’t arrive?

And so on.

And so forth.

I’m the co-lead. My leader has worked with me, keeping me by her side for about six months now, guiding me and directing me in becoming a firm but fair leader. Our other clerk, who I admit has some form of impediment, is useful for getting our scan quota met on a regular basis. Sometimes we need to aggressively request something of her, and we did in the days leading to Audit. We kept it fair, simply asking that she go through three aisles that had not had attention since last period.

When the Audit comes through, we found out that one of those aisles - an electronic section that falls directly under my jurisdiction - was utterly incorrect. Out of the forty-two-thousand prices audited, two-hundred-thirty were wrong. Of that two-thirty, one-hundred-eight were on this aisle. And of that one-oh-eight, ninety-four were electronics.

She did not scan the third aisle as we had asked of her. And in not doing so, cost us nearly half of our total errors. In a grade based on percentage, we scored 99.5% (which, to be fair, was exactly what we were aiming for at minimum). But it upsets me that a single aisle is responsible for .25% of our mismatched prices. And it angered my leader that the girl we had asked to scan it did not. Had she done as asked, we would be sitting on a far more respectable 99.7% instead, which would have awarded us second place in our entire district.

The day of Audit, I got the paperwork for the aisle. When I saw the pages of errors compared to the physical space of work involved, I got upset. This was my aisle, after all, so I felt responsible. But my lead remembered us asking our third clerk to scan it, so we had to call her up to the office. My leader told her the truth in a straightforward fashion. “Mistakes were made, you were told to do this, you didn’t do it, it’s cost us quite a bit, do better.”

Well, apparently that was the reason this girl needed to write out her two weeks’ notice on that same day. And not even finding the proper form for it either. She cited her college semester as the reason for her leaving, but it reeks of convenience. I mean, really…I respect higher education, and I crave to learn something more than the bare minimum of a labor force, but to hand in your notice on the day of Audit immediately after being scolded for a lapse in memory?

Seems a bit much.

My team and I has pulled up miracles when it comes to our weekly work. When our workload is bloated beyond reasonable logic, we tighten our shoelaces and stand until the job is done. When we’re behind on our scan numbers, we put our heads to the ground and see nothing but the task. When a problem on the registers causes a complaint, we’re the first to know and the only to fix. Yet on the single most important day of our work, we slip up. Not by much, no, but the area in which the mistake was made was too narrow for comfort. And despite earning the grade we were seeking anyway, we’re losing our third clerk for a catch-all reason following a brief discussion about what wasn’t done right.

I’m not entirely sure what to feel. On one hand, I’m upset that an aisle I preside over was worth half of our errors. On the other hand, I’m frustrated because it’s not the first time I’ve had to remind this girl about the job we’ve given her. She’s been a difficult girl to train, but she’s proven valuable in the long run. She sometimes leaves work with some work left over, but it’s typically only a few dozen items that take less than ten minutes to sort out. She caused our grade to drop by .25%, but we achieved the grade we wanted.

Should I be more upset at the lack of work done? Should I feel happy to see her go? Should I try to talk her out of it? Should I remind my leader that we’re a team, not a tyranny?

Whatever the case…

Whatever the cause…

The choice has been made.

The damage is done.

~Leo

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