Twenty Four posted:

Every time I see the topic "Post your projects" it makes me want to "Project my posts" and I want to have a projector aimed at the moon that just has a post of me saying "balls" or something.

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A New Kind of Employee: Integrating Mythical Creatures into the Workplace
By Starman Super DX

It’s been a long road for equality for all in America. The civil rights movement, the understanding of the LGBTQ community, and of course the ousting of any and all white supremacy groups. A through much strife it seemed like we were able to close the chapter on cultural misunderstandings in my country. Things however aren’t always so quiet. We all remember the events of ten years ago, when CERN’s particle accelerator opened up a portal storm bringing hundreds of thousands of mystical creatures and monsters into the world and the ensuing Ragnarök that took place afterwards that ultimately ended in a draw, a newer, more progressive world attempted to incorporate these new types of people.
So how is the workplace adapting? Some corporations have made open pleas to the Schwarzenegger administration to be more considerate of our fantastical brethren- including regular government stipends for things like brains and blood for the zombies and vampires. Others are attempting or have already reached hiring quotas, such as HotelMotel International, boasting “10% of their employees are either undead or from a different plane of existence of some kind.” Another, BigGrocery Inc. provided budgetary incentives to stores that were willing to hire and accommodate ghosts.
I sat down with Clark M. Michaelburger, head of UnnaccountableFinances LLC just what they were doing to deal with the sudden influx of diversity.
Change isn’t easy for companies, of course. How did your firm handle this more or less sudden integration?
Well a lot of it of course comes down to communication and keeping people informed. Keeping people out of loop really can mean the difference between life and death. Literally, I mean, if the Orks and Elves get their lunches at the same time? It’s a bloodbath.
Do you typically have goals in mind?
Of course. Coming in under budget for the month doesn’t just mean a pizza party or casual Fridays for the team- although letting the leprechauns dress in green once a week did seem to be a great motivator (laughs)- it means employee engagement goes up as well, and engaged employees are hard-working and efficient ones.
What did you do to try and keep up with the other, bigger corporations?
Well we believe that another key part of this adaptation was research. Researching the different backgrounds and cultures of these monst- (clears throat) fantastic beings, allowed us to get ahead of the game. For example for hiring centaurs we thought ahead and had stables put in. At least I’m not the one cleaning them, anyway.

Are there any other strategies that you’d like to discuss?
I’d be more than happy to. In fact, I’ve brought a recorded transcript with me involving a conflict between one of our HR Team Leaders, Scott Scottsman and a subordinate, if you don’t mind.
Please.
SS: “Gronk, do you know why I called you in here?”
G: “Gronk is most powerful Ork warlord!” (crashing sound)
SS:”Well, yes, that’s true. But I wanted to speak with you about something. Karen tells me you haven’t been returning her phone calls.”
SS: “Is there perhaps a reason for that? Is it the speech impediment?”
G: “…Gronk maybe… feel marginalized…”
SS: “Well we all do a little sometimes, but I can offer to send you to speech therapy on the company dime. In the meantime, why not just stick to email.”
G: *voice breaking* “Gronk truly feel not just cog in machine.”
So you see? Communication and transparency is just that simple, and all it takes is a little bit of reaching out on our part. With any luck now, Karen in HR won’t be getting her head decapitated and put on a pike tonight.

Clark also told me about their planned corporate mountain cabin retreat, a welcome event for the fairies and werewolves, their culture seminars involving employees from all walks of life (or unlife), and their new recently developed “Mythical Understanding” department put in charge of developing these events in order to bring the company together. We can all learn a lot from the methods used by Clark’s company, and realize that there are always compromises and accommodations that can be made for all peoples, and that all it takes is a little bit of understanding of the impossibly absurd backgrounds that they now come from.

VideoGames posted:

Hello BYOB. I decided to come here and begin to read more jolly threads as I have slowly whittled through my bookmarks (I did not think that day would ever happen!) and I have been enthralled by all the wondrous projects and creativity here! This is a new boomark!

VideoGames posted:

Hello BYOB. I decided to come here and begin to read more jolly threads as I have slowly whittled through my bookmarks (I did not think that day would ever happen!) and I have been enthralled by all the wondrous projects and creativity here! This is a new boomark!

Putty posted:

I thought i was the only person to have my real name synonymous with my forums one

Starman Super DX posted:

Posting on BYOB has really given me a chance to exercise my creative writing muscle- something I never really get to do. Making short to medium sized bursts of wit that can get a chuckle or two is a nice self-esteem booster and makes me feel more motivated to try bigger things.

Ironically I made comments disparaging "fun" school work the other day, but for some reason when I got assigned this "write a featured magazine article" I got this funny idea based on actual things companies do to adapt to workplace diversity. Admittedly, I don't think it's my best work technically because I was a little lazy, but I thought it was funny and wouldn't mind getting feedback aside from... whatever grade I might get. So enjoy. Or not.

VideoGames posted:

Hello BYOB. I decided to come here and begin to read more jolly threads as I have slowly whittled through my bookmarks (I did not think that day would ever happen!) and I have been enthralled by all the wondrous projects and creativity here! This is a new boomark!

Lizard Wizard posted:

That is excellent

Starman Super DX posted:

Posting on BYOB has really given me a chance to exercise my creative writing muscle- something I never really get to do. Making short to medium sized bursts of wit that can get a chuckle or two is a nice self-esteem booster and makes me feel more motivated to try bigger things.

Ironically I made comments disparaging "fun" school work the other day, but for some reason when I got assigned this "write a featured magazine article" I got this funny idea based on actual things companies do to adapt to workplace diversity. Admittedly, I don't think it's my best work technically because I was a little lazy, but I thought it was funny and wouldn't mind getting feedback aside from... whatever grade I might get. So enjoy. Or not.

AverySpecialfriend posted:

cda inspired me to write more poetry so namaste

cda posted:

What class is "write a featured magazine article" an assignment for, and did they give you instructions about what a featured magazine article is supposed to look like?

Starman Super DX posted:

External communications and I'm a corporate comm major-
most of the people in my class are.
as far as I can tell there was nothing saying I couldn't do something silly or absurd as long as I did research and based it in some kind of reality. the issue that I took with how she grades it is that the assignment was meant to start with a real magazine, and since I don't read magazines or really consume any print media I took a Time magazine since that was on top of the pile of my dad's in the bathroom.
and so, as per the assignment, I wrotw an article as though it were published in Time... as if those events actually took place.

this was apparently beyond her as she asked why Time would publish such a thing and that The Onion would have been better suited...


and again, why assign something "creative" and not relegated to my major if you're not even going to go easy grading it?

cda posted:

these people don't understand projects! Buy your prof an account and I will taolk to her.

Starman Super DX posted:

Of course only your grade is the one that really matters!




Well unless I continue to do poorly...

I like how she gave me a lovely grade on this but my reading questions I got an A+ which I half-assed and didn't even technically complete. Penn State has the worst loving professors.

POOL IS CLOSED posted:

Still, it's not a complete waste. BYOB appreciates you.

Adiabatic posted:

This is a good thread

I've always been super technical (lol goon) with engineering and cars and stuff, but I just started getting into spanish guitar and I have fallen in love with it. You can display so much emotion through flamenco.

I hope to get good enough to play in front of people some day but I'm far from that right now. Still, it's one thing I can get better at without deadlines and just for my enjoyment and I really like that.

AverySpecialfriend posted:

hahaha jesus rofl

alnilam posted:

lol

Manifisto posted:

AverySpecialfriend posted:

hahaha jesus rofl