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Yesterday, I (sort of) learned the phrase “implication arrows,” from which I learned that I should assume that this story is not true, though the arrows… Imply that it’s true. I still don’t really get it.

Anyway, I’ve never held a job where the employer would do more than the bare minimum required by law if I disappeared. Certainly not so much as contacting my family unless there were extenuating circumstances like me verifiably disappearing mid shift. I suspect this is true for most people.

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MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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- toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’ve always been skeptical of greentext (and most internet) stories, it’s just more fun to suspend one’s disbelief.
  
  I’m just still confused about the concept of “implication arrows,” heh.
  
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  - match@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    it’s referencing a quite old meme of “>implying implications”, being that the storytelling style of greentext is wildly unconventional in that it is structured around quoting / citing some external imagery or context, and thereby inviting the reader to infer what the poster is thinking instead of directly stating it
    
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    toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Well, thank you for the information.
    
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MuffinHeeler@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
As a manager I would definitely contact an employee’s emergency contacts and then request a welfare check if one of my team dropped off the face of the earth. Medical incidents happen and a couple of the team live alone that I know of.

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- toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  In that case, you sound like a good manager to have.
  
  I like my current managers, but I think if I stopped showing I’d eventually just stop getting paid. There was a period where I wasn’t attending daily meetings because I hadn’t received the invitation to them. Eventually I made a comment to my manager that I was glad the current contract didn’t require a ridiculous number of meetings and he said something like “what are you talking about? There are daily meetings. We just thought you were out sick or something.”
  
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