Mine would always be red.
Sorry to be a bother...
Submitted 7 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to memes@sopuli.xyz
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Maalus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
cm0002@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Well maybe if you remember to plug it in every once in awhile
Dagnet@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So that’s what I was doing wrong, just needed to use a plug to recharge!
OpenStars@discuss.online 7 months ago
Caesium@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Ive been considering getting one of these honestly. as an introvert there are just some days where I really don’t want to talk to people but retail doesn’t care about that and I need money. at least having some kind of gague seems better than just glowering and hoping i don’t have to deal with small talk
exanime@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You’d just be drawing more attention to yourself… Or inviting a challenge
Caesium@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’d rather take that then yet another soulless ‘how are you today’
Evotech@lemmy.world 7 months ago
"let me fix that for you"
- drags it to positive
match@pawb.social 7 months ago
imagine flirting with someone and she slides her genderfluid pronoun pin from she/her to he/they
laranis@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
That would be awesome for a person with a compatible gender. Like, you are so interesting and attractive I’m willing to expand my horizons.
Cock_Inspecting_Asexual@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Thats gotta be the funniest fucking trans joke I have seen in A LONG TIME.
IM NOT BEING SARCASTIC BTW, I MEAN THIS. God I wish I could give awards…
oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Is this supposed to be indicating a problem because like if you like a person why should it matter what gender they are?
match@pawb.social 7 months ago
i honestly have no idea what this would indicate i sorta spat it out automatically like an llm
VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I thought people agreed about being born gay and stuff? Are you saying you think it’s a choice?
pyre@lemmy.world 7 months ago
isn’t that how batteries work though
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
if you can’t handle dealing with endless insufferable people and decided to sign up for a barista job, then that’s definitely on you
Im_old@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Sometimes you have to do what you have to do to pay the bills!
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 7 months ago
That probably includes not offending the customers lol
lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Let me translate that.
If you get overworked at an exploitative minimum wage job, then that’s definitely on you
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
There are many different minimum wage jobs out there. Speaking as an introvert who has had several of them, if small talk is that taxing for you then you should consider a job with less intrinsic social requirements.
desertdruid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
this just drained my battery
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Hey look it’s a comment from the parallel universe where we live in an anarcho communist society and don’t have to work to live. What’s it like being able to make coersion-free choices about how to spend your time?
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 7 months ago
Exactly, just be born to rich parents smh my head
Empricorn@feddit.nl 7 months ago
Very classy, victim-blaming people that need to eat and pay rent.
glitchdx@lemmy.world 7 months ago
on the one hand, victim blaming is bad, and we shouldn’t do that. On the other hand, there isn’t a shortage of bullshit dead end jobs that don’t require previous experience, so you can absolutely get a job that is more or less customer facing if need be.
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
i was a barista for well over 10 years (as an introvert to boot). it’s 100% a side gig. it may cover some food and gas, but NO ONE is paying rent with barista pay, especially since they cut labor every time it’s “slow” for 20 minutes. i stayed there because of the free pound of coffee every week and flexibility, but don’t act like it’s always the only thing between the workers and homelessness
1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I wouldn’t take it as a slight. If they’re like me, any social interaction, even a pleasant one drains my battery
teemrokit@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’ve actually bought some of these for some autistic children I used to work with. It gave them agency, even if they weren’t able to communicate it verbally.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 months ago
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I was thinking about gamifying spoon theory in a similar manner.
It’s in Balatro style. Normally, you have a limited number of spoons each day, which you need to spend on doing things. If you overspend one day, it will raise your burnout levels and your meltdown chance, as well as having less spoons for the next few days. However you can gain various extra spoons and/or kitchen utensils, so you can have a better chance at surviving the day.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Isn’t spoon theory just a convoluted way of saying you have limited energy for daily life activities?
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yes. Why spoons? Makes no sense.
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Yes but for some reason when you tell people you don’t have energy they don’t believe you. Because they think mental energy is an infinite resources you can just force out or something
Juice@midwest.social 7 months ago
I’m a big proponent of fork theory.
Basically, fork this shit we are all forking forked.
golli@lemm.ee 7 months ago
spoon theory
Thanks for introducing me to a new concept (or at least a term for it), always nice to learn something new.
Evotech@lemmy.world 7 months ago
One spoon is enough for me thanks
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m literally eating with my hands right now.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 7 months ago
If I see anyone wearing this I will make it a mission to get it down to zero. Then I’ll come up with efficient strategies to grind it down. I’ll try and beat my new best time. I see this as a challenge.
But the best part is? Once it reaches zero, I leave them alone. Because I still respect them as a person
mriormro@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Just wearing this isn’t an open invitation for people (read: you) to be pieces of shit and nothing anyone is wearing gives you the right to monopolize their time or energy.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 7 months ago
What if they’re working, or have other obligations that require social battery charge? Your personal mission may have ruined their day.
TriflingToad@lemmy.world 7 months ago
semi-related but my economics teacher on the first day said “you can’t offend me, I’ve been a national football/baseball/other sport coach for 20 years. I’ve been called every name in the book!”
3rd week of school as he was talking about how socialism is the devil, showing videos of cubas abandoned builds and stuff, I said “I did the math and you make 0.0006771% of what Jeff bezos makes in a year.”
He admitted defeat but still didn’t give me extra credit like he said he would as a joke :/
rooster_butt@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Are you an energy vampire?
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 7 months ago
YES
Wolf314159@startrek.website 7 months ago
Sylvartas@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Joke’s on you, I would slide it down all the way to zero as soon as I leave home
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 7 months ago
The smart thing to do
Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I really like brutalism, especially when contrasted with greenery. A set of brutalist apartment blocks, with ample space between each of them, which contains native flora would be rather beautiful. The space between the blocks could also be used as a communal barbeque place. Or a fitness trail.
multifariace@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If you were given me that attention, my gauge would go green.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 7 months ago
I am a very interesting person
deathbird@mander.xyz 7 months ago
Imagine a barista with a pin that says “Here are some of the soft skills that this job demands and which I lack.”
pingveno@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah, this really is one of those things where if you’re not okay with a little idle chatter, it’s probably not the right job. And I say that out of admiration for baristas and other service workers. I tried working a service sector job when I was young and I didn’t last long. I just wasn’t any good at it.
deathbird@mander.xyz 7 months ago
I feel bad for folks who are introverted and not particularly strong. Almost every job with a low barrier to entry demands a lot of physical or emotional labour.
JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Red = asshole mood Green = asshole mood Wearing pin at all = asshole
xor@infosec.pub 7 months ago
if everything smells like shit wherever you go, it’s time to look at the bottom of your own shoes…
~(i’m saying you’re the asshole)~Allero@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Red = I inform people on my current mental state
Green = I inform people on my current mental state
Wearing pin at all = I inform people on my current mental state
Taking care of yourself is step 1 to being good to others. Ignoring your depletion only leads to growth of anger and worsening relationships with people around you. Ain’t it better to let them know you’re not in the mood and this has nothing to do with them personally?
JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 7 months ago
This is about the most asinine, self-centered thing I have ever read. Do you think this employee is going to check the mood of each customer? Hell no. The customer comes first and if an employee of mine showed up with this one morning to work, they would be asked to remove it, as it is a distraction from the goods and services I am offering. Keeping a job is taking care of oneself, and taking care of the customers, including interacting with their requests, no matter how tiresome and mundane, is part of the job. If everyone had a pin on like this, everyone would be constantly looking at each others pins thinking, “ Oh, can I talk to them today?, oh my, I hope I am not stressing them”.
Grow up or get a job you don’t have to talk to people.
Ephera@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
It isn’t supposed to say “I don’t want to talk to you”, but rather “I’d love to talk to you, but I’m exhausted”. They’ll also probably still talk to you, but just won’t be able to be as energetic.
beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
How is 🙂 and asshole mood though?
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 7 months ago
I’d quite like one of these so I can adjust it down when someone says “happy Friday”.
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Looks like various places sell them, here’s an Etsy one I found: etsy.com/…/my-social-battery-funny-lapel-pin-hard
angrystego@lemmy.world 7 months ago
At first I read it as “Sorry to be a brother…” It’s hard to be a sibling sometimes.
Etterra@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Everyone should own one of these.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 7 months ago
I need this exact pin. You can save some money and make it without any moving parts.
superkret@feddit.org 7 months ago
Why is the side that says “I want to be alone” red and the social side green though?
fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
“how are you doing?”
“I’m alright”
“Oh, just alright?”
Social battery falls to zero
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Someone has seen that in german? Hard to find in all that noise of psychology books.
Mac@mander.xyz 7 months ago
Imagine seeing one of these and believing that you’re so special that you don’t drain other people’s social batteries.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
You’ve just charged my battery!
Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Not everyone feels drained by talking to people. I’d say most people don’t. Some people, a lot of people actually, get energized talking with people.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
And those people wouldn’t be wearing this pin.
People that feel drained from socializing feel that way with everybody.
BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
I think you described quite accurately the difference between introverts and extroverts.
Extroverts gain energy with social interaction whereas it costs energy for introverts to be in these social interactions.
myplacedk@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I believe scientific studies say it’s somewhere around half of each.
The reason you don’t see that, is because it’s considered socially unacceptable to get socially drained, so we learn to hide it, usually from very young.
ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
This pin is not made for them. What is your point?
Mandy@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
oh i get energy alright, the energy and will to leave as soon as possible