ALiteralCabbage

@ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is an engineer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As originally conceived, the engineer’s iron ring rubs against the drawings and paper upon which the Engineer writes and even in modern times, serves as a reminder when working on a computer.

  Think it’s intended more for the design engineer than the construction engineer.

  But that said you can get some decent silicone rings that won’t de-glove you if they get caught these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is an engineer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  North American engineers sometimes wear an Iron Ring, apparently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is an engineer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They might not be American - I don’t think anywhere else does the iron ring thing…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2025 is set to bring a ‘manager crash’ after all that burnout and lack of support adds up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I got offered low level management or redundancy.

  Took the “promotion”, with a slight pay hike, and now I’m spending the extra money on counselling for stress and anxiety.

  All while watching the industry I work in spiral downwards after an artificial COVID years high.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twice the end, doppel the fun⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bike shops are awash with innuendo. Part of the fun of working in them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  young women are taking up sex work for financial stability when they shouldn’t have to.

  This is true, and depressing.

  But I think Kate Nash and Lilley Allen pros have other options to raise cash here - I doubt OF is a last resort for them. It is, however, a headline grabber for the British gutter press and will generate a lot of cover for two artists who really don’t have a huge amount of space in the public consciousness these days.

  For what it’s worth, there are also some sex workers who do it because a)they enjoy it and b)it’s a faster way to make money than other avenues available to them. Nash and Allen both seem to fallm under this bracket.