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@welshpixie @WizardOfDocs
Oooo... thank you so much. I like this very much!

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@welshpixie @WizardOfDocs
Oooo... thank you so much. I like this very much!

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We union'd up and have requested voluntary recognition.

These next few weeks... Possibly months... While we wait for and process the response will be very... Very interesting.

I know that IT and IT contracting is littered with the corpses of many many unionization efforts. I'll work my ass off to give ours the best possible chance of a good outcome.

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We union'd up and have requested voluntary recognition.

These next few weeks... Possibly months... While we wait for and process the response will be very... Very interesting.

I know that IT and IT contracting is littered with the corpses of many many unionization efforts. I'll work my ass off to give ours the best possible chance of a good outcome.

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@tamitha I am actually enjoying this. The music is better than I remember it.

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@tamitha I am actually enjoying this. The music is better than I remember it.

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hell yeah mastodon

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hell yeah mastodon

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screenshot of a mighty morphin' power ranger's episode, at the "Power Rangers Activate" montage with Mastodon power ranger holding up his Mastodon ring.

it unironically is kinda cool.

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Not sure if watching ironically or unironically

https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=-hfG2lnhZR I

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Not sure if watching ironically or unironically

https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=-hfG2lnhZR I

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@yarndragon message received loud and clear!

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@yarndragon message received loud and clear!

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@yarndragon thank you for your validation. :)

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@yarndragon thank you for your validation. :)

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"Flatulence favors the bold."
#marriage #ltr

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"Flatulence favors the bold."
#marriage #ltr

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@tyler Thank you.
I'll work to keep that in mind.

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@tyler Thank you.
I'll work to keep that in mind.

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@yarndragon yeah. I just... Feel... I don't know. I feel.

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@yarndragon yeah. I just... Feel... I don't know. I feel.

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But I truly tried to make space for my team to tell me how they felt about everything and anything that the team worked through, anything I made decisions on, etc...

I feel this as a personal loss. I really love my team and love a lot these skaters as individuals. I took my job to support them as individuals in their derby journeys, and as a team, seriously.

But it's my fault and all our failures are on the record as my failures, and I had no opportunity to respond.

And now I'm gone.

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But I truly tried to make space for my team to tell me how they felt about everything and anything that the team worked through, anything I made decisions on, etc...

I feel this as a personal loss. I really love my team and love a lot these skaters as individuals. I took my job to support them as individuals in their derby journeys, and as a team, seriously.

But it's my fault and all our failures are on the record as my failures, and I had no opportunity to respond.

And now I'm gone.

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I feel like I've been setup as the scapegoat for my team's strugglea when my team encountered enormous barriers to success, barriers which I meticulously documented and presented to league leadership, and worked with my team to ovetcome.

I have been removed as coach.

I accept my faults as a coach... And always would have. I have to eat a lot of pride and a lot of blame. I have a lot of feelings I'm working to not express as anger and bitterness...

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I feel like I've been setup as the scapegoat for my team's strugglea when my team encountered enormous barriers to success, barriers which I meticulously documented and presented to league leadership, and worked with my team to ovetcome.

I have been removed as coach.

I accept my faults as a coach... And always would have. I have to eat a lot of pride and a lot of blame. I have a lot of feelings I'm working to not express as anger and bitterness...

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@yarndragon thank you.

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@yarndragon thank you.

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At the end of the day though... This is their decision to make.

So I sit on my hands, while they all talk about this, and I wait to see what happens.

...and I truly have no idea what all this discussion is about other than it being about me.

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At the end of the day though... This is their decision to make.

So I sit on my hands, while they all talk about this, and I wait to see what happens.

...and I truly have no idea what all this discussion is about other than it being about me.

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What feels even worse is that I truly believe I've put in a lot of visible and non-visible work to be approachable, open, to be someone safe to talk to.

Someone who will listen even if it's tough to hear.

I've taken tough feedback over the last year and a half and adjusted based on it. I would continue to do so.

*sigh*

OK. It feels bad. But it'll be fine. It feels a lot like a break up. I've put a lot of love... A lot of myself into the team and into the league.

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What feels even worse is that I truly believe I've put in a lot of visible and non-visible work to be approachable, open, to be someone safe to talk to.

Someone who will listen even if it's tough to hear.

I've taken tough feedback over the last year and a half and adjusted based on it. I would continue to do so.

*sigh*

OK. It feels bad. But it'll be fine. It feels a lot like a break up. I've put a lot of love... A lot of myself into the team and into the league.

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The (roller derby) team I've spent the last couple years in service to is positioning to ask me to leave.

Why?

"Skater feedback"
Feedback that somehow never makes it to me, the coach, which would allow me to adjust practice plans, strategy, even how I listen, deliver feedback, etc. But no. It gets escalated past me.

If the skaters on the team I'm coaching don't want me, then I'm another right coach. They get to make that decision. I'll accept it.

But like this?
This just feels... Crushing.

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The (roller derby) team I've spent the last couple years in service to is positioning to ask me to leave.

Why?

"Skater feedback"
Feedback that somehow never makes it to me, the coach, which would allow me to adjust practice plans, strategy, even how I listen, deliver feedback, etc. But no. It gets escalated past me.

If the skaters on the team I'm coaching don't want me, then I'm another right coach. They get to make that decision. I'll accept it.

But like this?
This just feels... Crushing.