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 Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 6:29 pm
I'm definitely glad to hear that.
Where's that if you don't mind my asking?
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Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 8:48 pm
It was another chat site that was run out of somebody's place instead of a corporation. it was called Fantassia's Palace. There I was a different person . . .
Fantassia.com if you are interested. Tell em Rainer sent you. Some people there may still remember my name.
Most of the chat hangs out in the Leather Chateau, a place where BDSM behavior is acceptable. EXTREMELY rare is any kind of true cybering. Don't worry. Mostly it is floating about oldbies including my wife Awahili. The place does not have any images, avatars, or anything like that. It was made back in the mid-ninties. Yeah. That old.
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Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 10:14 pm
Ah, I do love classic BBSs/chatRooms/forums so... Gaia used to be a pretty simple anime link forum with avatars and guilds being the big "ooh, ah" features. Before I joined Gaia, I created a few forums on those free sites for my friends. The internet was such a different place 10 years ago... *reminisces*
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Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 9:08 pm
Indeed it was. we came from an era where chat was still in it's childhood- if not infancy. We had to use simple words to convey not only thoughts, but emotions and intents. Now sites like Gaia and others use symbols (smilies), avatars, and even image posts to do what words once did.
A lot has changed since then. Possibly nothing more than people like us.
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Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2013 12:29 am
True enough. I'm decidedly and intentionally behind the times, myself. I'd rather not lose those things society is quickly forgetting (in the broader scope of social media, not in having actual images for emotes).
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Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2013 9:59 pm
Heh. I also seem to be born too late in this world. I prefer a good work ethic, and leving work at work. Instead, people seem to anxious to bring home with them everywhere. As for chat, I am not really much for talking anymore. I just make a few posts around here, and go for a bit of RP. Only one other site is used by me, and that is for more . . . adult conversations. ninja
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Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2013 3:24 pm
I agree with you wholeheartedly on both of those points.
Thankfully in my circles, work ethic seems to be understood and had at least a little bit more often (but still a shamefully low amount for what was once named after us).
It seems to rise up in any company nowadays you have to marry your job and work extra time without pay as a requirement.
Does that site end in "chan?" wink
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Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2013 9:31 pm
Well, that is the catch 22. In the baby-boomer generation, extra work was expected. In generation X, work ethic was shunned as counterculture took root again. I am at the tail end of Generation Y, and studies show that this generation is not willing to do extra work. If anything, Gen Y seeks to find a balance between work and home, rather than spend too much time in either place.
I seem to have Baby boomer work ethic in a Gen Y world. That combined with my lack of education and experience make success elusive thus far.
As for the other site . . . no. Chan is for pics. The place I chat in is for alternative sexuality, a place where kinks are discussed openly for the most part, though my views are a tad more extreme than most are willing to openly accept. sweatdrop
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Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2013 4:05 pm
I don't mind extra work, and I wouldn't mind working off-the-clock so much if not for it being against the rules of most organizations that employ it (and there's an OSHA clause that might make it illegal). See, if I was a salaried employee, I wouldn't mind at all, since they're expected and allowed to do that, but hourly employees aren't.
My ethics come from my upbringing, so I don't really match my generation.
Ah, I see.
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Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2013 8:53 pm
I refuse to work off-the-clock only because I am an hourly employee, and have yet to be treated by a job that would create that level of loyalty. I treat others as they treat me, and to date no job has made me want to do things off the clock. Perhaps that is selfish of me, but no. I won't do it.
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Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2013 10:14 pm
Similar to my thinking in some ways. When I'm at the company I plan to stay for my career, I wouldn't mind as much.
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Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2013 6:37 pm
Pizza is not my chosen career, though it bothers me just how much of my life has been involved with it.
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Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 9:41 am
I'd certainly hope not. xd
Still, Pizza > Wal-Mart, right?
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Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 8:10 pm
More like on par with it. Neither is something you want to aspire to in my opinion, but both are capable of paying the immediate bills. They leave me as the working poor/very low middle class. I have enough to get by, but just so.
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Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 8:34 pm
True, I was just hoping the Pizza job was less physically damaging to you than the Wal-Mart job.
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