Cyrus Draegur

Poly-Panro-Ace It/They
friendly neighborhood wholesome degenerate abomination from beyond the stars (mostly harmless™).
Atomic energy enthusiast. Architecture enjoyer. Mecha appreciator. Sci-Fi reader.
Winged caniform cybernetic biped techno-lich in its dreams.

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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • You’re right, absolutely spot on, about several things but ONE IN PARTICULAR is this:

    A human being helping a customer is, quite literally, an act of circumvention. Customer service EXISTS, SPECIFICALLY, for scenarios that require exceptions and skilled, knowledgeable internal maneuvering within, between, and around the cold mechanisms of machinery and policy. We tend to think of, say, purchasing items at a store as standard operation, for instance. But really, from the perspective of the business, its objective is to RESTRICT access to goods and services. The cashier manages exceptions to this goal. If the company has its way, it would take your money while relinquishing NOTHING.












  • gods what a blast from the past.

    In august 2008 i was still (shudder) working at a bank.

    Everything was so hopeful before 2012, and before 2016…

    My what naive children we all were, weren’t we?

    You were actually conscious during the latter part of the 80s. i was born in '85 myself. still, I remember having to deal with insufferable wastes of air like that old boss of yours. i don’t know if i’ll get to see future excerpts from your situation back then, so please spoil me: did that boomer sack of shit ever actually get canned like he deserved?

    my gut suggests, depressingly, that younger and newer people were sacrificed to appease him even though they’ve done more to help and less to harm in their time there than his entire ‘career’, and that he never saw accountability, just getting to sail off into the sunset happily ever after because there is no justice in this universe that we do not carve out with our own bare claws.



  • You stopped being a bad person when you grew sufficient empathy to feel bad about what you did.

    But your debt is not paid.

    Consider the bad person you no longer are as though they were a dependent in your charge. Everything they did is, rightly, an embarrassment of who you presently are.

    You will continue to be a good person as long as you work to make up for the things that your past self did.

    Not out of guilt, though:
    Out of gratitude that you’re no longer that person.