Author: Olivia

Following the API controversy and Reddit's attacks on third-party app developers, there are already people deleting their accounts and content, and entire subreddits in protest that will go private temporarily or indefinitely because of the overly commercial and user-unfriendly direction the platform is taking. Another interesting phenomenon is the number of people moving to Fediverse: Mastodon, Lemmy, Kbin…. Among other platforms for a decentralized social network. I invite you to go to r/Lemmy and the like to see what's going on. Reddit admins are already shutting down some subs encouraging migration. Has anyone from here already moved? There seems to be an strong anti-system vibe there. For those who don't know, the “Fediverse” consists of a collective of social networks that can communicate with each other, like the e-mail protocol, so there is no big corporation that manages everything or it should slow down the development a lot.

TL;DR version: Company is in a bind and needs an assistant manager/manager ASAP. I can do the job with no training needed starting next week and going until the fall when I start school again. How do I leveraged the situation in my email offer to take the job to get the best deal? The long story: I've been with this company for 15 years, including as an assistant manager for 1.5 years. I recently took a part-time role at a new store so that I could take a part-time teaching position. I've been at the new store since September and it has been a RIDE. The manager who hired me here got transferred to another city the week I started, and we've had a revolving door of new managers in the months since, of varying quality/competence (I think we're up to three now?). I've kept my head down during…