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Decreasing orbit, by gottalovev

Johnny seems to reduce the radius of how far they stand next to each other every time they meet.

I love that line!

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Yup, finally got around to watching the 2015 version of the Fantastic Four movie. And here’s my question: what in the world was that?

1. Similar to ‘Amazing Spiderman,’ a bunch of scenes from the trailers did not actually appear in the movie.

2. Young Ben grew up to be Jamie Bell?! (I find *that* hard to believe!)

3. How old were they supposed to be? And what was up with the whole “scholarship” to the Baxter whatever? Congrats, you get to come do unpaid work on a super shady science project; we call it a school (do they?) but there are no classes!

4. Probably don’t drink and science. (I was floored by the fact that the entire origin story of the F4 in the movie was apparently based on underage drinking and poor decision-making.)

5. “Just the three of us?” HE MEANT SUE, REED. HIS SISTER. NOT YOUR FRIEND FROM 5TH GRADE THAT NONE OF THE OTHERS EVER MET.

6. Miles Teller looks like Shia Labeouf, right? I had weird ‘Transformers’ flashbacks the whole movie.

7. Reed’s casual disregard for basically everything was probably pretty true to his comics characterization, but seriously, what a jerk.

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Right, so, annual performance reviews. For whatever reason, my workplace does these in February. Except this year, when they’ve been delayed. All that really matters to me is that this delay means any potential pay increase won’t kick in until March. (Not cool, workplace. Not cool.)

The worst part, though is that we’re being fed a line about ‘these are so important to us, we want to make sure we have enough time to come up with thoughtful comments so we’re all improving.’

No. Either somebody important in the approval process is taking a vacation at a crucial time, or the company’s trying to save money by gradually pushing back the date, but there’s no way it’s because they want to provide us with more insightful feedback on our work performance.

Performance reviews are pretty much just like how Riker made them look in Star Trek — you put them off till the last minute, then slog through them all at once with as much copy/paste from the previous year as you can get away with. So it has always been, and so it always will be; that is the reality of management.

What workplaces consistently delude themselves on is the idea that they are fooling anyone. But work history isn’t linear — half my current team of minion-level coworkers were management in other jobs. There is no fooling us about performance reviews.

In the words of Nick Fury, “It’s stuff like this that gives me trust issues.”

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Switching it up from Star Wars this week, with a shout-out to Jessica Jones and Bucky Barnes!

We Can Work Out The Rest, by onethingconstant

Jessica Jones meets Bucky Barnes, and he hires her to look into his past. (Note: second story in the series is fun too!)

“I’m … with the Avengers,” she says.

That earns her four seconds of staring, followed by a snort of contempt. “You ain’t even,” he says, with a surprisingly sharp New York accent. It’s so strong it almost sounds fake.

“I just punched through a floor,” Jessica points out.

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