u/TheSlothLord7

I got this job about a year ago. Our general manager always seemed like a good guy, maybe a little strict, but he clearly takes this job very seriously.

A few months ago, I was talking with one of the assistant managers and they said something to the effect of this: “I need to be very careful what I say and how I say it. Have you ever googled his name?” (The dodginess, I learned, is because of company policy about coworkers’ criminal records)

So I caught the hint and looked him up. The story is, he was a high school teacher, and engaged in “relationships” with at least two students, including multiple sexual encounters outside of school. At best, these “relationships” could be called statutory, but based on the charges he pled guilty to, I suspect it was much darker than that. To be clear, this is absolutely my manager, not somebody who happens to share his name. There is a photo of him being walked out of the school in cuffs. That is my manager.

He got sentenced to 8 years in prison, but based on his timeline of how long he’s been working for this company, he must have gotten out after just 3 years. 3 years for a multiple-count pedophile.

Listen, I’m all for rehabilitation. If you did your time and work on yourself, you deserve to reintegrate and all that. But something about pedophilia feels … irreparable.

Part of the reason it disturbs me so much is that, without giving away any personal specifics, the business I work for draws in a lot of kids. Children and teens come through all day every day, and he interacts with them. I’ve never seen anything suspicious, but it always makes me wince.

Most of my coworkers know, but because of the aforementioned company policy, none of us can talk about it openly, so it’s kind of just this silent understanding that we all have.

I guess I don’t know how to proceed. This guy is a bad manager for many other reasons unrelated to his past. So I want to leave this job ASAP, even if he weren’t a convicted predator…but it certainly adds to my list of grievances.

Just a vent, I guess. If you stopped to read, I hope you’re doing well. Take care of yourself.

Hey everyone. I tend to be a yapper, but I’ll try and be brief.

I graduated a year ago. My degree is in the arts, so I didn’t come out of college with many career opportunities. It took me months to find a job because I felt paralyzed by the idea of job hunting—plus the job market is insanely screwed up right now.

Eventually I did get a job at a big-name retail store. It’s fine. As far as jobs I’ve worked, it isn’t the worst. The money isn’t good, but it’s above minimum wage (barely). The work environment has been pretty rough for a number of reasons that aren’t related to this rant. But it could be so much worse.

The thing is, I spend every minute I’m there wishing I would get struck by a meteorite. I am in agony. For no real reason, I just hate working. I was doing 40 hours a week for 9 months (even though they had me on payroll as a “part-time” employee, so no benefits. again, not related.) and my mental health was just crumbling. I was regressing to the state I was in several years ago, which I worked so hard to get out of. But having this job single-handedly broke me. I asked my manager to cut my hours in half. It just was not sustainable. So now I’ve been doing that for a few weeks, and I’m really feeling the pressure from those smaller paychecks. Back when I was doing 40 hours, maybe I was miserable but at least I could pay my half of rent. Now, I’m only a little bit less miserable, and I barely make enough for my half of rent in a whole month, not including groceries and other expenses. If I don’t work, I can’t afford to live.

I feel incapable of working. I don’t think I can be a functional member of society. I don’t know what to do. I feel very alone. My partner (and FP) thinks I’m lazy—hasn’t told me in those words, but definitely implied it, and is putting a lot of pressure on me to find a new job. But job hunting was so agonizing a year ago, and all that pain got me was this job that makes me want to jump into a meat grinder. Maybe I am not meant to work, ever. Maybe I’m not meant to be a human in society. Maybe I’m not meant to exist.

And there’s a guilt/shame that comes with this feeling. My partner got a job so easily and thrives in it! Why can’t I? Everyone I went to school with moved away, never keeps in touch with me, and they all got jobs. What is wrong with me? Everyone has to work, so why should I feel like I’m any different?

I just feel so much hurt and dread all the time, and nothing ever gets better, it just keeps getting worse and worse, and everything keeps changing, and I haven’t been able to catch my breath for over a year. People tell me that’s what “adulting” is, and that everyone feels confused and stressed all the time—that doesn’t make me feel comforted at all. If life is always going to be like this, why should I bother?

I don’t know if I need advice or support or a slap in the face… Maybe just to vent.

I have an oak_chest_boat with a few scoreboard values. The scores are ARMOR and ARMOR_T (both dummies). I'm trying to set the player's armor and armor_toughness attributes to equal those scores.

Context: I'm making an invisibility effect that also makes your armor invisible, but you keep your armor values. So far, I get the player's armor and armor_toughness, store them in ARMOR and ARMOR_T. The player's armor items are then copied to the chest boat and removed from the player. At that point, I need to give the player the armor attributes that have been stored. Then I already have it set up so that once the invisibility wears off, the armor gets returned to the player.

So this is what I've got to try and modify the armor attribute, but I haven't been able to make it work.

execute as @a[SELECTORS] store result entity @s attributes[?????] float 1 run scoreboard players get @s ARMOR

The "minecraft:armor" attribute is 12th on the list of player attributes (ie 11 when counting from 0), so I tried attributes[11] but that doesn't work.

Is this even possible?

Hi!

I'm trying to make an item that reverts back to its dormant state if you take it out of your mainhand. For simplicity's sake, here's what I'm working with:

By default, the item is carrot on a stick. When you're holding it and activate the item (r click), it turns into a diamond sword (with custom model data, not important right now). Those commands are easy. But if you change your selected slot or move the item, it needs to turn back to the carrot on a stick; basically, if the sword item is NOT in your mainhand, replace it with the carrot on a stick. I'm not sure if this is even possible without brute-forcing through every inventory slot one by one--which isn't ideal because I have a dozen different variations of the same transforming item.

TLDR If the player has a specific item (diamond sword) somewhere in their inventory other than their mainhand, it needs to be replaced with a carrot on a stick. I hope I did an okay job explaining this.

Any ideas? Much appreciated.