Ok I'm Gonna Dedicate More Time To Writing. I Mean I'm Getting Better, Mind You Very Slowly But I'm Getting

The Rogue Files: Love In The Air

Harley was sitting next to Riddler at lunch, it was wensday, the day they usually had lunch and talked. Ed had his feet proped on the table (Ed was the only one who used a chair everyone else sat on a bench) and harley had her leg crossed. Joker walked by and kissed harley on the cheek, harley sighed and rested her head on her hand, "is that love in the air". Ed stared at for a few seconds "no that's not love that's fear gas harley". The Joker (who had been walking away) stopped and turned around slowly to reveal a bug face. Harley slapped her hands to her face and screamed while Edward sat calm, as if nothing was happening. Harley turned ro Eddie "why aren't you screamin" "because theres nothing scary to scream at". Harley stared toward Eddie no longer paying attention to the bug faced Joker who began to walk toward her. "You afraid of somthing right", Eddie looked down "No, I haven't been afraid in long time". Harley frowned a little "what do you mean". "What I mean is the last time I was scared, I was a kid". Harley wanted to ask more questions but she was interrupted when she felt a hand on her shoulder and turned around to see the bug faced Joker.

I'm pretty sure someone did spmething similar because it came to me but it sounds realy familiar. I didn't know so I wrote it anyway do if it's similar to somthing else just let me know and I'll fix it.

Rogue Files is a series of shorts and some longer stories there is a plot to some extent but not realy.

In the Q&A they have a 3 by there names.

OK I was looking through old cartoons and comics and I found somthing amazing: Bat Gorilla can we bring this back please, I genuinely want a movie about this guy asap. I'm being dead serious this should be utilized to its full potential which in my eyes is a lot.

Employee Abuse: When the employer abuses emloyees

There are many forms of abuse in the labor market. Abuse among general employees, from general employees to managers, and from managers to employees.

Abuse between general employees, and from general employees to managers, is usually tackled immediately by managers or human resources departments when reports of such occur.

But what about abusive behavior from managers towards general employees?

Intent behind abuse

Abuse by employers towards employees is as varied as abuse can be in general. When assessing abuse by a manager towards employees, it is important to assess the intention behind the behavior in order to better understand the situation and how to best deal with it.

Abuse by a manager could be due to the manager's poor communication skills, the stress of the manager's work being taken out on staff, the manager possibly being incompetent at work and therefore taking that frustration out on the staff, the manager choosing to be abusive, or employees have complained about the manager who is retaliating against them or is trying to silence the employees from complaining further.

The first thought of abuse victims of any kind is to consider what they themselves did to deserve the abuse, what they themselves need to change or do better in order for the abuser's behavior to change towards them. It is therefore good for abuse victims to learn to recognize intent behind behavior towards them, in order to provide some closure to the events that took place.

Types of abuse

Whatever the intent behind the abusive behavior is, the manifestations are often the same. For the purposes of this article, the following types of abuse will be looked at:

Mental abuse

Economic abuse

Physical and/or sexual abuse

Reaction to abuse.

Employee Abuse is usually accompanied by a certain degree of escalation. First steps are usually psychological and/or emotional abuse, as it can easily be construed as anything other than abuse by both the victims and by any third parties who are approached for help with the situation.

If a manager who exhibits psychological and/or emotional abusive behavior has access to payroll in any way, economic abuse begins to occur.

If the employees who experience the abuse show any kind of resistance to it, or if the abuse does not have the desired effect the manager is after, then the abuse often escalates to physical abuse and/or sexual abuse.

At any point in this abuse chain, it can be expected that reaction to abuse will begin showing. Reaction to abuse occurs when a victim has reached their limit of tolerance due to continuous abuse from another, and starts responding with abuse in return.

It should be noted that from now on, when discussing perpetrators or abusers it will be referring to managers, and mentions of victims is in reference to affected employees.

Psychological and emotional abuse

What psychological and emotional abuse has over other forms of abuse is that it is often invisible and difficult to point out. Also, psychological and emotional abuse is often part of other forms of abuse, and therefore usually present regardless of other apparent abuse. The following list indicates how psychological and emotional abuse can potentially manifest itself:

The abuser observes the victim's behavior.

The abuser threatens the mental, physical, occupational, and/or economic security of the victim.

The abuser isolates the victim from co-workers and/or other managers.

The abuser humiliates, shames, or slanders the victim.

The abuser makes accusations and shows paranoia in communication with and towards the victim.

The abuser constantly criticizes the victim.

The abuser taunts, makes fun of, and/or teases the victim.

The abuser prevents the victim from achieving their professional and/or personal goals.

The abuser gaslights the victim.

Since behavior isn't a fixture and can take numerous manifestations, it is often difficult for employees to take general definitions of behavior and transfer to the situation in which the person finds themselves. When the behavior is verbal, it becomes even more difficult, as individuals who use psychological and/or emotional abuse are often good at using nonsensical speech, or word-salads, to confuse the victim, talking down the victim, or turning the conversation around so that the victim has difficulty understanding what is going on. The following examples can give an idea on how psychological and/or emotional abuse may occur in the workplace:

The victim points out that the manager is utilizing uncomfortable ways to communication and requests that the manager only maintains written communications. The manager ignores this request, repeatedly calls or insists in their power that the victim attends only verbal meetings.

The victim describes discomfort of attending verbal meetings with the manager. The manager then begins to follow the victim's movements, ambushes the victim to "catch them" in the corridors of the workplace to "discuss their issues".

The victim doesn't receive necessary information or decisions from the manager to fully perform their job. The victim is reprimanded for inadequate performance.

The victim receives a task to be carried out, but no information, access to systems, devices or tools in order to be able to carry out the task properly.

The victim is isolated from other employees, with direct orders from the manager to mingle less with other employees and attend fewer meetings, that the victim's work should only be done through e-mail communication, and the manager even goes as far and announces to other employees that all direct communication with the victim should end.

The victim is required by the manager to ignore certain duties or tasks, often at short notice, only to meet further abusive behavior by the manager for not having completed said duties or tasks.

The victim finds it difficult to carry out their work due to direct intervention of a manager who purposefully works against the victim’s professional duties and goals.

The victim is purposefully flooded with various tasks at work, often tasks that the victim is not supposed to be doing nor is it in the victim's field. If the victim points this out, the victim receives threats of receiving poor work performance reports or reprimands for refusal to carry out tasks.

The victim is slandered by the manager to other employees, other managers are informed about the victim's inability to do their job and that the victim only delivers unsatisfactory results. Relationships and communication with other employees and managers are systematically broken down.

The victim tries to point out the unpleasant working conditions that the manager is setting up, only to have the responsibility of the situation placed upon themselves by hearing that the victim "should have known this information", "was responsible for the project" or "is not doing their job properly".

The victim tries to discuss the negative working conditions with the manager, but the manager answers nonsensically or offers little to no support on the matter. Often the manager uses confusing language to shift the responsibility to the victim, or simply gaslights the victim.

The victim perceives that the manager does not value their time: Meetings and events are arranged at short notice, and those who cannot attend are reprimanded. Meetings and events are also postponed at short notice or meetings are dragged out, leaving the victim less time to work on other projects or attending other engagements late.

The victim tries to discuss the situation with the manager to mend the atmosphere between them. The manager does not answer the victim about the subject in question but makes accusations against the victim instead. The accusations often appear as possible breach of contract, victimization of the manager by the victim, and other rhetoric that are hard for the victim to defend themselves against on short notice.

The manager threatens the victim with loss of income or termination, or negative changes to their position when the victim tries to discuss the issues.

When it comes to psychological and emotional abuse, each case must always be evaluated individually, and therefore it is not enough to see isolated behavior and think that it is abuse. It is important to look at the manager's overall behavioral pattern towards the victim, and always evaluate the entire situation and not individual cases or moments.

Economic abuse

Economic abuse in the labor market is something that is rarely discussed, and is often reduced to economic offenses that can easily be paid up, or wage theft. But there is a difference between when the economic loss suffered by staff at the hands of management is due to wage theft, or due to economic abuse.

The intention of the loss is a key factor, and the following attributes can be evaluated to assess the situation:

Is the loss aimed at individuals, or the whole group?

Does it happen occasionally, or all the time?

An example of wage theft is e.g. overtime for all employees is prohibited, and everyone perceives that they are being cheated out of their rightful wages.

An example of economic abuse is e.g. that individuals within the workforce see that sometimes overtime is being withheld while others get paid in full, and when this mistake is pointed out it is difficult to get it corrected. This causes the affected employees a lot of mental discomfort at work, and they feel ignored by the manager.

Another difference between wage theft and economic abuse is the immediate supervisor of the employees. Wage theft is usually carried out gradually against everyone and there is nothing personal behind it, so the manager's relationship with the employees is not necessarily negative nor affected by it, except when directly discussing the economic loss. Economic abuse is personal, and therefore results in negative and difficult relations between affected employees and manager.

But like all behavior, economic abuse can have miscellaneous manifestation, and not just in the case of unpaid work hours or misappropriation of the right to time off or vacation. An example of economic abuse that obviously also falls under psychological, emotional, and physical abuse is when employees are forced to do something that goes against their own interests:

The manager forces the victim to sign a new employment contract that changes the victim's job or terms in a negative way.

The victim is often prohibited from leaving the situation until the article has been signed, thusly deprived of their liberty.

If the victim gets out of the situation without signing the article, they might not be allowed to take said article with them to have its contents evaluated by their lawyers or trade union.

During the deprivation of liberty, and if the victim manages to get away without signing the article, the victim will be threatened with loss of employment or income if they continue to refuse to sign.

The above-mentioned example sets up a situation where the victim is deprived of liberty by a manager (physical abuse) receives threats (psychological and emotional abuse) and coercion of signing away their rights (economic abuse) and therefore clearly shows how many types of abuse play together as a whole.

Physical- and sexual abuse

Physical abuse is the type of abuse that can most often be readily identified as abuse. Sexual abuse, on the other hand, is often obvious, but due to the cultural norms, sexual abuse is often considered normal or acceptable behavior and therefore the victim often feels they have to suffer sexual abusive behavior towards them in silence.

Physical- and sexual abuse often manifest after the victim has already suffered through other types of abusive behavior. In the case of a person who is good at making themselves heard regarding issues that the manager could be doing better, it is often possible to see a clear escalation on how the abuse went from psychological and emotional attempts to silence the person, to sexual- or physical abuse that is done so that the victim is unable to continue their work due to threatening and uncomfortable working conditions.

Reaction to abuse

Reaction to abuse is often abusive behavior that the victim themselves shows when their tolerance limit for abuse has been reached. It is difficult to deal with reaction to abuse, as it is a case of reprimandable behavior from the victim, which often even calls for their immediate dismissal from work, even though the abusive behavior was a direct response to abuse that the victim themselves was experiencing.

When an abusive culture has become entrenched with the employer, reaction to abuse begins to emerge. This is either a sign of inability of the HR department to deal with the situation, or that the employer's top management team is unable or simply unwilling to intervene and fix the situation.

In conclusion

Employee Abuse is a serious issue, not only because of the impact that the abuse has on the employees themselves, but the negative impact on the business entity that any kind of abusive culture has in general.

An employer known for an abusive culture has a harder time finding new staff to fill vacant positions. Absence from work, whether it is due to sickness or employees simply avoiding the workplace, is expensive for the employer. There are also problems beyond the employer, as an abusive culture affects the services and products that the employer offers to customers.

Eradicating an abusive culture is therefore not a matter of considering the needs of individual employees, but of building and strengthening the entire workforce in order to strengthen the employer in general.

Employees themselves often feel they have no reason to fight through abusive managers, and this is especially true when it comes to individual employees as individuals who go up against an abusive manager only run the risk of further abuse being used against them in retaliation or to silence them.

When Employee Abuse is a known problem at a workplace, it is important that the employees unite against the situation. The crowd provides protection for the individual and lends a stronger voice to the cause. It's good to keep the following in mind:

It is important for employees to look at patterns of behavior, not individual incidents, and report the pattern as a whole.

Although identifying intention behind the abusive behavior is important, employees should summarize all abusive instances together and avoid reading into intention all together when reporting managerial abuse. This article mentions identifying intent only so that individuals could better understand the situation they were being subject to and better handle their feelings after the fact. Understanding behavioral effects on one's feelings helps in exposing psychological and emotional abuse, which is often difficult to pin down and summarize.

It is also important that when the decision to file a complaint due to unpleasant working conditions has been made, it is imperative to do so in a thoughtful manner, and list out behaviors and incidents, but not tear down the manager's character.

Complaints made by employees about incompetent managers or Employee Abuse should always be taken seriously.

This opinion-article first appeared in Icelandic on visir.is 13th of February2023.

Source: Employee Abuse: When the employer abuses emloyees

i dont get offended at white people jokes even though im white because: 

i can recognize white people as a whole have systemically oppressed POC in america, which is where i live 

most people when they make white people jokes only mean the shitty white people and i am not a shitty white person 

im not a pissbaby

Anyone think this should happen in the next batman movie?

this mode of transportation is canon in all verses i think

The Rogue Files: How Ivy Got Her Name part 1

Eddie and Ivy were sitting on the couch arguing which wasn't unusual, in fact it happened quite often. Ivy started screaming "The Riddler is nothing compared to Poison Ivy" and that's when Eddie lost it "you wouldn't even be Poison Ivy if it wasn't for me". It's true Eddie gave Pam the name Poison Ivy. It all started a while back when they both were starting out and first came to Arkham. Eddie already had his criminal name however but Pam didn't, and she ended up sitting next to Nygma during lunch while he was arguing with Aaron Cash. Eddie threw his lunch tray across the room and ended up hitting Bane in the back of the head. "AARON THIS FOOD IS UNEXCEPTBLE..., AND YOU WONDER WHY WE WANT TO ESCAPE SO BADLY". Aaron shook his head and started clapping his HANDS together. "I'M SORRY ED, I'll get right on that 5 star dining for the criminals" . Aaron walked away laughing while Eddie muttered "the only thing criminal around here is the food". Ivy sat next Edward reluctantly, she would later deny this but his little performance had scared her a little. Ed was solving sadoku puzzle and looked up slightly to see Ivy but looked back down at his puzzle, he didn't even acknowledge her. Ivy started to dig inside the food but upon the first bite she spit it back out. Ed leaned over, grabbed her tray and threw in the same direction that he had thrown his own, except this time he hit Killer Croc in the head. Pam at him angrily. Ed looked up at her and began to speak" why are you so angry you weren't going to eat it". Ivy looked at him puzzled. "It doesn't matter its the principle of the thing." Eddie turned his head up and began giggle miniclly, it started low and gargly before getting louder and clear."I like you", Pam couldn't help but blush a little as he smirked at her."What's your name?". He looked at her for a minute " Are you joking you don't know who I am, she shook her head. " I'm Edward Nygma, the Riddler, the clue leaving conundrum, the prince of puzzlers, king of cundrums. Ivy started to remember "oh now I remember gothams premeir Master mind" Ed started grinning "the one and only, now what is your name". Pamela Isley". "Oh your that plant lady who been killing people, so what's your villian name again". Pam eyes widened and she began to frown a little, "I don't have one" Eddie's smirk slowly turned into a frown and his eyes began to narrow. "What you need a name that strikes fear, that shows your power" he began to scream" you realy want people to run around screaming it's the Pam oh the Pam anything but the Pam". Ivy didn't like his tone but he had a point. "your right" Ed calmed down and fixed his hair "of coarse I'm right" she rolled her eyes "You don't want to bel like Mr V using your real name even Mr freeze at least changed the spelling". Victor v heard him "watch it Nygma I still have room for another tally". Ed leaned over and whisperd in her ear "he's just mad because Tally Man was already tacken" and victor grabbed the knife of his tray and scratch a tally onto his palm. Pam laughed he was kinda of funny, not stupid funny like the Joker but a Witty kind of funny. "Pam I have an idea" Eddy said slowly," what if I help you pick out a name it should have the in it thise names are popular right now the penguin, the Joker, and best of them all the Riddler". Ed's ego was tad much but his enthusiasm and charm made up for it. "ok "Pam said finally and Edward almost "simultaneously jumped onto the table top. Gather around everyone ate dear friend needs a new name". None of the guards seemed to pay him any mind even Cash. This went on for hours and one lunch was up theu continued there conversation in the rec room where Eddie stood on top of the table behind the couch. A man in the crowd of villians raised his hand. "I SWEAR TO GOD, DECKER IF YOU SUGGEST GREEN LADY AGAIN I'LL WILL BREAK ALL OF YOUR FINGERS OFF ONE BY ONE" and with this Crazy Quilt lowerd his hand. Pam noticed somthing, Eddie was genuinely frighteningly sadistic and quite terrifying, not that she was much better.

Is it obvious that I'm a Riddler fan? Because think it is and I want it to be obvious. You shall have absolutely no doubt. Oh and by the way I'm sorry if my nonsense has ruined your day lately.

The Rogue Files: I Know I'm Bonkers

Poison Ivy hated that aregant jerk Edward Nygma. She especially hated how he denied his insanity, why she thought. Ivy intended to find out why, what could she say she was curious. She walked over Nygma who was reading War In Peace (which he considerd a quick read). Pam sat next him at wooden table that sat behind the couch, Edward looked up from his book "What do you want". Pam was already sick to her stomach, "Do you know your crazy". Edward slowly started to frown and his eye twitched "I'm not crazy" Ivy looked him In the eyes and said "yes you are" and Ed looked back "No I'm not". Ivy was officially passed off "YES YOU ARE" and Eddie's angry face turned into a prideful smirk "Are you annoyed". Ivy awnserd the question with a "yes" and Ed chuckled"Good that was the point " Ivy was no longer annoyed but confused "what do you mean" and The Riddler seemed to look more smug then he had before and this worried Ivy, Ed continued "What I mean is I'm acting I know I'm crazy, I do it to annoy people". Ivy was annoyed again and began to grit her teeth as she spoke "Sounds like somthing you would do". Ed tryed to hold back laughter as he spoke "So it worked, I'm just double checking". Ivy looked at him for a moment before simply saying "shut up". Ed leaned over and whisperd in her ear "so that's a yes"

In some Universe Edward Is Oracle. Instead of being in wheelchair he's limping around with his cane.

Never noticed this before never and I've watch the series millions of times (because I have no life). I kinds like this but it kinda reminds me of the damn bat credit card.

So, wait. Two Face, after becoming Two Face, stopped getting credit cards under his birth name and successfully applied for new ones under the name "Two Face?"