Em Turner

Technical writer, Warrior of Light. Tweets are my own. "Shields are nice, but not if they engender passivity"

[Erik Day @Erik_M_Day]

So proud of @GenderCool champion Stella. She was so good today at the #USSenate Hearing on the #EqualityAct. She embodies what the future looks like. Are you ready? Support the #EqualityAct https://t.co/xAirOPVKtg

[Em Turner @CommonWriterE]

@aschwanden4stc My bank recently added security questions like these too! These are absolutely terrible, completely agreed.

[Em Turner @CommonWriterE]

I love knowing there's a little boy in Banglore, addressing his friends with "y'all." Powerful legacy 😂

[Em Turner @CommonWriterE]

I tend to start my messages to my team with "hi y'all."

I just had a meeting with my co-worker, who said her son knows us by seeing our names on Slack and in Zoom meetings. The other day she noticed him writing to his friends, starting the message: "hi y'all."

[Em Turner @CommonWriterE]

It's really easy to feel alone and like you aren't making a difference, especially now. But hearing this made me feel like I'm connected to my co-workers, even when we're all remote, even if I don't know what way we are connected.

[Em Turner @CommonWriterE]

As an aside, I'm actually really loving this platform for hosting my writing. I tend to write a lot of things that I never publish, so I'm hoping to start publishing more on here. Already have another feature in the submission queue I'll share soon!

[Em Turner @CommonWriterE]

I'm entering my first ever fiction-writing contest - https://t.co/DWa2fM3rQJ's Little Black Book challenge! You can read my entry here (it's only 800 words, you have time for it 😉): https://t.co/Oq3Y5Ozrmr

[Em Turner @CommonWriterE]

Lately I've been drinking a lot more tea 🍵
I bought some rooibos and mint green tea to try out! Didn't really care for the rooibos (maybe needs some honey?) but the mint green is lovely.
Anyone have tea recommendations? 😂

[Em Turner @CommonWriterE]

Today's a holiday so I'm doing some cleaning in my #WFH space! Absolutely love my setup, even if it isn't all that fancy.

[Gene Park @GenePark]

2016’s Shin Godzilla won Japan’s Academy Award for best picture and best director, along with best cinematography and art direction and sound

[Anna Lytical @theannalytical]

send me the worst gender selection forms you've seen, I'll start

[Em Turner @CommonWriterE]

On another note I'm starting to think I'm cursed? When I joined EMC it was bought by Dell a week after I started. When I joined VMware the CEO left two months later 😂😂😂

[Em Turner @CommonWriterE]

Sad to hear the news about Pat Gelsinger going to Intel, but it sounds like he's really excited about the opportunity. Hoping VMware's next CEO will continue the generosity and people centric approach I've seen in my 2 months here.

[Em Turner @CommonWriterE]

How is it that no matter how much time I spend looking at something and puzzling over a problem, the solution always comes to me right as I hit send on a message to someone asking for help? 😂😭

[Em Turner @CommonWriterE]

When I say "embarassing" too, I really mean, it's embarrassing that a product was this poorly designed. I don't expect people to know to dig two menus deep.

[Em Turner @CommonWriterE]

As much as I love PowerPoint's presentation mode, it's embarrassing how many folks don't understand how to change the view when screen sharing, and just end up showing the entire slide show in PPT itself.

[Em Turner @CommonWriterE]

You would think they would have added a big red button by now on the presentation mode to swap the views back, but no, it's buried on a sub menu.

[Em Turner @CommonWriterE]

One bottle of kitten training spray later... 😂 At least he isn't chewing on the tree anymore!

[Em Turner @CommonWriterE]

The tree skirt has also been run over multiple times. There was an incident this morning with mystery crashing and much yowling, but it may have been Christmas tree unrelated

[Em Turner @CommonWriterE]

I put the Christmas tree up this weekend and in 24 hours Emet has
- Gnawed the bottom branches, prompting me to order bitter apple spray and in for now wrap the branches in tin foil to dissuade him from chewing
- Climbed the Christmas tree (fake tree, idk how he got his claws in)