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Agents are GO! posted:How would you know if they were plague rats? Did they buy themselves transphobic avatars? What are you talking about? Barudak posted:The poster Some Plague Rats who got permabaned for buying themselves transphobic avatars then accusing their posting enemies of having bought them Oh! I thought they were calling Dr. Girlfriend transphobic. Carry on then! Bored fucked around with this message at 06:39 on Oct 12, 2023 |
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Bored posted:What are you talking about? The poster Some Plague Rats who got permabaned for buying themselves transphobic avatars then accusing their posting enemies of having bought them
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Oct 12, 2023 06:25
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I swear my forums subscription is the best value for any money I ever spent on entertainment. The referenced story. The doomed hotdog stand. The doomed house renovation(s). The... events in re: Party Plane Jones. The list of incomprehensible but vastly entertaining decisions just goes on.
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Oct 12, 2023 06:45
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My conservative coworkers always having political "discussions" (aka repeating ancient Fox News talking points about flash mobs robbing department stores) but when someone slightly left-of-center dares speak up, they get mad at them for making things political. I'm scared to bring it up to HR because when I've done that in the past, all that happens is the political discussions get louder and I get a reputation as being oversensitive. I guess all I have to do is wait for a customer to overhear and complain. I have headphones on, but these guys are so loud that they even drown out headphones at max volume. I've asked them to quiet down so I can focus and that lasts maybe 30 seconds at a time before they're back to hollering.
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Oct 12, 2023 07:51
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If you're serious re: HR, don't mention the politics just mention the loudness / productivity. Interesting with productivity = HR's job to do something to fix. Employees complaining about each other's politics = the pets are fighting again get the squirt bottle.
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Oct 12, 2023 08:02
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Atopian posted:If you're serious re: HR, don't mention the politics just mention the loudness / productivity. That's what I did last time. HR's response was to out a company wide email reminding people to refrain from inappropriate discussions in the office. And when you're in a small enough office it's pretty obvious who complained.
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Oct 12, 2023 08:05
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Also document everything and CYA in triplicate. Make recordings on your phone. Even America has to pay lip service to workplace fair treatment so keeping receipts may come in handy later on.
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Oct 12, 2023 08:05
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Barudak posted:The poster Some Plague Rats who got permabaned for buying themselves transphobic avatars then accusing their posting enemies of having bought them Don't forget that they would've gotten away with it if they hadn't tried to save $5.
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Oct 12, 2023 08:10
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Takes No Damage posted:Make recordings on your phone. Do not do this if you work with tech data or commodities controlled under the ITAR or EAR
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Oct 12, 2023 10:37
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Yeah make sure you're in a 1 party consent state
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Oct 12, 2023 16:06
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Atopian posted:I swear my forums subscription is the best value for any money I ever spent on entertainment. The wrestling and mma forum just had a guy fake his death lol
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Oct 12, 2023 16:17
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Some people are great believers in kayfabe.
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Oct 12, 2023 16:21
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History Comes Inside! posted:The wrestling and mma forum just had a guy fake his death lol Is that a kayfabe thing?
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Oct 12, 2023 16:21
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Anyone gonna put the details in SAclopedia?
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Oct 12, 2023 16:23
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Outrail posted:Yeah make sure you're in a 1 party consent state I'm pretty sure that matters if there's an expectation of privacy. If people are making GBS threads across the office I'm pretty sure it's fair to just record that since everyone can hear it.
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Oct 12, 2023 16:52
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Rawrbomb posted:Just seeing the writing on the walls (that its a sinking ship), I know you're sticking it out for your own reasons, just I guess don't expect that money to be there right now or be planning on it. Given the other things you've said. Currently she needs the money more than me. I actually just added a couple of days off to my book on either side of my wedding anniversary. I'm gonna paint some warhammers and order some takeout e: She WILL take it out on me when I get back. She makes sure (it cannot be coincidence) that the maximum about of poo poo is hosed up in the shop whenever I'm back from a day off or god forbid, I'm sick.
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Oct 12, 2023 16:56
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Outrail posted:Is that a kayfabe thing? Nah it’s hosed, dude told a bunch of people he was dying of cancer and now like 18 months after ‘his wife’ passed on a message via goon friends that he’d died people noticed he was still playing CoD or something and the whole story unraveled Edit: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3388320&perpage=40&noseen=1&pagenumber=160#post523019326 here’s his last post about being just about done, he’s declared dead like a page later and then it all pops off again a few pages after that
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Oct 12, 2023 17:01
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Munchausen's? Grift? Weird inability to just ghost people on the internet?
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Oct 12, 2023 17:11
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"That last run of bets and everyone joining in really meant a lot to him." is the saddest thing I've ever loving read, and that's before the deception
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Oct 12, 2023 17:13
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Holy poo poo, this website
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Oct 12, 2023 17:16
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Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:Do not do this if you work with tech data or commodities controlled under the ITAR or EAR Reminds me of when we had a new employee just complete his initial training, which included a half hour lesson (with a quiz) on using a smartphone on site and what is and isn't allowed. For years you needed to prove you had disabled the camera on any phone you brought on site, but about a year earlier a new data security VP came in and changed the policy so that you could have a camera enabled phone on you, but we were on the honor system that you wouldn't take pictures or videos. This guy was caught FaceTiming at his desk during our designated lunch half-hour because he thought that didn't count at being at work. Oddly, that should have gotten him fired, but instead he was given a pass because he was still training. Like a week later he tried to impress people in the parking lot by pulling a wheelie on his motorcycle and broke his leg in the process. That was one of those "I need to get out of here before it gets stupider" moments.
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Oct 12, 2023 17:44
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A few years back we had a guy in the veterans sub forum lie about serving which isn’t too crazy but he kept the charade up for a few years I think, he was even posting how dfas hosed up his pay which if you’ve ever been in you’d know that’s super common. It was kinda ridiculous how much he played into the role
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Oct 12, 2023 19:23
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Man I've been really missing out by just posting as myself
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Oct 12, 2023 19:26
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Salami Surgeon posted:How are all you M-Fers doing today? At home relaxing or taking care of a to do list, out shopping and running errands, at your favorite spot getting a nice big breakfast, maybe taking a short weekend trip. Me? Oh, just on another work trip with my boomer coworker. I've now been totally educated on Palestine, Israel, Iran, and US foreign aid. gently caress this trip. gently caress this bullshit.
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Oct 12, 2023 19:31
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I was special forces in the HVAC unit ama, except for crypto clearance stuff, y'all know it is with us pugheads, can't to talk about any incel we want.
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Oct 12, 2023 19:43
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Killingyouguy! posted:Man I've been really missing out by just posting as myself Yeah same, I'm just a lightly pseudonymized version of my offline self. Definitely a lost opportunity - I could have gone mad with power and pretended to be Swedish instead.
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Oct 12, 2023 20:27
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Computer viking posted:Yeah same, I'm just a lightly pseudonymized version of my offline self. Definitely a lost opportunity - I could have gone mad with power and pretended to be Swedish instead. Tyø yur åtl hø sooten gåtrunen?
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Oct 12, 2023 20:47
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Outrail posted:Yeah make sure you're in a 1 party consent state Ah yes fair point. I'm in a one party state so sometimes I forget about that. Something Awful is not a source for legal advice. Always consult your local laws and regulations. Hotel Kpro posted:A few years back we had a guy in the veterans sub forum lie about serving which isn’t too crazy but he kept the charade up for a few years I think, he was even posting how dfas hosed up his pay which if you’ve ever been in you’d know that’s super common. It was kinda ridiculous how much he played into the role It only lasted a few months I think, but GunChicka or something impersonated a cute girl in a wheelchair in the PYF Selfies thread a few years back 
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Oct 12, 2023 22:17
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Zopotantor posted:Tyø yur åtl hø sooten gåtrunen? That's Norwegian, it'd be "Työ yunr åtl hö sooten gåtrunan" in proper Swedish. e: The joke is that I'm Norwegian - Swedish is about as foreign to me as drunk Australian to Americans, and I'm just a short train ride from the border. Set realistic goals, etc. Computer viking fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Oct 12, 2023 |
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Oct 12, 2023 23:45
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In a meeting where higher ups want a monthly performance report to open the meeting and then, at the end, a monthly performance report. Someone asked "how are these two performance reports in the same meeting different?" "Well, Im sure they are" with no clarification.
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Barudak posted:In a meeting where higher ups want a monthly performance report to open the meeting and then, at the end, a monthly performance report. Someone asked "how are these two performance reports in the same meeting different?" Which one has the Singapore numbers?
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Oct 13, 2023 01:31
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Report about how many sales you avoided making by having everyone sitting in the meeting
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Barudak posted:In a meeting where higher ups want a monthly performance report to open the meeting and then, at the end, a monthly performance report. Someone asked "how are these two performance reports in the same meeting different?" Amend the second report with their actions taken during the report.
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Horror of horrors, I have a boss who thinks that they can write. They're insisting that I send out a newsletter to an audience that is ~90% ESL / limited English ability, and the language they have used is... "formal purple"? If that's a thing? Imagine someone in highschool who has just learned a bunch of big words and is desperate to show each and every one of them off. Only they're 40something and in charge. "transpired" "camaraderie" "bestowed" "convocation" "loftier" "echelon" "surmount" It's relentless intolerable poo poo from beginning to end, those are just the lowlights. I feel actual disgust at the thought of sending this out with my name next to it.
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Atopian posted:Horror of horrors, I have a boss who thinks that they can write. As a translator, I saw Ew to your boss.
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peanut posted:As a translator, I saw Ew to your boss. Did you mean "nauseating"?
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Zopotantor posted:Did you mean "nauseating"? Its oleaginous ordure offends one's olfaction.
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Atopian posted:Horror of horrors, I have a boss who thinks that they can write. One of our new c-levels likes to send out monthly emails that I guess are supposed to be newsletters, but they're all like 6 paragraphs long of content that reads like something between the intro to that 9-11 cookie recipe and the yearly update letter olds put in family Christmas cards with some vague ramblings about his fond memories of other jobs then buried somewhere in the middle is "Steve will be leaving as our executive vice president in charge of who gives a poo poo at the end of the month, or as my kids have always called it 'November Eve!'" Cthulu Carl fucked around with this message at 12:06 on Oct 13, 2023 |
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One of the good things about having so many ESL colleagues is that all correspondence is straightforward and workmanlike. The other good thing is that I got to see the spread of the “ligma” joke through our Arabic speakers, culminating in one talented guy becoming the Arabic equivalent of the “King of Ligma”, so that was fun.
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