@auspice can you tell them to email you those requests? That way at least there's a written record. I did that at my old toxic job and it worked quite well.
I may have to.
Really I just want a new fucking job. Been applying to 3-4 places a day, but absolutely nothing back yet. 
Or that.
Additionally, administrators announced the would begin enforcing the dress code more strictly. We weren’t allowed to wear all-black clothing anymore. T-shirts for artists such as Marilyn Manson were banned. Trench coats were out.
One brave student raised her hand. “If the Columbine shooters had been wearing Abercrombie & Fitch, would you be banning that?”
“If the shooters had been wearing Abercrombie & Fitch, this wouldn’t have happened,” the administrator replied.
incoherent spluttering The shooting at my high school (predates Columbine) had the lil shit target the kids in trenchcoats. Killed my damned DnD ST of three years. I can't even with the school shootings and the bs they're spewing about them anymore.
For the past year and a half, I have been doing my job, plus covering a couple of other positions while my work was going through a transition. I have done this cheerfully and without complaint. According to my boss, I have been more efficient, more conscientious and all around 'better' than the people who left these positions.
Now, after a year and a half, we've hired someone for one of the positions and my boss is refusing to allow me to train them in what I've been doing. I don't understand this. I really, really don't. I'm the one who has been doing the work. I know the way that I've been doing it, the new processes I've come up with to keep on top of things, etc. etc. etc.
There are multiple major Things my boss has to deal with this summer, so even if he had all the knowledge that I did, he doesn't have the time to train someone. I don't understand how this isn't an automatic 'yes, you take care of this.'
This person starts in a week, and I don't even know which tasks they'll be taking on and which tasks I'll be keeping on my plate. I am so amazingly frustrated.
Countdown to lawsuits in 3... 2.... 1....
Countdown to lawsuits in 3... 2.... 1....
The Allen, TX situation is a political one, ill-suited for lawsuits.
RL Anger: Be more political; stop making courts decide your shit for you, people.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
“If the shooters had been wearing Abercrombie & Fitch, this wouldn’t have happened,” the administrator replied.
Shit, that brings back some memories. MU*-related, even.
At the time, I was on an all-ages game (Ghostwheel MOO). It had lots of teenagers who could admit they were teenagers (unlike other games where there were still piles of teenagers, but they couldn't admit it, and thus couldn't talk about this).
And just like now... hey, this hobby has a lot of oddballs. Always has, always will. Almost universally harmlessly odd oddballs.
Hearing about what people were going through day to day as all of this unfolded, directly, from teens all over the country in a 'safe space' for oddballs was... I actually don't have words for it. I have words for every fucking thing, and I just don't. Not for that.
It's not like I was way older, either. Early 20s. Things that had been actual assignments for me in 8th grade were now getting people I knew arrested in their teens. (Our 8th grade honors English class had four sections: comedy, theater, horror, and sci-fi. Our assignments for each quarter were to write a long-form joke, team up with a few fellow students and do a scene from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', write a short horror story, and build an alien world(1).) I know someone threatened with expulsion and required psychological examination and so on for writing a horror short story at his teacher's request, knowing he was a huge fan of Stephen King, and that he was an extraordinarily talented writer. Not based on the content, just that he'd written a horror story... when asked. I just... there aren't words. There aren't.
It was one of those moments when the world more or less changed over night, and not for the better.
(1) ...maybe I should have clued in back then on the wordy when most people were handing in worlds on three hand-written pages and mine was over thirty, typed and illustrated...
Oh fucking well.
@surreality I feel like I should clarify what I am upvoting but like ... I feel this. I'm doing a docket full of truants later this morning. One of the kids I had in this a couple years ago was literally in trouble for going to the park after school to hit people with foam weapons (it was a boffers' group). I just ... IDEK with self expression and agency for youth right now.
@saosmash Yeah. A lot of people were talking about very similar things.
SCA or similar? They were screwed. (Parents who were in the SCA were starting to get threatened with having their kids removed from the home.) One player was a parent who had been a gamer, was still a gamer, and played video games with his kids -- same thing was a constant fear for him.
Another friend I only heard stories from years later; we were the same age, so he hadn't experienced this directly. He helped teach lower-level kids in martial arts classes. The class composition changed fast almost overnight, too; kids who had been involved for years withdrawing because of the risk of being perceived as a threat, and a bunch of new signups from new kids who were afraid, or whose parents were afraid.
There just aren't words. It is utterly heartbreaking. Sincere hope there's something you're able to do to help (read: that something stupid isn't tying your hands, which I know happens a lot, and has to be incredibly painful to deal with when it happens). Hug of thanks and support sent (if welcome) for being aware and on the front lines of this. And, like back then, wish like hell there was more than that I could do to help.
Oh fucking well.
@surreality Man, if any of our cps workers tried to do a removal on video games after knowing me for 4 years...
A commissioner in court threatened a mother with contempt if she didn't hand over the ps4 to the school. It wasn't my case but I was sitting there like ... asdfjkl;
@saosmash ...again, I am fucking speechless.
I would have been charged with contempt if I was just sitting in the gallery because there is not a snowball's chance in hell I would have been able to stop myself from doing this:
...probably followed by repeatedly slapping myself in the forehead. I would have zero regrets, but my budget simply does not allow for that kind of thing. 
Not even kidding that you get 'self control of a saint' points for not doing precisely that.
Oh fucking well.
@surreality The lawyer whose case it was did bring some sanity in. But still.
One of the kids I had in this a couple years ago was literally in trouble for going to the park after school to hit people with foam weapons (it was a boffers' group).
In the 80s, a "boffers' group" meant something different.
A commissioner in court threatened a mother with contempt if she didn't hand over the ps4 to the school.
See, this is why Persky's recall is important.
RL Anger: Be more political; stop making courts decide your shit for you, people.
We don't want to decide anything for ourselves, that's why we have (pick one depending on age):
... to do it for us!
But we better not have (repeat choice above) disagree with me, because that's wrong, and I will use the court system to make them think like me.
“If the shooters had been wearing Abercrombie & Fitch, this wouldn’t have happened,” the administrator replied.
Wasn't the latest shooter wearing a trench coat?
I would also imagine nihilistic individuals would gravitate towards music that reflects their mood.
That is I would be surprised to find Rick Astley on their play list.
Wasn't the latest shooter wearing a trench coat?
Clearly, guns don't kill people, trench coats kill people. </sarcasm>
Kate Spade, dude. Perky, lively, upbeat label and design ethos. Major depression, suicide. So if an actual fashion designer's fashion sense couldn't be predictive of behavior on this point...
(I'm going to assume you're genuinely ignorant and not trolling, because if you're trolling on this one, that's abhorrently fucking gross.)
Oh fucking well.
@surreality said in RL Anger:
Wasn't the latest shooter wearing a trench coat?
Clearly, guns don't kill people, trench coats kill people. </sarcasm>
I got no issue with schools implementing dress codes. Banning trench coats seems pretty obvious, not because of fashion sense, but because they can be used to conceal all sorts of implements of destruction. Machetes, bombs and yeah ...long guns.
Kate Spade, dude. Perky, lively, upbeat label and design ethos. Major depression, suicide. So if an actual fashion designer's fashion sense couldn't be predictive of behavior on this point...
(I'm going to assume you're genuinely ignorant and not trolling, because if you're trolling on this one, that's abhorrently fucking gross.)
It might be posited that comparing Kate Spade to a mass murdering school shooter might be considered ignorant and abhorrently gross.
I don't know the specific details, but rumor is she hanged herself with a perky red scarf.
Obviously there should be more legal restrictions on scarfs and ropes. /sarc
@tyche ...most recent? Sure!
Go ahead and keep trying to have this argument with someone trained in fashion and costume design, it'll be cute.
Most people at my high school had trench coats. This is because -- like most other local regions of this place called 'earth' -- it sometimes rains here.
Many schools already have dress codes, including public schools.
If we're looking for commonalities, aren't the vast majority of these shooters... male? Maybe we should ban anyone male from schools?
Let's put it this way, then:
Would an appropriate response to that statement from the student have been, "Oh, sorry, got my gross student crimes mixed up, I thought you were talking about raping an unconscious girl and posting video of it online, they were all prep jocks, right?"
I'm thinking no.
Keep your grossness to yourself, please. It's fucking disgusting and inappropriate as hell. People in this thread are talking about having lost personal friends -- who were wearing trench coats. Have some goddamned shred of human decency, for fuck's sake.
ETA: I am not even going to engage with this further, actually. Ignore time; the only appropriate response to this level of sheer ignorance.
Oh fucking well.
@surreality said in RL Anger:
Clearly, guns don't kill people, trench coats kill people. </sarcasm>
As the guy said, guns don't kill people... but they sure help.
@surreality Man, if any of our cps workers tried to do a removal on video games after knowing me for 4 years...
A commissioner in court threatened a mother with contempt if she didn't hand over the ps4 to the school. It wasn't my case but I was sitting there like ... asdfjkl;
