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I hate working for the company I work for.

If possible, surreptitiously record the shenanigans. Build an audio library with accompanying memos for all recordings. Your cell phone can be set up to record video and audio without anyone knowing. I used SVR pro as a PI.

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I hate working for the company I work for.

They have broken every single rule of grievance investigations. You have to question people separately, not in groups, and to show the original complaint to everyone else is to breach a confidence. That entire HR department in your workplace should be fired.

I suggest that you contact a labour lawyer and seek his/her advice. Do that before you do anything else. You most likely have a case based just on their mishandling of any investigation. If there's any kind of HR standards association in the UK, those chimps should be decertified!

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I know a lot of you aren't living in the U.S., but...

I go there to watch the dogfights! ;-)

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What is intelligence?

What is intelligence? Why, the ability to correlate, of course.

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Post Closed Post Closed

True conspiracy: doctors conspire to shorten the lives of elderly patients.

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Buying land

One thing about land--they're not making any more of it!

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So I decided to go into teaching special needs...

If you have epileptics in your class, make sure there is a pillow you can put under their heads. Tell them that if they feel a seizure coming on, to lie on the floor. Get that pillow under their head--it prevents injury if they are banging their head on the floor. Don't try to restrain them.

There are meds now that are very effective in preventing seizures.

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Has anyone seen my lost dog?

Abra cadrabra! ;-)

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I have come to the conclusion that people just do not take me seriously or respect me.

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Also - I never, ever sell people anything they donโ€™t need. Integrity is important. When I was working in IT, I would get in trouble for this. Why would I convince someone to spend an extra grand on a server when they really just need a regular computer? Itโ€™s unethical.

"Upselling" is the bane of our age--pressuring sales people to sell people things they don't need. Years ago, Sears did this to their automotive customers. They sold my mother new shocks for her car that was only a year old, and driven very infrequently. That's one of the reasons Sears is sinking today--too many bad customer practices in the past.

When I bought my last car, the dealership had these worthless "add-ons" they wanted to sell me:

1. Upholstery protection - $400. So they would take a $5.95 can of ScotchGuard and spray it on the upholstery--and use only about a fifth of the can.

2. Electronic rust protection - $600. I had checked out these gadgets long before. The experts' verdict: they are completely worthless.

3. Polymer paint protection - $700. Supposed to eliminate the need to wax your car. I now use wax products like Turtle Wax's ICE that lasts at least six months.

4. Third-party extended warranties - $1,200. A lot of these companies have declared bankruptcy, leaving their customers in a lurch. And, if you read the complaints on the Internet about them, you will see that getting them to pay is like pulling teeth.

As soon as someone tries to upsell me, I stop them right there and make it clear that I don't want useless add-ons.

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I've been having character asasinations for trying to help the mentally ill on Facebook.

The old help site was plagued by idiots who were spamming for diet pills. They were doing it for "search engine optimization." Such people were, of course, the scum of the earth. And, in the old help site, those posts stayed up a very long time before any of the mods took them down. We had suggested before that for a person's first few posts that they would be "held" until a mod could look at them. That would tend to stop the spamming. I think it also helps to complain to the hosting ISP that spammers are at work on behalf of that site.

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