[peck420]

GeeGeeMcFee GeeGeeMcFee:

We go through slow times and the really good employees NEVER get laid off. Just saying.

[Thanos]

Actually, just for your information, he does most of his posts from the buried school bus bunker he built in the back yard. Either that or via an untraceable satellite link from the armoured tree-house at the deeply-forested cabin by the lake.

[Gunnair]

Brenda Brenda:

andyt andyt:

$1:

The new information did not come from an online source, police said in a news release. They said a person has come forward with information. That person is willing to identify themselves to police and work with authorities as part of the investigation.

Probably the problem all along - nobody would talk. Same as happened in Port Moody, except the girl didn't kill herself, but spoke out strongly, and nobody's come forward.

Ironically, that is how we raise our kids.
"Don't be a tattle tale"...

True. Society in general rails on rats and whistle blowers. Add peer pressure and yeah ....nothing happens until it's too late.

What I find fascinating us all of the friends she suddenly has?

Amazing, eh? Either be an ostracized teen that kills themselves or win the Power ball lottery to find out how many bandwagon buddies you suddenly have to say they love you.

[BartSimpson]

GeeGeeMcFee GeeGeeMcFee:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Then you try to beat the other 199 people and you also keep looking. Having been laid off five times between 2000 and 2009 I can say that I've been there and done that.

Maybe you should have been doing your job instead of racking up posts here, you might not have got fired so often. We go through slow times and the really good employees NEVER get laid off. Just saying.

Hard to avoid getting laid off when...

1. Pacific Bell got taken over by SBC Communications and all of the Pacific Bell accounting jobs were ended since SBC already had an accounting department in Houston.

2. The next job filed bankruptcy and was liquidated.

3. The job after that closed up its US operations and moved them to India.

4. Intel moved my job to Costa Rica. They offered to let me go to Costa Rica with an 80% reduction in pay...I declined.

5. The last place moved my job to India and when that didn't work out they offered me my job back. I declined. (Which is putting it mildly).

At my current job I've now leapfrogged a number of coworkers and have seen my pay more than double since March 2009 when I started. My sideline enterprise has also taken off this year and if it keeps growing then maybe this time next year I'll be quitting this job to focus on that endeavor full-time.

In five successive layoffs I was never dismayed and instead hit the ground running each time and had new work secured within a week or two of the layoff. With the last two I had the new job secured before the layoff took effect and missed no time at all.

One of the 'benefits' of the work I do is that I have time to write on here while simultaneously monitoring the network I manage. The ironic thing about this kind of work is that the more time I have to spend on CKA then the better I'm doing my job. When it's workday and you don't see me on here then that's a day when I'm really busy and those days do happen.

Lately we're moving a lot of server resources 'to the cloud' and we're virtualizng the servers we have left and when those migrations take place I'm busy. When they're done it's back to monitoring and that means sitting at a desk all day.

Unless I'm having to write code in PowerShell or run queries in SAS or deploy updates in SCCM. Then I'm busy again.

So snark away all you want. If I lost this job right now I'd have another one tomorrow. Or maybe I'd just take it as an omen to start working for myself.

That's true job security.

Can you say the same?

[BartSimpson]

Thanos Thanos:

Actually, just for your information, he does most of his posts from the buried school bus bunker he built in the back yard. Either that or via an untraceable satellite link from the armoured tree-house at the deeply-forested cabin by the lake.

I've moved past the school-bus bunker...

http://www.missilebases.com/properties

[Thanos]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

.... My sideline enterprise .....

Snakehead exploiting Caligulafornia's notoriously lax Coast Guard patrols and "importing" Salvadoran and Chinese "domestic servants" for employment by the 1% types?

[Thanos]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Thanos Thanos:

Actually, just for your information, he does most of his posts from the buried school bus bunker he built in the back yard. Either that or via an untraceable satellite link from the armoured tree-house at the deeply-forested cabin by the lake.

I've moved past the school-bus bunker...

http://www.missilebases.com/properties

Sweet. Read JL Bourne's After Armageddon zombie series. A bunch of survivors hole up in an abandoned missile silo and have a great time until some ZOG-types show up and ruin it for them.

[Robair]

Anyway...

RCMP reopening Rehtaeh Parsons case based on new information


Too little, too late.

[Robair]

Ooops. Guess that was posted back before the thread went sideways.

My bad.

[stratos]

Robair Robair:

Anyway...

RCMP reopening Rehtaeh Parsons case based on new information


Too little, too late.

Way to late but maybe just maybe they can also do something about the bullies that hounded the poor girl. I don't see it happening but I can still hope on it.


And yep this thread went way off topic. Thanks for bringing it back.

[Robair]

I read this after becoming a father the first time.



I'll pull it out again after recently welcoming daughter number two. I'm in trouble.

The author is some kind of expert on troubled girls (therapist of some kind or something, I can't remember).

I think her examples were pre-social media. But when she has seen teen victims of a crime like this, their ability to recover is affected greatly by the way their father handles it.

According to her, for the sake of your daughters mental well being, you (as the father) need to go caveman and bash some skulls. Or some variation of that.

If you shrug your shoulders or say something of the line that "boys will be boys" or "nothing we can do now" it can do more damage than the original assault.

Downside is you go to jail (maybe). Speaking as a Dad, your daughters' well being is worth it.

[BartSimpson]

Thanos Thanos:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

.... My sideline enterprise .....

Snakehead exploiting Caligulafornia's notoriously lax Coast Guard patrols and "importing" Salvadoran and Chinese "domestic servants" for employment by the 1% types?

No, but that's a hell of a great suggestion! Thanks!

Thanos Thanos:

Read JL Bourne's After Armageddon zombie series. A bunch of survivors hole up in an abandoned missile silo and have a great time until some ZOG-types show up and ruin it for them.

Another great suggestion! I'll order it on Amazon in a minute!

Edit...there's actually three books. Just ordered all three.

[Benn]

Robair Robair:

for the sake of your daughters mental well being, you (as the father) need to go caveman and bash some skulls. Or some variation of that.

If you shrug your shoulders or say something of the line that "boys will be boys" or "nothing we can do now" it can do more damage than the original assault.

Downside is you go to jail (maybe). Speaking as a Dad, your daughters' well being is worth it.

Can't think of much I'd take the chance of going to jail for but my kids would be one of them. And as you said, it is a maybe. You still have to find 12 people of which not one will be giving you a fist bump in his mind as he /she listens to the trial. You can't stock the jury with all single males with no kids.

[2Cdo]

bootlegga bootlegga:

That's a lot easier said than done Bart. Trust me I know, I did just that after getting laid off in 2009. Getting established in a new career in your late 30s/early 40s is not an easy thing to do.

No it isn't, but it can be done if you want/need to. I recently moved over 4000km away to start a new career in a field I had zero experience in, and I'm loving it.

[Gunnair]

Brenda Brenda:

R=UP

Interesting.

I wonder why society has chosen to absolve responsibility from drunken choices from only one sex. Switch roles here for a moment.

Drunk guy in tight jeans on the couch, a few empty cans of beer on the floor. Women decides to have sex with the guy.

Would anyone be raising a red flag say drunk sex is not consensual sex? Not a hope.

Or....drunk guy and drunk girl have drunk sex. Guy and girl wake up the next morning and feel good about it - consensual.

Drunk guy and drunk girl have drunk sex. Guy wakes up and feels good about it. Girl wakes up and does not. Potential for rape.

Drunk guy and drunk girl have drunk sex. Guy wakes up and feels bad about it. Girl wakes up and does not - oh well.

In other words, a woman appears to get a by for a dumb drunken decision to have sex whereas a guy would not. Double standard.

Don't be that girl campaign? Laughable. Shouldn't be though.