i wonder why nobody signed the farewell card for the type of ass to sue for not getting a farewell card.
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What's the opposite of eating the onion? I read your comment and scoffed, wondering who could actually believe this. The I saw the "Not" in the comm name.
I'm leaning towards either, "Fabricating The Onion," or "Puking The Onion." I think the first is a more accurate assessment of the situation though.
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You're getting played by this misleading article. There is no evidence that anyone didn't sign the card because they didn't like her. If you follow the link to the actual article, there were two other people who didn't get cards either for the same reason. It's not in that articles, but I read elsewhere that because this happened during COVID it was just difficult to get people to sign them.
The woman sounds like a dope, but most people are kind and would sign the card anyway. Most people aren't looking to get petty revenge against people they don't even know that well.
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Karen Conaghan sued the…
Ah, there it is
They're Brits too, guaran-fuckin-teed they called her Cuntyhan behind her back
Wow, she is so Karen that her parents even named her that decades ago in the past - that's some dedicated Karening right there! (/s:-D)
As if she had no say on what her name is whatsoever! I personally always legally change my name whenever weirdos on the internet decide my name has suddenly bad connotations, I am at my 5th name this year and already looking for a new one.
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Not familiar at all with UK law, but would it have been within the judge’s power to order a psychometric evaluation and you know possibly like a weeklong hospital stay with continued weekly visits to a psychiatrist?
Ah yes every obnoxious and self absorbed person or difficult coworker on earth must be mentally ill.
Not every shitty character trait can be fixed like this, or is even worthy of fixing. Sometimes people are just assholes.
You're not wrong, Walter...
Eight year olds, Dude
That generally requires them to demonstrate or threaten Self-harm
If only we considered verbal and mental abuse to be harm. What am I saying, that's silly.
Health care has been used as a weapon in the past… and thats not good…
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It usually doesn't yield any good results to force a person to visit a psychiatrist.
Unless, of course, they are having a psychosis and need to be medicated right now.
I was kind of leaning in that direction. This woman is clearly divorced from reality to an unhealthy degree.
The judge added that Conaghan exhibited a "conspiracy-theory mentality" and misinterpreted "normal workplace interactions" as harassment. The example offered was when Conaghan wrote "whiz" in a coworker's card then claimed another colleague was copying her when they used "whizz" in a different card.
The Guardian reported she also complained after a coworker asked, "Are you taking the piss, Karen?," a popular British term meaning making fun of someone, after she claimed she was doing "all the hard work."
What a lovely person
“Are you taking the piss, Karen?,” a popular British term meaning making fun of someone, after she claimed she was doing “all the hard work.”
In my experience, the people who complain about being the only ones doing all the hard work are the ones doing more complaining than actual working.
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One would spend several hours almost daily chitchatting at other people's desks about how they are the hardest worker and things can only get done if they do it, they're the first in, last out, etc. But spends half their day complaining instead of working.
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Another is a serial whiner who says no one else ever does anything, they have to do it all in order to get it done, yet they always have some excuse why they don't have to come in that day, or have to leave early, take a longer lunch, and spends a good chunk of their day gossiping.
Can we please call mental problems what they are?
Being an asshole is a mental problem in the literal sense. If you mean the thing more commonly known as a "mental problem", then no, we can't because we don't have access to her diagnosis.
You know why "retard" is offensive nowadays, even though it literally means "slow" which is a pretty nice word to use? Because people overused it to mean whatever they wanted and, unsurprisingly, people stopped liking it. Don't do the same for "mental problems".
then no, we can’t because we don’t have access to her diagnosis.
A bullshit argument. Mental health is as imperfect as all the other matters of health, even more. People can get many different diagnoses until getting the right one FFS. People may not get any at all.
Most situations when somebody behaves clearly "weird" are about mental health. Definitely when they can be described as "conspiracy-minded".
You know why “retard” is offensive nowadays, even though it literally means “slow” which is a pretty nice word to use? Because people overused it to mean whatever they wanted and, unsurprisingly, people stopped liking it. Don’t do the same for “mental problems”.
You know, I'm using it right. The post we are arguing under describes this clear enough. The word "retard" got misused by people like you, not like me.
And no, what I'm doing is better than what you are doing.
I fucking hate NT's who treat the behavior of others by their own measure and then find 100 excuses to not just give people some chance, especially since their judgement is worth less than that of cockroaches ; more than that, they also judge against those others when there is any ambiguity and think it's fine.
Most autistic people (especially those who weren't homeschooled) have had the experience of people around them refusing to accept the fact that they are autistic, because it's much easier and more pleasant for NT's to think that someone is below you in hierarchy and\or just weak and\or worse than you as a person, and not outside of said hierarchy. I just want you to understand that your opinion on that doesn't count. Life is complex and many people don't have a diagnosis till rather late in life.
But then not being autistic - one can call it your own mental problems - you may not be able to.
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I wonder why
Who's the actress on the right in that image? She looks familiar? Katy Perry?
Imagine if they had text under pictures that described them.
Trying very hard to imagine that
It is Katy Perry's little known twin sister, Paty Kerry. Some people have given her the nick name of Emily Blunt, but that's not her real name.
According to the caption under the picture, it's Emily Blunt..
She's that lady who married the Unabomber from The Office
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My boss's boss was named "Johnson." One day, I accidentally referred to him as "Jackson." None of the people I was talking to corrected me. I decided to try a little experiment and kept on using the wrong name. I used the wrong name dozens and dozens of times and never got called out.
Because you were silently judged. Behind your back. Always.
And...?
And what? Everyone realized you were an asshole there is no and.
Or, unlike you, people got the joke.
Did anyone laugh? Did anyone else start calling people the wrong name? Is it possible that you are this confrontational in real life and no one wanted to interact with you?
For someone who derides confrontationality you certainly seem to what an argument.
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And maybe don't expect a farewell card!
So, you're assuming that the big boss was widely respected based on the fact that no one corrected me?
lol why these people getting mad at you for this?
I have no idea. I've been telling this story for years and this is the first time anyone ever thought I was being mean to the boss.
Here's one story about how bad he was. He instituted a policy where we were both understaffed and had an overtime cap. People who wanted to fill needed positions couldn't work because they were capped, and people who didn't want to work were getting forced to stay.
a company I used to work for did stupid shit like that too. it used to run smoothly, once in a while there would be too many people on a shift but usually it was good to handle surges. then they fired almost everyone, hired fewer replacements at lower wages and prohibited overtime. then when surges happened and we ground to a halt, they'd start having a melt down and got punitive and started restricting breaks and other shit. jerks!
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my inner voice leaking
Clearly sounds like undiagnosed mental illness. I hope that lady gets some help.
Not her name literally being Karen though
Man this story sure gets a lot of traction. Some would say that a story that's been posted so often and an article that's 5 days old probably should be deleted.
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