All workplace film festivals should also include Monster. While the rape scene is brief, probably less than a couple of minutes, it’s pretty damned unsettling.
I’ve never seen A Clockwork Orange, mostly because I have heard that it includes a particularly disturbing rape scene. But, perhaps I’ll see if Netflix will allow me to watch it instantly. I’ll make sure to crank my speakers so the rest of the office can hear it.
George’s boss: “I’ve been told you had sex on your desk with the cleaning woman.”
George (after a pregnant pause): “Was that wrong? 'Cause I have to tell you that if anybody had told me that was wrong when I started here…”
IIRC, the sound wouldn’t be a problem, unless you think “Singin’ in the Rain” is offensive.
Of course, the visuals could be an issue.
Can you post that here? Or was that pretty much the OP? Without names of course.
It was the OP without snark; after I posted it, I realized I’d have to summarize the incident, and so I cut, pasted, and redacted the words captain & nitwit, among others.
The big boss is nothing if not efficient. Nitwit’s gotten a written warning (he jumped right past the verbal) to the effect that further lack of common sense leads to an unpaid suspension, and one more after that leads to the street.
Sort-of-but-not-really-off-topic: IT is supposed to be looking over the proxy servers to scan for objectionable materials, and if there’s a big problem, the head of the training department–i.e., me–is going to have to give a come-to-the-river sermon. Anybody have an idea how long that should take? There’s about 200 terminals, and 10% is going to be the tipping point for the re-education campaign. Should I start getting my presentation together tonight, do you think?
If you don’t need it now, you will eventually. Go ahead and get it on file so you won’t have to worry about it later.
Might go ahead and suggest to IT that they start looking into filtering software. While your people need access to client sites, they don’t need bigoltitties and whosyourllama.com. Filtering software should be able to flag searches for ‘naked’ and other potentially questionable terms.
As I don’t care enough, I’ll leave it for the big boss. I only cared because if they’ll be done tomorrow, then I’ll put on my preacher man hat Wednesday, and as I have a training class tomorrow I’d have to get ready tomorrow night, and I want to take the girls out tomorrow.
Having actually written the above, I should obviously start working on it, shouldn’t I?
Huh. I’m pretty sure we grew up in the same society, and it seems to me that we’re all raised from early childhood to view sex as the be-all and end-all of adult existence, super cool, incredibly satisfying, and something to seek for at all times and in all situations.
Although, admittedly, a lot more mysterious than violence.
This depends upon how good they are at spotting things and generally filtering the wheat from the chaff. When we did it, we were usually investigating a single offender. The sites visited were profiled and the most popular visited, plus a random sampling of others - but idiots tend to be creatures of habit - as well. Then sample pictures were printed as evidence along with the profile. This was then passed to HR and the offender usually terminated for gross misconduct, abuse of company resources, and being a security risk. That then put the fear of Og into everyone else. But with 200 terminals, I’d just profile the most-visited sites against the users and see who visited them the most then investigate those users further as above.
I’d suggest you start getting your presentation together anyway, simply to get your trainees into good habits early on. Tell them their activity is continuously logged, that it can be tied to them, and they will be disciplined. Name a few of the sites with cringe-worthy names. They’ll get the point.
For what it’s worth I did a search on YouTube for “Monica Belluci” (no quotation marks). I clicked on the first result that appeared, Monica Bellucci - La ragazza piu` bella del mondo. In the “Related Videos” list, the second one is labelled “Irreversible” - I don’t know if it’s that scene, but I imagine if you clicked on it, the rape scene might be one of the related links. I don’t intend to explore the results any further (am pushing my download limit for the month), but I’d say it’s possible that the scene in question may have been no more than three clicks from a YouTube search on the actress’s name alone.
There are generally three kinds of people in this world, and you can tell a lot about their character here;
1> Would never think to do this. The best kind of person.
2> When caught doing something wrong, is genuinely apologetic and does not repeat the behavior.
3> When caught, tries to turn the blame around or whine about it. Avoid these people.
This guy is a #3.
It’s not quite the same thing, but the same general result;
A co-worker went to lunch with me. We discovered that we had to beat ass to be back to training class, or we’d be late. I run, he drags ass. He gets into the car, leaves my passenger door wide open and starts dicking around with his stuff. The car next to us starts moving, very slowly.
I point out that the car next to us is moving and ask him to close the door. He responds by saying that he’s trying to organize his stuff.
I wait a few seconds and repeat it. He gets pissy, because he’s still trying to set his stuff down. (Yeah, 10 seconds of dicking around because he can’t figure out how to put his fucking pop down :rolleyes:)
The neighboring car moves more. I tell him to close the door NOW because I don’t care to have my door damaged by the car that is moving right next to us. He gets frustrated at me because I’m rushing him and he’s still trying to figure out where to put his fucking pop.
He finally closes the door. Fortunately, the neighboring driver had seen my car door open and he had been nice about the whole thing. An idiot would have taken it off while dumbshit sat there fumbling his pop.
But the moral here is that my Idiot Passenger got pissy with me and held the entire thing against me because I was repeatedly telling him to close the passenger door on my car in the face of an impending threat. At no point was there any apology or recognition that just maybe, he was responsible here.
The best part (sarcasm) was that his well considered “it took me 15 seconds to figure out where to put this and I got angry because you asked me to think about something else” placement of his pop was right in the middle of the floor, unsupported. The minute I started driving, it fell over and dumped all over my floor. :smack:
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Chimera, that story reminded me of something.
My ex-husband and a bunch of his buddies were out at the lake, riding 3-wheelers (back when they were kinda new). He and Wayne had been riding alone and Wayne had taken a bad spill, spearing himself into the sand headfirst up to his neck.
Ex came roaring back to the main group raising hell and trying to get Ray to come back to the accident scene with him and dig Wayne out. Ray was standing there chatting up some girls and drinking a beer, and he ignored my ex.
Until my ex slapped the beer out of his hand and jerked him onto the back of his 3-wheeler.
I can’t stand people who won’t hurry when they need to.
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’Captain Nutjob’
‘Donut with a Knife’
'Nutjob Magnet’
This thread is the motherlode of dopernames. I especially like** Donut with a Knife**.
You did a good job, Skald. It’s tough to be stuck being the grownup sometimes.
Another option for IT is to put a key logging program on Captain Nitwit’s computer, to catch him as soon as he screws up again. He will, of course - either because he can’t resist or just to be rebellious.
I did, once, because I wanted to know if it was as bad as they said or if it had any redeeming qualities as a piece of (controversial) art, but I knew I didn’t want to see the whole movie. I remember it was disturbing, but not much else–I think I’ve blocked it out. But I don’t think I am a sociopath.
Wow. I can’t believe that some people think that would be okay to watch on your break. It amazes me that he even had the audacity to talk back to you like that. He should be so lucky to have a job right now, I wouldn’t even want to risk getting in trouble and trying to hunt for a new job in today’s economy.
Can I have his job?
wow. a physical manisfestation of the idea that naked boobies are more offensive than violence. i hope it’s not widespread.
Sounds like an odd policy. Surely it’s been inaccurately summarized by the offender. What’s the actual written policy?
i think ‘no porn’ is a straightforward policy. some people are just nuts.
Yeah, me too. 300 million people thinking like that makes me a little nervous.