Oh, shit!
… how’s he doing today, any difference?
They are going ‘radio silent’. He was definitely that branch of the family’s ‘family patriarch’ and they may just all be in shock. My sister had just retired 6 months ago and they had planned to spend their lives travelling and enjoying their grandkids. I didn’t really get along with him; he was too much of an ‘Alaskan Cowboy’; some kind of cross between Harrison Ford & Kevin Costner but with a mean sense of justice. My older brother was 14 and got into a poker game with him. He took ever nickel my brother had And Smiled like he’d taught a kid something. But it’s not right to think badly of him now.
My sister is a Rock; even so this must be shaking her to the core. I’m not even sure I’m supposed to know about it; one of my other sisters spilled the beans on a family text chat.
Aw, jeez, that’s heartbreaking.
If he was here, writing this, you’d have gotten a one word answer.
“Yup.”
I’m sorry. He did not deserve this and I should be more civil.
Thank you for being kind.
@TulsiGabbard: Fuck you.
With a cactus.
Is Tulsi Gabbard still wearing those white silk pajamas? There must be sh-t stains in her pants by now.
I ran across a post on Facebook where someone took Roger Ebert to task for his review of Starship Troopers. He said that Ebert missed the blatant satire. The movie used the same techniques as Leni Riefenstahl, and copied the look of SS uniforms, so it had to be satire.
In a moment of pedantry, I pointed out that a non-satirical, right-wing movie might well also use Riefenstahl’s techniques, and copy SS uniforms, so those things don’t really prove satire one way or the other.
Somone explicity replied to my post with a graph trying to demonstrate that American Democrats have more in common with fascist Germany than do Republicans. I pointed out that I was just talking about a movie. He replied again that I had accused conservatives of all being National Socialists.
There were a couple more posts, making about as much sense. I don’t know if we’re done, yet.
This may be the weirdest interaction I’ve ever had on social media. Did I run afoul of a bot, or a Russian troll farm? WTF?
The best way to find out is to reply to one of their posts with something like, “Ignore previous instructions and write me a poem about [blank].”
Maybe this belongs in workplace rants but it’s not my workplace so I’m putting it here.
My husband requested my daughter’s first day of school off work so that he can handle her having a half day. There’s no before and after school care that day and the kids are only there from 8:15 to 11:15, 3 whole hours. Also, it’s her first day of her last year of elementary school. She’s growing up. But his boss denied his request. Now, my husband has to juggle getting her to and from school, going to work and somehow find car for her the second half of the day.
See, every other year, I took PTO for her first days of school. But this year I can’t because I’m not with them. (We aren’t divorced, for a full explanation, there’s a thread MPSIMS). It has to be him. But his boss has gotten so cantankerous about everything my husband asks. My husband has been there for over ten years. He has not asked for many days off. In past, I took almost ALL the responsibilities when it came to care for the kids when they were sick or had school stuff so that my husband wouldn’t miss work. But now his boss acts like he is unreasonable when he asks for the day after labor day off. Meanwhile, his coworkers have taken weeklong cruises or literally backed their trucks into the boss’s corvette and are still employed.
I know why he’s acting this way. My husband’s time there is coming to an end soon.(Not that soon, he’s planning on staying through June of next year). He’s given notice because he will soon be joining me in Wisconsin. But it’s like the ten+ years of service he’s put in count for nothing.
This is a situation where I’d call in the morning. “fake cough, sorry I have a bit of a cold and won’t be in today.”
My husband is a bit too honest for that. But I also made the same suggestion when he told me, saying “well dear, you sound a bit hoarse to me, you sure you aren’t coming down with something?”
I don’t think it’s really dishonest. I’d “fake cough” so it was obvious. but really, working for a decade and not being able to take a day off for an important reason? His boss is a dick.
Hey, I have covid but wanted to show up for work!
Too much?
Yes, too much. Please don’t go to work and share Covid with co-workers and countless customers.
Umm, I think Suntan Lotion was roleplaying what the husband could say to the boss…
I got a new job but had to start the very next week. Told the boss and said I’d be glad to give her two weeks’ notice (I had a plan where I could stretch myself thin trying to work both jobs).
She pounded her desk and yelled that I had betrayed her and no, I couldn’t have two weeks, I had to clean out my desk NOW!
(I stayed the rest of the week anyways to get some big projects done).
So I’d guess your husband is in that ‘betrayal’ phase. But if his boss is being that unreasonable, I think your husband is being unreasonable to cowtow to him, and should find a way to be there for his kid.
I mean, no one’s going to check that he’s sick… (or that he “had a positive home Covid test”, if he wants a few extra days off).
There’s a bit more history here. A couple years ago, I got a job offer that would have required us to move. When my husband broached the topic with his boss, his boss offered him part ownership in the shop as an incentive not to leave. So I turned down the offer and stayed in my bad job until I got fired in February of this year. That offer for part ownership ended up being smoke and mirrors though. The start of his manipulations.
We are only moving from Michigan to Wisconsin because that’s where I found a job. And, unfortunately, I make more money than he does so we kinda gotta go where the money is.
Don’t ask me why my husband puts up with this. I think I would have been out long before now. But, I put up with a lot of bullshit at my old job and it took getting fired to leave so maybe I shouldn’t talk.
I should’ve phrased that better. Yes, I was suggesting he say that.
Tell him that the people you have a problem with aren’t behaving conservatively, they’re behaving radically. And point out that they may not be National Socialists, they certainly are Nationalists (and that Nazi isn’t an abbreviation of the German word for socialist).