# Omnibus Trolls R Us Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 23, 2016, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489 "2016-05-23T21:38:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 268
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5344 "2017-12-08T23:43:56Z")
I got the impression that it was not so much a comment or two on her lunch as an ongoing daily assault that had no end in sight. Can you tell you boss to knock it the fuck off? Some, perhaps. Others you may be forced to go over them. ---
**Author:** ![PCarolinus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58f4c7/32.png) [@PCarolinus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PCarolinus)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5345 "2017-12-08T23:44:41Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > (N.B. Please don’t make me read the whole thread.) > > If the small snippets I’ve been exposed to have left me with anything like an accurate picture of her issue, she had a co-worker commenting on her lunch. She did not feel that making comments about someone else’s lunch or other eating habits was polite, appropriate, or something she should have to put up with, so she asked politely that the co-worker refrain from making comments to her. Her polite requests were ignored, and the comments to her continued, which, BY DEFINITION, raises the co-worker’s behavior to the level of harassment. The fact that the co-worker was apparently her direct supervisor makes the harassment more egregious, and a report to HR entirely justified. > > You don’t get to go unchallenged if you decide to characterize her reaction as that of a twit. By doing so, you are effectively arrogating to yourself the right to choose where she is allowed to set her personal boundaries and what she is allowed to do to obtain respect for them. > > If others have mistakenly conflated your arrogance wrt **Nawth Chucka** ’s personal boundaries with a decree that any brand of assault is of trivial importance, that’s on them. What’s on you is that you didn’t acquit yourself well in the discussion. I don’t care if her delicate sensibilities are offended by a mouse fart in a distant storeroom. If HR chose not to intervene and protect her from comments about her dietary habits, it’s because they had a good reason to assume that a happy and successful office culture needn’t be derailed by a squeaky wheel. Pretend you are on a jury. Do you award damages to the whiner? If you set this precedent, how will you prevent every whiner from single handedly bankrupting every business simply because they can’t even? ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5346 "2017-12-08T23:51:08Z")
My take on that cluster is that you’re being taken to task not for disagreeing, but for the way that you disagreed. There is no active campaign here to evict dissenters, just people bitching about behavior they perceive as rude. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5347 "2017-12-09T00:00:25Z")
> [@Do some (especially) women misinterpret what is and isn't sexual or other harassment?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-especially-women-misinterpret-what-is-and-isnt-sexual-or-other-harassment/803279/105): > > I’ll just go to HR and demand they force the world to revolve around me. According to the majority here, that’s my right. The only person doing this is you. Get a grip and move on to another topic. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5348 "2017-12-09T00:19:39Z")
People, please stop allowing **PCarolanus** to derail this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5349 "2017-12-09T01:06:13Z")
> [@PCarolinus](#): > > I don’t care if her delicate sensibilities are offended by a mouse fart in a distant storeroom. If HR chose not to intervene and protect her from comments about her dietary habits, it’s because they had a good reason to assume that a happy and successful office culture needn’t be derailed by a squeaky wheel. > Pretend you are on a jury. Do you award damages to the whiner? If you set this precedent, how will you prevent every whiner from single handedly bankrupting every business simply because they can’t even? Get lost pantload. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5350 "2017-12-09T01:26:58Z")
> [@PCarolinus](#): > > I don’t care if her delicate sensibilities are offended by a mouse fart in a distant storeroom. If HR chose not to intervene and protect her from comments about her dietary habits, it’s because they had a good reason to assume that a happy and successful office culture needn’t be derailed by a squeaky wheel. > Pretend you are on a jury. Do you award damages to the whiner? If you set this precedent, how will you prevent every whiner from single handedly bankrupting every business simply because they can’t even? Fuck off back to the appropriate thread and stop hijacking this one, asshole! Nobody here gives a shit! ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5351 "2017-12-09T01:28:04Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > People, please stop allowing **PCarolanus** to derail this thread. He’s going on my ignore list right fucking now. Everybody, please don’t feed the trock. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5352 "2017-12-09T01:28:20Z")
It’s patently obvious that **PCarolinus** has a grudge against \*\*NC \*\*and is disrupting this board to harass her. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5353 "2017-12-09T01:38:00Z")
> [@Helena330](#): > > It’s patently obvious that **PCarolinus** has a grudge against \*\*NC \*\*and is disrupting this board to harass her. Pantload and his alter ego, Diaperload, are again tag-trocking in that other thread. Hang in there NC, we know he’s a moron. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5354 "2017-12-09T01:43:53Z")
> [@Helena330](#): > > It’s patently obvious that **PCarolinus** has a grudge against \*\*NC \*\*and is disrupting this board to harass her. Wouldn’t surprise me if this is the boss in question. Also the other “newbie.” I mean, if you’ll harass people at work, the anonymity of the Internet would only make you worse. Why expect harassers to have boundaries? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5355 "2017-12-09T01:49:29Z")
Well, he’s threatened to sue the SDMB, so let’s see if that earns him a one-way ticket. > [@](#): > > Or should I threaten to sue because a public, free message board is unwelcoming to new members? [http://boards.straightdope.com//sdmb/showpost.php?p=20651831](http://boards.straightdope.com//sdmb/showpost.php?p=20651831) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5356 "2017-12-09T01:59:12Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Wouldn’t surprise me if this is the boss in question. Also the other “newbie.” > > I mean, if you’ll harass people at work, the anonymity of the Internet would only make you worse. Why expect harassers to have boundaries? That was my thought exactly. Perhaps after **NC** quit HR looked to the other employees for corroboration of **NC** ’s exit interview dump. Finding enough corroboration they axed the boss. Too late for **NC** , but justice in a sense. Which would \*really \*enrage a harasser. The fact several of us have pointed out that HR took **NC** ’s side seems to be printed in invisible electrons. All the itemized responses somehow skip that particular sentence. In my old biz we had/have a saying: “Once is bad luck. Twice is coincidence. The third time is enemy action.” ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5357 "2017-12-09T03:27:20Z")
Never wise to threaten suing the board. The whole thread has been cornfielded. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5358 "2017-12-09T03:45:59Z")
Interestingly, as of right now neither \*\*PCarolinus \*\*nor \*\*johnod \*\*have been banned. I don’t recall which was the one offering to sue, but I would have expected whichever it was to get banned immediately after the thread disappeared. Unless it was some third name I missed. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5359 "2017-12-09T03:47:39Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Never wise to threaten suing the board. The whole thread has been cornfielded. I knew reporting that would get some attention. Talk of legal action makes TPTB extremely nervous. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5360 "2017-12-09T03:49:28Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Interestingly, as of right now neither \*\*PCarolinus \*\*nor \*\*johnod \*\*have been banned. I don’t recall which was the one offering to sue, but I would have expected whichever it was to get banned immediately after the thread disappeared. Unless it was some third name I missed. It was **PCarolinus**. I should have attributed the quote to him. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5361 "2017-12-09T03:51:14Z")
Per various mod comments, that is the one and only “zero discretion, terminate on sight with extreme prejudice” crime on TPTB’s books. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5362 "2017-12-09T03:54:38Z")
I don’t know if it’s an instantban. The mods probably have to talk it out. **PCarolinus** was last logged in at 8:59 P.M. CST, less than an hour ago. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5363 "2017-12-09T04:11:09Z")
Only a True Moron threatens to sue a privately held company, claiming it is a “public” board and cannot stifle their FREE SPEECH!!! I’d love to see the faces of any attorneys they contact for that one, but these days I’m sure there’d be some jackass willing to take their money. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=267) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=269)