I’m always screaming Type slower, assholes!at my monitor, but nobody seems to listen. >:[
Reported as spam.
He is recruiting–he should go buy ad space in the Reader.
Seems to me you answered your own question then huh? You may be a damned good programmer, but your boss still wants you to dress nicely. If he didn’t, you’d get to wear t-shirts. But you don’t. So why don’t you go ask him how many kids he wants to die in a fire so that you can wear a stain free shirt?
What’s really funny is that he hasn’t been back. Dunno what he expected.
Apparently, the shirt off our back.
Wolfman…It’s not the stains on your clothes you should worry about, but the stains on your reputation…those don’t come out easy, nor is your reputation easily replaceable.
Do it in a Christopher Walken voice and it’s hysterical.
Did not realize a style choice was in the same category as never using the shift key or paragraphs.
I stand enlightened!
(Commas removed for your reading pleasure!)
Pfft.
You know why I’m better than you (and by extension the OP)?
Humility.
That’s right: because I’m so fucking humble.
Hell, I’m the most humble person I’ve even heard about.
And people love that about me.
Of course, it also helps that I’m so damn good-looking.
There are so many things stupid and completely wrong with the OP, I don’t even know where to start. So I guess I won’t. It stands by itself as a fabulous example of how do define a douchebag - and a stained, raggedy, misfit, sad, alone one, who clearly can’t think things through, at that.
I seek enlightenment on the exact relationship between grammar and the use of commas.
Isn’t a “comma splice” considered a grammatical error? Or is it simply considered poor style?
It just boggles the mind that there are people who are actually proud to dress like homeless people. Even the grunge look didn’t include stained, smelly clothes.
Is anyone else amused at the idea that wolfman is pitting people for offering opinions that he solicited (“How many people are in the don’t give a shit camp with me, and how many would abandon hundreds of dollars of work clothes?”)? Not to mention that he framed the issue as either be a slob in ink-stained clothes or throw them all out? No consideration of the idea of trying to remove the ink stains?
First off, it’s the way this board works that you are wrong do X, except when someone else does X first. That’s why the Pit exists. Someone does something insulting elsewhere, you pull them up in the pit to insult them back. The OP felt insulted, so he is insulting people. If that’s a moral failing, then it’s one all of us share. The OP just isn’t upset about what’s on the unwritten approval list.
Second, there is something you guys have still failed to learn. When someone asks your opinion about something, they aren’t asking for your opinion about themselves. The thread in question contained a bunch of posts that were insulting the OP’s character, and not just saying that wearing inkstained clothes would cause problems or that they wouldn’t wear them. When you insult someone, they tend to get mad at you. And when you have a forum specifically designed for people to express their anger–surprise–it gets expressed.
Then there were the few people in the thread who took it a step further and advocated that the OP be fucking fired because of it. And then acted like they couldn’t understand why someone else might see that as ethically wrong. When you have people that are that ignorant of what morality is, it’s kinda hard not to get upset. These are the people who make life shitty for those of us who try to do what is right.
The prohibition against stains is one of those things where society is at odds with itself. We say that it’s okay to do whatever we want as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else. Yet a stain doesn’t hurt you, yet people are actually offended by it. Enough that a couple people want to hurt the OP because of it, and even more have no problem saying the OP must be a shitty programmer or similar.
You show your ignorance when you don’t at least comprehend that there’s a contradiction going on, and instead buy into the rules 100% without question. I’ve learned to deal with this mental block that many Dopers have, but it doesn’t mean some people aren’t going to call you out on it.
Show some of that backbone you claim the OP lacks and take the criticism, instead of lashing out at the guy for voicing it in a way that offends you.
See, I totally understand why he’d think it was ethically wrong. I just also think he’s a complete fucking moron and his attitude towards grooming isn’t something I’d tolerate in an employee, because of what it says about his personal standards and ethics.
You, by contrast, would never get an interview, because if your resume is even half as stupid as your posting history, I’d be afraid you’d try to eat my plastic plants or forget to wear pants, or come in and lecture people on moral issues you don’t understand.
I don’t think anyone made any slurs about his character, until maybe he said something snarky back. I know I personally emphasized that it doesn’t make him a bad person, but his attitude makes him a bad employee. I advocated him being fired because he doesn’t want to adhere to the rules, as set down by his employer(if that’s what his employer stipulates). It doesn’t matter which particular rule he’s violating; if the company rules say a condition of employment is that no nose rings are allowed and he decides to defy that because, fuck, he’s just *that * damned good and hey, a nose ring doesn’t have anything to do with anything, then he’s outta there. That’s how it works, like it or not.
Instead of lecturing us all on your vision of morality, try spending time in the world you actually live in.
It is a punctuation error. The actual formation of the offending sentences is correct as far as english syntax is concerned.
Nm
Are you Mac Davis?
Why is it sad, Miss?