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[scriver]

I am 99% certain Mind knows that and just mistyped.

[Mindmaker]

Bah silly typo. Thanks.
That comes from having disjointed reading and speaking...

[Bauglir]

Just got sassed by a girl for asking about her "ask me about Autism Speaks" button in a rhetoric course.

Fuck my life.

I... buh... wuh?

[Leafsnail]

Hey, you're meant to ask about Autism Speaks, not the badge.

That was the problem, right?

[Truean]

Short version:
Client demands I defraud the court with false delays/documents. Naturally, I refuse. Client offers to bribe me, pay me more for "compensate me" for doing this. Client then threatens to go to my boss. I explain what an "ethics board" and "disbarment" are.... Client leaves, I get a same day email from client saying "[opposing counsel] said it was fine and don't hold out on me again."

a.) Instant response from opposing counsel... (yeah right) + b.) unethical for other lawyer to talk to represented party directly + c.) I know opposing counsel = Stupid lie I can't believe client thought I'd fall for....

Bank Account does not equal IQ or ethics....
Moreover, if you'd like to hire a less ethical firm, we'll miss the money, but.... [head.... desk]

[RedKing]

Short version:
Client demands I defraud the court with false delays/documents. Naturally, I refuse. Client offers to bribe me, pay me more for "compensate me" for doing this. Client then threatens to go to my boss. I explain what an "ethics board" and "disbarment" are.... Client leaves, I get a same day email from client saying "[opposing counsel] said it was fine and don't hold out on me again."

a.) Instant response from opposing counsel... (yeah right) + b.) unethical for other lawyer to talk to represented party directly + c.) I know opposing counsel = Stupid lie I can't believe client thought I'd fall for....

Bank Account does not equal IQ or ethics....
Moreover, if you'd like to hire a less ethical firm, we'll miss the money, but.... [head.... desk]

Response: "Really? I talked to opposing counsel, and he said you're full of shit. And now the fact that you've lied to both of us is admissible evidence that you're a liar." (it's not, but hey...if he's going to play fast and loose with the legal system...)

[Euld]

Apparently I made a friend uncomfortable and shared too much :/  I'm used to sharing everything, I'm utterly weirded out and devastated that some friends do not want to hear about certain subjects from other friends.  Or, I'm subconsciously aware of that fact but not consciously so.  I feel really, really stupid now.

Oooo, I've had that one happen before. Was it about the gay thing, the religious conservative thing or are my guesses offensive and why would I think that?

-snip-

This is bizarre.  I reread that email and thought about it all day today, and it's like a light turned on in my head and I finally realized I must have been INSANE to write what I did.  No wonder my friend was incredibly offended and freaked out, it was a freaky and offensive email! D:  It's like my common sense jumped out my ear halfway through and didn't come back until less than an hour ago.  What the heck O_O

... I may need to see a professional :/  Preferably one that aims more to "evaluate" and less "medicate."

[jc6036]

I spilled water all over the back of my old-ish monitor, and some got inside for sure. Shit.

[Darvi]

Blaaaargh pressure starts kicking in.

[Nirur Torir]

My spacebar is now malfunctioning, and it doesn't register unless I hit/bash/firmly push it. Popping it out reveals some sort of plastic circle misaligned with some sort of slightly larger and much flatter plastic circle. The left of the flat circle is around the small one towards the bottom, while the right is on top of it. It cannot fix itself, and I cannot fix it without disassembling the keyboard. I am loathe to do so, as it's a cheap thing I can't Google due to low information to find out if it's easy to reassemble and I don't have any working backups on hand.

tl;dr: I'm mildly inconvenienced until I stop being "thrifty" and buy a replacement for my technically working cheap keyboard.

[Vector]

Just got sassed by a girl for asking about her "ask me about Autism Speaks" button in a rhetoric course.

Fuck my life.

I... buh... wuh?

Apparently you're not supposed to say "So, why do you choose to represent that particular organization?"  You're supposed to say "How can we save those defenseless autists and make better choices for them?"

She may not know this, but Autism Speaks is a kind of shitty group in general.  If she's joined them for legitimately good reasons, rather than actually believing in most of what they have to say, then I really shouldn't make this sort of assumption; but still, it's a little bit scary to see their signs all over the bus stops (every 110 minutes a child is diagnosed with autism), the trendy books, and now the big, fist-sized pins on the bags.

I can see that I have a meeting to crash, in order to find just who is involved with this and why.


Oh, and here's the leaders of the club, and what they have to say about themselves:

One, two, three.

So riddle me this:

Is autism speaking?

[Solifuge]

Took a pretty solid blow to the head at work today, as about 20+ lbs. of unseen freight fell 10 feet down onto the back of my head. I blacked out for half a second, and felt disoriented for a short while thereafter, but it cleared up and I was able to get back to work almost immediately.

Now that I'm home, I'm starting to get a nasty headache on the front of my head, same side. Does anyone here have experience with concussions? I don't want any drain bamage... my drain is too valuable to me.

Spoiler: Bonus Rant - I'm also, starting to take issue with the younger of my managers... (click to show/hide)

We're horribly understaffed at my job, and in addition to the semi truck I'm responsible for loading myself, I've been helping pick up the slack left by the 1-2 loaders who regularly decide not to come in during my shift. The aforementioned manager calls me down from my truck (which was already backed up) to help another truck that had gotten backed up. I get there, and there are already two loaders in it (the trailers are crowded enough with loose freight that even 1 loader can be crowded), so the manager tells one of them to get out, tells me to get in, and sends the guy who was there to another backed-up truck. We waste about a minute shuffling around freight so that I can get in and he can get out, while the third guy asked the manager what the point of that was... why he didn't just send me to the other truck, or why he even called me in the first place. The manager paused for some 20 seconds, and answered "...efficiency." and hurried off before we could ask anything else.

Not 2 minutes after I'd gotten there, my own truck was so backed up that we had to freeze the main conveyor belt for all the trucks, while I spent another 2 minutes hurrying to get back in time to clear it. These kinds of shenanigans happen so frequently with him that I wonder how he got to be a manager in the first place.

And don't even get me started about the major rainwater leak in the ceiling he ordered me to ignore, which the senior manager later told me was bad enough to relocate all the freight from the back quarter of my trailer, lest all that cargo be rendered unrecoverable. The best part was when the junior manager tried to imply blame on me for ignoring it. Gah!

[Bauglir]

Those... those pages could have been about anybody who wanted a superficially good-looking resume, if you just replace the word "autism" with literally any other popular cause. And possibly I'm being a bit negative here, but I get a strong vibe of it being more "We're trying to help those poor people", if you see what I mean. Kind of an attempt at kindness to make oneself feel better, without actually paying any attention one way or the other to the people you're trying to help or acknowledging that they have any valuable input (kind of treating them like an object you can throw some activity labeled compassion at in order to get good karma), and not actually trying to identify with them in any way. I'm basing that on self-descriptors like "charismatic" and incredibly generic and vague "goals" when discussing the organization, there.

I suppose that's kind of your point, isn't it?

Solifuge:
You might want to get it checked out, especially if there's tenderness there or you start to feel disoriented again. I once fell directly on my head on a concrete surface and was fine (man, that was an... interesting prom, and just to make it even more enigmatic there was no alcohol involved, just stupidity), so there's definitely precedent for doing okay after a head injury, but it's far better to be safe than sorry if you can spare the time and/or cash for an ER visit or whatever you think is appropriate. Couldn't hurt to give a First Nurse line in your area a call, if there is one.

Also, he probably got promoted from a job he was actually decent at into one he's not even slightly competent at.

[Gunner-Chan]

Now that I'm home, I'm starting to get a nasty headache on the front of my head, same side. Does anyone here have experience with concussions? I don't want any drain bamage... my drain is too valuable to me.

I've had so many concussions that I think I can plainly tell you, head injury that's not just a bump on the head = GET IT LOOKED AT IMMEDIATELY.

I didn't for one thing, I lost an eye over it.

[Vector]

Those... those pages could have been about anybody who wanted a superficially good-looking resume, if you just replace the word "autism" with literally any other popular cause. And possibly I'm being a bit negative here, but I get a strong vibe of it being more "We're trying to help those poor people", if you see what I mean. Kind of an attempt at kindness to make oneself feel better, without actually paying any attention one way or the other to the people you're trying to help or acknowledging that they have any valuable input (kind of treating them like an object you can throw some activity labeled compassion at in order to get good karma), and not actually trying to identify with them in any way. I'm basing that on self-descriptors like "charismatic" and incredibly generic and vague "goals" when discussing the organization, there.

I suppose that's kind of your point, isn't it?

Yup.  We're the one's that treat other people like objects?  That's precisely why I feel morally bound to go talk to them.

*sigh*

I don't want to, but I'm going to because I should--and this isn't right.  I don't know what my diagnosis would be now.  Since I'm coming off a 16-hour workday, probably still autistic-side.  Either way, I know better than this.

I'm scared.