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[Loud Whispers]

Well, that or push them into scheming against one another, one by one causing them to destroy each other while maintaining your facade of innocence and morality until only one remains. Then you gouge out that person's eyes and brick them into a cellar wall, Cask of Amontillado style.

Much more civilized.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD MONTRESOR

[ChairmanPoo]

Well, that or push them into scheming against one another, one by one causing them to destroy each other while maintaining your facade of innocence and morality

Kinda like this?.

Anyways, this ain't my first rodeo. Remember to ask me sometime about what happened in my first workplace.

[scriver]

Isn't scheming co-workers what caused you to leave your England placement for Ireland too? Or was that in Spain?

You know at some point Chairman you have to start wondering

[hector13]

Poo has a Tyler Durden-esque alter-ego that actually encourages this sort of behaviour in others.

[JoshuaFH]

Poo has actual secret schemers following him around and creating conspiracies around him wherever he goes.

[ChairmanPoo]

Well not quite. During my training in Spain, my department imploded into bickering (I could write on and on about what happened and keeps happening**). I didn't leave because of that, though, but because the national healthcare system in Spain has a bad habit of offering very precarious contracts, and in my particular case my choice was between a very precarious contract in the middle of the Basque highlands in a very small hospital, or an even more precarious contract in a larger hospital which would require me to move to Fachadolid*. I got tired of getting a new contract every few weeks so I prepared my paperwork and left.

 I was only briefly in London, as part of an external rotation during my training. I did have a plan to go work in the UK at the time, but this whole Brexit thing happened less than three months after I left and made things far less desirable.  Plus, well, Ireland pays far better, really.


TBH: I pretty much take for granted that the natural state of people in my trade is perpetual war. In all honesty I think in any place where you have more than two of us you have a conflict, and if there are three or more, well...
After the whole fiasco in my former department (which netted me nothing) I kind of feel it's wiser to avoid getting involved in office politics. So I listened sagely over a cup of coffee to both characters in this melodrama, and then got on with my work, of which I have a lot. Really, the smart thing in these situations is to assume the nature of teflon and prevent anything from sticking to you.


*Valladolid, commonly portmanteaued as Fachadolid (facha = fascist), due to the high number of francoist sympathizers among the population. Not really a place I want to go TBH.

**My department back then was already fighting long before I arrived and is fighting to this day. They have had FIVE heads of department in five years, and odds are the new one wont last long either. Really, these people had a vendetta that went back to the early nineties when the major characters were in university.

[scriver]

It's sounds like a story worthy of a book, or at least a hospital-entered soap drama

[NJW2000]

Excercise dopamine will let you shrug off some pretty major cuts and grazes.

[Jopax]

Debit card is acting up again and refusing to take money trough an ATM (tried on two different ones). No clue why since the e-banking thingy didn't notify me of any problems with the card or the bank account, and I was using it without issue just last week.

[TD1]

Meanwhile, I once again said "thank you" to the local ATM for giving me money.
Every time I swear it will be the last.

[Eric Blank]

On the other hand, when the machines overtake humanity, they may remember your politeness and let you choose your own death.

[JoshuaFH]

You know I'm getting real irritated by how, after the big two-day 504, the forums' "new" button is functioning differently now. It used to always take me to the most recent UNREAD post, now it takes me to the latest post, skipping possibly pages of posts I haven't read. Not a big deal for some threads, a real huge deal for the debate threads that are following a narrative I want to keep up on.

What did you do Toady?

[smjjames]

You know I'm getting real irritated by how, after the big two-day 504, the forums' "new" button is functioning differently now. It used to always take me to the most recent UNREAD post, now it takes me to the latest post, skipping possibly pages of posts I haven't read. Not a big deal for some threads, a real huge deal for the debate threads that are following a narrative I want to keep up on.

What did you do Toady?

Starver was complaining about that a couple weeks ago. That was before the big two day 504 though.

[KittyTac]

Go to the latest post, skip a few pages back. That's what I do.

[KittyTac]

The search option is down. That's just weird.