They have the right to protest, speak, walk-out, or whatever. But, the company should also have the right to fire them if it wants. They are being blackmailed to create an even more hostile work environment where people have to constantly watch every single word, gesture or whatever they make for fear of "offending" someone and getting their career ruined over it. The #metoo movement is a complete farce. It is not helping actual victimized women (of which there are many); rather, it is a platform for over-entitled cunts to attempt to steal power because want they want is power and they can't get it through direct action, they can only get it through passive-aggressive posturing and back-stabbing The exact kind of shit that these same cunts use regularly in the work-place including using sex as a weapon. They are the ones who insist sex is about power instead of love and intimacy. They are mentally deranged cunts who need removed from society.
And no, I don't hate women. I hate THOSE women. There is a difference.
I guess the fucking point is that you are a coward who is afraid to stand up for their own words. You cower in the corner, balled up in the fetal position licking your own asshole instead of standing up for something. You are a failure in life. Feel free to kill yourself and rid the world of one more useless anonymous child-molesting coward who has nothing meaningful to say and is too cowardly to take ownership of their own words.
Once again, unlike youi, I'm not and ANONYMOUS COWARD CHILD MOLESTER!
This is my name and address. Feel free to stop by:
Gerald E. Butler 2807 Summit Road Copley, Ohio 44321
I take full accountability and ownership of my words. I'm not embarrassed or ashamed by them so don't bother re-posting them to try to embarrass me. You look like the cowardly troll you are. Those who don't like my "manners" can fuck themselves. i don't give a shit anymore. This country is going to hell. The country I used to love. The country I served, but, wouldn't again. The American people are no longer the "Home of the Brave" they are the home of the "Anonymous Coward Child Molesters" who want to hide in the shadows and blame everyone but themselves for their failings. I could care less what happens to me. I fear for the future of our children and grand-children. I will fight you to the end. I will see you put in a ditch and lye thrown upon your rotting corpse. This is war. You have declared it, but, I and many like me will rise to the challenge. We do not cower in fear from your disgusting shit. You want to talk about hate, I HATE YOU AND EVERYTHING YOU STAND FOR!
What's your fucking point? You don't like the words I use? So fucking what. I could give a rats ass what you think. All the ANONYMOUS CHILD MOLESTERS who can't be bothered to put their names to their words can fuck themselves. Also, you fucking pieces of shit who want to dictate what language people can use can fuck yourselves too. You are my mortal enemy. The time has come for violence. You and yours are on one side me and those who value freedom of expression are on the other. You seek to undermine democracy and freedom by restricting speech. I will oppose you. Violently if necessary. Simple as that. This is a war. You will lose.
Yes. Then why are they trying to make it a "crime" in the workplace. Either it's a crime or it isn't. I'm offended every damn day by the shit-hole this country is becoming at the hands of professional victimization industry. Fuck all of you. It's time to take back the agenda. No FUCK YOU! Your feelings don't mean shit to me! Do your fucking job and let me do my job and shut the fuck up.
It's time for people to stand up and say enough is enough. We're stopping you. You shall not go no further. Fuck your goddamn victimhood. Stop being such a fucking piece of shit always demanding everyone else suffer for your inability to assert yourself and stand up for yourself. You are thieves who only seek to steal power that you haven't earned. Fuck you!
Your mom tried to get rid of you with a coat hanger my scraping you out through perforated rectum after she was gang-raped by the Gener Binrary conspiracy. She yanked you out on the hooked end of a coat hanger and plopped you in the toilet thinking she'd be done with you, but, a bunch of LGBTQ franken-scientists slurped you out of the commode and incubated you in dog-shit and horse-piss while nourishing your malformed fetus with the ass-juice of a AIDS-infected monkey and the jizz scraped off the floor after their anal-orgies. You grew and became an ugly, stupid, horrifying visage that lurks in the shadows and jumps out to suck the shit out of poeple's asses and lick up the jizz from shady motels to sustain yourself. We would be doing you a favor by putting you out of the world's misery, but, instead we will point and laugh at your horrifying, disgusting, malformed, maladapted, partial-abortion presence. You are disgusting to look at and even more disgusting to hear as the constant gargling sound of all the jizz you swallow bubbles and froths out of your mouth as you try to speak!
We can all see your fake-ass worthlessness. Just kill yourself. Get it over with. You are not needed or wanted. Your mama wanted to kill you when she crapped you out in the bathroom stall of the truck-stop diner where she turned tricks for crack, but, some do-gooder stopped her. You were supposed to be flushed down the toilet. You need to fix things so the world will be back in balance.
> This is something, that the great German philosopher Immanuel Kant pointed out
Appeal to authority doesn't hold much water. It's the equivalent of "The Bible Says...." and is given in the same tradition. It's just a logical fallacy.
> It's possible to be just as cutting without using swear words
Why is being "Just as cutting without swear words" better or more desirable than being "cutting with swear words"? Again, a logical fallacy. Assuming the conclusion in order to prove the hypothesis.
I think, if you take a step back, there is no "logical" argument against swear words that doesn't rely upon logical fallacies.
Yes, but, what is "special" about "Swear Words"? Why is this the line? What's the rationale? It's totally arbitrary. Especially since no one can even agree what "Swear Words" are. I personally, just consider them "words". Words that have a purpose. Why are these words particularly "offensive" to anyone? Conditioning perhaps? Is there something really different about them that isn't imposed as a kind of brain-washing as a child?
I argue that declaration of words as "Swear Words" is nothing more than a means to manipulate and control. I think the history of "swear words" bears this out.
Who is right? Well, that is what debate is for, but, you don't get to declare something wrong and require everyone else to agree unless you are a tyrant and a dictator. Right?
Any you are a fool who thinks they actually understand people. You should take your armchair psychology and go cry in group therapy about how you were abused as a child and that nobody respects your identify. Go fuck yourself.
> no paid person could act unprofessionally and no volunteer act professionally
Correct. In fact, no one can "Act Professionally/Non-Professionally", you are either acting in a professional capacity (paid) or not in a professional capacity (unpaid).
> "being a professional" means sucking it up and doing your job regardless of your personal feelings or abusive/irate behavior
By that measure Nazi Death Camp Guards were just being "Professional". I'm not sure that that is a quality we wish to encourage. Even thought "I did my job" gets used as an excuse for bad behavior, doesn't make it desirable.
> Think being a defense lawyer for scum or a customer service representative that just got blasted with a curse-laden tirade.
I have no idea what point this statement is trying to make. Could you clarify?
> Or simply trying to keep objective standards and be a neutral judge even though one is a beer buddy and the other is not.
This is an example of being "Impartial". What does "Professional" have to do with it? Are we redefining "Professional" to also mean "Impartial"? Should "Professional" just mean anything and everything? This is why it is a "Weasel Word". It is being used to mean anything an everything and blurring the distinctions between right and wrong repeatedly.
> Can it be weaponized as a shield against retaliation or to goad people into acting unprofessionally and punishing them for it? Sure
Yes. Exactly. This is mostly the way it is used. It is insidious. Many people fall for it. Including and especially "Professionals" themselves.
> A lot of people are abusive towards CSRs because they know they can't respond in kind.
I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with the acronym CSR. Could you explain what you mean by this?
> Voluntary professionalism is pretty much always a good thing, it's acting with respect and integrity.
Respect and Integrity? Hmmm....Integrity is unambiguous. Respect, not so much. Do you respect someone if you talk to them nicely while attempting to motivate them to do something against their own interests? What about if you talk harshly towards someone to get them to do something in their own interest? Respect is another kind of "Weasel Word" like "Professional" in my opinion. Integrity on the other hand, is measurable and objective.
> sometimes you have to either get down in the mud and wrestle the pig or walk away
The correct answer is to always be prepared to get in the mud and strangle the pig to death and then eat a Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato sandwich. It's the only way to be sure.:)
i appreciate your position on this, but, I have to disagree for these reasons:
* "Professional" has been overloaded with so many "meanings" at this point that it has become a useless word. It can mean anything depending on who is using and in what context. That is what I mean by "Weasel Word". Used in the way you describe, it can mean something useful, but, that is generally not the way it is used. An innocuous example of the overloading of the word: "Educated Professional" / "Uneducated Professional" - Can the second exist? If not, then isn't the first phrase redundant? If it can, then wouldn't "Professional" being an indicator of "Education" make it a contradiction?
* Use of words "willy nilly" isn't the issue. The issue is use of words as a way to coerce and control well beyond any natural right to do so. The people throwing out the word "professional" all the time are attempting to control the speech of others well beyond their right to do so. Many want to demand the right to control which words others use because they have been brainwashed from the time they were a child to believe that certain words are magically "offensive" and certain words are mysteriously never offensive. This couldn't be further from the truth. Words are not offensive or not offensive. One can not offend. One can only take offense. Anyone can decided to be offended at anything. "Offense" always has, and always will be, used as a means of control and manipulation to keep the narrative in favor of the power structure and prevent ideas that run counter to whatever the current power is from taking hold and spreading.
* For doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc. I want a "competent" and "thoughtful" and "dedicated" instance of one of those. I could care less whether or not they were formally educated and/or recognized as long as those other things are true. For example, if a doctor learned by reading a bunch of medical texts on their own, or even, rediscovered proper techniques on their own, I'd be happy with that "Doctor" regardless off "education". "Professionalism" just wouldn't be a consideration at all. If I am paying them for the service and they are competent and helpful, great. If they are doing it for the "Love" of it and they are competent and helpful, even better. I could care less whether they were a "Professional" (paid) or "Amateur" (for the love of it), as long as my problem were addressed. In fact, I believe that "Professionalism" in this context actually makes it so it is harder to get problems taken care of. For example, anyone should be able to provide legal or medical services. If they're good at it, they'll get more customers. If they are not, they will fail as a business. Whether or not they have been certified or attended a particular school may or may not correlate with this, but, barring anyone from attempting to practice is where the word "Professional" has been misused to create an artificial shortage and make it so that those on the margins are less able to afford even minimal services. Also, as we know, "Professional" does not make ANY guarantees whatsoever when it comes to Lega/Medical matters for example. In fact, they are two of the few "Professions" where you pay (exorbitant amounts) regardless of whether or not they actually solve your problem. As a "software developer" if the software I create doesn't work, I don't get paid. A doctor or lawyer (and many other "Professions") are paid even if they can't deliver results. So "Professional" seems to mean in this context, "Someone who gets paid to do a job whether or not they are actually able to deliver on that job". Interesting, isn't it?
* For actors, dancers, and other artists, I have rarely seen a "Formally Educated" artist that is superior to people with actual "talent" who have zero education unless they themselves were particularly talented. Most "educated" artists are mediocre at best from what I can see and only accidentally do particularly talented i
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They have the right to protest, speak, walk-out, or whatever. But, the company should also have the right to fire them if it wants. They are being blackmailed to create an even more hostile work environment where people have to constantly watch every single word, gesture or whatever they make for fear of "offending" someone and getting their career ruined over it. The #metoo movement is a complete farce. It is not helping actual victimized women (of which there are many); rather, it is a platform for over-entitled cunts to attempt to steal power because want they want is power and they can't get it through direct action, they can only get it through passive-aggressive posturing and back-stabbing The exact kind of shit that these same cunts use regularly in the work-place including using sex as a weapon. They are the ones who insist sex is about power instead of love and intimacy. They are mentally deranged cunts who need removed from society.
And no, I don't hate women. I hate THOSE women. There is a difference.
I guess the fucking point is that you are a coward who is afraid to stand up for their own words. You cower in the corner, balled up in the fetal position licking your own asshole instead of standing up for something. You are a failure in life. Feel free to kill yourself and rid the world of one more useless anonymous child-molesting coward who has nothing meaningful to say and is too cowardly to take ownership of their own words.
Also, you suck at trolling!
Once again, unlike youi, I'm not and ANONYMOUS COWARD CHILD MOLESTER!
This is my name and address. Feel free to stop by:
Gerald E. Butler
2807 Summit Road
Copley, Ohio 44321
I take full accountability and ownership of my words. I'm not embarrassed or ashamed by them so don't bother re-posting them to try to embarrass me. You look like the cowardly troll you are. Those who don't like my "manners" can fuck themselves. i don't give a shit anymore. This country is going to hell. The country I used to love. The country I served, but, wouldn't again. The American people are no longer the "Home of the Brave" they are the home of the "Anonymous Coward Child Molesters" who want to hide in the shadows and blame everyone but themselves for their failings. I could care less what happens to me. I fear for the future of our children and grand-children. I will fight you to the end. I will see you put in a ditch and lye thrown upon your rotting corpse. This is war. You have declared it, but, I and many like me will rise to the challenge. We do not cower in fear from your disgusting shit. You want to talk about hate, I HATE YOU AND EVERYTHING YOU STAND FOR!
No, they are not free to set their working conditions because SJW terrorists like you are blackmailing and extorting them.
What's your fucking point? You don't like the words I use? So fucking what. I could give a rats ass what you think. All the ANONYMOUS CHILD MOLESTERS who can't be bothered to put their names to their words can fuck themselves. Also, you fucking pieces of shit who want to dictate what language people can use can fuck yourselves too. You are my mortal enemy. The time has come for violence. You and yours are on one side me and those who value freedom of expression are on the other. You seek to undermine democracy and freedom by restricting speech. I will oppose you. Violently if necessary. Simple as that. This is a war. You will lose.
I don't know what the phrase "hold back" means. Could you explain this curious turn of phrase?
Yes. Then why are they trying to make it a "crime" in the workplace. Either it's a crime or it isn't. I'm offended every damn day by the shit-hole this country is becoming at the hands of professional victimization industry. Fuck all of you. It's time to take back the agenda. No FUCK YOU! Your feelings don't mean shit to me! Do your fucking job and let me do my job and shut the fuck up.
It's time for people to stand up and say enough is enough. We're stopping you. You shall not go no further. Fuck your goddamn victimhood. Stop being such a fucking piece of shit always demanding everyone else suffer for your inability to assert yourself and stand up for yourself. You are thieves who only seek to steal power that you haven't earned. Fuck you!
I'd mod you up if I had points. Nice reference!
If someone commits a crime against you, call the police and charge them with a crime; otherwise, shut the fuck up.
You're confusing misspelling with malapropism.
HP -> Carle Fiorina -> Crashed
Yahoo -> Mellissa Mayer -> Crashed
etc.
Watch as Tesla crashes and burns in a gigantic Lithium fire!
That's OK, Musk will just launch Rockets and usher in the next phase of human colonization! Yay!
Fork it.
I guess reading the article and not just the summary clarifies things. Derp!
Isn't this just N!?
If I have N things, the number of possible orderings are N * N-1 * N-2 * N-3 ... * 1. No? Am I misunderstanding what they are computing?
Problem seems to be opposite. In my twenties it was "Hard" all the time. Now, in my 50's, it's only truly "Hard" once or twice a week.
Wait, what were we talking about again?
Your mom tried to get rid of you with a coat hanger my scraping you out through perforated rectum after she was gang-raped by the Gener Binrary conspiracy. She yanked you out on the hooked end of a coat hanger and plopped you in the toilet thinking she'd be done with you, but, a bunch of LGBTQ franken-scientists slurped you out of the commode and incubated you in dog-shit and horse-piss while nourishing your malformed fetus with the ass-juice of a AIDS-infected monkey and the jizz scraped off the floor after their anal-orgies. You grew and became an ugly, stupid, horrifying visage that lurks in the shadows and jumps out to suck the shit out of poeple's asses and lick up the jizz from shady motels to sustain yourself. We would be doing you a favor by putting you out of the world's misery, but, instead we will point and laugh at your horrifying, disgusting, malformed, maladapted, partial-abortion presence. You are disgusting to look at and even more disgusting to hear as the constant gargling sound of all the jizz you swallow bubbles and froths out of your mouth as you try to speak!
Away with you! Back to the sewers C.H.U.D.!
We can all see your fake-ass worthlessness. Just kill yourself. Get it over with. You are not needed or wanted. Your mama wanted to kill you when she crapped you out in the bathroom stall of the truck-stop diner where she turned tricks for crack, but, some do-gooder stopped her. You were supposed to be flushed down the toilet. You need to fix things so the world will be back in balance.
> This is something, that the great German philosopher Immanuel Kant pointed out
Appeal to authority doesn't hold much water. It's the equivalent of "The Bible Says...." and is given in the same tradition. It's just a logical fallacy.
> It's possible to be just as cutting without using swear words
Why is being "Just as cutting without swear words" better or more desirable than being "cutting with swear words"? Again, a logical fallacy. Assuming the conclusion in order to prove the hypothesis.
I think, if you take a step back, there is no "logical" argument against swear words that doesn't rely upon logical fallacies.
Yes, but, what is "special" about "Swear Words"? Why is this the line? What's the rationale? It's totally arbitrary. Especially since no one can even agree what "Swear Words" are. I personally, just consider them "words". Words that have a purpose. Why are these words particularly "offensive" to anyone? Conditioning perhaps? Is there something really different about them that isn't imposed as a kind of brain-washing as a child?
I argue that declaration of words as "Swear Words" is nothing more than a means to manipulate and control. I think the history of "swear words" bears this out.
Who is right? Well, that is what debate is for, but, you don't get to declare something wrong and require everyone else to agree unless you are a tyrant and a dictator. Right?
Any you are a fool who thinks they actually understand people. You should take your armchair psychology and go cry in group therapy about how you were abused as a child and that nobody respects your identify. Go fuck yourself.
I drink a lot of black, strong coffee. Ground fresh.
Plagiarist! Your lack of creativity is astounding.
> no paid person could act unprofessionally and no volunteer act professionally
Correct. In fact, no one can "Act Professionally/Non-Professionally", you are either acting in a professional capacity (paid) or not in a professional capacity (unpaid).
> "being a professional" means sucking it up and doing your job regardless of your personal feelings or abusive/irate behavior
By that measure Nazi Death Camp Guards were just being "Professional". I'm not sure that that is a quality we wish to encourage. Even thought "I did my job" gets used as an excuse for bad behavior, doesn't make it desirable.
> Think being a defense lawyer for scum or a customer service representative that just got blasted with a curse-laden tirade.
I have no idea what point this statement is trying to make. Could you clarify?
> Or simply trying to keep objective standards and be a neutral judge even though one is a beer buddy and the other is not.
This is an example of being "Impartial". What does "Professional" have to do with it? Are we redefining "Professional" to also mean "Impartial"? Should "Professional" just mean anything and everything? This is why it is a "Weasel Word". It is being used to mean anything an everything and blurring the distinctions between right and wrong repeatedly.
> Can it be weaponized as a shield against retaliation or to goad people into acting unprofessionally and punishing them for it? Sure
Yes. Exactly. This is mostly the way it is used. It is insidious. Many people fall for it. Including and especially "Professionals" themselves.
> A lot of people are abusive towards CSRs because they know they can't respond in kind.
I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with the acronym CSR. Could you explain what you mean by this?
> Voluntary professionalism is pretty much always a good thing, it's acting with respect and integrity.
Respect and Integrity? Hmmm....Integrity is unambiguous. Respect, not so much. Do you respect someone if you talk to them nicely while attempting to motivate them to do something against their own interests? What about if you talk harshly towards someone to get them to do something in their own interest? Respect is another kind of "Weasel Word" like "Professional" in my opinion. Integrity on the other hand, is measurable and objective.
> sometimes you have to either get down in the mud and wrestle the pig or walk away
The correct answer is to always be prepared to get in the mud and strangle the pig to death and then eat a Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato sandwich. It's the only way to be sure. :)
Nice to see the Russian/Nazi/Chinese/White-Nationalist/LGBTQ/SJW bots are in full-force spreading lies and dissent!
i appreciate your position on this, but, I have to disagree for these reasons:
* "Professional" has been overloaded with so many "meanings" at this point that it has become a useless word. It can mean anything depending on who is using and in what context. That is what I mean by "Weasel Word". Used in the way you describe, it can mean something useful, but, that is generally not the way it is used. An innocuous example of the overloading of the word: "Educated Professional" / "Uneducated Professional" - Can the second exist? If not, then isn't the first phrase redundant? If it can, then wouldn't "Professional" being an indicator of "Education" make it a contradiction?
* Use of words "willy nilly" isn't the issue. The issue is use of words as a way to coerce and control well beyond any natural right to do so. The people throwing out the word "professional" all the time are attempting to control the speech of others well beyond their right to do so. Many want to demand the right to control which words others use because they have been brainwashed from the time they were a child to believe that certain words are magically "offensive" and certain words are mysteriously never offensive. This couldn't be further from the truth. Words are not offensive or not offensive. One can not offend. One can only take offense. Anyone can decided to be offended at anything. "Offense" always has, and always will be, used as a means of control and manipulation to keep the narrative in favor of the power structure and prevent ideas that run counter to whatever the current power is from taking hold and spreading.
* For doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc. I want a "competent" and "thoughtful" and "dedicated" instance of one of those. I could care less whether or not they were formally educated and/or recognized as long as those other things are true. For example, if a doctor learned by reading a bunch of medical texts on their own, or even, rediscovered proper techniques on their own, I'd be happy with that "Doctor" regardless off "education". "Professionalism" just wouldn't be a consideration at all. If I am paying them for the service and they are competent and helpful, great. If they are doing it for the "Love" of it and they are competent and helpful, even better. I could care less whether they were a "Professional" (paid) or "Amateur" (for the love of it), as long as my problem were addressed. In fact, I believe that "Professionalism" in this context actually makes it so it is harder to get problems taken care of. For example, anyone should be able to provide legal or medical services. If they're good at it, they'll get more customers. If they are not, they will fail as a business. Whether or not they have been certified or attended a particular school may or may not correlate with this, but, barring anyone from attempting to practice is where the word "Professional" has been misused to create an artificial shortage and make it so that those on the margins are less able to afford even minimal services. Also, as we know, "Professional" does not make ANY guarantees whatsoever when it comes to Lega/Medical matters for example. In fact, they are two of the few "Professions" where you pay (exorbitant amounts) regardless of whether or not they actually solve your problem. As a "software developer" if the software I create doesn't work, I don't get paid. A doctor or lawyer (and many other "Professions") are paid even if they can't deliver results. So "Professional" seems to mean in this context, "Someone who gets paid to do a job whether or not they are actually able to deliver on that job". Interesting, isn't it?
* For actors, dancers, and other artists, I have rarely seen a "Formally Educated" artist that is superior to people with actual "talent" who have zero education unless they themselves were particularly talented. Most "educated" artists are mediocre at best from what I can see and only accidentally do particularly talented i