If you figure out a way out of this predicament let me know. I found that my intellect and Rose degree only leads to clashes with management because I'm "arrogant" or "need to be taken down a notch".
Let's face it. The majority of Rose grads are a cut above the rest but and most have the social and financial backing to assert their superiority. People like you and I can't afford to wait around for someone to recognize our capabilities. No PhD manager likes getting his feathers ruffled by a BSc and, since Rose isn't a common household word, we're perceived as just another BSc with a know-it-all attitude.
----- With luck they all remain in the University system pushing their agenda and helping feed and "water" a new generation of drunks ----- You forgot the part about feeding and watering a new generation of students who will come up with the new theoretical algorithms which the proprietary software world will promptly steal, obfuscate, and patent.
It's no mistake that modern day college students drink so much. You would too if you saw your best work get incorporated as intellectual property by some big company.
----- If I had to leave my job today I don't think I'd have a problem finding comparable money ----- You came from a relatively wealthy and pampered background? Let me guess. Two parents each making over $100k?
No no... don't deny it. Every troll will claim to have originated from Oscar's garbage can. The reality is that while you accuse everyone else of being "communist pinkos", you're all spoiled brats.
Nothing against you. You own the world. Congratulations.
----- If politicians aren't doing what you think is the right thing, DON'T !censored! VOTE FOR THEM. ----- Then I get trolled for not voting. It's not my fault that none of the politicians are doing the right thing.
Or, it's not my fault that all of the politicians are running a dog and pony show for their own benefit.
I'd love to help vote them out of office but who would be better? Anyone else that sits in that position of power has a media appearance to uphold. In order to keep their media appearance up they have to give the impression that they're doing something. "Doing something" means passing laws and passing laws, no matter how good intentioned they are, will result in someone taking wrongful advantage of them to walk on someone else.
I'll get flamed for being a small-government advocate but we can't just vote the greedy vultures out of office we have to vote the office out of existence. That's not going to happen any time soon. Americans, as a whole, need their Big Brother security blanket.
----- Show some employer loyalty. ----- Being employed is like being engaged to someone who hasn't figured out what they want. The moment you give your employer loyalty they'll put you on the back burner and keep their eyes open for someone else. Your particular qualities, even if you are the best, don't even matter any more.
It's really ridiculous. Employers ask you to sign employee agreements which are utterly ridiculous in their scope and demands but it's either sign the line or take your chances at McDonald's. Then you're at the mercy of a lecherous boss for promotions or pay raises. Then you accept to be terminated at the employer's discretion for any reason--including you wouldn't polish your bosses' SUV right after he finished tearing you a new backdoor on a performance eval which was as subjective as it was laughable. "Oh. I'm sorry. I couldn't deliver the next drug candidate at the end of the quarter? Well maybe that's because I'm a research ASSOCIATE and don't have the political pull of a program DIRECTOR!" -- "Makes no difference. That's what we wrote in your goals for you. It's all part of your job description. You synthesize molecules and, if you make the right one, it's the drug candidate. It's that easy."
And you want loyalty from me?
*HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA* Piss off. You'll get loyalty when you pay my debts and give me a house.
If you can be dispensed with then a predatory manager starts every performance interview with the underlying message of,"Convince me that I shouldn't have you tanked tomorrow."
It's a great way to keep employees under the thumb especially if the manager has shortcomings to hide.
Temp agencies leave a bad taste in my mouth. For one you're getting scalped. Is little better than being bought and sold on a meat market. If you're getting $13 chances are the company's paying closer to $25.
Maybe this second point varies depending upon the size of the company but I found that the temp agency/contractor stigmatism hangs around in a big company. The vast majority of people in a technical/skilled position are hired through contacts and HR. So what's with that guy over there? He came from a temp agency? What's wrong with him?
Once they start looking for something wrong they don't stop until they find it. If there isn't anything wrong they'll crawl up your backside so far that you'll grow a tumour in the middle of your forehead. Then there'll be something wrong.
And no company wants a guy with a softball sized tumour on his forehead working for them. Time to push him out the door.
----- I was able to get out of that trap by doing a good job at my current employer ----- For those of us who aren't waxing our bosses' cars it's more like: "I did a good job at my current employer and my boss got a performance award. I did a better job at my current employer and my boss got a promotion. I got the 'you worthless ungrateful undeserving lump of crap employee' on my performance evals."
Oh right. It's reverse psychology. "We're not beating you up, we're encouraging you to excel."
----- But no one wants a mediocre employee to begin with ----- Superior marketing wins over superior technology every time. Companies may not want mediocre employees but the management is full of mediocre players. A few social connections and a good line of bs goes a long way in making up for average technical skills. Windows is the dominant operating system and that about covers it.
----- I would spend some serious money on certification ----- At $13/hour, I doubt he has much money for certification. People can say "the tests are cheap, all he has to do is pick up a used study guide". At $13/hour, I don't think he has a very study-friendly living environment either.
----- but once that first case is decided, it won't happen again ----- The fear is that the government is encroaching upon the rights of the people. The primary outcome is the testing of the right to demand a PGP key.
Think of Al Capone. They couldn't catch him on murder but his nefarious activities in the gangster world led them to look much closer at his tax returns.
It may be affirmed that they cannot demand your PGP key but that won't keep them from using "Failure to voluntarily disclose PGP key" as a reason to increase surveillance. Suspicion is easily aroused in a state that benefits financially from violating the rights of its people.
----- Children who try to study and excel in school to make something of themselves are often ostrisized (sp?) by their peers ----- Even in white communities this sort of problem is pervasive. The put-down characteristic isn't "acting white", but now it's "acting rich".
I came from a lower-middle class blue collar community, excelled in school, went to a premier engineering college, and came home to find myself outcast by most of my blue-collar community because my education led to points of view which were labelled "arrogant" and "better than everyone else." The ostricision got so far as to include speculation about whether or not I was gay because I no longer ogled, drooled over, cheered, and jeered every girl in a miniskirt or participated in lewd flirting at the local pubs.
At the same time the "rich" community treated me like an amusing novelty because, while I could associate with their points of view, I didn't have the money to play in their games.
----- How does moving making you anything but a quitter? ----- Oh now that's rich. Most of the authoritarian trolls will say,"Well if it's so bad and you don't like it then why don't you leave?". Now, here's some guy who's actually posted that he's going to leave and he's accused of being a quitter.
----- why don't you suggest any ways to fix what you see as problems? ----- If you actually read his post he clearly stated why the problems can't be fixed. The politicians quit listening to any well thought solutions the moment they take office. The ideas which turn into campaign funding for reelection are quick fixes, usually very expensive, quite often the exact opposite of the best solution, with maximum potential for media impact.
----- How many people can really afford the luxury of testing their case? ----- Funny. Every time I say something like this I get gang-flamed for not trusting in the exceptionally high quality and integrity of publicly appointed defenders.
I don't know if we should be thankful that it was written or disgusted that it's violated so whimsically through invocation of "this is for your own protection".
If the government hadn't sapped my own personal time and resources I'm perfectly capable of protecting myself. At the simplest level the 33% of my paycheck that I lose could instead give me 13 more hours per week to protect myself. If all of us had 13 more hours per week we could build our own roads.
----- So you all know what to do: start writing congress immediately ----- Yes. Please write to us. Make sure you include your name and residential address so that we can more closely monitor you. Include an e-mail address so that we can track which internet connections you're most likely to use so that we can monitor those as well.
Even if you don't include a name and residential address it won't be difficult. We'll have the post mark to start with. Then we can cross-reference all of these internet usage databases to profile people who are most likely to be you based upon web browsing profiles.
We don't need your name to find you statistically. Don't be surprised when your friends start looking over your shoulder or leave the bar when you walk in or quit returning your phone calls. If there's one thing that travels faster than speeding tickets its gossip carefully injected into a community.
No, in all reality, they sell you to the circus because they know that you'll dance before you'll die. They make you dance, and fly, and jump through hoops. The crowd cheers. Some people laugh, some people cry, but they all go home with a great sense of entertainment.
And, at the end of the day, you get to eat another portion of rotten meat and tasteless meal. If you don't perform tomorrow then they send you out on the road to take your chances with the homosexual police officers just waiting for a victim with available butt-cheeks.
Are you surprised? I've been watching it happen since 1999. I've tried to warn people. They wouldn't listen. In all reality they banded together to ride me out of town so that they could put their heads back in the sand.
I'm handing in my two week notice on Monday because of the Big Brother authoritarianism.
----- 95%+ used for illegitimate activities ----- We don't prosecute the makers of rolling paper just because people roll joints. Plenty of pre-rolled cigarettes are available at low cost.
We don't prosecute Aldrich, the primary provider of sodium cyanide, even though its product is deadly.
What legal grounds do you think you have to prosecute Kazaa? They don't advocate drug use or murder. File-sharing? OOOOOOH! Lord save society.
----- Fight the supporters of this legislation by avoiding their products ----- Until you realize that competency with their products determines the grades of your children which will be used to decide how well they do in life.
The system is skewed in favor of the mediocre majority who already have the cash. We'd better learn to accept it or die a long, slow, mundane death at the hands of homelessness and hunger.
----- Fact is that Companies and Organisations can force the removal of Links from Search Engines ----- Yet I still can't remove the references returned by Google propagated by some script kiddie with my mail address as an index token.
----- people as being 'coërsed' by general circumstances, rather than by deliberate individual action ----- Is a person paranoid if they really are out to get him?
I have no problem with accepting that general circumstances may just suck but things are really getting ridiculous. On one hand I have managers and supervisors saying,"We want you to succeed, we want you to advance" and, on the other side, whenever I ask for a fair job offer or a raise I'm given the good old,"You should be lucky to have a job! How can you not pay your bills? What bills do you have? How much exactly are you paying each month? We pay you plenty!" And, at the same time, I see business degree students from walk-through community colleges averaging job offers that match mine with seven years' experience in a skilled field.
I don't usually like to complain but something is terribly fishy here.
Honestly I suspect that someone in a high place a long time ago was allowed to spread the rumor of,"This guy needs to be taken down a few notches" and, regardless of the validity of my ideas, everyone since has had too much enjoyment in taking me down a couple of notches.
----- "coercion" ----- The threat of impending hunger and homelessness for a fellow with considerable skill in both chemistry and computers certainly sounds coersive to me.
----- Your lack of due diligence ----- Not my lack of anything. I've worked my ass off since I was eleven, garnered a degree from an exclusive engineering college, and was consistently in the top 10% of my class until the GPA ranking system ceased to impress me. I still graduated in the top 25% of my class. If the mediocre majority of society wasn't so frivolous with their accusation of "paranoid", I'd say that I was deliberately sacked by people who thought that I needed to be "brought down a notch or two".
----- even genuine lack of opportunity ----- I can't force the world to give me good luck but I find the distinct lack of any reasonable opportunity to be more than suspicious. I've met former felons that get treated better with reaspect to financial advancement and job opportunity.
----- despite the Marxist habit of claiming otherwise. ----- Who? How did _he_ get into this? Is this a personal slant? Do you feel better?
----- A contract must not be signed under distress ----- Please, educate me more about this clause. I'd like to have my employment and credit card contracts reevaluated under the light of,"Well, your Honor, it was either sign a contract that I knew was a scam or else look at homeless hunger as a real option of life."
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If you figure out a way out of this predicament let me know. I found that my intellect and Rose degree only leads to clashes with management because I'm "arrogant" or "need to be taken down a notch".
Let's face it. The majority of Rose grads are a cut above the rest but and most have the social and financial backing to assert their superiority. People like you and I can't afford to wait around for someone to recognize our capabilities. No PhD manager likes getting his feathers ruffled by a BSc and, since Rose isn't a common household word, we're perceived as just another BSc with a know-it-all attitude.
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With luck they all remain in the University system pushing their agenda and helping feed and "water" a new generation of drunks
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You forgot the part about feeding and watering a new generation of students who will come up with the new theoretical algorithms which the proprietary software world will promptly steal, obfuscate, and patent.
It's no mistake that modern day college students drink so much. You would too if you saw your best work get incorporated as intellectual property by some big company.
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If I had to leave my job today I don't think I'd have a problem finding comparable money
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You came from a relatively wealthy and pampered background? Let me guess. Two parents each making over $100k?
No no... don't deny it. Every troll will claim to have originated from Oscar's garbage can. The reality is that while you accuse everyone else of being "communist pinkos", you're all spoiled brats.
Nothing against you. You own the world. Congratulations.
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If politicians aren't doing what you think is the right thing, DON'T !censored! VOTE FOR THEM.
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Then I get trolled for not voting. It's not my fault that none of the politicians are doing the right thing.
Or, it's not my fault that all of the politicians are running a dog and pony show for their own benefit.
I'd love to help vote them out of office but who would be better? Anyone else that sits in that position of power has a media appearance to uphold. In order to keep their media appearance up they have to give the impression that they're doing something. "Doing something" means passing laws and passing laws, no matter how good intentioned they are, will result in someone taking wrongful advantage of them to walk on someone else.
I'll get flamed for being a small-government advocate but we can't just vote the greedy vultures out of office we have to vote the office out of existence. That's not going to happen any time soon. Americans, as a whole, need their Big Brother security blanket.
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Show some employer loyalty.
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Being employed is like being engaged to someone who hasn't figured out what they want. The moment you give your employer loyalty they'll put you on the back burner and keep their eyes open for someone else. Your particular qualities, even if you are the best, don't even matter any more.
It's really ridiculous. Employers ask you to sign employee agreements which are utterly ridiculous in their scope and demands but it's either sign the line or take your chances at McDonald's. Then you're at the mercy of a lecherous boss for promotions or pay raises. Then you accept to be terminated at the employer's discretion for any reason--including you wouldn't polish your bosses' SUV right after he finished tearing you a new backdoor on a performance eval which was as subjective as it was laughable. "Oh. I'm sorry. I couldn't deliver the next drug candidate at the end of the quarter? Well maybe that's because I'm a research ASSOCIATE and don't have the political pull of a program DIRECTOR!" -- "Makes no difference. That's what we wrote in your goals for you. It's all part of your job description. You synthesize molecules and, if you make the right one, it's the drug candidate. It's that easy."
And you want loyalty from me?
*HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA* Piss off. You'll get loyalty when you pay my debts and give me a house.
Very understandable logic but it's a catch-22.
If you can be dispensed with then a predatory manager starts every performance interview with the underlying message of,"Convince me that I shouldn't have you tanked tomorrow."
It's a great way to keep employees under the thumb especially if the manager has shortcomings to hide.
Temp agencies leave a bad taste in my mouth. For one you're getting scalped. Is little better than being bought and sold on a meat market. If you're getting $13 chances are the company's paying closer to $25.
Maybe this second point varies depending upon the size of the company but I found that the temp agency/contractor stigmatism hangs around in a big company. The vast majority of people in a technical/skilled position are hired through contacts and HR. So what's with that guy over there? He came from a temp agency? What's wrong with him?
Once they start looking for something wrong they don't stop until they find it. If there isn't anything wrong they'll crawl up your backside so far that you'll grow a tumour in the middle of your forehead. Then there'll be something wrong.
And no company wants a guy with a softball sized tumour on his forehead working for them. Time to push him out the door.
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I was able to get out of that trap by doing a good job at my current employer
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For those of us who aren't waxing our bosses' cars it's more like:
"I did a good job at my current employer and my boss got a performance award. I did a better job at my current employer and my boss got a promotion. I got the 'you worthless ungrateful undeserving lump of crap employee' on my performance evals."
Oh right. It's reverse psychology. "We're not beating you up, we're encouraging you to excel."
Uh-huh... after three years I finally caught on.
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But no one wants a mediocre employee to begin with
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Superior marketing wins over superior technology every time. Companies may not want mediocre employees but the management is full of mediocre players. A few social connections and a good line of bs goes a long way in making up for average technical skills. Windows is the dominant operating system and that about covers it.
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I would spend some serious money on certification
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At $13/hour, I doubt he has much money for certification. People can say "the tests are cheap, all he has to do is pick up a used study guide". At $13/hour, I don't think he has a very study-friendly living environment either.
Is it just my paranoia which leads me to believe that I get trolled more viciously by ACs than any other user on /.?
If I'm the paranoid one why are you hiding as AC?
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but once that first case is decided, it won't happen again
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The fear is that the government is encroaching upon the rights of the people. The primary outcome is the testing of the right to demand a PGP key.
Think of Al Capone. They couldn't catch him on murder but his nefarious activities in the gangster world led them to look much closer at his tax returns.
It may be affirmed that they cannot demand your PGP key but that won't keep them from using "Failure to voluntarily disclose PGP key" as a reason to increase surveillance. Suspicion is easily aroused in a state that benefits financially from violating the rights of its people.
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Children who try to study and excel in school to make something of themselves are often ostrisized (sp?) by their peers
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Even in white communities this sort of problem is pervasive. The put-down characteristic isn't "acting white", but now it's "acting rich".
I came from a lower-middle class blue collar community, excelled in school, went to a premier engineering college, and came home to find myself outcast by most of my blue-collar community because my education led to points of view which were labelled "arrogant" and "better than everyone else." The ostricision got so far as to include speculation about whether or not I was gay because I no longer ogled, drooled over, cheered, and jeered every girl in a miniskirt or participated in lewd flirting at the local pubs.
At the same time the "rich" community treated me like an amusing novelty because, while I could associate with their points of view, I didn't have the money to play in their games.
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How does moving making you anything but a quitter?
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Oh now that's rich. Most of the authoritarian trolls will say,"Well if it's so bad and you don't like it then why don't you leave?". Now, here's some guy who's actually posted that he's going to leave and he's accused of being a quitter.
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why don't you suggest any ways to fix what you see as problems?
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If you actually read his post he clearly stated why the problems can't be fixed. The politicians quit listening to any well thought solutions the moment they take office. The ideas which turn into campaign funding for reelection are quick fixes, usually very expensive, quite often the exact opposite of the best solution, with maximum potential for media impact.
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How many people can really afford the luxury of testing their case?
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Funny. Every time I say something like this I get gang-flamed for not trusting in the exceptionally high quality and integrity of publicly appointed defenders.
I don't know if we should be thankful that it was written or disgusted that it's violated so whimsically through invocation of "this is for your own protection".
If the government hadn't sapped my own personal time and resources I'm perfectly capable of protecting myself. At the simplest level the 33% of my paycheck that I lose could instead give me 13 more hours per week to protect myself. If all of us had 13 more hours per week we could build our own roads.
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So you all know what to do: start writing congress immediately
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Yes. Please write to us. Make sure you include your name and residential address so that we can more closely monitor you. Include an e-mail address so that we can track which internet connections you're most likely to use so that we can monitor those as well.
Even if you don't include a name and residential address it won't be difficult. We'll have the post mark to start with. Then we can cross-reference all of these internet usage databases to profile people who are most likely to be you based upon web browsing profiles.
We don't need your name to find you statistically. Don't be surprised when your friends start looking over your shoulder or leave the bar when you walk in or quit returning your phone calls. If there's one thing that travels faster than speeding tickets its gossip carefully injected into a community.
If only it were that easy.
No, in all reality, they sell you to the circus because they know that you'll dance before you'll die. They make you dance, and fly, and jump through hoops. The crowd cheers. Some people laugh, some people cry, but they all go home with a great sense of entertainment.
And, at the end of the day, you get to eat another portion of rotten meat and tasteless meal. If you don't perform tomorrow then they send you out on the road to take your chances with the homosexual police officers just waiting for a victim with available butt-cheeks.
Pleasant life, eh?
Are you surprised? I've been watching it happen since 1999. I've tried to warn people. They wouldn't listen. In all reality they banded together to ride me out of town so that they could put their heads back in the sand.
I'm handing in my two week notice on Monday because of the Big Brother authoritarianism.
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95%+ used for illegitimate activities
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We don't prosecute the makers of rolling paper just because people roll joints. Plenty of pre-rolled cigarettes are available at low cost.
We don't prosecute Aldrich, the primary provider of sodium cyanide, even though its product is deadly.
What legal grounds do you think you have to prosecute Kazaa? They don't advocate drug use or murder. File-sharing? OOOOOOH! Lord save society.
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Fight the supporters of this legislation by avoiding their products
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Until you realize that competency with their products determines the grades of your children which will be used to decide how well they do in life.
The system is skewed in favor of the mediocre majority who already have the cash. We'd better learn to accept it or die a long, slow, mundane death at the hands of homelessness and hunger.
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Fact is that Companies and Organisations can force the removal of Links from Search Engines
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Yet I still can't remove the references returned by Google propagated by some script kiddie with my mail address as an index token.
I'm fscked..
They'll be using routing tables on major backbones to eliminate traffic they don't like.
I'm turning in my two-week notice tomorrow. How about you?
I disbelieve this horse-patooey.
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people as being 'coërsed' by general circumstances, rather than by deliberate individual action
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Is a person paranoid if they really are out to get him?
I have no problem with accepting that general circumstances may just suck but things are really getting ridiculous. On one hand I have managers and supervisors saying,"We want you to succeed, we want you to advance" and, on the other side, whenever I ask for a fair job offer or a raise I'm given the good old,"You should be lucky to have a job! How can you not pay your bills? What bills do you have? How much exactly are you paying each month? We pay you plenty!" And, at the same time, I see business degree students from walk-through community colleges averaging job offers that match mine with seven years' experience in a skilled field.
I don't usually like to complain but something is terribly fishy here.
Honestly I suspect that someone in a high place a long time ago was allowed to spread the rumor of,"This guy needs to be taken down a few notches" and, regardless of the validity of my ideas, everyone since has had too much enjoyment in taking me down a couple of notches.
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"coercion"
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The threat of impending hunger and homelessness for a fellow with considerable skill in both chemistry and computers certainly sounds coersive to me.
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Your lack of due diligence
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Not my lack of anything. I've worked my ass off since I was eleven, garnered a degree from an exclusive engineering college, and was consistently in the top 10% of my class until the GPA ranking system ceased to impress me. I still graduated in the top 25% of my class. If the mediocre majority of society wasn't so frivolous with their accusation of "paranoid", I'd say that I was deliberately sacked by people who thought that I needed to be "brought down a notch or two".
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even genuine lack of opportunity
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I can't force the world to give me good luck but I find the distinct lack of any reasonable opportunity to be more than suspicious. I've met former felons that get treated better with reaspect to financial advancement and job opportunity.
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despite the Marxist habit of claiming otherwise.
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Who? How did _he_ get into this? Is this a personal slant? Do you feel better?
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A contract must not be signed under distress
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Please, educate me more about this clause. I'd like to have my employment and credit card contracts reevaluated under the light of,"Well, your Honor, it was either sign a contract that I knew was a scam or else look at homeless hunger as a real option of life."
Do you think I'll win? I have doubts...