I implemented an easter egg triggered by the konami code in an application written for my previous employer. I didn't do it as a goof, but as a means to performance-test a helper function I had written (which does something that looks somewhat cool with done repeatedly on a loop). To this day, I think I'm the only person that actually knows about it (well, now anyone I used to work with who knows my/. username also potentially knows about it, but that's nobody so I think it's still just me). Sure, I could have written a boring-ass test; it probably would have taken about the same amount of time, though, and wouldn't have added a special treat for the eventual user who might get bored and punch the konami code into a random website.
Effectively, the easter egg was free (in that it didn't take any more time or work to include it than it would have to write a different test for the function I was testing). In fact, it was better than free; recognizing that it was somewhat of a goof, I did it on my own time.
Your entire post is rendered moot by the parenthetical in my first sentence. Here it is again, since you apparently missed it:
(a professional, not some kid that boosted cars on the weekends)
Having known a number of pros, I can tell you they are selective about what they steal (only what they have buyers lined up for already) and minimize damage to whatever extent they can. A team of 4 guys can strip the average car to the frame in 15 minutes without breaking anything more than a few trim clips. I know this because the guys I knew ran a paint shop, where that was a useful skill, and I've witnessed it firsthand.
But I'm sure your thoughts on "most car thieves" (which I don't disagree with, mind you) far outweigh my firsthand experience, right?
Yeah, their network is far from perfect and I'm sure if I left the bay area I'd see some spotty coverage from time to time. Gotta love that CellSpot, though, it's actually a rebadged version of the Asus router I had already been eyeballing for a while. I have no plans to leave them before it outlives its useful life, so hey, free router.
En ex car thief (a professional, not some kid that boosted cars on the weekends) is likely to be one of the most apt mechanics you'll be able to find. If they're able to turn their life around and play it straight when they get out, more power to 'em. Think about it; being able to steal a car and strip it in under an hour without damaging *anything*, and quickly identify which parts are worth selling and which are garbage (e.g. broken, failing, or not the OEM part) and move all of that out of your shop before the cops catch on, there's more than just luck and speed involved in that. It's a skillset, and a major part of that is vehicle diagnostic and mechanical ability.
Hell, just selecting the right car to steal; the one, out of dozens of the exact model and color that you might see in the area, that will net you the most salable parts; that takes some automotive know-how. To be able to hear the car drive by and know whether or not it's worth your time, that's talent.
Would I take my car to a shop I know was run by an ex con? Hell yes. I wouldn't leave it overnight, it would have to be a same-day repair, but I'd trust them ot do a better job fixing it than the dealership. Of course, I'd also have to not have the time to fix it myself, as I greatly prefer to do my own work; the two times I took a car to a shop (based on "our family's used this shop for decades" recommendations) I got screwed; the first shop told me my (brand new) water pump was so old it was about to fail (and purposely damaged it while replacing a belt -- that's what I took it in for, to have a damn belt replaced because I didn't have time (it was a bitch to replace on that car). I just finished cleaning up after the last shop. They did my brakes (again, didn't have time, but boy did it cost me my time tonight) and "bled" the lines. Well, they bled them bloody-well backwards. I completely emptied the brake reservoir before I got *any* fluid out of the right-rear brake, damn near emptied it again before I got anything out of the left-rear, drew 1/4 of it our before anything came out of the right-front, but the left-front seemed somewhat alright; that must have been the only working brake I had driving home. I know all-new pads and rotors don't stop super well until they're bedded in, so I didn't think much of it, it felt just like I expected it would, but when they hadn't bedded in a hundred miles later, I knew something was amiss. I had a back injury in December, right after I took the car in for the work, and haven't been driving it; so, 100 miles happened this morning. I'm not going to confront them about it, it's not worth my time; I'll just not go back to them again, and I've already told the friend who recommended them that they should maybe reconsider that particular business relationship.
You're right, they don't, and it always cracks me up when people say they do. It's not the gun, it's the bullet. And, even then, only when an incompetent or malicious person, or someone defending themselves, makes it so.
As for the rest of your comment: Do you have a blog or newsletter I can subscribe to?
You're comparing apples (code) to oranges (brake pads).
uhmm...
Far more likely a few experts will do some mods and distribute it to any who want with instructions on how to install it.
I'm pretty sure that was written about code and not brake pads. The AC who posted it is welcome to correct me if I'm wrong (much like I corrected which version of the word "brake" you used).
T-Mobile's coverage has vastly improved in the 2 years I've been with them. I've never been without coverage, though LTE was spotty at first; within 6 months, LTE was solid, too. Even in my old office, where Sprint, AT&T (my old provider) and Verizon all failed.
Sprint fairly consistently drops the ball with regard to expanding coverage, and AT&T has started letting their network rot in the past few years. My friends who have Verizon have dealt with the same dead spots for the 3 years they've been here. It looks like T-Mobile is the only operator currently actively expanding and upgrading their network, while AT&T and Verizon customers are left hoping their carriers will pick up where they left off years ago; Sprint customers know their network sucks and are very much willing to live in "you get what you pay for" land.
You must still be relying on 5 year old market research. Try looking at the current state of the market and things suddenly become much more clear.
I should have read farther into the thread before giving my two cents, as you basically answered my question with this post. I asked "What's the problem?" and you just, very clearly, answered "Nothing nearly as related to the topic being discussed as I initially let on". You got a wrong answer from a bottom-rung lackey; what else did you expect from someone who couldn't hack it as a fry cook?
That said, now that you've clarified what the actually issue you have with them is, I've also noticed a complete lack of training, across the board (at basically all non-corporate levels), regarding any feature or plan T-Mobile has offered for less than 3 months or so. I'm usually an early adopter, so I get to see, first-hand, just how horribly trained they are at the onset; I'll got back a month later and ask the same questions and get different, still wrong, answers; likewise ath the 2 month mark but, pretty consistently, they seem to have their ducks in a row by month 3.
Part of that, I'm sure, is their rush to push out new features ahead of the competition, which is understandable. Training that should take a week or two for the entirety of their support staff, then, ends up taking several months because they're too busy putting out fires to complete the training. I keep hoping that they'll eventually figure this out and get the training out of the way before launching new plans and services, but it doesn't seem to make sense to them.
Still, that has nothing to do with what's being discussed here: throttling of unlimited data plans.
I personally have expressed my frustration with this to T-Mobile
Why? They sell unlimited data with varying LTE quotas (after which, they make it clear you'll receive 2g speeds), and they sell unlimited LTE. If you buy unlimited LTE there is no throttling (don't take my word for it, I'll let my 30+GB/mo usage do the talking) and if you buy one of the plans that includes an LTE quota, you get an unthrottled connection until that quota is used up; and popular streaming services don't count toward that quota (or get throttled once you exceed it).
They advertise what they're selling and they provide what they advertise. What's the problem?
Not every complaint is a sign of hatred. Sometimes it's constructive dissent, they like the product but dislike some aspect of it, so they voice that. In the case of games, of course they buy the sequel, they want to know if their voice was heard. If it wasn't, they repeat their complaint; if it was, they complain about some other aspect they think could be improved.
This isn't a bad thing, either. Companies can improve their products and services by listening to the dissenting comments of their customers; but that only works if the people you call trolls actually voice their opinions.
Instead of thanking your lucky stars for being ultra rich in comparison to most of the world
In the context of that, well, being "rich" is all about the numbers. Literally just numbers. So I'd say it was pretty much on point.
Do we enjoy a better quality of life than most of the world? Sure. I never claimed otherwise. In fact, I actually said:
Sure, we have nicer stuff, which our financial overlords let us use, for now.
That's an admission that we're doing better in the "who has the better toys" race, which is what you seem to think matters. But no, it actually is the numbers that matter.
Why? Why is the the numbers and not quality of life? Because, until we actually own things, banks can decide they simply don't want us to have their property any longer and take it away. But that's really secondary to the problem you're (and rightly so) trying to address: our ability, at an individual level, to actually do something to improve the quality of life for the rest of the world. When 25% of the population has less than $10 after debts have been accounted for, they simply can not afford to affect change in the global economy. When you factor in that even average and slightly above average (so now we're looking at 60-75% of the population) earners are living paycheck to paycheck and often have less than $100 after debts, well, they can't do anything about it either.
You've got a nation of people who might give enough of a shit to want to do something to improve quality of life on a global scale, but who simply don't have the means. Sure, they could donate their time, but, well, first they'd have to be able to afford the time off work; and that's assuming the organization they were working with was willing to fly them to whichever country they'd be working in, and back, which is typically not the case; so they'd have to be able to afford the time off work *and* plane (or boat) tickets *and* room and board *and* food for the time they were abroad affecting real change. Which, again, comes down to numbers.
But you go right on ahead and say it's ignorant and cheap to look at it from that perspective. Just assume that all of us greedy fucks over here are just sitting on our hands; after all, if we really wanted to change things, surely we could, right?
Am I reporting harassment? Because that's that "Be Nice, Think Twice" was referring to.
when the first person disagreed with you
I pointed out where we were in agreement: that people have their own definitions of harassment and that the definitions can vary daily, hourly, or even more frequently. Was I terse? Yes because, most of the time (like 10AM in a Friday), I have better things to do than write novels to argue with ACs on Slashdot. Which brings us around to:
As an additional comment, your circular link back to your original post with the hyperlinking on "corporate policy" is douchetastically deceptive.
Or, I had just spent 15 minutes writing and revising the linked post only 4 minutes before writing the one you replied to and, well, I'll refer you to my prior statement regarding having better things to do.
Rather than attacking me (anonymously), why don't you try discussing what I'm actually saying? Is it that, while you disagree with my message, you can't seem to come up with any counterarguments? Are personal attacks really the best you've got? If so, perhaps you should reconsider your position. That always seems to work for me when I can't find any arguments against positions I disagree with; and it's not flip-flopping to change your position based on previously unconsidered information or viewpoints, it's growth. I've been doing it my whole life and I think everyone should try it, it's some good stuff.
No. If they decide to leave, they've clearly decided not to be trash. For the record, before anyone points out that I forgot to check the "Post Anonymously" box, no, I didn't, I'm not the AC who posted the "all Chinese are trash" remark, nor do I necessarily agree with it; but if we make the assumption that he is correct and everyone in China is trash, then it stands to reason that anyone who leaves China is not. Just following the logic, not saying it's correct.
The problem is, once you get past the obvious impositions, there is no bright line, only sand traps. Some women can tell raunchier jokes than a longshoreman, like to horse aroundand others will accuse you of oppressing them if you ask them to pass the salt at the lunch table.
Did I not acknowledge that everyone has different ideas of what is and is not harassment? I'm pretty sure the emphasis on "your" in the bit of my post that you quoted does exactly that. As for "some days it was, and some days it wasn't", I covered that with "purposely". So yes, that really is the answer, and it can be made corporate policy, as well.
That's why HR departments need to implement a "talk it out" program. Set aside a private conference room, just a room with a small table and 2 chairs, where people can talk out their issues, with documentation of the issue that was discussed, and signatures from both parties indicating that the discussion did, in fact, take place. The forms are deposited into a locked box (via a slot, obviously) in that very same room, to be collected weekly by HR, but no action to be taken aside from filing the form away in the complainant's employee file. It should then become HR policy, when someone comes in to complain about a coworker and does not have an appropriate "talk it out" form in their file already, ti simply hand them the form and tell them to talk it out. Attach a 3 strikes rule to that (e.g. if you come to us without the form 3 times, you are the problem) and make the forms openly available without needing to contact HR, and you have a way to weed out people who just like to complain.
Of course, if the form is on file, the complaint needs to be heard. If the complaint refers to the incident discussed on the "talk it out" form, the complainant should be reprimanded; if the complaint refers to a continuation of the behavior discussed on the form, the person the complainant is complaining about should be reprimanded.
Make attempting to work things out like normal adults an actual corporate policy and attach real consequences to not doing so, filing false complaints, or otherwise the system, and watch the problem solve itself.
Thus far you're the only person reading anything more into my post than what is there. I think the problem must be everyone else, though, you're right. Comprehend that a fauxminist and a feminist are two different people and you'll realize that the AC was correct. You're reading into that post a lot, as confirmed by myself, personally, telling you that you are reading things I neither wrote nor intended to write.
But go ahead and keep telling yourself I must be getting worked up about it because you insist that I am. I did mention megalomania in that post, right? Indeed. If you still think I was getting worked up in that post, go get help.
Something tells me my dissenter stopped at "fauxminist" and, thus, never saw my remark about real feminist issues. At first I thought I was being trolled and, if you've seen my posting history, you should know I'm somewhat prone to feeding them for my own entertainment. Imagine my disappointment when it turned out that this person simply lacks reading comprehension or, at best, didn't actually read my entire post.
You're the one using exclamations:) I'm just making level-headed, even-toned observations and stating an opinion in support of (legitimate) feminism. You disagree, of course, so you're reading more into it than what's there.
The legal system is the only place you have the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty. Last time I checked, there were no checkout lines (or shop vacs) in the legal system. It's private property and you don't have to set foot on it if you don't want to. I'll let you draw the rest of that conclusion.
And who's being sexist? Some men wear panties too, y'know.
People need to (wo)man the fuck up and talk to each other, let them know where *your* lines are, and only escalate if they continue to *purposely* cross them. Don't be a knob about it and clarify your limits once, then escalate when they make some off the cuff remark a year later; learn to let things go once in a while, as we're all human and we all let things slip occasionally. Unless they're being purposely offensive to you and have made it clear they simply don't care if it bothers you (and they'll typically come right out and say as much to your face, so you don't have to read into things), you probably don't need to (and shouldn't) escalate things, because yes, that can and often do backfire. Sure, the person you complain about takes a pay cut, gets transferred out, or gets fired, but you become a social pariah around the workplace and nobody will have your back if anything actually does happen.
Is that a sly way of turning the faux feminist arguments we always hear about how all men are scum (real feminists don't necessarily feel that way) around on them? e.g. "Yeah, we're all pigs, and you want to be our equals. Welcome to life as a pig."
If so, it's pretty darn clever, though I don't think it'll have the intended effect. You see, no matter how clever you are, you can't argue with a fauxminist, because her megalomaniacal self image, combined with her view of men as something lesser beings (which, you're right, they claim to want to be equal to; so it seems they want to lower themselves, since they sure as hell don't want to raise us up) prevent her from ever listening to your logic. A feminist, on the other hand, is capable of participating in a proper discussion of the issues at hand and recognizing the absurdity of statements like "All men are PIGS!" before they come out of her mouth.
The sad part is that the fauxminists, while a minority, are so vocal that they destroy the message of real feminists who are trying to affect change regarding real issues.
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/. username also potentially knows about it, but that's nobody so I think it's still just me). Sure, I could have written a boring-ass test; it probably would have taken about the same amount of time, though, and wouldn't have added a special treat for the eventual user who might get bored and punch the konami code into a random website.
I implemented an easter egg triggered by the konami code in an application written for my previous employer. I didn't do it as a goof, but as a means to performance-test a helper function I had written (which does something that looks somewhat cool with done repeatedly on a loop). To this day, I think I'm the only person that actually knows about it (well, now anyone I used to work with who knows my
Effectively, the easter egg was free (in that it didn't take any more time or work to include it than it would have to write a different test for the function I was testing). In fact, it was better than free; recognizing that it was somewhat of a goof, I did it on my own time.
(a professional, not some kid that boosted cars on the weekends)
Having known a number of pros, I can tell you they are selective about what they steal (only what they have buyers lined up for already) and minimize damage to whatever extent they can. A team of 4 guys can strip the average car to the frame in 15 minutes without breaking anything more than a few trim clips. I know this because the guys I knew ran a paint shop, where that was a useful skill, and I've witnessed it firsthand.
But I'm sure your thoughts on "most car thieves" (which I don't disagree with, mind you) far outweigh my firsthand experience, right?
Yeah, their network is far from perfect and I'm sure if I left the bay area I'd see some spotty coverage from time to time. Gotta love that CellSpot, though, it's actually a rebadged version of the Asus router I had already been eyeballing for a while. I have no plans to leave them before it outlives its useful life, so hey, free router.
En ex car thief (a professional, not some kid that boosted cars on the weekends) is likely to be one of the most apt mechanics you'll be able to find. If they're able to turn their life around and play it straight when they get out, more power to 'em. Think about it; being able to steal a car and strip it in under an hour without damaging *anything*, and quickly identify which parts are worth selling and which are garbage (e.g. broken, failing, or not the OEM part) and move all of that out of your shop before the cops catch on, there's more than just luck and speed involved in that. It's a skillset, and a major part of that is vehicle diagnostic and mechanical ability.
Hell, just selecting the right car to steal; the one, out of dozens of the exact model and color that you might see in the area, that will net you the most salable parts; that takes some automotive know-how. To be able to hear the car drive by and know whether or not it's worth your time, that's talent.
Would I take my car to a shop I know was run by an ex con? Hell yes. I wouldn't leave it overnight, it would have to be a same-day repair, but I'd trust them ot do a better job fixing it than the dealership. Of course, I'd also have to not have the time to fix it myself, as I greatly prefer to do my own work; the two times I took a car to a shop (based on "our family's used this shop for decades" recommendations) I got screwed; the first shop told me my (brand new) water pump was so old it was about to fail (and purposely damaged it while replacing a belt -- that's what I took it in for, to have a damn belt replaced because I didn't have time (it was a bitch to replace on that car). I just finished cleaning up after the last shop. They did my brakes (again, didn't have time, but boy did it cost me my time tonight) and "bled" the lines. Well, they bled them bloody-well backwards. I completely emptied the brake reservoir before I got *any* fluid out of the right-rear brake, damn near emptied it again before I got anything out of the left-rear, drew 1/4 of it our before anything came out of the right-front, but the left-front seemed somewhat alright; that must have been the only working brake I had driving home. I know all-new pads and rotors don't stop super well until they're bedded in, so I didn't think much of it, it felt just like I expected it would, but when they hadn't bedded in a hundred miles later, I knew something was amiss. I had a back injury in December, right after I took the car in for the work, and haven't been driving it; so, 100 miles happened this morning. I'm not going to confront them about it, it's not worth my time; I'll just not go back to them again, and I've already told the friend who recommended them that they should maybe reconsider that particular business relationship.
Just like guns don't kill.
You're right, they don't, and it always cracks me up when people say they do. It's not the gun, it's the bullet. And, even then, only when an incompetent or malicious person, or someone defending themselves, makes it so.
As for the rest of your comment: Do you have a blog or newsletter I can subscribe to?
You're comparing apples (code) to oranges (brake pads).
uhmm...
Far more likely a few experts will do some mods and distribute it to any who want with instructions on how to install it.
I'm pretty sure that was written about code and not brake pads. The AC who posted it is welcome to correct me if I'm wrong (much like I corrected which version of the word "brake" you used).
T-Mobile's coverage has vastly improved in the 2 years I've been with them. I've never been without coverage, though LTE was spotty at first; within 6 months, LTE was solid, too. Even in my old office, where Sprint, AT&T (my old provider) and Verizon all failed.
Sprint fairly consistently drops the ball with regard to expanding coverage, and AT&T has started letting their network rot in the past few years. My friends who have Verizon have dealt with the same dead spots for the 3 years they've been here. It looks like T-Mobile is the only operator currently actively expanding and upgrading their network, while AT&T and Verizon customers are left hoping their carriers will pick up where they left off years ago; Sprint customers know their network sucks and are very much willing to live in "you get what you pay for" land.
You must still be relying on 5 year old market research. Try looking at the current state of the market and things suddenly become much more clear.
I should have read farther into the thread before giving my two cents, as you basically answered my question with this post. I asked "What's the problem?" and you just, very clearly, answered "Nothing nearly as related to the topic being discussed as I initially let on". You got a wrong answer from a bottom-rung lackey; what else did you expect from someone who couldn't hack it as a fry cook?
That said, now that you've clarified what the actually issue you have with them is, I've also noticed a complete lack of training, across the board (at basically all non-corporate levels), regarding any feature or plan T-Mobile has offered for less than 3 months or so. I'm usually an early adopter, so I get to see, first-hand, just how horribly trained they are at the onset; I'll got back a month later and ask the same questions and get different, still wrong, answers; likewise ath the 2 month mark but, pretty consistently, they seem to have their ducks in a row by month 3.
Part of that, I'm sure, is their rush to push out new features ahead of the competition, which is understandable. Training that should take a week or two for the entirety of their support staff, then, ends up taking several months because they're too busy putting out fires to complete the training. I keep hoping that they'll eventually figure this out and get the training out of the way before launching new plans and services, but it doesn't seem to make sense to them.
Still, that has nothing to do with what's being discussed here: throttling of unlimited data plans.
I personally have expressed my frustration with this to T-Mobile
Why? They sell unlimited data with varying LTE quotas (after which, they make it clear you'll receive 2g speeds), and they sell unlimited LTE. If you buy unlimited LTE there is no throttling (don't take my word for it, I'll let my 30+GB/mo usage do the talking) and if you buy one of the plans that includes an LTE quota, you get an unthrottled connection until that quota is used up; and popular streaming services don't count toward that quota (or get throttled once you exceed it).
They advertise what they're selling and they provide what they advertise. What's the problem?
At least for mobile, most of the unlimited plans are grandfathered. The number of account holders that have them can only decrease.
Or T-Mobile and Sprint's subscriber base can balloon.
Not every complaint is a sign of hatred. Sometimes it's constructive dissent, they like the product but dislike some aspect of it, so they voice that. In the case of games, of course they buy the sequel, they want to know if their voice was heard. If it wasn't, they repeat their complaint; if it was, they complain about some other aspect they think could be improved.
This isn't a bad thing, either. Companies can improve their products and services by listening to the dissenting comments of their customers; but that only works if the people you call trolls actually voice their opinions.
Instead of thanking your lucky stars for being ultra rich in comparison to most of the world
In the context of that, well, being "rich" is all about the numbers. Literally just numbers. So I'd say it was pretty much on point.
Do we enjoy a better quality of life than most of the world? Sure. I never claimed otherwise. In fact, I actually said:
Sure, we have nicer stuff, which our financial overlords let us use, for now.
That's an admission that we're doing better in the "who has the better toys" race, which is what you seem to think matters. But no, it actually is the numbers that matter. Why? Why is the the numbers and not quality of life? Because, until we actually own things, banks can decide they simply don't want us to have their property any longer and take it away. But that's really secondary to the problem you're (and rightly so) trying to address: our ability, at an individual level, to actually do something to improve the quality of life for the rest of the world. When 25% of the population has less than $10 after debts have been accounted for, they simply can not afford to affect change in the global economy. When you factor in that even average and slightly above average (so now we're looking at 60-75% of the population) earners are living paycheck to paycheck and often have less than $100 after debts, well, they can't do anything about it either.
You've got a nation of people who might give enough of a shit to want to do something to improve quality of life on a global scale, but who simply don't have the means. Sure, they could donate their time, but, well, first they'd have to be able to afford the time off work; and that's assuming the organization they were working with was willing to fly them to whichever country they'd be working in, and back, which is typically not the case; so they'd have to be able to afford the time off work *and* plane (or boat) tickets *and* room and board *and* food for the time they were abroad affecting real change. Which, again, comes down to numbers.
But you go right on ahead and say it's ignorant and cheap to look at it from that perspective. Just assume that all of us greedy fucks over here are just sitting on our hands; after all, if we really wanted to change things, surely we could, right?
This reminds me of the piece of shit rust bucket I used to drive. I had a bumper sticker that read "Yes. I'm Compensating."
What happened to Be Nice, Think Twice?
Am I reporting harassment? Because that's that "Be Nice, Think Twice" was referring to.
when the first person disagreed with you
I pointed out where we were in agreement: that people have their own definitions of harassment and that the definitions can vary daily, hourly, or even more frequently. Was I terse? Yes because, most of the time (like 10AM in a Friday), I have better things to do than write novels to argue with ACs on Slashdot. Which brings us around to:
As an additional comment, your circular link back to your original post with the hyperlinking on "corporate policy" is douchetastically deceptive.
Or, I had just spent 15 minutes writing and revising the linked post only 4 minutes before writing the one you replied to and, well, I'll refer you to my prior statement regarding having better things to do.
Rather than attacking me (anonymously), why don't you try discussing what I'm actually saying? Is it that, while you disagree with my message, you can't seem to come up with any counterarguments? Are personal attacks really the best you've got? If so, perhaps you should reconsider your position. That always seems to work for me when I can't find any arguments against positions I disagree with; and it's not flip-flopping to change your position based on previously unconsidered information or viewpoints, it's growth. I've been doing it my whole life and I think everyone should try it, it's some good stuff.
No. If they decide to leave, they've clearly decided not to be trash. For the record, before anyone points out that I forgot to check the "Post Anonymously" box, no, I didn't, I'm not the AC who posted the "all Chinese are trash" remark, nor do I necessarily agree with it; but if we make the assumption that he is correct and everyone in China is trash, then it stands to reason that anyone who leaves China is not. Just following the logic, not saying it's correct.
The problem is, once you get past the obvious impositions, there is no bright line, only sand traps. Some women can tell raunchier jokes than a longshoreman, like to horse aroundand others will accuse you of oppressing them if you ask them to pass the salt at the lunch table.
Did I not acknowledge that everyone has different ideas of what is and is not harassment? I'm pretty sure the emphasis on "your" in the bit of my post that you quoted does exactly that. As for "some days it was, and some days it wasn't", I covered that with "purposely". So yes, that really is the answer, and it can be made corporate policy, as well.
That's why HR departments need to implement a "talk it out" program. Set aside a private conference room, just a room with a small table and 2 chairs, where people can talk out their issues, with documentation of the issue that was discussed, and signatures from both parties indicating that the discussion did, in fact, take place. The forms are deposited into a locked box (via a slot, obviously) in that very same room, to be collected weekly by HR, but no action to be taken aside from filing the form away in the complainant's employee file. It should then become HR policy, when someone comes in to complain about a coworker and does not have an appropriate "talk it out" form in their file already, ti simply hand them the form and tell them to talk it out. Attach a 3 strikes rule to that (e.g. if you come to us without the form 3 times, you are the problem) and make the forms openly available without needing to contact HR, and you have a way to weed out people who just like to complain.
Of course, if the form is on file, the complaint needs to be heard. If the complaint refers to the incident discussed on the "talk it out" form, the complainant should be reprimanded; if the complaint refers to a continuation of the behavior discussed on the form, the person the complainant is complaining about should be reprimanded.
Make attempting to work things out like normal adults an actual corporate policy and attach real consequences to not doing so, filing false complaints, or otherwise the system, and watch the problem solve itself.
Thus far you're the only person reading anything more into my post than what is there. I think the problem must be everyone else, though, you're right. Comprehend that a fauxminist and a feminist are two different people and you'll realize that the AC was correct. You're reading into that post a lot, as confirmed by myself, personally, telling you that you are reading things I neither wrote nor intended to write.
But go ahead and keep telling yourself I must be getting worked up about it because you insist that I am. I did mention megalomania in that post, right? Indeed. If you still think I was getting worked up in that post, go get help.
Something tells me my dissenter stopped at "fauxminist" and, thus, never saw my remark about real feminist issues. At first I thought I was being trolled and, if you've seen my posting history, you should know I'm somewhat prone to feeding them for my own entertainment. Imagine my disappointment when it turned out that this person simply lacks reading comprehension or, at best, didn't actually read my entire post.
You're the one using exclamations :) I'm just making level-headed, even-toned observations and stating an opinion in support of (legitimate) feminism. You disagree, of course, so you're reading more into it than what's there.
Who's getting worked up?
The legal system is the only place you have the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty. Last time I checked, there were no checkout lines (or shop vacs) in the legal system. It's private property and you don't have to set foot on it if you don't want to. I'll let you draw the rest of that conclusion.
And who's being sexist? Some men wear panties too, y'know.
So, what you're saying is we should all run ZSH, sh, or Dash, and *man untar?
This.
People need to (wo)man the fuck up and talk to each other, let them know where *your* lines are, and only escalate if they continue to *purposely* cross them. Don't be a knob about it and clarify your limits once, then escalate when they make some off the cuff remark a year later; learn to let things go once in a while, as we're all human and we all let things slip occasionally. Unless they're being purposely offensive to you and have made it clear they simply don't care if it bothers you (and they'll typically come right out and say as much to your face, so you don't have to read into things), you probably don't need to (and shouldn't) escalate things, because yes, that can and often do backfire. Sure, the person you complain about takes a pay cut, gets transferred out, or gets fired, but you become a social pariah around the workplace and nobody will have your back if anything actually does happen.
TL;DR: Be nice. Think twice.
Is that a sly way of turning the faux feminist arguments we always hear about how all men are scum (real feminists don't necessarily feel that way) around on them? e.g. "Yeah, we're all pigs, and you want to be our equals. Welcome to life as a pig."
If so, it's pretty darn clever, though I don't think it'll have the intended effect. You see, no matter how clever you are, you can't argue with a fauxminist, because her megalomaniacal self image, combined with her view of men as something lesser beings (which, you're right, they claim to want to be equal to; so it seems they want to lower themselves, since they sure as hell don't want to raise us up) prevent her from ever listening to your logic. A feminist, on the other hand, is capable of participating in a proper discussion of the issues at hand and recognizing the absurdity of statements like "All men are PIGS!" before they come out of her mouth.
The sad part is that the fauxminists, while a minority, are so vocal that they destroy the message of real feminists who are trying to affect change regarding real issues.