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Saint · Post by **Saint** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 12:20 am

eCat wrote: After the cops leave, the roommate goes over to some other employees apartments, calls me and we discuss what he should do. I put him and employee zeta up in a local hotel. So he goes back to see employee zeta and when he arrives there is a maintenance man in the apartment wearing a white haz mat suit with a shop vac. He is also mad as hell asking how in the world so much shit could be everywhere.

The maintenance man was a real trooper and had the apartment back in livable condition with new carpet by the next day so they only had to stay in a hotel one day.

I never heard this story until last night, 3 weeks after we let the kid go.

why do you lie, ecat?

eCat · Post by **eCat** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 6:12 am

I told you guys the story of the toilet overflowing already, I just didn't know all that happened leading up to it.

They also didn't tell me about the cops.

sardis · Post by **sardis** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 6:59 am

"How is it a person can be intelligent enough to get that job but so damn stupid--"

There is an obvious answer to this question...

aTm · Post by **aTm** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 10:09 am

Incompetent recruiting, hiring, and evaluation?

eCat · Post by **eCat** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 10:42 am

how the kid got hired is just a series of unfortunate events.

His resume included him being a presidential honors student from a fairly well known college, and he did OK with his first two phone interviews - mainly because he'd only answer in short answers and wouldn't elaborate on anything that could end up working against him.

His first face to face interview got snowed out so they had to reschedule but instead of the manager who is responsible for hiring him going to the second interview, they sent a guy from the customer account the kid would ultimately work at. He was friends with the kids uncle who just happens to work as a high ranking manager at the customer account.

The rest falls into place.

TheBigMook · Post by **TheBigMook** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 11:12 am

...like retarded dominos.

Bklyn · Post by **Bklyn** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 7:07 pm

We read the story about the suffering of an individual, and we're moved. We read in the paper that millions have died over the years due to hunger, and we're not quite as moved. This is due in part to our inability to imagine big numbers, but as David Ropeik for Psychology Today explains, the way we perceive risk also is a factor:

Paul Slovic, one of the pioneers of research into the way we perceive risk, calls this greater concern for the one than the many "a fundamental deficiency in our humanity." As the world watches but, insufficiently moved, fails to act to prevent mass starvation or stop genocides in Congo or Kosovo or Cambodia or so many more, who would not agree with such a lament. But as heartless as it seems to care more about the one than the many, it makes perfect sense in terms of human psychology. You are a person, not a number. You don't see digits in the mirror, you see a face. And you don't see a crowd. You see an individual. So you and I relate more powerfully to the reality of a single person than to the numbing faceless nameless lifeless abstraction of numbers. "Statistics," as Slovic put it in a paper titled "Psychic Numbing and Genocide", "are human beings with the tears dried off." This tendency to relate more emotionally to the reality of a single person than to two or more people, or to the abstraction of statistics, is especially powerful when it comes to the way we perceive risk and danger, because what might happen to a single real person, might happen to you. As the familiar adage puts it, "There but for the grace of God go I."

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/how ... don-t-care

AlabamAlum · Post by **AlabamAlum** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 7:13 pm

"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic."
-- (attributed to) Joseph Stalin

TheBigMook · Post by **TheBigMook** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 11:09 am

So what is the standard procedure when your email is hacked/virused? I don't think its been hacked by a person per se, becuase I think they would have changed my password or at the least, not sent me the same spam/virus to my work address as they sent everyone else in my address book.

AlabamAlum · Post by **AlabamAlum** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 11:29 am

If the email is ditchable, ditch it and start anew.

If it's not, change the password to something more difficult. If you sent financial or personal info via that acct, keep an eye on your credit report.

And email everyone in your addy book a heads up if you haven't already.

AlabamAlum · Post by **AlabamAlum** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 11:31 am

And and run a good virus/trojan/worm scan.

Jungle Rat · Post by **Jungle Rat** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 11:42 am

Let us know what your new password is just to be safe.

CAT · Post by **CAT** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 1:35 pm

I am getting those emails MOOK--glad someone told you about them this is what I intended doing. It didn't alert my virus thingy--but I didn't click on the links--had 2 now and different links.

TheBigMook · Post by **TheBigMook** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 2:07 pm

Ha! Trying to send a warning email... and yahoo won't let me send it out to everyone at once (or even like, a dozen people at a time) because it says its spam filters won't allow it to be sent to that many addresses at once.

Awesome work fighting spam yahoo. Except for, you know, the actual spam that got sent from the address earlier, you asshats.

AlabamAlum · Post by **AlabamAlum** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 2:54 pm

If it's a yahoo account, ditch it. I like google mail as a throwaway better anyway.

CAT · Post by **CAT** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 4:30 pm

MOOK--change your password and I will email you all the addresses included with mine-- If you want--can you copy/paste your address list to me and I can send out a warning email to all those on your list--I am on AOL white list so unlimited adressees------of course you would have to trust me with your addresses--but what the hell would I want with them???

CAT · Post by **CAT** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 4:38 pm

MOOK--you have mail

eCat · Post by **eCat** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 2:36 pm

Eddie Izzard talks about how people can't wrap their mind around killing people in mass - starts at about the 1:40 mark[youtube]4K9811LaivA[/youtube]

Jungle Rat · Post by **Jungle Rat** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 2:51 pm

Never heard of her but not bad.

Bklyn · Post by **Bklyn** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 7:02 pm

Woman hits lottery 4 times...but she may have a plan. Does being really, really smart qualify as cheating? I don't think so.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... s-PhD.html

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