An unusual case, but yes, it does happen occasionally. At least this has a somewhat happy ending.
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Holy shit.
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Iām glad he got to meet his daughter. What a sad situation.
and also, I just canāt say it enough, fuck the jerks at the Catholic Church who have enabled and covered up child molestation.
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There was a situation like this on the Drew Carey Show as I recall. Drew Carey had been raped by hus band teacher. They treated it like an absurd joke. It didnāt seem funny to me then or now.
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I knew there was a reason I hated DFWās work:
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Reason #2387535 why women donāt automatically trust men who claim to be our allies:
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This synchs with a book I once read called The No Asshole Rule. In the book, the behaviour examined was when people try to turn themselves into āsuperstarsā by, yes, being good at their jobs, but also by undermining those they work with. Often when a āsuperstarā leaves, no-one takes their placeā¦ yet the team that remains does better overall.
So itās okay to try to be the best, but itās not okay to try to keep your colleagues from being the best.
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Oh, that sounds interesting. I might pick up a copy.
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Iād say get it from the library if you can. It was strong on examples, and strong on documenting the damage assholes can cause, but weak on what to do if you ID such a person in your organisation. āIf youāre in a meeting with one, imagine you are floating in warm water, down a pleasant streamā was a piece of advice from the book.
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/facepalm
The suggestion I have is the only one that has ever worked for me: do whatever it takes to no longer work with/answer to someone like this. And yes, I have actually quit a job in order to get away. Seriously. Thatās how dangerous they are, both mentally and also from a work evaluation point of view.
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Like a dead fish?
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Iām watching the āTarzanā series on TCM, and the first one with Lex Barker as the titular character is on right now. His stepdaughter outed him in her book; and this is a woman who had a lot of shit go on in her life: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1988/02/02/detour-a-powerful-hollywood-horror-story/6b29c002-2682-4818-96cd-2a95334426ff/?utm_term=.85f28f8b58fc
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Dude told her was ātrainingā her when she was 10, and that he hoped someone would do the same for his kids! EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!! A transcript from an interview with her by Larry King:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0108/08/lkl.00.html
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Because he deserves to be here:
This isnāt funny. This is sexual assault in the workplace.
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Thread:
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Mary Karr is great. I loved The Liarsā Club and carried it around with me for weeks after I finished it. I donāt think sheās written much else though, but she ought to write more.
On the other hand, I canāt stand David Foster Wallace. His writing has always seemed completely douchey and insufferable to me.
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Putting this here do to the sheer number of those in the thread above (and inevitably below) who pull this shit:
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Negligence is expensive!
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Not if you divide it by the number of victims.
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Thatās why I called it ānegligence.ā
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