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Don't worry The Thought Police aren't after me again.
I wrote a short essay about the most frightening experience of my entire life.
While I posted it, and while it will show up in web search as I added it's URL to my Sitemaps Protocol map, it's going to be a good long time before I tell anyone but a deeply trusted few, and even them not for a while from now. I won't email it to anyone rather I will send it snail mail.
I will leave you with this hint though.
The first time I made a Schizophrenic stop hallucinating just by talking to him was in the plain sight of two Psychiatric Nurse in a PICU. One of them wandered nonchalantly out from behind the nurses desk about ten minutes later:
Did you see what I did there,
I asked quietly.
Yes, just as quietly.
I don't know why it worked.
You entered his reality. If you can figure out the rules
that apply there, you can bring him some relief.
A deeply faithful old man was being tormented by the Devil. Bernard just asked me to say a blessing over him.
In reality I can't make anyone stop hallucinating. While every Schizophrenic can make himself stop hallucinating, the don't know they can until I point that fact out to them.
Just writing this is really freaking me out. I'm going to go somewhere far away from my office, and I will leave my phone in my file cabinet.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by mrpg on Saturday December 15 2018, @04:19AM (1 child)
Keep your cool, you are smart. Face your demons and tell them to shut up. You are busy creating, writing and singing.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday December 15 2018, @09:19AM
What freaked me out is that I only just tonight figured out the origin of those applicable rules.
There was a time when those same rules applied IRL but I didn't clue into them:
#MeTo
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday December 15 2018, @04:20PM (4 children)
I was all site to file a bug report with Apple to complain that my iPhone's Personal Hotspot doesn't even _remotely_ work along a quarter mile stretch of one of Vancouver's main drags, but just yesterday I somehow found it within myself to clue into the high-tension wires that cross right smack in the middle of that quarter mile stretch of one of Vancouver's main drags.
I'll write my acceptance speech early this afternoon, then my Nobel lecture tomorrow morning after I catch some ZZZs.
No, you don't need to applaud, just find some way to convince Salty Spice that he is his only job-hunting problem.
Later!
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(Score: 1) by Sulla on Saturday December 15 2018, @05:01PM
Its a feature not a bug. They dont work under those high tension wires so that you dont hang out under them watching youtube. It is for your convenience
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 15 2018, @09:41PM (2 children)
Incorrect. My problem is pathological liars like you.
Everywhere I look I see blatant lies from people who are obviously tech industry shills, who claim to work in tech jobs, and who claim to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars, which directly contradicts my own personal experience. The value of tech skills is absolutely zero and there are zero jobs anywhere.
Everywhere I look I see blatant lies about high demand for highly skilled tech workers, which directly contradicts my own personal experience. There is exactly zero demand and there are zero jobs anywhere.
My entire life I have been lied to. I have a natural aptitude for programming, so naturally I chose to study computer science. I was encouraged throughout my studies by liars, who praised my talent and told me all about how I would use my skills to earn a lot of money in the tech industry. Naturally I did extremely well and graduated at the top of my class. Of course the high paying tech jobs I was told about do not actually exist. Of course I do not earn any money at all.
I have been lied to by every teacher, every professor, every career counselor, every recruiter, every interviewer, every hiring manager I have ever met. Without exception, every single one of them praised my skills and told me I should have no problem finding a job anywhere. Without exception, every single one of them lied. Of course I cannot find any job anywhere.
I am tired of being lied to by liars like you, Crawford. You know very well your tech industry is fraudulent. You know very well every job posting is fake. You know very well every job board abuses the misfortune of every applicant who will never find a job. And yet you jump on the bandwagon of fake jobs and run your own job board anyway.
You are a flim flamming con artist, you lying motherfucking dickheaded shitcunt asshole.
Fuck MDC
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @04:41AM (1 child)
Sorry bud, you are nuts. Maybe you just need to move to an area with more tech companies? Or possibly the majority of jobs are more senior level so you need to find some entry level job and work on your job experience.
MDC could be a liar, I don't trust many people online who give away their IRL locations and MDC has multiple times given enough info that someone should be able to find him. Then again he doesn't push any real agenda and has a website devoted to helping people. At a certain point you have to wonder about reality, is it really worth the effort just to sucker a few people into learning how to program? It doesn't make much sense.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @08:54PM
Why not follow obviously bad advice and move to an area with lots of tech companies and thousands of job postings for my area. Because I already live in an area with lots of tech companies and I see the same thousands of jobs reposted week after week and month after month. Sometimes I see jobs reposted which I applied for six months ago. It is abundantly obvious that the jobs are never filled and the companies are never ever hiring.
Because you are a reactionary kneejerk moron replying to the exact text of my comment and my comment did not explicitly mention prior job experience I can see you assume I am some young naive kid who just graduated from college. I am not. I already have years of prior job experience. Guess what is utterly worthless in your fraudulent tech industry. Years of prior job experience are completely worthless when your fraudulent tech companies are in the very lucrative business of never hiring anyone. Very frequently I apply for jobs which require the exact skills and exact experience listed on my resume and I am nevertheless rejected every single time.
The majority of jobs simply do not exist. Good luck finding any entry level jobs in this allegedly booming economy. Companies do not even bother advertising entry level positions anymore. Companies do not hire anyone anymore either so why bother posting entry level positions. The economy is very definitely not booming but there is definitely money to be made in refusing to employ anyone. Perception is reality according to investors and the perception is that companies must be growing if they claim to be hiring and companies that are growing deserve more investment. And so companies scam money out of investors by pretending to hire when the reality is they never hire anyone ever.
Sorry not sorry, you are a lying piece of shit.
Fuck MDC
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 15 2018, @09:47PM (7 children)
51 applications
5 rejections
1 phone screen
0 interviews
0 job offers
It is that time of year again, the holiday season when the job posting spam bots are on full automatic and companies are only making a half assed attempt at keeping up their jobs fraud. It is the time of year when the money hoarding scammers secretly wish the highly skilled poor would just die in the streets and reduce the excess population. There is no place in the post skills economy for highly skilled highly educated highly experienced highly competent workers. There is only financial fraud to keep up the valuations of worthless companies by advertising job openings which simply do not exist.
The tech industry career path is exactly this: learn to code, graduate at top of class in computer science, apply for thousands of jobs, find nothing, earn zero, die poor.
Any person who operates a job board is a collaborator with the fraudulent companies to enrich the money hoarders at the expense of the unemployed skilled poor. Exhibit F: Michael David Crawford.
Fuck MDC
(Score: 3, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday December 15 2018, @11:43PM (4 children)
If you are really worthy of having a coding job, you're worthy of writing your own mobile app.
So you say you're to lazy to advertise? Fuck You.
My father built houses before he joined the Navy. That's hard work. So did I, but part time when I was in school. If Dad and I can do real work, then surely salty spice can somehow extract his tongue from his own butthole then lift a finger to write an app.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @04:45AM (1 child)
Just FYI you called me salty spice once and I am not that AC. Don't assume too much, that only fuels the fantasies.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday December 16 2018, @06:20PM
I mean no disrespect whatsoever for Mr. Spice.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @09:10PM (1 child)
How many times are you going to tell me all about your utter failure to put your precious Warp Life app in every app store?
Are you trying to play the role of old fatherly washed up has been?
Are you expecting to live vicariously through some young naive fool who is dumb enough to do for you what you have failed to do?
Why do you have an insane obsession with mobile apps and walled garden app stores?
What is your major malfunction, old man?
Fuck MDC
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday December 17 2018, @12:28PM
Rippit The Ogg Frog Can Kiss My Tight, Virginal Franco-American Anal Sphincter.
Have a nice day! I know _I_ will.
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(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Sunday December 16 2018, @01:31AM (1 child)
Employers don't want to deal with 'highly skilled' employees who believe they're better than everyone else (including their boss), lack the initiative/motivation to sell their own work, have a chip on their shoulder, blame others for their problems and refuse to believe anyone else can succeed if they don't. Nobody wants to put up with that kind of shit five days a week from an underling; they'll hire candidates with much weaker skills who'll be a positive addition to the team first.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @09:38PM
You accidentally vomited out some extra words here. I am certain you meant to say, "Employers do not want to deal with employees."
It is such a terrible shame that employees cost money and employers would rather not pay anyone. Employers would rather suck money directly out of the economy through a straw. Unfortunately to accomplish the goal of making money while not employing anyone requires a certain amount of blatant dishonesty. Tech companies especially are expected to employ people when they spread false rumors of skills shortages. Tech companies could not possibly be believed if they lied about shortages while not posting any job openings. Tech companies could not possibly be believed if they did not solicit thousands of skilled applicants and then reject every applicant on the grounds of not being sufficiently skilled.
As long as tech companies continue to post thousands of fake jobs and reject every applicant then the tech companies can take money from investors while coincidentally not employing anyone. Everybody wins. Except all those unemployed coders who always lose.
Well I had better get back to my latest coding project which I expect will make for a wonderful code sample and conversation piece during my next job interview for yet another fake job at yet another fraudulent tech company.
Fuck MDC
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday December 16 2018, @06:19PM
But the margins of this comment are too small to contain it.
Thanks, folks! You've been great.
I'll be here all night - be sure to leave a fiver in my tip jar on the way out.
But Seriously Folks:
I wrote an essay about a case manager that I asked a cop to serve a No-Contact Order on. (That's a type of Temporary Restraining Order; it's important to ask for Temporary Restraining Orders specifically, then in your petition, request a No-Contact or Protection Order.)
Hilary Ensued.
I'm not yet happy with my rant's title and tagline. I find myself bereft of inspiration, in large part because _all_ of her other coworkers have been like Mother Theresa to me. I want to make plain that I mean _them_ no disrespect whatsoever.
But then, I'm not yet happy with my not having had lunch yet. But I know just what to do - ask my barista for a plastic fork - then I'll dine at the bus stop, as I packed this particular lunch.
You Know Me All Too Well: what do I do most, I ask of you?
"WHORE LINKS!"
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