And the Creepy Boss of the Week Award goes to … this dude posting on Reddit

If we’re going back to games, Switch early thoughts:

If you’ve looked at the right controller, with the stick in the middle directly under the buttons necessitating that you hold your thumb like a cartoon claw, and thought “That looks completely unusable,” it is. The console itself is excellent, but Jesus fuck they need to release a redesigned right controller ASAP.

re: The Switch – Can you use a Wiimote in any way? I would assume not, but wouldn’t that be nice…

One of the best parts about the Wii was that you could plug in the gamecube controllers, ngl. That is still my favourite controller Nintendo has ever put out.

@Skye: Our house rules for Texas Zombies is basically ‘pull a situation card, see how many of your cards you need to use, then everyone votes to see if you survived or not.’ Like I said, there’s some sort of team thing, but that means you can only play like six people. Without it, you can have ohhhh… I think I’ve played it with about fifteen? It’s pretty fast, and everyone gets to talk about the story.

Sometimes we like to ask questions, to see just how that basketball is going to help you get off the landmine (I’ll get on it and ride the explosion off!) and then vote.

It is a Japanese game, so there are a few interestingly phrased cards, which is fun too.

@POM

“Areas of grinding poverty have some of the richest and most vibrant social structures you could want.”

Let’s not act like there’s a single experience of poverty in the US?

Just because the upper and middle-class are isolated does not mean that poverty is not designed to be isolating. Just because many poor people have overcome barriers and developed rich social structures does not mean that poverty is not designed to be isolating. I’m not going to touch on the “sad boner” part of Surplus’s argument since it’s crap, but his other points about poverty hold true.

I’m sure you’re probably going to tell me to fuck off and that you know all this, but whether you do or not, it’s lost in all the arguing.

Tl;dr- Poverty is designed to be isolating.

I’m sure you’re probably going to tell me to fuck off and that you know all this, but whether you do or not, it’s lost in all the arguing.

I’m not going to tell you to fuck off because I know all of this. I’m going to tell you to fuck off because you’re a goddamned troll.

@mrex
Calling out your behavior is not a personal insult.

“Also: not a personal insult, which is just more trolling on your part.”

Sorry but you can’t say it’s a call out when the purpose is to divert away from a valid criticism. I’m not looking to upset you*, I’m looking for you to change. Your description made it clear that you were only referring to a segment of the poor, since not all of the poor live in tight quarters filled with reliable people. The stories we tell about poor people trickle out to policy, so it’s important to acknowlege the stories of *all* the poor. Right?

But, I’m starting to repeat myself, and tthat’s the last thing anyone needs. I owe you some gratitude for holding my feet to the fire in the past, since it actually helped. I do hope whatever shit is going down in your life works out soon.

*Since that would be the definition of trolling.

“Areas of grinding poverty have some of the richest and most vibrant social structures you could want.”

There was nothing controversial about this statement, whatsoever. None.

He also posted some increasingly scary rants on vent subreddits. The latest 9 days ago that seems like some consequences.are happening.

Glad to hear “Jennifer” was able to exit that situation and that Creepy Boss Guy is facing disciplinary action. We definitely need more happy endings like this one.

@ Simon

He’s deleted his original post, but here it is…

Dear friend,

Where do I even start. This Friday will be mark a month since you left. Three weeks ago marks a year since we met. I wonder if you even think about any of that, lol. Honestly, you probably do but I know he wouldn’t ever let you show it.

Do you know that I haven’t even had the strength to go on social media or reddit for awhile now? It reminds me too much of the memes we shared on snapchat. But I’m tired of holding back my happiness because you choose to be dense.

I remember like yesterday when you first walked in, nervous, unsure, but beautiful nonetheless. I immediately introduced myself (this is something I never do as I have to maintain a role of authority but something about you was different, well I thought so anyways). I could see that just speaking to me changed your demeanor. I had an effect on you. You never really worked in an office before and didn’t realize how cold it would be. I offered you my blazer and you were so thankful. It put a smile on face but it was also when I first noticed that we would become good friends. Man, how things changed, huh?

To be honest, I probably never should have become such a good friend to you. There lies my biggest mistake. People always tell me I’m too trusting and friendly and until now, I really didn’t want to believe it lol. But I took you under my wing. With my help you picked things up so quickly, faster than anyone I saw in a decade of this business. You had a future in this, you were promising. See how I said had? lol

I still get a smile when I think about that meeting we had to present to Roger. You were so nervous, visibly shaking. Do you remember who gave you the encouraging words so you could go out there? Do you remember how delighted he was and all the compliments he gave you? You were ecstatic. You were made for this and I was the one to show you that you could do it. On our way back from the presentation I took you the Halal food truck. I still can’t believe you never tried it! Haha, but you loved it. You would snapchat me every time you went.

But you threw it all away because you were weak. It really isn’t your fault I know but I can’t help but be angry that you were so weak. You let him gaslight you, abuse you, control you. He decided who your friends were, he decides who you text, he decides how long you stay out. But at the end of the day, you accepted it. You let him and for that I don’t think I can ever forgive you. I tried so hard to get through to you but instead you turned on me. You almost ruined everything I worked for but alas you came to your senses and at least dropped the ridiculous accusations. I guess I can at least respect that.

It’s just really sad. There was a position open that you would have been perfect for. I told you it was going to open up very early on when we met. I was preparing you for it. IF you didn’t leave, you would be starting Monday. But no, another more qualified person will. Someone who actually wants to help people and not just themselves.

What truly hurt is when you didn’t show up to my match. I told you about how hard I have been working and you pretended to be so supportive. You promised you wouldn’t miss it, but where were you? I know you had nothing to do that night, I saw you status about how you started binging True Blood (something I introduced you to btw), so what was your excuse? Gross. Your behavior is just gross.

We could have built an empire. But I will now build it on my own. I was always going to, I just thought I would help a friend along in the journey. But it will be truly interesting when you’re broke, lonely, and depressed in a few years because of this terrible mistake. When you come back to me looking for help and I will no longer be the guy who bends over backwards for you. I hope you remember that

YOU made this decision.

YOU chose him over your future.

YOU chose him over your career.

YOU chose him over your friends that really cared for you.

It’s sad, pathetic really. I feel bad but also amused and angry.

Today has been just hard because I found out the person we interviewed will start Monday. It just brought back a lot of memories and I just had to vent.

But you probably don’t care. You were acting just to boost your own ego, not because you ever cared about the people we helped. You are a sad and broken person. You are pathetic and it disgusts me how you acted at the end.

But you will just be a smudge in my memories.

Good luck kid, you’re going to need it.

Sincerely,

I hadn’t thought of it that way WWTH:CM.

Judging by the meltdown that he had in another sub, I got the impression that he did face disciplinary action for behavior. It’s unfortunate that “Jennifer” ended up having to back off.

From the rant he wrote in r/trueoffmychest, I did get the impression that he was going to try to make things difficult for her. Hell, reading that “unsent letter” it sounds like he still might.

And it’s incredibly shitty that it should happen to her because of one asshole who couldn’t handle rejection. I guess my disappointment comes from the fact that I really wanted to see this creep get fired or at least have a permanent black mark on his record or get put on notice that if he so much as gave any women working under him the stinkeye, his ass would be out the door and they wouldn’t provide him with a reference.

He is going to do this again and he’s going to keep doing it. It’s funny that he kept talking about gaslighting when a lot of what he’s doing is gaslighting.

One day, he’s going to find a woman who he can manipulate in to having a relationship with him. It’s also funny that he keeps talking about “red flags” when everything he’s done would throw up more red flags then Soviet-era Russia.

@Simon: If he did face disciplinary action, as it seemed he did from his reactions in another thread… He’s still employed at the same company, and according to this letter, has the power to recommend employees for positions.

So if disciplinary action happened, that means that someone said something, and he had to deal with something, BUT it didn’t cost him anything real. A black mark is only a problem if people care, and judging by the information in this letter, no one did.

He will definitely find someone he can manipulate into a relationship with him, because he is preying on young, vulnerable people who have little life experience.

There is pretty much no way to stop this from happening, besides companies actually black listing him.

I was speaking with a friend over the weekend, and she pointed out what the position of a lead, or mentor, is. It isn’t for you to shine in your own work, but to help everyone on your team shine. So everything that he was doing, that he thought gave him an automatic pass to have sex with her?

HIS.

JOB.

*flips all the tables*