
The charges are:
1) poor timekeeping (they got me there)
2) smelling of alcohol (serves me right for sleeping in my clothes and not washing)
3) "unusual behaviour" towards colleagues.
wtf? How does one defend oneself against unspecified accusations of "unusual behaviour?" (I really don't know what that means)
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1) poor timekeeping (they got me there)
2) smelling of alcohol (serves me right for sleeping in my clothes and not washing)
3) "unusual behaviour" towards colleagues.
wtf? How does one defend oneself against unspecified accusations of "unusual behaviour?" (I really don't know what that means)

a doctors note claiming childhood trauma brought on by an electric sander, 2 goats and a bottle of rolacola =)
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Been perfectly fine for five years under one boss, she leaves, new boss comes in, suddenly I'm 'unusual'. Well, I've been pretty usual here for quite a while...
Deep down inside, I'm one of those evil enemies who never even WANTED to go to work. Unless it was a laff.
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Deep down inside, I'm one of those evil enemies who never even WANTED to go to work. Unless it was a laff.

some pick a lapdog
some pick a scapegoat.
Ask them to specifically define the unusual behaviour and explain how this unusual behaviour coincides with the presence of a new boss and remind them that everything that is being said is being documented
then kill everyone.
:D
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some pick a scapegoat.
Ask them to specifically define the unusual behaviour and explain how this unusual behaviour coincides with the presence of a new boss and remind them that everything that is being said is being documented
then kill everyone.
:D

I'm taking your advice to a certain extent.
That extent happens to be 100%.
(Although astonishingly, my employers' code of conduct actually has a clause that explicitly forbids carrying firearms in the workplace. Wow.)
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That extent happens to be 100%.
(Although astonishingly, my employers' code of conduct actually has a clause that explicitly forbids carrying firearms in the workplace. Wow.)

the "unusual behavior" needs to be explicitly described.
and then you can decide during this meeting if you find it defamatory or not.
Is this the result of an attempt of constructive dismissal against a person who the new manager has taken an active, selective, personal and deliberate dislike over.
making them sweat a bit, making it look strongly like a personal victimisation is clearly ongoing and a hostile working environment is being facilitated by innapropriate commentary that would inevitably effect morale and effectiveness of the team, which you're part of, after all. An effective manager doesn't fester negative employee relationships by passing surrepticious commentary about any behaviour they find contrary to their unexpressed expectations, they approach such issues directly and appropriately with the individuals concerned before it reaches the point where formal documented meetings have to be held
unless of course you come in pissed up all the time and puke in photocopiers, then you're probably fucked :D
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and then you can decide during this meeting if you find it defamatory or not.
Is this the result of an attempt of constructive dismissal against a person who the new manager has taken an active, selective, personal and deliberate dislike over.
making them sweat a bit, making it look strongly like a personal victimisation is clearly ongoing and a hostile working environment is being facilitated by innapropriate commentary that would inevitably effect morale and effectiveness of the team, which you're part of, after all. An effective manager doesn't fester negative employee relationships by passing surrepticious commentary about any behaviour they find contrary to their unexpressed expectations, they approach such issues directly and appropriately with the individuals concerned before it reaches the point where formal documented meetings have to be held
unless of course you come in pissed up all the time and puke in photocopiers, then you're probably fucked :D

This is journalism we're talking about. I've good a good, solid understanding of defamation/slander/libel, but nowhere near as good an understanding as the bloke who's made the unqualified remark in the letter.
Basically, it's an attempt to put a foot on my head and assert 'authority', even though I've thrived without active 'authority' from above for years.
I don't think I want a job where someone's determined to exercise fine control over me all the time. Not now. I'm 36, ffs.
There was a wave of redundancies two weeks ago. I'm really wishing I'd accepted the pisspoor payout, cos it would've been better than this.
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Basically, it's an attempt to put a foot on my head and assert 'authority', even though I've thrived without active 'authority' from above for years.
I don't think I want a job where someone's determined to exercise fine control over me all the time. Not now. I'm 36, ffs.
There was a wave of redundancies two weeks ago. I'm really wishing I'd accepted the pisspoor payout, cos it would've been better than this.

...i shoulda learned to play them drums!
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that sounds pretty profound.
(to this drunk)
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(to this drunk)

The silences when one enters the room.
The waterboarding.
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The waterboarding.

as 'conduct acts of terrorism for change'
either way it gets a clicky poos ;)
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either way it gets a clicky poos ;)

he's still trying to spend his expenses on the way down.
thanks to all btw.
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thanks to all btw.

"my only regret is not getting a bigger duck islanddddddddddddddddddd... SPLAT"
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i reckon if we all teamed up it would be easy. how about it folks.
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you just need blender and this file: www.mediafire.com/?9mgm3jt0j4k
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PQlweqc¬!!!
random image:

Solihull, Yesterday.
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random image:

Solihull, Yesterday.

plus helps it burn that bit brighter
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Fri 14 Aug 2009, 1:34,
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i know of a field neer solihull with 30,000,000 unsold range rovers in it.
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Just get your free* dick from 0800-dicks-4-u, and draw a kitten onto it.
*dick may not be free
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*dick may not be free

at least we know it's bound to like fish
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NO I DO NOT YOU HAVE SIMPLY GLUED SOME LITTLE EARS TO YOUR COCK YOU PERVE

Have this from last night, I think.

MORE:
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i146.photobucket.com/albums/r275/petehix/octopusstuck.gif
beause you inspire me
*leans up close to your and tries to nestle my head into your chest*
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MORE:
i146.photobucket.com/albums/r275/petehix/octopus.gif
i146.photobucket.com/albums/r275/petehix/octopusstuck.gif
beause you inspire me
*leans up close to your and tries to nestle my head into your chest*

I like your eyebrow guy.
Edit: also they remind me of FOONLY.
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Edit: also they remind me of FOONLY.

Righyt about now *raises an eyebrow seductively and makes advance*
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they taste lovely.
also, keep your tentacles off my fucking handbag, you seagoing mugger!
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also, keep your tentacles off my fucking handbag, you seagoing mugger!

I'm the best at reassuring people :)
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And his eyes are half eaten.
I put it to your that you are racist towards the blind.
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I put it to your that you are racist towards the blind.

that he is the same shape as a gingerbread man.
as for the blind, i'm halfway there myself.
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as for the blind, i'm halfway there myself.

Everyone post your dickittens right now.
right fucking now damnit!
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right fucking now damnit!

Thats shear brilliance, or horror.
I don't know which
Probably both.
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I don't know which
Probably both.

Probably something to do with cute, fluffy animals.
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i may pander to you if you show me your cock.
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with strangely saggy boobs and my hernia scar :(
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as wayne rooney's favourite pastime, granny bondage
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with "English Democrats" or, "UKIP" and you've got your self a deal.
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Am who Gordon Initials to "leadership" "Great" Don't Vote
I noticed Brown's are his for Britain? be Conservative.
the that ironic method a only due of fucking person idiot.
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I noticed Brown's are his for Britain? be Conservative.
the that ironic method a only due of fucking person idiot.

Oh I see you have the magical inability to string a sentence together...
Besides Discomeats being a bit of a fool, and the font not pleasing some peoples eyes...Was the background colour not pleasant?
I just think its a better idea to vote for a party that is good with money. Granted they might be pompus wankers but somehow I think that applys to a vast majority of MP's. Conservative are just the lesser of two evils.
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Besides Discomeats being a bit of a fool, and the font not pleasing some peoples eyes...Was the background colour not pleasant?
I just think its a better idea to vote for a party that is good with money. Granted they might be pompus wankers but somehow I think that applys to a vast majority of MP's. Conservative are just the lesser of two evils.

You might want to take a look at the Tory recessions, Black Wednesday and 15% interest rates then shoot your brain.
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I remember when they used to be good
you know, before Fergie

she is even more delusional if she thinks that basque makes her look sexy
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The new(ish) pictures on your profile are lully, did i miss any awe inspiring pictures of animals i can add clothes to?
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Yet again you unsettle me, Sir
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I do put my rats in dark glasses and give them canes from time to time though.
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(the clip is from Trailer Park Boys isn't it?)
:)
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:)

today it's your birthday
da da da da da da da da
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da da da da da da da da

Surely that's enough of a reason for him to donate on my behalf
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Face is way too close to be an accident. If the gif continued, you'd see her jack him off.
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hahahahahaha - now i have to watch them ALL again
Trailer Park Boys Rule!
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Trailer Park Boys Rule!

*awaits fervent Zamboni action*
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coming over here, stealing our places on shit talent shows grumble grumble grumble......
*buggers off to read the daily mail*
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*buggers off to read the daily mail*

one folds it into the shape of a little hat, which one then paints a swastika on the front of.
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and at last snigger at his political carrier; perhaps Gordon could describe it to him
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saying that he looked quite jolly and spruce in his colourful clothes, topped off with a rather dapper hat.
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and wishing he had the balls to do it properly himself
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he's the greatest dutch of all time, i know because he told me
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followed by some Tulips who's price would never go down only up
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dutch, holland, netherlands and nederlands are all different places. IN BELGIUM LOL.
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On 8th July 2003, The Dutch Inventor Mediocre invented the Internets.
"A lot of people think that it is older than that, but I just spread that rumour so that I wouldn't get arrested by all of the record companies for letting everyone steal their musics and shit!" said the crazy forrin.
"I invented the Internets so that I had somewhere to get to everyone in the world with my mind controlling lettuces with handles without arousing too much suspicion. SOON YOU WILL ALL BE MINE!" said the Dyke building, Celery Fondling (as shown in this picture) Batshit crazy Frisian.

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"A lot of people think that it is older than that, but I just spread that rumour so that I wouldn't get arrested by all of the record companies for letting everyone steal their musics and shit!" said the crazy forrin.
"I invented the Internets so that I had somewhere to get to everyone in the world with my mind controlling lettuces with handles without arousing too much suspicion. SOON YOU WILL ALL BE MINE!" said the Dyke building, Celery Fondling (as shown in this picture) Batshit crazy Frisian.


In 1986, The Dutch Inventor Mediocre got a job at Nasa.
"I had been watching Button Moon on my Telly box and that Mr Spoon was really getting on my nerves, the freakish little nutter!"
"So I built this rocket ship out of some old fruitellas and a cigar case and went up there. Turns out that they aren't real, and all I found in space was loads of fucking Clangers and Bucky O'Hare. I was well pissed off. Which is why I turned Bucky green, and ripped out those little Clanger bastards voiceboxes, replacing them with the thistle whistles I had nicked Angus and Elspeth in Scotland the week before!" the demented Edam molesting Clog hopper said.

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"I had been watching Button Moon on my Telly box and that Mr Spoon was really getting on my nerves, the freakish little nutter!"
"So I built this rocket ship out of some old fruitellas and a cigar case and went up there. Turns out that they aren't real, and all I found in space was loads of fucking Clangers and Bucky O'Hare. I was well pissed off. Which is why I turned Bucky green, and ripped out those little Clanger bastards voiceboxes, replacing them with the thistle whistles I had nicked Angus and Elspeth in Scotland the week before!" the demented Edam molesting Clog hopper said.


I can't be arsed searching back for all of my "The Dutch Inventor Mediocre" posts.
Search yourself, www.b3ta.com/search/board?q=The+Dutch+Inventor+Mediocre
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Search yourself, www.b3ta.com/search/board?q=The+Dutch+Inventor+Mediocre

I suspect that The Dutch Inventor Mediocre is currently on a stealth mission to somewhere, hence his lack of appearance the last couple of days....
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if i find him in my salad crisper, i shall be most vexed!
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It won't affect the flavour at all, however, what a lot of people don't know, is that The Dutch Inventor Mediocre is unable to see the colour blue due to an extremely unfortunate radish picking incident.
In fact, if he sees someone riding a blue bicycle, he actually thinks they are floating.
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In fact, if he sees someone riding a blue bicycle, he actually thinks they are floating.

i used to enjoy adding blue food colouring to mashed potato. people would think i was eating some astonishing new foodstuff.
however, making instant mash with chicken soup instead of hot water went very badly wrong.
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however, making instant mash with chicken soup instead of hot water went very badly wrong.

only to eat it, not for sex purposes.
that'd just be weird.
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that'd just be weird.

if i see a juicy mango, i want to eat it, not attempt to pleasure myself with it
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Except when you point at the Nazi over here that isn't white, you instead get accused of being one
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Being a liberal for the sake of being a liberal rather defeats the point mate.
It's a lovely jelly fish, but there are an awful lot of people into Islam who hold down very nasty beliefs. It's apparently acceptable to point out fingers at the BNP and cry 'wankers' but not them. Is it because they are non-Anglo-Saxon? Loads of these people harbor simply disgusting views on women etc
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It's a lovely jelly fish, but there are an awful lot of people into Islam who hold down very nasty beliefs. It's apparently acceptable to point out fingers at the BNP and cry 'wankers' but not them. Is it because they are non-Anglo-Saxon? Loads of these people harbor simply disgusting views on women etc

i for one am very concerned about etcetera
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some of the nicest, most moderate Muslims I know still have really odd views on women
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just seems odd when you point out elements of it as simply abhorrent, as in anything in life, people shit their pants, as if they are suddenly classified as Daily Mail readers. A grim state of affairs; or simply liberal cowardice
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oh god we mustn't offend the Muslims - let's have a go at the Christians, they're fair game
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Terrible shit goes on all over the world, it's not just the Islamic countries that have nutters.
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and entirely why i've pushed my neck out in a hope to get beyond, but there you go
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What exactly are the main points you both are making? Is it that the other person is a cockmuncher.
asciifaceofbob, how do you feel about the statement "Westboro Baptist Church seriously needs to grow up", or is that not equivalent since Islam as a whole is much larger than a tiny American sect consisting of one family, but then would you deny that Islam has a distinctive culture which tends to respect those who attack gays, women, science and jews more than many another culture does?
Perhaps that should be "a distinctive culture within it" given that Islam is very big and somewhat varied and often clashing with itself. Then again the misogynistic, gay-punishing aspect of it does appear to be the mainstream, at least among authority figures in many Islamic countries (probably there are one or two completely benign countries with prevalent Islamic-styled religion, in Africa maybe). Then again trying to define what the mainstream of anything is is, well, it's pretty subjective, although you can be sure there is one.
And then of course when I say "benign countries" I really mean "benign authorities", and the influential people in a country are one thing and the general masses are another, see: Iran. Having said that, they are all aspects of the same culture, although it's hard to say where the culture ends or even which culture it is (it could be the culture of the country, or the religion). If a culture can be described, it can be criticised, regardless of the fact that people are masters of their own destiny and not bound to follow whatever we imagine their culture tells them to think. The part where any individual person is ascribed to the culture, in the sense of being culpable for all the bad ideas we see in it, is unfair. Despite this, it's fair play to identify and criticise the culture as a set of ideas.
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asciifaceofbob, how do you feel about the statement "Westboro Baptist Church seriously needs to grow up", or is that not equivalent since Islam as a whole is much larger than a tiny American sect consisting of one family, but then would you deny that Islam has a distinctive culture which tends to respect those who attack gays, women, science and jews more than many another culture does?
Perhaps that should be "a distinctive culture within it" given that Islam is very big and somewhat varied and often clashing with itself. Then again the misogynistic, gay-punishing aspect of it does appear to be the mainstream, at least among authority figures in many Islamic countries (probably there are one or two completely benign countries with prevalent Islamic-styled religion, in Africa maybe). Then again trying to define what the mainstream of anything is is, well, it's pretty subjective, although you can be sure there is one.
And then of course when I say "benign countries" I really mean "benign authorities", and the influential people in a country are one thing and the general masses are another, see: Iran. Having said that, they are all aspects of the same culture, although it's hard to say where the culture ends or even which culture it is (it could be the culture of the country, or the religion). If a culture can be described, it can be criticised, regardless of the fact that people are masters of their own destiny and not bound to follow whatever we imagine their culture tells them to think. The part where any individual person is ascribed to the culture, in the sense of being culpable for all the bad ideas we see in it, is unfair. Despite this, it's fair play to identify and criticise the culture as a set of ideas.

Islam, like any religion or belief system, is what the believer makes of it.
What they make of it is largely determined by environmental experiences, family, and societal influences.
I have a lot of Muslim friends, and for a large part they are the most compassionate, progressive people I know. Some of them are more conservative or have what I would consider odd views- but because of who they are as people, not because of their religion...
Islam isn't the problem, Christianity isn't the problem, Atheism isn't the problem.
People are the problem.
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What they make of it is largely determined by environmental experiences, family, and societal influences.
I have a lot of Muslim friends, and for a large part they are the most compassionate, progressive people I know. Some of them are more conservative or have what I would consider odd views- but because of who they are as people, not because of their religion...
Islam isn't the problem, Christianity isn't the problem, Atheism isn't the problem.
People are the problem.

I'm a Christian, but that doesn't mean I am a Creationist.
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and then your party will fall apart in a few weeks.
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Anti-religion that is sexist, homophobic and intollerent = very good.
edit: oh I missed your point
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edit: oh I missed your point
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