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Gear Grinding Part 5: The Story of the Broken Tooth

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bigblue_dl said:
Why would you ever sign a paper that is falsified and accusative towards you?
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And I felt stupid FOR signing the paper. Even one of member service supervisors (direct boss) today said it was stupid. They're not going to dock my pay, nor will there be any formal punishment, but still...
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
And I felt stupid FOR signing the paper. Even one of member service supervisors (direct boss) today said it was stupid. They're not going to dock my pay, nor will there be any formal punishment, but still...
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You might consider this idea as a possibility in the future....every now and then I run into situations in which I am "required" to sign a paper to proceed. If I find language I don't like, I will draw a line through it, insert language I find acceptable in its place, and then sign. Probably more symbolic than anything else, but still.....
 
bigblue_dl said:
Why would you ever sign a paper that is falsified and accusative towards you?
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99% of such forms merely require your signature as an acknowledgment of receipt, not as any sort of statement that you agree with what it says. Most even allow the employee to write in what they say happened (which I strongly encourage anyone getting one to take advantage of).

It's no different than a traffic ticket in that sense. Signing it when the cop gives it to you isn't pleading guilty, it's merely acknowledging he gave it to you.
 
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unofan said:
99% of such forms merely require your signature as an acknowledgment of receipt, not as any sort of statement that you agree with what it says. Most even allow the employee to write in what they say happened (which I strongly encourage anyone getting one to take advantage of).

It's no different than a traffic ticket in that sense. Signing it when the cop gives it to you isn't pleading guilty, it's merely acknowledging he gave it to you.
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Regardless, I wouldn't sign it unless I was given the opportunity to record my side of the story, like you say. Not even from a legal sense, just the fact that they have something on file, with your signature on it, that could be used against you in the case of a termination, even if it wouldn't hold up in the court of law, if it went that far.
 
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Sigh...

Reading the comments on Facebook on the articles of the story of Hillary Clinton's vaccination tweet. I clicked just to see how much stupid there would be, but the amount was so overwhelming that now I'm a sad panda. There was the usual "BENGHAZI!!!11!!" that I was expecting to come with a story of someone in party politics, but the overwhelming amount of people commenting that she's wrong and vaccines hurt children actually scares me. Amazing how so many people are so uninformed.
 
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NPR interviewed some public health people awhile ago. They'd done some research that showed that the more scientific research the anti-vaxer is shown the more likely they are to stick to their beliefs. Sort of like a phobia- unreasonable but not able to let go. Having to have these conversations with people is very scary. They make no sense.

It also requires the practice to make a decision on how the effff to put them in the building to protect other people from potential infection. Moral and ethical dilemma. How do you protect the kid/provide good care when parents are actively working to prevent you from doing so. At this point we have decided to invite these people to seek another provider to protect the other patients. Worse- we have a local chiropractor who is spouting all sorts of nonsense that people believe- the MMR vaccine comes for dead fetus material. THe other chiros are having heart failure that someone in their profession is such an imbecile. Makes their profession look awful.
 
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The people screaming "pornography!" and "abuse" and "derp durr Fifty Shades of Grey should be banned from theaters derp durr." I realize it's a poorly written book that got turned into a equally awful movie, and it was announced that they gave a green light to the sequels, but whatever happened to quietly resolving to not watch the movie? Screaming "porn" and "abuse" and calling for the movie to be banned is only going to generate money and free pub for an awful book that became an awful movie.
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
The people screaming "pornography!" and "abuse" and "derp durr Fifty Shades of Grey should be banned from theaters derp durr." I realize it's a poorly written book that got turned into a equally awful movie, and it was announced that they gave a green light to the sequels, but whatever happened to quietly resolving to not watch the movie? Screaming "porn" and "abuse" and calling for the movie to be banned is only going to generate money and free pub for an awful book that became an awful movie.
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See "The Passion Of The Christ," "Dogma," etc. Yawn.
 
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Wait, wait, 50 Shades already has it's sequels green lit? And yet MGM keeps balking at completing "The Girl Who" series with Daniel Craig? Ugh.
 
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aparch said:
Wait, wait, 50 Shades already has it's sequels green lit? And yet MGM keeps balking at completing "The Girl Who" series with Daniel Craig? Ugh.
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Yeah, I'm not happy with it either. At least the Swedes released the trilogy. And they are quality.
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
The people screaming "pornography!" and "abuse" and "derp durr Fifty Shades of Grey should be banned from theaters derp durr." I realize it's a poorly written book that got turned into a equally awful movie, and it was announced that they gave a green light to the sequels, but whatever happened to quietly resolving to not watch the movie? Screaming "porn" and "abuse" and calling for the movie to be banned is only going to generate money and free pub for an awful book that became an awful movie.
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My wife (who has read the first book but not the sequels) wonders how they made the movie without an NC-17 rating. Basically she says they have to have watered it down significantly just to get it to an R.
 
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Grinding my gears: the idiot woman in my department. I get an email CC'd to me that's addressed to the department's shared email box. The group submitting the question did that because they know I'm going to be the one to answer if for them. The idiot woman IMs me to check if I saw the email. I tell her I've started the process for researching the issue at hand. Then she won't stop IM'ing me long enough for me to do the work. Finally, she asks me for server/DB information for an application after I've done my part, so I give the info to her. She tells me that she doesn't have rights to view the server on which the DB resides. Okay, what does she want me to do about it? I'm not the access rights giver guy and she knows that. Go out and request the rights. Put that brain hidden behind your sixhead to use and stop IM'ing me about things you know I can't control.
 
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Last week I saw the last episode of Seinfeld for the first time since it was on originally. That was worst final ending they could have written. I forgot how much I had disliked that episode. What a waste.
 
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Timothy A said:
Last week I saw the last episode of Seinfeld for the first time since it was on originally. That was worst final ending they could have written. I forgot how much I had disliked that episode. What a waste.
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Most of the final season is pretty dire.
 
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