u/Hemenocent

I heard the joke and made the image.

I have actually heard this conversation before, only it was an engineer instead of the supervisor.

I found this, and added to it. Have at it.

When people are exposed to stimuli that is out of their normal routine, the initial response is 'fight or flight' because that's how we are wired to react. When in real life, the initial response is flight if possible.

In the virtual world, it is the opposite. Anonymity and the lack of physical presence greatly reduces pressure of responsibility or worry over consequences. Think about it. As the lyrics of Hotel California goes:

"...We are all just prisoners here of our own device..."

All we know of each other is what we see on the screen. We do not know background or circumstances or anything else unless the person shares. Think about it. Is that person average - probably not since they are here? Is that person stable? Is that person disabled? Is that person on the verge of unaliveness? Or worse case scenario, the quote from the movie Taken (2008):

"What I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you... I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you."

Think about it. If what you are about to type is tremendously inflammatory and negative, would you say it to the person if face to face? Think about it

It's true. ...technically.

On American television in the late sixties and early seventies, there was a sitcom called Hogan's Heroes (1965-1971) which may or may not have been inspired by the movie Stalag 17 (1953). The setting and basic underlying plot was an Allied resistance group was carrying out sabotage with their base of operations being inside a German POW camp.

Most of the staff running Stalag 13 were military veterans from WWI who were to old for the front lines (although they were always being threatened with it). Interestingly most of the actors who played the Germans were Jewish. I guess it was in their own little way an ability to show the Nazis as buffoon.

Anyway, this is Sgt. Hans Schultz who had the catch phrase of "I know nothing, nothing!"

I remember the old days when scam artists worked from a large room full of other phone operators who were very good at separating people from their money. These days it's one person and a wall of cell phones.

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I guess this means I won't be going to the South Pacific after all 🫨.

I just finished 12 grueling hours on a shop floor where the temps were in the triple digits and the humidity was around 95%, but notwithstanding that, the team I'm part of produced around $6,000,000 worth of high count fiber optic data com cable. On breaks, I make images on my phone. Now in my seventh decade, anybody who I could refer to as dad is long time in the ground. Anyway, I did a father's day post, and just checked and found a bunch of trolls stomping through. That's the way it goes. I deleted the post and blocked several persons. It's ironic that they miss what I've posted especially for them.

I'm sorry at my tiredness, but that fruit looks like it's just waiting to be tossed - wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

I did this a couple of years ago for Pride month and deliberated on posting it then. I asked several people (okay just two) on its merit, but I couldn't get a straight answer.

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The spelling is correct because this seems to happen too often to too many.

As the month progresses, it will get highrr.

This may not apply to ALL medical personnel, but several fit the bill. As far as they are concerned, if you're not in medicine or a fireman or a policeman, your job is not a real job.

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I used the steeplejack for exaggeration. I actually work in a factory manufacturing high count fiber optic data communications cable.

This is a true story, but I used a stock picture with a sticker of a hardhat added for emphasis. My safety manager is the safety lady, and she laughed when I showed her the rough draft (picture # 2).

This really happened, but the individual in the picture came from a stock picture. The safety lady is the safety manager at the plant I work at currently, and she thought the idea was hilarious. [On a side note she told me her husband had actually used the safety glasses joke I posted on June 1st. ]

The hardhat was a sticker I added for emphasis on safety, so this is an AI-free picture.

People often forget that Jesus didn't always turn the other cheek. Reference mentioned at bottom of picture.