I smell a ‘shop contest

but on Christmas day, Warner Bros. will go one better, gifting HBO Max subscribers with free access to blockbuster sequel Wonder Woman 1984 for 31 days.

Ugh. We’ve been here already with yesteryear’s child stars from the movie industry, none of whom appeared to survive unscathed (if at all) and I’m feeling worried and depressed already for all the YouTube kids who could become a next generation of f***ed up adults. No amount of money is worth that. Absolutely none.

I just can’t even with that guy anymore, this is the message he needs to see now:

Imagine Whedon trying to intimidate someone who was in the Israel Defense Force. Someone who is just as badass as playing the actual Wonder Woman.

It’s exploitative, preying upon people with FOMO. They are taking advantage of people’s fears to sell them something they might not otherwise buy.

There’s just no logical reason to stop people who didn’t have a Switch (or a spare $60) for these six months to ever be able to buy these games. It’s more than “weird”, it’s an anti-consumer marketing ploy. For Super Mario Bros 35 I can almost get it because it really is designed as a celebration of this one game and…

If you buy a product and it is not what you were advertised you have a right to be upset.

Once again, another entitled baby who believes the world revolves around him.

Dark horse for best Alan Alda impersonation actually goes to Peter Serafinowic:

Thank you, Mario! But our princess is in another parking lot!

An even better followup is when the P&R cast did their PaleyFest panel, and Mike Schur tells that story. Plaza’s response is her in a nutshell. Worth watching, it’s only a couple of minutes:

She feels like a real person who got shoved in to this otherwise scripted comedy

I had a similar experience of being bullied by a supervisor. After I was hired, our VP said something about me being “a good replacement” if this person ever left. That was it — it triggered this person’s severe insecurity complex, and the person came after me with a vengeance. It didn’t help that this person was…

This piece has some good advice, but it left out one important part.

This is required reading:

Hey brother/sister,

I have found that HR does NOT exist to protect an employee in any way, they exist to protect the COMPANY. So yes, going to them will not do anything positive for YOU unless you can show how it affects the COMPANY.

(Using a burner account so I can get more detailed with the specifics of the situation without identifying myself.)

I was on the business end of a workplace bully a few years ago. I was in the fifth year of a very fruitful career in what essentially was my dream job. I was kicking ass and taking names, and had…