"You can have the last word that I will then dismiss because it points out my own responsibility for the ugly exchange I was a full participant in but want the audience that doesn't exist to think I am better than."

Devil's advocate: At least when you're tonguing your boss's unwiped asshole, you can have the comfort of believing it might possibly get you that promotion you might still actually never get. Worth it, right?

Uh, that is also literally the only reason anyone ever kisses ass in the first place.

WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT THIS?!

There is no god and we are meat competing for self satisfaction during the short period of time we have actual consciousness. Enjoy your discussions.

No dude, you just repeated all the same stuff that you said the first time around that begged my question. Okay, I get what you're saying, but in your mind, what would have been a fairer better course of action or two for her to have taken instead? That there must have been one is implicit in your criticism of what…

And my point is that the angry rant wrapping is me trying to draw attention to the irrational ridiculousness of how much it bothered me, because what same person could honestly blame ISIS on bad writing, or hate a human being for it? That's the shtick.

That's a more forgiving reading, and certainly implies a lot less narcissism. I hope that's right. If it is, it's a good case for the value of stricter comma usage, since the "therefore" meaning sort of needs one for clarity. Without it it still looks very much like "so that" to me. If it were important to resolve the…

Your comment has not been dismissed, though. So clearly that bad joke is not being censored any more than this one has.

I think you're being a little too sympathetic to the willful perpetrators of a pretty grave injustice, here. Okay, so if you realize that HR people often know each other and talk, then what is the lesson? Don't apply for any other jobs, ever? Put in notice that you are leaving, just because you are at the beginning…

If I notice a mistake in something I wrote, I usually just correct it or if I can't, feel a little dumb for not catching it when I could have.

Hey, thanks.

Really?

When it comes to being out in public I have a lot of privilege in choosing whether or not to disclose anything about being queer because people tend to assume my gender is female, my primary partner is a cis male, we chose to have a kid so people see me as being in a conventionally "accepted" relationship…

Uh, you weren't even part of the conversation to begin with, but don't let the window close on your ass on the way out. Thanks for stopping by to let us all know what a mature, self-important empty head you are.

That's not very mature.

Quite happy to hear that. Go politely fist yourself in the ass.

That's the joke, dude. Kinda interesting that people circled wagons so hard, though.

I really don't care about whether I "present my views in a mature manner." We're not running for office, and you can't trade kinja stars for bread. If you need your ideas to be gift-wrapped in gentle polite mannerisms, and are put off of ideas because they are presented in impolitic language, your opinion is literally…

Yeah but it's not bad when he decides that the animals should die.