Random Thoughts

[Silver]

I think each member of staff should get one free ban.

Personally upon the staff member or individual choices without majority rule?

[arewethereyet]

I think each member of staff should get one free ban.

Personally upon the staff member or individual choices without majority rule?

We each get one.  We choose...seems fair compensation for the stuff we deal with.  Just one each.

[Silver]

Personally upon the staff member or individual choices without majority rule?

We each get one. We choose...seems fair compensation for the stuff we deal with. Just one each.

Rules are for fools. Just go for it.

[arewethereyet]

We each get one.  We choose...seems fair compensation for the stuff we deal with.  Just one each.

Rules are for fools. Just go for it.

I'd get in trouble.  I have to follow rules to...but I can dream.

[Fireball]

I think each member of staff should get one free ban.

I can think of a few turds that could flushed out of the punch bowl...

[Silver]

I think each member of staff should get one free ban.

I can think of a few turds that could flushed out of the punch bowl...

Who poops in punch bowls?

[Angrboda]

You mean bans aren't free? How much would, say, a ban of IA run me?

[Fireball]

You mean bans aren't free?  How much would, say, a ban of IA run me?

Ignormatron FTW.

[arewethereyet]

Minor dilemma...guy at work simply won't enter his hours before 'closing' payroll so that I can pull numbers for a report I have to prepare. A couple months ago he closed payroll but didn't enter any hours for himself. I had to ask him to reopen payroll and enter his hours. Last payday he had put down that he wanted to use his 1/2 day (a perk for a couple of the office people every month) but he had entered not only 40 hours each week but also overtime for each week. So I asked if he wanted to waste his half day. He reentered his hours for what I have to guess were the correct ones and it was fewer hours than he had claimed to start with.

Every week I remind him and another guy to enter their hours. Last week Princess BadMood sent me a message saying not to remind him any more as he has a system in place. Today he has no hours entered for last week and it's so damn tempting to not say a word and just let him work for a week for the funzies of it.

I went over his head and asked the general manager to help.

The Princess is in a mood that I assume is due to the hiring of another office person and me doing more and more of his job just to get things done.

We won't mention that he completely skipped invoicing one day week before last. This is a mess for cash flow and also for customers who are expecting to be charged the day after service. I had to ask him about that but at least didn't get my head bitten off for it.

FACK

[Rev. Rye]

Six all-time classic films that I'm fairly certain have an autistic main character:
1) Taxi Driver. There is literally nothing about his attempted relationship with Betsy that makes sense if you assume Travis is neurotypical. And this clip doesn't even include his strange reaction to being compared with a Kris Kristofferson song.



Seriously, Quentin Tarantino talked about his experience watching the movie in a theatre with a black audience who found many of Travis' eccentricities absurd. And the things they pointed out are things I could easily see myself doing.
2) The Big Lebowski. You could make the argument that all three members of the main trio are on the spectrum. Donny's spaciness might be a sign (admittedly, the least convincing of the three), and I could easily see Walter's big freakouts as a sort of meltdown at something going very wrong with the way he sees the world, perhaps sublimated into a form that would be more acceptable in 'Nam. But the way the Dude keeps repeating certain phrases that he thinks sounds cool even if they don't necessarily work sounds like the way I wound up learning to speak. I learned to speak later than a lot of kids to the extent that my parents said my first language was Written English and my second was Spoken English, and the way he does this makes me suspect that maybe he had a language delay too.



Then again, maybe I'm over-reading into this movie.
3) Paris, Texas. He's mute for a good portion of the movie, is largely solitary (even if most of the film involves him growing beyond that), and insists on renting a specific car. Not a specific model, a specific car. Hell, I'm certain that Barry Levinson took a good part of the road trip subplot from Rain Man directly from this movie.
4) The Graduate. Surprisingly, Dustin Hoffman somehow made a more relatable autistic character 20 years before he made Rain Man.
5) The Conversation. If Harry Caul isn't, his mistress who talked about how she used to calm herself as a kid by hitting her head definitely is.
6) The Producers. There will never be a more accurate depiction of an autism meltdown in cinema than the one Gene Wilder has early on.