Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[CleverNickName]

...because they couldn't grasp the concept of being polite in a public space.

It's such a low bar to clear. I have no idea how people mess that up, but here we are.

Following this train of thought all the way to the station:

Part of my job is to review the resumes for new hires, and to vet the different contractors and their qualifications when they come on site (welders, pipefitters, operators, it takes lots of folks to build a pipeline). Well, I've noticed that in the last few years, many new applicants now include an online address for Bluesky, Instagram, LinkedIn, or Twitter X. You can probably guess where I'm going with this, but...

If you provide a social media link, prospective employers will follow it. And if they see a photo of you in a graffiti-covered hard hat complete with anti-LGBT stickers on it, and they see a bunch of other hateful content and offensive jokes about LGBT kids, and if they find a complaint about the "woke engineer who gave the job enterivew(sic) yesterday" and how he doesn't "know jack s--t about what welders do," they are going to do so much worse than Not Hire You.

We're talking screenshots. Emails. Phone calls. Plural. With follow-ups.

There are many lessons to be learned today, but the biggest one is also the simplest: be polite in public.

(based on a true story)

 

[Ryujin]

Following this train of thought all the way to the station:

Part of my job is to review the resumes for new hires, and to vet the different contractors and their qualifications when they come on site (welders, pipefitters, operators, it takes lots of folks to build a pipeline). Well, I've noticed that in the last few years, many new applicants now include an online address for Bluesky, Instagram, LinkedIn, or Twitter X. You can probably guess where I'm going with this, but...

If you provide a social media link, prospective employers will follow it. And if they see a photo of you in a graffiti-covered hard hat complete with anti-LGBT stickers on it, and they see a bunch of other hateful content and offensive jokes about LGBT kids in their feed, and if they find a complaint about the "woke engineer who gave the job enterivew(sic) yesterday" and how he doesn't "know jack s--t about what welders do," they are going to do so much worse than Not Hire You.

We're talking screenshots. Emails. Phone calls. Plural. With follow-ups.

There are many lessons to be learned today, but the biggest one is also the simplest: be polite in public.

And this doesn't just apply when the link has been provided. Be terrible online and you will be found, during the vetting process.

 

[overgeeked]

Following this train of thought all the way to the station:

Part of my job is to review the resumes for new hires, and to vet the different contractors and their qualifications when they come on site (welders, pipefitters, operators, it takes lots of folks to build a pipeline). Well, I've noticed that in the last few years, many new applicants now include an online address for Bluesky, Instagram, LinkedIn, or Twitter X. You can probably guess where I'm going with this, but...

If you provide a social media link, prospective employers will follow it. And if they see a photo of you in a graffiti-covered hard hat complete with anti-LGBT stickers on it, and they see a bunch of other hateful content and offensive jokes about LGBT kids in their feed, and if they find a complaint about the "woke engineer who gave the job enterivew(sic)" yesterday" and how he doesn't "know jack s--t about what welders do," they are going to do so much worse than Not Hire You.

We're talking screenshots. Emails. Phone calls. Plural. With follow-ups.

There are many lessons to be learned today, but the biggest one is also the simplest: be polite in public.

My kid went to a construction trade school for a short time. The first teacher on the first day did nothing but rant about woke, illegals, and LGBTQ+ people for two plus hours.

I wish your attitude was more prevalent.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Following this train of thought all the way to the station:

Part of my job is to review the resumes for new hires, and to vet the different contractors and their qualifications when they come on site (welders, pipefitters, operators, it takes lots of folks to build a pipeline). Well, I've noticed that in the last few years, many new applicants now include an online address for Bluesky, Instagram, LinkedIn, or Twitter X. You can probably guess where I'm going with this, but...

If you provide a social media link, prospective employers will follow it. And if they see a photo of you in a graffiti-covered hard hat complete with anti-LGBT stickers on it, and they see a bunch of other hateful content and offensive jokes about LGBT kids, and if they find a complaint about the "woke engineer who gave the job enterivew(sic) yesterday" and how he doesn't "know jack s--t about what welders do," they are going to do so much worse than Not Hire You.

We're talking screenshots. Emails. Phone calls. Plural. With follow-ups.

There are many lessons to be learned today, but the biggest one is also the simplest: be polite in public.

"Well, those other guys should have been polite first! You know, by not offending me by existing! How rude! If you were really polite, you exist somewhere else, like, not near me! Is that too much to ask? No, no it is not!"

 

[Ryujin]

"Well, those other guys should have been polite first! You know, by not offending me by existing! How rude! If you were really polite, you exist somewhere else, like, not near me! Is that too much to ask? No, no it is not!"

So we should switch you to being out when you hear "Common People"?

 

[el-remmen]

TFW scanning a longish thread with a banned OP doesn’t give you the entertaining crash out you were hoping for.

 

[RealAlHazred]

So we should switch you to being out when you hear "Common People"?

"Why am I being persecuted for my perfectly reasonable statements? I shouldn't have to suffer the consequences of my actions! That's un-American!"

*In writing this piece, I had to delete and rewrite several times, because it kept sounding like a certain political figure... While I'll frequently pretend to espouse certain opinions in pursuit of (extremely questionable) humor, I draw the line at sounding like political people, as it makes me physically ill.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

While I'll frequently pretend to espouse certain opinions in pursuit of (extremely questionable) humor, I draw the line at sounding like political people, as it makes me physically ill.

I keep wanting to use a certain political figure as the basis for a dragon in my game, but then I just think of how, five seconds after everyone laughed about it, it would suck all the fun out of the session.

 

[Ryujin]

I keep wanting to use a certain political figure as the basis for a dragon in my game, but then I just think of how, five seconds after everyone laughed about it, it would suck all the fun out of the session.

Make it Shadowrun and a current billionaire, instead.

 

[Ryujin]

"Why am I being persecuted for my perfectly reasonable statements? I shouldn't have to suffer the consequences of my actions! That's un-American!"

*In writing this piece, I had to delete and rewrite several times, because it kept sounding like a certain political figure... While I'll frequently pretend to espouse certain opinions in pursuit of (extremely questionable) humor, I draw the line at sounding like political people, as it makes me physically ill.

Apologies for that. I thought I was posting it in the Whamageddon thread and also thought that I caught it before posting

Managed to click back and post, but WHOOPS!