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Resting by the shade of the tumtum tree, yahr!
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I agree. You really need to go to HR or something. You shouldn't have to deal with that.


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Also, make sure you have given him a "stop order" - flat out telling him to stop the behaviors (if possible with witnesses)- it strengthens the HR case.

Do -not- let a lack of witnesses stop you though, and harassers like this are also bullies. Don't make these 'letters you don't send' tell him these things.


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great minds beezee

that was my originally suggestion - but i think this is one step further, where a stop order shouldn't be needed by anyone - it's obviously out of line - that doesn't stop one being used as backup of course.


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I prefer to live in a country that's small, and old, and where no one would ever have the NERVE to wear a cape in public, whether they could leap tall buildings in a single bound or not.

trolls are like pigeons..keep feeding them and they keep coming back and shitting in your street.
 
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Thanks for your support everyone. I was hesitating because I hadn't given a stop order yet, not specifically about this last thing. I'm prepared, though.

I also talked with a couple people last night and am more grounded now - I know I can just walk out, I don't even need to give him another chance.

They also helped me with: it doesn't matter if he realizes what he's doing or not, it doesn't matter if he's doing it because he's an absentminded flake. What does matter is that I don't want him in my space or touching me. Period.



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quote:
Originally posted by Weeble:
Thanks for your support everyone. I was hesitating because I hadn't given a stop order yet, not specifically about this last thing. I'm prepared, though.

I also talked with a couple people last night and am more grounded now - I know I can just walk out, I don't even need to give him another chance.

They also helped me with: it doesn't matter if he realizes what he's doing or not, it doesn't matter if he's doing it because he's an absentminded flake. What does matter is that I don't want him in my space or touching me. Period.


*hugs*

damn right!


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I prefer to live in a country that's small, and old, and where no one would ever have the NERVE to wear a cape in public, whether they could leap tall buildings in a single bound or not.

trolls are like pigeons..keep feeding them and they keep coming back and shitting in your street.
 
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*hugs for Weeble*

go to HR.

otherwise we'll need to have a kneecap-breaking boardmeat

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AAAaaaa. What everyone else said.
Ew.

Why I was here in the first place:

Dear Translink,

I fully realise that you have no control over Ianrod Eireann's staffing difficulties. On the other hand, when this leads to having no drivers for the cross-border service, you do actually have options beyond accepting their crappy substitute buses and being generally useless.
You could, for example:
  • Send down a couple of NIR drivers and get them to do it. Somebody could do with the overtime, I'm sure.
  • Failing that, scare up a train and a driver and at least take the service as far as Newry, and reduce the amount of time your customers are stuck on IE's crappy substitute buses.
  • If you can't scare up a train, at least run the Portadown one on out. Yes, the subsequent service to Bangor will be delayed, but frankly, seeing as they get pandered to in every fucking way possible it probably won't kill them to see how everyone else lives.
  • Dodgy cheap-ass coaches that IE found in the back of a barn are not an adequate substitution for your flagship rail service. At least ensure they replace the train with their own coaches, you know, the nice ones with a suspension.
  • And regardless of anything else, you should have as many staff as you can lay your hands on at the front door of the station explaining the situation, and apologising profusely. Preferably the highest ranking ones you can find, and ideally the Cross Border Service boss.
  • Do not, under any circumstances, try an charge people a full rail fare for a bus. Charge the bus fare. Take the hit. Anything else is fraud.

    And you know what? It is your fault. If the service you advertise is not running, you are responsible. That's it. I don't care that its IE that have a staffing shortage, that is not an excuse. What you need to do is make them look bad. As it is, you just made yourselves look bad by accommodating their crappy customer service.

    Get it together.
    No love.
    Me.


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    You are a Leprechaun. I'm not even sure what you are. Whiskey-soaked reports from your baffling Isle of Ire raise more questions than they answer. Are you a dwarf? Where's your pickax? If you're an elf, why don't you cobble? You'd think with all your gold, you could invest in some land, perhaps a title, and improve your station. Instead, you hide it in meteorologically-determined locations. You're getting killed on inflation, little friend!
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    *edited*

    Well i am sober now.

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    aw, we had a bout of drunken posting and I missed it? Smile

    *hugs*

    Dear Big Ball Of Flaming Gas:

    I know I forgot to put on sunblock, but it wasn't my idea of a thrilling time to sit and get baked by your UV rays. Could you tone it down a bit next time?

    Painfully,
    Me and my sensitive skin.





    I would have thought the end of the world is everyone's responsibility, wouldn't you? ~Death in Thief of Time


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    Dear You:

    I hope you know what you're doing. Because something has to change. Soon.

    Please take care.

    Sincerely,
    me


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    One more Letter:

    Please give me the strength to do what I need to do.

    Thank you.

    Sincerely,
    Matthew


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    Dear housemate,

    I just want to say that what happened last night proves that you were talking out of your arse about 'attitude'. You didn't have to do anything apart from walk through the bar to join me and I saw three girls turn to look at you admiringly. I've never experienced that, and never will. It's a physical thing, not an 'attitude' thing.



    "The other night I dreamed that King George VI was dead, and that Helen Hardinge had somehow or other got herself proclaimed Queen of England, and that I was detailed to go and tell her that it wouldn't do at all; and when I did this, all she said was, 'You see, I am really Queen Mary,' and I said, 'Oh very well' - words to that effect, and woke up.

    Last night I dreamed that Eisenhower came to stay with us, and he insisted on being put to sleep in the dog kennel, with a collar and chain about his neck."

    - Sir Alan Lascelles, 19 February 1980
     
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    That's just because when you're walking through the bar you're not looking at whose heads are turning.


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    Zombies, rum and tender kisses have defined the tone of our relationship ever since.
     
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    Dear You,

    I'm not a Pagan, but thursday is Beltane, and we need to celebrate, girl. Seriously.

    Me


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    ~Stephen Colbert
     
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    Dear friends,

    It is very inconvenient for me that you are all having major crises when I am in the middle of finals. Really, think about what's important here: ME!!!

    Love,
    Weeble



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    quote:
    Originally posted by Weeble:
    Dear friends,

    It is very inconvenient for me that you are all having major crises when I am in the middle of finals. Really, think about what's important here: ME!!!

    Love,
    Weeble


    you are right, they should all be thinking about you Big Grin

    *hugs*

    Cool


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    I prefer to live in a country that's small, and old, and where no one would ever have the NERVE to wear a cape in public, whether they could leap tall buildings in a single bound or not.

    trolls are like pigeons..keep feeding them and they keep coming back and shitting in your street.
     
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    salad, hold the hummus.
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    Dear Surgeon,

    The nose you are working on today belongs to my ex. Please do your worst!

    Me


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    I've found that the best thing to do with unsent correspondence is to actually send it, for there is much laughter to be had.

    Getting the words "Face like a melted owl" into a local newspaper is still my life's greatest achievement.

    WARNING: Link contains references to 300foot floodlit statues of Brave Kylie Minogue


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    My home town claims to have the sunniest climate in Britain. Then I read American Gods and realised you never see last year's carnival queen...
     
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    was not written by a man named "Cougar"
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    Dear mom -

    I know I'm your firstborn baby, but baby is going on 22 years! Let me go! If this really does turn out to be a mistake, then you can say "you told me so" all you want. But until then, please...let me be an adult and make a big decision by myself.

    I love you endlessly,
    your daughter


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    There was a single blue line of crayon drawn across every wall in the house.
    "What does it mean?" I asked.
    "A pirate needs the site of the sea," he said, and then he pulled his eye patch down and turned and sailed away.
     
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    Dear You,

    Meh. I wish I never saw that.

    - me
     
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