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> CmdrTaco's in the basement mixing up the medicine,
>KDawson's on the Pavement, posting about the government.
>CowboyNeal's in the trench coat, poll out, laid off

Says he's got a bad cough, likes his job at Slashdot.

Look out kid, it's somethin' you did.
God knows when, but we're filkin' it again.
You better page down the thread a ways, linkin' to a new Friend,
The link to the Goatse site, in the big pen
He's eleven inches 'round, you only got ten.

Natalie's big tits, naked, hot grits
Talkin' that CALEA puttin' plants in the bed but
The net's tapped anyway, Natalie's right, many say
They bust Bush in early May, orders from the NSA

You must be new here, kid, don't matter what you did,
Mod up and down the Firehose, eatin' lotsa No-Doz,
Better stay away from those that decrypt with a rubberhose,
Make a clean post, watch the plainclothes,
You don't need mod points to know which way the wind blows.

Get sick, get well, hang around a inkwell,
Ring bell, hard to tell if anything is goin' to sell,
Troll hard, IP barred, get back, post Braille
Chroot-jailed, jump bail, postin' pics captioned "FAIL".
Look out kid, you're gonna get hit
By losers, cheaters, six-digit users hangin' around the theaters,
GLaDOS's chortle, make another Portal,
Don't follow leaders, watch the karma meters.

Youtubes, pwn n00bs, post b00bs, series of tubes,
Ain't fair, thow chairs, Al Gore's pig and man and bear,
Copy files, not abuse, fair use, don't steal, don't lift
Ten years of workin' and I'm postin' from my day shift

Look out kid, at -1 it's all hid,
Better jump down a manhole, Super Mario's Candle,
Don't wear sandals, post funny 'bout the scandals,
Gum's chewin' bums, in Soviet Union,
And the server's down 'cause it's outa file handles.

It isn't just the classic "customer service" jobs that see this....it is pretty much ANYONE that works a job dealing directly with the public. When you work a public facing job (I had several growing up and early school years), you see just how crazy, rude and downright stupid the general public is. It was a real eye opening experience for me.

I figured myself, and how I grew up was pretty average, and the same as most other people. Talk about a shock! I'd never seen such behavior. And man...some people can be true asshats...

I thought I'd seen it bad working in food service, and retail sales (although bartending was more fun, everyone tries to be nice to you and they are generally feeling pretty good after service)...but, the worst horror stories I'd heard was from a former girlfriend that was a flight attendant. She amazed me with stories of how rude and obnoxious people were on a regular basis. She did say it seemed to be worse in the NE section of the US, but, was generally bad all over to some extent.

I learned that you, at a minimum, want to be nice to 2 people....your bartenders (naturally), and your flight attendant, since they are your "bartender in the air".

:-)

But seriously, I used to advocate that we have some type of mandatory public service. That everyone had to at least for a year, work as a server in a restaurant or retail sales, just so people would know better how to treat people that are waiting on them. It isn't an easy job, not if you're good at it.

I've noted, however, that service jobs in recent years....quality has gone down. Seems no one is taking pride in good work these days...

[/ramble off]

>I can only imagine how many emails you will get today with "WTF?" as the subject line

Bah - there goes my plan for "First WTF?"

See this is where digg clearly has the upper hand. I mean you could take away KR for days and digg would just keep going (and going, and going....) Hell I think he's been in a hole for the past entire year ;)

It works here too. The slashdot server has a daemon process called 'kdawson' that puts random submissions on the front page. I think it's in line for a promotion to senior editor as soon as it gets its 'Turing Test' accreditation.

After 20 pages of long debunks it would become apparent that people had wasted part of their lives arguing with another bored rogue who didn't believe any of the crap they were posting. Not only were they playing a joke on their fellow rogues but they were making fun of people that came to their forums to complain. In a similar manner I wonder if any of these emails or posts on slashdot are from bored people expressing fake opinions that are the oppossite of their real ones, just for the amusement of seeing the responses.

On behalf of everybody at Dell, I'd like to congratulate you on the purchase of your first computer, and I offer you a hearty welcome to the Internet. These people are called "trolls" [wikipedia.org] and it is in fact perfectly legal to kill them with fire.