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[Higgenbotham]

(You haven't mentioned this, but I assume that
there's no chance that she's making a romantic pitch, and that she
simply waited a "decent interval" to ask you out.)

No chance that is happening.

[Higgenbotham]

For stupid, incompetent Gen-Xers in the workplace, the greatest threat
is someone like yourself who actually knows how to do the job, and who
does it competently and professionally. Therefore, for these people,
the objective is to sabotage you and your work in order to get you
fired or force you to resign.

And here's the point that I'm making: I'm not saying that you resigned
in a passive manner, just because things got so bad. I'm saying that
forcing you to resign was a purposeful act of sabotage on the part of
your Gen-X supervisor and his Gen-X "team." And they succeeded.

So now your manager is looking back at the wreckage of what happened,
and she sends you a message telling you how great you were, and how
she misses you. So I'm going to guess is that she feels guilty for
letting all that happen, and she's angry for falling victim to this
act of purposeful sabotage that led to disaster in her organization.

I think what really happened was a variation of what you're describing. Placing the mentally ill and dangerous woman in my cubicle was done purposefully as an act of sabotage, but it was not done to get me to resign. I think it was quite the opposite. As I posted before, one month after I quit, that woman was fired. She had served her purpose.

In that workplace, there are two groups of engineers with two pay scales and two sets of perks - the licensed engineers and the non licensed engineers. They are always looking for more licensed engineers. Licensed engineers are those who have passed the state licensing exam and are required to sign off on infrastructure projects. They are what I would call the "designated felons" if something goes wrong with a project. In our workplace, they get their own offices and the best offices. After I was there a few months, my manager called me in and asked if I had taken the licensing exam. He said he had a job in mind for me and would hold it pending the results of the exam. I told him I hadn't taken it. That topic was not discussed again.

After that, I got a succession of cube mates (whereas previous to that discussion I had my own cubicle, but not a great one), each worse than the previous one. The tactic was to keep making my life more and more miserable so that I would "see the light" and take the licensing exam so I could have my own office and become one of their "designated felons".

[Higgenbotham]

A few years ago we discussed the AP reports, which primarily focused on the NRC and "pencil engineering". The concept prevalent today is for Boomer managers to have "plausible deniability" as less money is allocated and available for infrastructure and engineers are designated to be blamed when something like the Flint water crisis occurs. After that, the old Soviet playbook comes out and there are Promparty style show trials in the media and the "industrial wreckers" are carted off to prison to do their "tenner".

Part of that process is to place Gen X front line and department managers between the "designated felons" and the Boomer managers who are not licensed engineers and, in many cases, don't even have engineering degrees at all. That helps to insulate the top Boomer managers, who then have more excuses to say they were not properly informed.

[Higgenbotham]

Now for an example of how insidious this is getting, which both shows the above process and is verifiable by the lay person through Internet search, which will determine nothing is being done about trace pharma residues in water, which are obviously dangerous.

As everyone knows, drinking water is becoming scarce worldwide. There is a lot of discussion about how to take the next tier of water sources, the ones that are pathogen and trace chemical laden, and use them for drinking water.

A year or two ago, I listened to a 1-2 hour webcast on that topic. The speaker droned on and on about pathogen removal, backup pathogen removal, fail safes for backup pathogen removal, etc., then at the end opened it up for questions. Near the very end someone asked what about the chemicals. The answer was basically we're not worried about that because nobody can prove harm, we only want to worry about the stuff we've got liability for and we haven't got the money to do it. End of discussion on chemicals.

[Higgenbotham]

Another observation I would make about the situation in Michigan. Several state and local employees were criminally charged. They can do Promparty-like show trials to put a spotlight on the "industrial wreckers" but that will only accelerate the exodus of competence. The competent understand the implications of who gets a target placed on them versus who is really at fault.

[Higgenbotham]

MEMORANDUM

TO: Interested Parties
FROM: Rusty Hills, Senior Advisor, Department of Attorney General
DATE: June 14, 2017
RE: Legal Update

I am writing for the purpose of providing you with a brief update on the latest decisions and
determinations made regarding the Flint Water Crisis investigation.

As you may know, in 2014 the City of Flint switched water sources to the Flint River without
adding the proper anti-corrosive treatment. As a result, lead leached from the pipes, joints and
fixtures into the water. Because of that, many of Flint’s children suffer from high blood lead
levels. Moreover, numerous individuals have died from Legionnaires’ disease. To this day,
even during the heat of summer, many residents of Flint refuse to drink water from their tap.

Composition of the Team

To investigate and prosecute what occurred in the Flint Water crisis, Attorney General Schuette
called upon the best of the best. He named former Wayne County Assistant Prosecutor Todd
Flood and Andrew Arena, former Special Agent in Charge of the Detroit Field Office of the FBI,
to spearhead the investigation. Both have extensive experience in public corruption cases.
In addition, Genesee County (Flint) Prosecutor David Leyton and retired Circuit Court Judge
David Hoort have “peer-reviewed” the various charging documents.

Retired Chief Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals William C. Whitbeck has also brought his
considerable skills and powerful presence to this investigation.

Total Charges

Since the investigation began in January of 2016, the Attorney General has charged fifteen
individuals with crimes related to the Flint Water crisis. As of today, there have been a total of
51 charges.

New Charges

On Wednesday, June 14, 2017, the Attorney General charged five individuals with involuntary
manslaughter, and a sixth individual was charged with obstruction of justice.

Investigation Moves into a New Phase

This marks the completion of this phase of the criminal investigation of the Flint Water
Crisis. While continuing to aggressively pursue and gather new and compelling evidence, a
significant focus of the Flint Water Crisis investigation will turn to the prosecution of those
individuals who have been charged with crimes.

Conclusion

The Flint water crisis is a man-made disaster of significant proportions. The switch in water
sources set off a chain of events that continues to unfold.

Citizens of Flint, including children, continue to suffer ill effects because of this switch. The
response to the water crisis in Flint was characterized by a failure by certain public officials to
protect the public health, safety and welfare. These are duties and responsibilities imposed by
the constitution and the laws of the State of Michigan.

The charge of this independent review is to determine what laws may have been violated in the
course of the failure to deliver safe water to the citizens of Flint. And where laws have been
broken, to hold individuals responsible.

NOTE: Attached, please see a copy of remarks delivered at the June 14 news conference by
Attorney General Bill Schuette, in which the Attorney General announces the latest charges in
the Flint Water Crisis investigation.

[Higgenbotham]

No thanks.

I'll head out to a rural area and watch it collapse from there.

[FishbellykanakaDude]

...

It's pretty clear that you don't have the vaguest clue what's going on
here, which isn't suprising, given that you're the poster child for
Gen-X incompetence and stupidity.

You seem to think that I and other Boomers give a shit what you think
of us. You've been posting the same rant for years, and every time
you do, it makes it clear just how incredibly stupid and incompetent
you are.

You're so stupid and incompetent, I doubt that you could
figure out how to punch your way out of a paper bag.

You'd have to call out to a Boomer to get you out. Otherwise you'd be
stuck in the paper bag forever. You are really the epitome of first class
stupidity.

..I think thatʻs "WET paper bag". Just sayin'...

What I and other Boomers are looking forward to is being dead, because
we're sick and tired of having to bail you out after one of your Gen-X
debacles. It's just not worth it anymore, especially since your
debacles keep getting worse and worse.

So rant all you want, and play all your games of hopscotch and
ping-pong in the workplace, pretending to be getting things done. I'm
just relieved that I'll be dead and I won't have to be there to save
you and other stupid, incompetent children from the worsening mess
that you're creating.

The Gen-X "way" is the way of despair. I very nearly fell into that hole, being right on the cusp between Boomer and Gen-X.

Now, I don't actually look forward to being dead, but I do look forward to not associating with people (any more than necessary) who base every action (they take) on resentment and desperation.

As a Boomer, I was too young, and was not taken seriously. It didn't help that I was also physically small and rather neotenous (male). As a Gen-Xer, I was too old, and was considered an "outsider".

I never had a Boomer "job". I was quite incompetent in my Gen-Xer jobs, though I could "fake it" quite well being of the "MacGyver" type, because I could learn the basics of what I needed to know on a "just in time" basis to wire up the desired device with the paperclips and used duct-tape available.

My "fellow" Gen-Xers were generally no more competent than I was, but they had a "strange confidence" (in my naive perception) to "make it" out of the "fake it" mode into a Peter Principle position, where confidence was valued infinitely higher than competence. I could also not handle the anxiety of being unethical to keep a job.

I couldn't get over my anxiety of not really knowing what I needed to know to REALLY be able to "see the consequences" of my "flying by the seat of my pants" process. So, I simply (!?) decoupled my sense of self worth from what I did (occupationally) and developed a "habit" of taking jobs where I could strive to make myself redundant (set up systems to make my personal inputs to them unnecessary), which sufficiently paid for that which I needed money to acquire.

My point, in this rambling prose, is that false confidence, anxiety and resentment are the primary drivers of the world's march to war, and while I'm not "looking forward to death" to rid myself of annoying people, I also don't fear either death or losing my self-worth to my circumstances in the eyes of "annoying people".

I am looking forward to my "death" to "the world" that plying the planet's oceans in a tiny boat will bring, though!

Aloha īa ʻoukou. Nā mahalo, gangies! <shaka nui!>

[aeden]

just in time to vote Democrat in the midterm
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03- ... pes-asylum

[CH86]

Boomers need to grow some compassion and invest in their kids. Remember the younger generations are America's Future and the West's Future.