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Speaker Of Truths wrote:The point being, you get no cool points for identifying a situation you are a willing instigator of. He had a problem with me on Sucks, some sort of personality or character defect prevented him from coming to me with it the way a sensible and respectful board Admin would, and so instead he made that clown Smiley a Mod, and sat back and laughed as Smiley did what he is known for doing on forums. It had no effect on me because I am pretty much flame resistant, but once Smiley realised he couldn't drag me down to his level and was looking quite the fool, being unable to humiliate me even with the tools advantage, he pretty much set the forum on fire instead. And so now Eric is trying to come to terms with being the fire investigator who recruited an arsonist to deal with the small amount of smoke in the office bin that resulted from his own negligent practice of smoking in the office. And now he's all bitter because as it turns out, and as he surely knew all the time, Crow's can roost wherever they like and shit on whoever they want. It's just what they are. And when it comes to people needing no excuse to issue childish insults about Jimmy, and in threads which have absolutely nothing to do with Jimmy, for nothing more than a cheap thrill, Eric is the master. I kept my mouth shut about this and many of his other really embarrassing qualities since I did rather like the corner office I had at Sucks, but nor did I join in with the preferred office banter of the boss like the insecure children of Wikipediocracy do. But that's just me, a decent hard working critic who has never given anyone any reason to believe he's in this line of work for the wrong reasons or for the short haul. Eric may yet be the reason I call it quits, and if it is, I'll not be marking that sad victory for the Wikipedians/WMF with childish name calling and short term gratification, I'll be trying my hardest to honour the fine American traditions of how you settle your grievances with the PHB. I never claimed to anyone I was looking to approach Wikipedia criticism as academic or a journalist, even though I have the means and skills and knowledge to do so. But if that's what the Eric's, Jake's and Gender Lady's of this world wanted of me, if they're now regretting getting on my bad side, they should have dealt with me the way a Dean or an Editor In Chief does. Having to be nice to the lab rats, having to put up with them biting you when you're counting their diseases, having to share lab space with Section 8's, Nigerian scammers, child molesters, conspiracy theorists and special needs kids, and being talked down to and taken for granted by your boss, is not what professionals have to put up with. It is said they do the latter at the Mail, but clearly some professionals, the sharp eyed ruthless ambitious kind, will trade a little personal discomfort for being part of an award winning market leading highly influential newsroom. Eric isn't offering anyone that. Not even close. Eric was arguably the worst offender in the competition of who can run the worst outfit. He admitted himself, running shit wasn't his bag, but we see now why he kept hold of his master keys. Self interest. Even Jimmy looks good in comparison, having been brave enough to hand over what he arguably never needed to or should have. Eric's got the exit interview from Hell waiting for him, that arrogant, ignorant, useless bastard. Nobody buys a book from a man who makes the sort of basic screw-ups he does and yet seems to think he's a fucking genius. Nobody respects a man who loses an entire filing cabinet of good investigatory material in a fire of his own making, and then tries to blame the man who filled it for its loss. I don't have insurance policies or backup copies, I'm more of an old school kind of guy. You lose it through your own negligence, and you owe me a body part at the very least. This is no game for me, but it is merely a hobby not a job. Eric is the last person you would have expected not to be wise to the implications of that for his own interests given his self penned book jacket. But read a few pages, read his increasingly out of date and ill informed forum posts, and you soon realise why he can't seem to do the right thing in a crisis situation where his credentials and character are really being tested. He's a walking talking dementia case, bitter, twisted, angry, confused, cringeworthy, but most of all forgetful and unfocused, and thus quite useless. If he was ever a war hero, a Barnes Wallis, and that might just be his brain playing a cruel trick on him, he's most definitely been fighting the last war, probably the one before that, for a while now. And since he's not my pop pop, as much as I swear I think he thought he was at times, I feel not one bit of guilt or remorse for leaving him in his urine soaked bed in the care of a psychotic nurse. If me fighting said nurse pulls at his catheter, making his sunset years miserable, then fuck him. He's a Yank, so he should know the cost of not having ensured you had properly funded your health care needs. HTD.