Okay... · 3:15am Jan 28th, 2015
Can we cut it out with the death threats? Please?
I don't care who did what to someone. I don't care what causes someone supports or what stupid things they have said. There is no reason to wish death on someone. It's not some stupid, harmless joke on the Internet. I have people calling in and threatening to kill me or my coworkers every damn day because of our job. I've had people threaten to assassinate the governor because their insurance carrier is taking too long to process some paperwork. I can't publicly acknowledge where I work for fear of someone kicking my ass or trying to gun me down.
Do I soldier on? As much as I can, but when you're bombarded with the shit, it's not a pleasant experience. I know that nobody that calls in threatening to plant bombs on our cars or run us over in the parking lot is likely to follow through, but that doesn't eliminate the fear that some day, one person will be crazy enough and driven enough to do just that.
Death threats are not jokes, especially when they're told behind the anonymity the Internet provides. Anyone who says they're going to kill someone because they said or did something they didn't like could actually be dead serious, and nobody will listen because it's drowned in a sea of "tough guys" who want to look bigger than they really are.
The Internet is, as a whole, a cruel and disgusting place...and that's supposed to be a good thing?
Have I missed something?
I'll be praying for you, man.
It's GIFT: Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory at work. Keeping your professional life separate from all this is not that bad of an idea.
I am content that I am in fact according to the Internet (or at least Tumblr) the most evil and vile thing in the world that everyone hates and no one piss on if I was one fire. I still think it's all stupid and hypocritical
I'm scared to ask what the hell happened.
perhaps if you could explain what this entails i would be able to give some useful feedback....
Bad day at work, or was this over an Internet thing?
If you work in telemarketing, then they can pass threats all they want. Those people aren't human and should be terminated upon their identities revealed.
*adds J/K to signify this is a joke, awaits a Canadian to report this to authorities.*
But yeah, sounds like your job sucks. Might wanna try to apply to better or equal paying, less stress inducing line of work.
But sounds like you work for an insurance company. You have my pity. Go read something cute, or at least something you can tear to pieces, either or: Therapy Reading
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.
Sorry to hear that. I only did something like that once when I was a teenager and I've felt bad about it ever since. It's also one of the reasons I stay away from several places on the internet, to avoid that sort of thing. Hope it gets better for you, in whatever line of work you do. Maybe when summer rolls around and people are too busy being outside in the sun to say stupid things online.
The internet can a magnificent place of free flowing information, and endless entertainment.
It's also a complete cesspool populated by people who feel free to show their very worst. I suppose you gotta take the bad with the good, but sometimes...
Those people are sick in the head. I hope they learn their lesson.
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Normally I don't respond to thing like this, but dude, not cool. I don't care if you're trying to be funny, that's still not cool.
As for IAH (can I call you that?) I admire the fact that you keep soldiering on. I would have hid in my house, in my basement, under a blanket.
Rule #1 of dealing with people...
All people are stupid
Rule #2 of dealing with people...
Never forget rule #1.
Expect the absolute worst from people all the time every time, that way when they actually act like decent human beings you'll feel fine. And it's usually best to try and distance personal life from work. That is not to say it will stop these morons from doing it but it will limit the chance of one of these actual nuts from literally doing bad things to you or your family.
This is coming from someone who deals with thousands of people on a daily basis, literally, I see all kinds of people everyday and 98% of them could lose a test to a bag of rocks.
Best advise, become a massive sarcastic asshole. Why? Because most of the mouth breathers are too stupid to realize you're directly insulting them until the smart people around them laugh.
2752668 There's humour to be found in any situation.
Contact the police. Ponies, both you and the scumbags, do not understand what anonymity means on the Internet:
Anonymity means that you can escape your life and use any pseudonym on the Internet or be anonymous. That is what Internet-Anonymity means. Internet-Anonymity does not mean untraceability:
The Internet is a packet-switching NetWork. ¿How do the routers route the data-packets? Every Packet-has the IP-Address (Internet-Protocol) of its origin, destination, and the routers it transverses as it travels through the Internet. Every computer on the Internet has an IP-Address. The police can track the threats to Joe Smoe at 123 Fake Street. The only problem is that police are not very helpful:
Bored cop basically harrass random people they find on the street. When one needs the cops, the police are not helpful at all:
In my town, we have a gang stealing smart phones. The gang forgot to turn off a stolen phone. The phone told the owner its location to within 6 meters. The stolen telephone probably was with scores of other deactivated stolen phones and the thieves. The owner gave this message to the police. ¿Did the lazy donut-eaters go and bust the gang, recover the stolen, property, and be big damned heroes? ¡No!:
The cops were too lazy. The phone did 90% of their job for them. The police were probably too busy extorting bribes and free sex from prostitutes:
I believe that we have a special term for when one forces someone to have sex. This extorting free sex seems to be that. The term rhymes with ape, like the apes in the Equestrian Movies. Unfortunately, prostitutes are below the law, while cops are above the law.
I recommend that you report the death-threats to the police, but do not hold your breath waiting for the police to do something about the death-threats.
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That is the most worthless advice I've heard today. Given what he's already said about his work, I think it's a given that the police already know. And then you go off calling police lazy corrupt assholes who get bribes from people? Right...you are one of the very people I watch out for. You keep me in a job, so thanks for that.
Moving on, asking for death threats to stop really isn't going to do anything. Neither will reverse psychology of saying thanks and keep them coming...if you have a means to check where these calls are coming from I suggest you do it, feed that info to your superiors and they will pass it up the chain of command till the cops have all they need to make an arrest.
With the world events right now, all you need is one idiot to call and make a threat and forgot to cover his tracks and he will have his ass nailed to a wall. Threats, harassment, all today can be conceived as domestic terrorism.
2752338 it might be related to the brewhaha that's going on with the Bobby Curnow EQD interview.
Lord knows I'm feeling depressed about that.
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It's actually something that happened personally. I don't really want to say any more on the subject.
Reminds me of the reasons why I hate Rainbow Bob fanfics: the retarded fanboys will threaten to maim you and rape your family if you say anything negative about their lord and savior.
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I have no idea what this is...
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Sorry to hear that. Go play Resident Evil 4 or something to blow off steam; that's what I do. That or StarFox 64.
Sorry to hear that. You must have a very intense job.
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Competency? Less so.
I totally agree. Sending anonymous death threats are what people with no power do. They crave anything that could make them feel better than another person. They tear others down so they can feel better about their sad lives.
There's nothing we here as your followers can really do, except say that we'll be here for you to vent to, when you need to.
I'm sorry that you have to deal with this shit, man.
2752426 15 people don't know that copy/pasta lol.....
2753234 well then this post is pointless since we can't help with anything until we know what's going on.....
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Or maybe 15 people know that copypasta, but don't find it funny in this context.
2754529 maybe....