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2016.01.04 21:29 Not_An_Ambulance Malicious Compliance

People conforming to the letter, but not the spirit, of a request.
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2019.08.31 19:31 PenpalWithMe

Share tips and ideas about the timeless art of letter writing. Received a beautiful stamp? Cool envelope? Share it here!
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2024.05.14 22:15 french_jc [M4F] Wholesome romance, slice of life

Are you ready to embark on a journey of love, passion, and intrigue? Join me in a roleplay experience where we'll explore the exhilarating thrill of the chase and the enchanting beauty of falling in love. I'm a seasoned roleplayer, eager to delve into the depths of character development and storytelling. If you're someone who enjoys crafting intricate plots and building meaningful connections between characters, then you're the partner I've been searching for. Together, let's weave a tale of romance that will leave us breathless and longing for more.
Some scenarios ideas:
1. Enigmatic Neighbors: In a quaint suburban neighborhood, a man in his forties moves in next door to a young woman in her twenties. Despite their age difference, there's an undeniable spark between them from the moment they meet. He's intrigued by her youthful energy and vibrant spirit, while she's drawn to his maturity and charm. However, beneath her confident facade lies a history of trauma from her teenage years, which has left her guarded and hesitant to open up to others. As they navigate the complexities of neighborly interactions, he becomes determined to unravel the layers of her past and show her that she deserves love and happiness. Could their budding romance heal old wounds and ignite a passion that transcends time and circumstance?
2. Rekindled Friendship: After fifteen long years of separation, two childhood best friends are reunited by chance. Despite the passage of time, their bond remains as strong as ever, and they quickly fall back into their familiar rhythm of laughter and shared memories. They've always shared a love for adventure and exploration, often dreaming of traveling the world together. In her teenage years, she was a tomboy, always eager to climb trees and explore hidden caves, but now she's transformed into a woman who exudes femininity and curves that captivate his attention. As they embark on new adventures and discover the depths of their connection, they find themselves drawn to each other in ways they never expected. Will they dare to take the leap from friendship to something more, or will fear of losing what they already have hold them back from true happiness?
3. Unexpected Romance: In a chance encounter, a self-conscious virgin in his twenties crosses paths with an older woman who exudes confidence and allure. Initially drawn to her out of a sense of admiration and curiosity, he finds himself captivated by her warmth and understanding. She, in turn, is touched by his vulnerability and innocence, seeing in him a reflection of her own past insecurities. As they navigate the complexities of desire and intimacy, they form a unique bond based on trust, acceptance, and a shared desire for exploration. Can their unconventional connection withstand the judgment of society and the doubts that plague their own minds?
4. Unconventional Desires: Amidst the tapestry of human relationships, an unconventional bond forms between two individuals drawn together by the primal instinct of nurturing and intimacy. In a world where taboos reign supreme, they find solace and fulfillment in the act of adult nursing or adult breastfeeding. Perhaps one is a nurturing caregiver seeking to provide comfort and sustenance, while the other is a willing recipient yearning for the intimate connection it brings. As they explore the depths of their desires and confront societal norms head-on, they discover a profound sense of belonging and acceptance in each other's arms. Will they dare to defy convention and embrace the uncharted territory of their unconventional love?
If you're interested in joining me on Discord for this roleplay adventure, know that I prefer to write in the first person point of view to fully immerse myself in the character's emotions and experiences. As a 44-year-old from Europe, I enjoy the dynamic of playing against a feminine character with nice curves. It may sound superficial, but it's my preference, and I know I won't fully enjoy the roleplay if she does not meet those criteria. Additionally, please note that all characters depicted in this roleplay are 18 years of age or older. Let's embark on a journey of love and discovery together, crafting a story where our characters' desires intertwine and their destinies collide in the most unexpected of ways.
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2024.05.14 22:13 sensualsanta Template for letter for employer?

Hi everyone, a client's employer keeps scheduling client for when our sessions are supposed to take place, despite client constantly reminding employer they don't respect client's schedule. I'm wondering if anyone has a template or an idea of how to write a letter to employer stating this hour as a need/blocked out time for client? This is something client agreed to.
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2024.05.14 22:11 Markbrian1231 Help a Newbie decide

I have notice of termination, reason is under performance and I am still on probationary period. So we have like 5 types of trainings before regularization, I am on the 3rd part now. The maintaining average/score for overall is 85% and I am merely points away to meet the 85%. Still, I failed to achieve the maintaining score for the most recent training. The environment and people are good and easily adaptable but it is night shift, but hybrid setup.
This is my first job, as a fresh grad last ber months, I applied by last week of January and hired by February, I've got ABOVE average salary with the company so you can tell that the company I am working for is high standard. What can I do to avoid termination record for the good of my career for long? Can I file for resignation and what shall I include in resignation letter?
Thanks
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2024.05.14 22:11 SeekHelpThrowaway1 My "affair" with my boss...

Names have been changed to protect those involved.
One of my earliest memories of flirtation dates back to around June of 2022, during a casual encounter at Clowns'R'Us. I vividly recall asking for a bottle of pop, and his playful response, something along the lines of "if you give me all the love in your heart forever." Although the exact details have blurred over time, the impact was profound - my heart raced, and my mind buzzed with excitement. Following that moment, I found myself increasingly captivated by him. With my marriage already strained, and unsure of his relationship status, it was a pivotal moment just before he began dating Jennifer.
Our flirtatious banter continued to evolve over the span of several months, with him often taking the lead, while I, admittedly shy, mustered courage for occasional bold interjections. One memorable exchange occurred during our shared enjoyment of Bawls energy drinks, when he jokingly remarked about the universal need for "bawls in their mouth" – a humorous prelude, in hindsight. Another instance arose while we were sealing envelopes, where I inquired about the type of stamps, playfully alluding to my penchant for licking things. His reaction was a delightful mix of surprise and amusement. “That was dirty!” He exclaimed in response. As our connection deepened, he extended an invitation to his Discord server, aptly named [Removed for privacy]. There, our interactions took on a more playful tone, even to the point of incorporating a playful flirtation with a porn bot. While I no longer have access to the server, certain memories, like his virtual gesture of "licking," remain vivid.
Feb 6, 2023 I took a leap of faith and decided to make my move on Discord. After months of teasing and listening to his claims about how large his penis is, I found myself deeply attracted to him. I confessed my feelings, though the specifics of our conversation elude me as I deleted the messages afterward. While he initially turned me down, I persisted, and our flirtatious dynamic continued.
Feb 8, 2023 I spent an hour on a video call with him on Discord. During our conversation, he casually mentioned missing seeing a certain physical attribute (due to Jennifer not having them - breasts), and without hesitation, I boldly showed him mine. The expression on his face made it clear that he appreciated the view, and I couldn't help but crave to see that look again. Additionally, he mentioned a dating website where I could find a picture of his penis, under the account name "[Removed for Privacy]" Unfortunately, that account has been deleted since then.
Feb 9, 2023 We had another video chat, but I was feeling down and ended up in tears. Unfortunately, he didn't offer much comfort and turned me down once more. After that encounter, I decided to take a step back for a while. He was preoccupied with getting The Outpost up and running, as well as finalizing the split from Clowns'R'Us.
March 12, 2023 It was Sunday. The Outpost was open. I don't recall who all was working other than Bobby, myself, and Richard. Tiffany was also there as it was the weekend. I was in the backroom untangling wires, and Richard came into the back and said something along the lines of "I wish I was at home in bed getting a blow job right now", so I replied with my willingness to help him out with the blow job. He looked around to figure out where we could do it without getting caught, as the store was open at the time (it was the middle of the afternoon). I personally had been thinking about parking somewhere on the way home, and doing it in the car. He didn’t seem to want to wait that long. In the end, he stood in front of the door to the backroom and I knelt in front of him. “Don’t tell anyone”, he told me. The whole thing only took like 30 seconds that time. He later blamed it on his bite injury causing him issues, but I honestly think it was mostly just nerves on both our parts. Although the encounter was short-lived, it left me contemplating whether it was due to performance issues or sheer desire on his part. He didn't even have time to get fully hard, and it left me believing he was kinda on the smaller side. When he's fully soft, his dick hides like a turtle. I think it's cute, lol. But he’s a grower, not a show-er. When he’s fully hard, it’s a decent size, I later learned.
Afterward, he admitted it was a mistake and promised it wouldn't repeat. Although I was saddened, I reluctantly accepted his explanation for a while. I confided in my best friend about the incident when it happened, but a few days later, I falsely claimed it never occurred, leading to a heated argument between us - our first major disagreement.
April 26, 2023 I overheard him make a comment to someone during the work day about missing titties. So after everyone else left for the night, and it was just me and him working, I offered to show him mine again. He accepted the offer. I begged him to touch me. He asked if he would get in trouble. I told him no. He took off his glasses and put his head in between them. Then he let me suck him off again. He lasted much longer this time. We both agreed afterwards that it was the last time.
May 3, 2023 Richard was giving me and the annoying kid a ride home. After he dropped the annoying kid off, I mentioned to him that I really didn't feel like going home yet, cause I didn't want to go home to an empty house. He suggested I could clean his bedroom for some extra cash. Jennifer was on her way to Chicago that night. We went to his apartment. I can't fully recall the timeline of events that night, so I'll try to get everything in order as best I can. I started tidying up his bedroom. He had me change the sheets on his bed, and afterwards he made a comment about how he should have asked me to clean naked. I sat on his bed while he talked to Jennifer on the phone for a bit, joking with her about K-pop music. Then he came back to his bedroom and shut and locked the door. I knew at that point that something would happen between us. I tried to kiss him, and he said he doesn't kiss. I asked him to finger me, and he said "no, because then I'll never get rid of you." He made a comment later about how he couldn't fuck me without a condom. Up to that point, I didn't think he'd even be willing to do so at all. After that I sat down, and reached to grab his dick cause I knew he was still willing to do something. He asked if I was trying to do what he thought I was trying to do. I said yes. He laid down on the bed and let me suck him. At one point, he grabbed his dick and had me suck on his balls. I had never done this before, or ever even been asked to do this before, so I did the best I could with it. He seemed to enjoy it. After he was done, he sat and played his new COD game for a few minutes, then took me home. We were at his apartment from 10:09 PM until 11:29 PM. I think this was the night I really started to fall in love with him.
May 19, 2023 I don't recall too many details about this time. We were in the backroom of the Outpost again. I showed him my tits and while I was sucking him off, he asked to fuck them. He was sitting in a chair, and I was kneeling in front of him, so it was exactly the best angle for doing it, but I did my best with it.
May 25, 2023 I don't recall too much about this time either. I believe I started it this time, asking him if he wanted anything, and he said "why not, after the day I've had" or something to that effect. This time he sucked on my tits. I then sucked him off again. Again, in the backroom of The Outpost. I think this was the time when I stopped towards the end cause I wanted to get a good look at his dick fully hard, because I was always too busy to get a good look when he was fully hard the last few times. I didn’t know he was about ready to cum. He grabbed my head and said “put it back in” and basically jammed it down my throat, lol. I enjoyed it though. After this though, he almost always grabbed my hair and held my head down as he was about to cum.
May 31, 2023 This time, again in the backroom of The Outpost, when I showed him my tits, he said "that's nice" and just wanted me to get down to sucking him, so I did. I don’t really remember too much about this time either. The memories all blurred together with time.
June 8, 2023 I was in the backroom, chatting with my husband on the phone, when Richard came in and sat next to me. From the way he looked at me, I knew exactly what he wanted without any need for discussion. I quickly ended my call with my husband, explaining that I had to finish cleaning some consoles. Seeing the newly installed camera in the backroom, I remarked about it to Richard, prompting him to unplug it. He mentioned we needed to hurry before Kevin came to the back, so I did my best to accommodate him swiftly. True to his word, Kevin was headed towards the backroom barely a minute after we finished.
June 13, 2023 Though I didn't know it at the time, this would be the last time for a while. He had already unplugged the camera when I figured he was wanting to do something. I made a comment about it, and he said he just didn't want to be watched by anyone. I can't recall exactly what I said, but he said something about "would it be so bad if we didn't do it" or something to that effect. He let me suck him off anyway though. I asked him again why he wouldn't kiss me, and he said he just didn't want to. I told him I wanted him, and he said I couldn't have him.
June 20, 2023 Jennifer chose to end her relationship with Richard by leaving a letter for him at The Outpost. Richard was deeply affected by the breakup and asked Bobby to give me a ride home that evening. Seeking clarification about our own relationship, I inquired about it, and Richard expressed his desire for us to remain just friends. Despite his stance, I held onto a glimmer of hope, purchasing condoms at the gas station that night, hoping for a possibility that he might reconsider. As time passed and it became apparent that my hopes were unfounded, I decided to leave the condoms in The Outpost bathroom for someone else to use or discard.
In the subsequent months, I confided in a handful of individuals about the events that transpired between us. As a consequence, he terminated my employment temporarily. Furthermore, he resorted to intimidation tactics, threatening to ostracize me from The Outpost community if I dared to disclose our truth to others. He concocted a fabricated narrative, alleging that I had initiated advances toward him, only to concoct falsehoods in a bid to extort him.
Let's examine the absurdity of his accusations. If indeed I were fabricating tales for the sake of manipulation, wouldn't it be far more sensational to claim a physical intimacy beyond reality? Instead, I recounted the truth: instances where I provided him with gratification without reciprocity, enduring his rejection of any emotional connection.
This isn't merely about defending my integrity; it's about unveiling the truth that has been obscured by his deceit.
Towards either the end of November or the beginning of December, I was working there a lot again.
December 18, 2023 We were in the backroom of The Outpost again. Everyone else had left for the night, and we were working quite late. I begged him to let me do it (suck him off) one last time. He asked if I was recording him on my phone because he didn't trust me. I unlocked my phone and handed it to him. He asked if I thought I was prettier than Jennifer because he had turned her down that night. He asked if I was prettier than Autumn because he also turned her down that night. In the end, he let me do it. I think maybe he forgot to unplug the camera. He asked me to show him my tits. This was around 3 AM on the morning of the 18th. After I sucked him for a bit, he sucked on my tits again, and I enjoyed it so much I almost came. I kept repeating his name over and over while he was doing it. Afterwards, we both agreed it was the last time. He told me that any man would accept a blowjob, but it doesn’t mean anything.
December 27, 2023 We were in the backroom of The Outpost again, but he had Tiffany (his daughter), so I really didn't expect anything to happen that night. We had done stuff one other time when Tiffany was there, I can't remember which time, but she was asleep on the couch that time, and this time she was wide awake. He asked her to go play Fortnite for a bit. Then he asked me if I was trying to do something. I said, sure, but Tiffany's here. He said we could go to the bathroom, but we had to stop if she came into the backroom. I went in there, and sat on the toilet while he stood. While I had his dick in my mouth, he asked me "you know, this still doesn't mean I'm into you, right?" I shook my head yes in response, as I had my mouth full at the time. His words hit me hard, and I couldn't hold back the tears when I got home. Despite my love for him, hearing those words while engaged in that act was incredibly painful.
January 3, 2024 This was the day Trina overfilled her car with oil. Richard was giving me a ride home, but we first had to follow his mechanic to Trina and Damian's car, and then follow the car back to his mechanics. While we were in the car, I told him that I didn't want to stop what we were doing, even if it was just that. He tried to say that we weren’t doing anything, but in the end we went and parked outside of his apartment, and he had him suck him off in his car. We stopped every time a car came in our direction. He came so hard I felt his whole body tense up. I remember being jealous, because I wanted him to make me cum like that. I wanted to tell him that it drove me crazy that he lets me do that, but I can't touch him at all when anyone else is around. I told him in the car on the way home that I'll quit asking him if I could do it, but I'd never tell him no. We were parked outside his apartment from 11:51 PM to 12:13 AM.
January 14, 2024 Tiffany was there again. Again, he asked me in the back if I was trying to do something. I said "If you want." He told me to go into the bathroom. He went to check on Tiffany and then came to meet me in the bathroom. He wasn't hard at all, and I actually had a little trouble finding it with my mouth this time. He mentioned that if I'm so good at it, why do I keep ignoring his balls. So I sucked on his balls again too.
January 24, 2024 I know he was starting to get bored with me, so I think he decided to try to switch things up a bit. He asked me if I was trying to do something. I responded again “if you want” and he said, “that’s not what I asked” so I reminded him that I wasn’t going to ask him again, but I wouldn’t ever say no. He turned off all the lights in The Outpost, and we went out and sat on the couch at the back of The Outpost. It was dark enough that nobody could see us and the mall was closed. He asked to fuck my tits again and I obliged. He told me he couldn't understand why I kept doing it. I didn't really have an answer for him at the time. I love him. That's why. But I couldn't tell him that again.
January 31, 2024 At the back of The Outpost again, with the lights out again. He tried to use the VR to watch porn at first, but with the lights out, using the VR wasn't really an option. He didn't know that I'd been fantasizing about doing just that for over a year, so I immediately started thinking of solutions to that issue. I sucked him off on the couch, and he again said he couldn't understand why I kept doing it. I told him because it's all he'd let me do. And I like knowing I can get him off. And that I enjoy it. It's fun. And he tastes really good.
February 6, 2024 I had ordered an infrared light on Amazon, to enable use of VR in the dark. I really wanted to live out my fantasy with him. I brought it into The Outpost and gave it to him as a gift. That night, he sat in his chair at the back of The Outpost with the lights out, watching porn on his VR while I sucked him off. Afterwards he said it was interesting. I asked if he had ever done that before, and he said no. I asked him if he enjoyed it and he said that to be honest, he was kinda getting bored, or something to that effect. In the car, on the way home, he told me that he needed me to quit. What we were doing, he clarified. I knew then that we were done, and that my days at work were probably numbered.
On Saturday, February 24th, 2024 he told me my services were no longer needed.
On March 16th, 2024 Richard has Bobby call me and ask if I want a job. I returned to work on March 17th, 2024. At this time, I am attempting to avoid being alone with Richard going forward.
March 26th, 2024 Richard scheduled me to work today, even though Bobby wasn’t working to give me a ride home, leaving Richard to give me a ride home. Tiffany was here, and everyone else had left for the night. We were in the backroom, and he said “I’m trying to decide - do I let her drain it or no” At first I said I didn't know. He asked if I was gonna get crazy again. I said I am crazy. But I said yes. We went to the bathroom and took care of business. He left the bathroom before I did because Tiffany had come into the backroom. I stood in the bathroom and waited for him to send Tiffany back to the front of the store for a bottle of water before I exited the bathroom.
April 6th, 2024 I was eating a pickle in the backroom. Richard came back to go to the bathroom. When he came out, I said to him “We’re done, right?” He was like “with what?” I’m like “You know what” and he said “yeah”, and I said “ok, I was getting bored too.” So I think it is finally over. Jennifer is coming back into town on April 7th, 2024, and they are planning on getting an apartment together.
April 19th, 2024 We were working late tonight, pricing out blu-rays and getting them listed on eBay. Richard’s phone went dead so we took a break and went into the backroom. As I’m writing this, my head is swimming and I’m exhausted because I just got home, but I’m trying to remember most of what happened. He’s like “we got 10 minutes until the phone charges, what do you want to do?” and I said I didn’t know. Then I think he asked what I was thinking about, and I said I was wondering if he wanted me to do something, and whether or not I should say yes, because I can’t keep giving and giving and not getting anything in return. He said he wasn’t touching my pussy. I asked him if he would at least kiss me. He said no, because he only does that with people he loves. But then he said he’d play with my boobs again. So I rolled my chair over to his and pulled my tits out for him to play with. I asked him if he wanted to see a pic of how big they used to be before my surgery, and he said yes, so I showed him the pic on my Discord server. Then he wanted to see what else was on that channel. I didn’t want to show him because I didn’t want him to be mad because it was the channel where I kept records of what me and him did. But I showed him and he made me delete them while he watched. I'm not surprised he made me do that. I kinda expected him to. Then we got back to fooling around, he sucked on my tits, then I started sucking him. He said he could get a blowjob every day, and it’s so relaxing. He mentioned that there was a gang bang that he had thought about taking me to, he thought I’d enjoy it. Then I stopped and told him I wanted to fuck him so bad. He said he didn’t know what I had or didn’t have. I told him I didn’t have anything. Then he made me pinky promise to never talk about it to anyone. And I got up, took off my skirt and panties and finally had sex with him for the first, and most likely last time. It didn’t last very long, I only got off once, then he made me climb off and he came all over the floor. Then we agreed to never talk about it again. In the car on the way home, I told him I’ll keep taking care of him until Jennifer comes back, if he wants, and it will stay between us. He said he’d let me know. So yeah, it’s not over just yet.
April 24th, 2024 We were alone at the store again. We were in the back room and he asked me if I meant what I said about keeping “draining him” until Jennifer gets back. I told him yes, and asked him where. He asked me where I wanted to. I immediately told him “the massage chair”, cause that’s been a fantasy of mine since he got the damn thing (I didn’t tell him that part though). He vetoed that because the cameras were on in the store. So I cleared off the chair in the backroom for him again. I asked him again if I could kiss him. He let me kiss him on the cheek. Then we got down to the usual business. He told me in the middle of it that I didn’t seem to be too bored with it. LOL. In the car on the way home, I asked him if he’s a sex addict. He said he’s not. He says he just has “stress issues”. I’m not really sure what to make of that.
May 6th, 2024 We were getting ready to leave for the night, it was around 1 A.M. and after he shut off all the store lights, he stopped in the doorway and asked if I wanted it. I said sure, and so with all the lights still out, I asked if the massage chair was working. So we went back into the store to check. It wasn’t working, so we went back into the backroom with all the lights off. I took my time with it, cause I know we are running out of time. In the car on the way home, I told him again that I do just want to be friends with him. Then I told him that “pequeña polla” means little dick, and he said he’s only small for people he doesn’t like, lol. I then asked him if he lost a couple inches when he gained all the weight. He said that he had. I said “thought so”.
While the essence of what I shared remains true, there might be some slight discrepancies in the timing of events. Conversations and interactions may have taken place on different dates than initially recalled, but the substance of our experiences remains consistent. I kept a record of every time we messed around and the dates it happened, all on my private Discord channel. I have ways of proving I was where I said I was, when I said I was.
I composed this document not as a means to coerce Richard, but rather to address the truth of our situation. My aim isn't to extract anything from him; all I seek is for him to acknowledge his role in this matter. Admittedly, my involvement with him was misguided, a lapse in judgment on my part. Yet, it's essential to recognize that his involvement was equally misguided—he pursued it as eagerly as I did. However, the crux of the issue lies in my feelings; I fell deeply in love, a sentiment not reciprocated by him. Throughout our interactions, there were moments where I felt manipulated, even gaslit. Still, despite these red flags, my affection persisted.
From the onset, Richard professed care for me, yet reiterated his lack of attraction. I was fully aware that I was being used, yet I allowed it to happen repeatedly. This admission isn't an attempt to manipulate or victimize but rather to confront the stark reality of our dynamic. It's time for Richard to acknowledge the impact of his actions and the emotional toll it took on me. Let's address this with honesty and integrity, for only through acknowledgment can we begin to heal and move forward.
Certain portions were refined by ChatGPT, acknowledging my occasional struggle with articulation, yet maintaining the utmost accuracy in depicting the sequence of events.
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2024.05.14 22:02 Prize_Vermicelli_547 Best friend is ND and under investigation

My best friend is having a really hard time of it at work.
He's ND (ASD & ADHD) and he's apparently said to a colleague in their initial one-to-one (a new team and they're in different countries) that her taking the call in her bedroom or on the bed was "weird" (exact word), they have never met IRL. My mates now on the receiving end of his boss (a director) under the context of some sort of subversive message that could he's said something tantamount to like Sexual Harassment. The piece that's adding context here is that 3 weeks prior he was on a works night out and told his male colleagues about dating on tinder, no specific details of private detail mentioned in that pub talk, but he's been reported for that too.
Now, my understanding is that behaviour associated with his neurodivergent noggin adds a layer of complexity that I just don't know about, and I obviously want to support him as best I can.
The HR team at his work have basically said that it's not a formal matter and can be handled with what I understand to be a written warning. He's told me that his employer hasn't had training on handling or working with ND people.
His manager is now telling him he might not be suitable to operate in his senior role.
My questions are: 1) does he have a leg to stand on because of his ND noggin? 2) is the younger colleague he spoke with overreacting as I believe, and what can be done about that as he's really clear that he didn't mean anything by it as that's simply not how his brain works 3) his HR person implied he was going to lose his job in the initial call, that was then followed up in writing (email) that he's just going to get a stern written telling off, and now his manager is implying he's going to lose his job again. As his employer haven't had ND training or appear to be aware of working with ND people like this, is there anything that can be done as he's not sleeping well, he's not eating properly, and he's generally in a bit of a mess 4) if he resigned do you have enough info to determine whether he could win a tribunal? 5) anything else?
Thank you all!
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2024.05.14 22:00 VivaldiVerao Body of the unidentified Brazilian woman who spent 24 years in a coma is buried

Edit: Original post was deleted due to being a repost. Check the first post here. This is an update post https://www.reddit.com/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/1bfnp5o/unknown_woman_is_hit_by_a_car_and_has_lived_in_a/
Clarinha has been buried at Maruípe Municipal Cemetery today, May 14th, at 1:45 PM. Her funeral was attended by hospital staff who took care of her. Coronel Jorge Potratz, the doctor who watched over her during these last 24 years stated "It is a great relief to close this chapter, allow her spirit to rest properly. The cycle is closing, but her story remains open." He placed a white rose in her hands before the casket was closed.
She'll have a tombstone with her picture, the name "Clarinha" and a bible verse that still has not been choosen.
My write-up on the case:
Okay, so it's my first write-up here. I had always wondered why Jane/John doe cases were so famous in English speaking countries, while here in Brazil lots of unindentified people pass away everyday and no one bats an eye. We don't even have a name like "Jane doe" for those people, I think.
Well, there's a notorious case of an unindentified woman who passed away recently that caught my attention. On June 12th, 2000, a woman who had been hit by a car was brought to São Lucas State Hospital in Vitória, Espírito Santo state. It was lovers' day in Brazil (our version of Valentine's) and she was a white woman who didn't have any form of identification on her. I wish I could find more details on the incident, but I can't. She was rescued by an ambulance and was uncouncious when she got to the hospital, and spent the next 24 years that way.
It was noted she had a c-section scar, which meant she had had at least one child, but no one ever came to look for her. They tried to identify her so she could receive some sort of pension, but they weren't able to. On the next year, she was transfered to the Military Police Hospital and has been there ever since, under the care of Dr. Jorge Potratz, and has been named Clarinha by hospital staff. Dr. Jorge had been taking care of her as if she's his own daughter, paying for personal care items for her with his own money. Besides that, Brazil's Unified Health System allowed her to be hospitlized for the past 24 years without anyone having to pay for her healthcare. She didn't need any kind of life support besides a feed tube due to problems in swallowing caused by the accident. A doctor noted that in the scale for comas, which goes up to 15, she's around 7 or 8.
On 2016, TV show Fantástico did a segment about her, which brought the attention to the case. Several missing people families came from all over the country to check on her, but it was no success. A woman from Minas Gerais state thought she could be her missing sister. Her sister left the town of Ipanema on 1999 stating she was going to sell clothes. She left all her documents and 2 kids behind. It wasn't her.
They tried to take her fingerprints, but since her hands remained closed as a result of the accident, her fingertips got all roughed up and they were unable to get a clear print. Norma, a nurse who took care of her, said she called the name of a missing person who was thought to be her and Clarinha opened her eyes for a moment, the article doesn't specifies but I think it was proven it wasn't her.
Clarinha passed away on March 14th, 2024 after sufferig bronchoaspiration (no idea of what it is). They think she was around 40 or 50 years old. The police compared her DNA and figerprints to 12 missing people cases and found no match. Dr. Jorge Potratz took care of all the legal requirements for her to not be buried as an unindentified person.
Personal comments I have regarding the case:
Sources:
https://g1.globo.com/es/espirito-santo/noticia/2024/05/09/clarinha-ultimo-dna-da-negativo-e-corpo-de-paciente-nao-identificada-ja-pode-ser-enterrado.ghtml
https://g1.globo.com/es/espirito-santo/noticia/2024/03/15/morre-clarinha-paciente-misteriosa-internada-em-coma-ha-mais-de-20-anos-no-es.ghtml
https://g1.globo.com/espirito-santo/noticia/2016/04/resultados-de-dna-dao-negativo-para-possiveis-parentes-de-clarinha.html
https://g1.globo.com/espirito-santo/noticia/2016/01/clarinha-vai-passar-por-tratamento-para-recuperar-digitais-no-es.html
https://g1.globo.com/espirito-santo/noticia/2016/01/mulher-em-coma-ha-15-anos-ainda-nao-foi-procurada-em-hospital-do-es.html
https://g1.globo.com/espirito-santo/noticia/2016/01/clarinha-em-coma-ha-15-anos-no-es-e-procurada-30-vezes-em-1-dia.html
https://g1.globo.com/espirito-santo/noticia/2016/01/me-ensina-todo-dia-diz-medico-de-paciente-em-coma-ha-15-anos.html
https://www.agazeta.com.bes/cotidiano/despedida-e-enterro-de-clarinha-tem-data-e-local-para-acontecer-em-vitoria-0524
https://www.folhavitoria.com.bgeral/noticia/05/2024/paciente-misteriosa-clarinha-sera-enterrada-na-terca-14-em-cemiterio-de-vitoria
https://g1.globo.com/es/espirito-santo/noticia/2024/05/09/clarinha-ultimo-dna-da-negativo-e-corpo-de-paciente-nao-identificada-ja-pode-ser-enterrado.ghtml
https://g1.globo.com/es/espirito-santo/noticia/2024/05/14/clarinha-paciente-misteriosa-que-ficou-em-coma-por-24-anos-e-enterrada-no-es-ciclo-vai-se-fechar-mas-historia-dela-segue-aberta.ghtml
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2024.05.14 21:57 Rcp-509 The gatekeepers of the MRI

I was diagnosed with mild ddd from a VA Xray last year. In their diagnosis letter they said to consider getting an MRI if it gets worse or show symptoms of radiculopathy. The VA team nurse I was in contact with kinda just blew me off when I asked to get one. Then I went in to see my VA pcp Dr again and he said an MRI wouldn’t show anything different and I don’t need it. So I tried going to a civilian Dr, they said they could request an MRI but it may or may not get approved, and they would usually require physical therapy before moving up to an MRI.
My whole reasoning for trying to get it is mostly from what other people have said on this community. It can show a lot more issues including nerve damage, and help as solid evidence for a claim.
Right now I could either keep trying to get it from the VA. Or I could do a 6 hour round trip and pay $600 at one of those walk in MRI places.
What do y’all think, Is it worth trying to get it?
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2024.05.14 21:52 Cold-Pin-4865 Condemn Hate and Genocidal Rhetoric at the Encampment

I am considering starting a letter-writing campaign calling on the University of Victoria to condemn blatant antisemitism and genocidal rhetoric in the encampment as a result of two things:
  1. The highly discriminatory, xenophobic demand that current Israeli exchange students be expelled and future students be denied entry on the basis of their nationality. This is a direct quote taken from the encampment's instagram page, (@)peoplesparkuvic: "We demand that the university cut all academic ties with Israeli universities and Zionist academics. This includes cancelling all ongoing and future academic exchanges with Israeli academics and institutions, including but not limited to, visiting scholars, student exchanges, and partnered publications."
I shouldn't have to spell out how and why this reeks of antisemitism just like one shouldn't have to explain why Trump banning travellers from 7 Muslim majority countries reeked of xenophobia and racism. I shouldn't have to explain why effectively deporting Jewish students by ending their exchange is putting a smile on Hitler's corpse. I shouldn't have to explicate how academic exchanges serve to expand the viewpoints of the students involved, whereas confining them to study entirely in Israel only reinforces anti-Palestinian views. Finally, I shouldn't have to explain how such a blatant act of discrimination invigorates the most radical, fundamentalist, genocidal factions of the Israeli government by vindicating claims of widespread antisemitism and a global threat to the Jewish people.
  1. The pervasive use of the phrase, "from the river to the sea".
There is an ongoing, fiery debate as to whether this phrase constitutes genocidal rhetoric, and yet encampment protestors have splattered this mantra on massive signs and have no trouble reciting it in the face of Jewish students. Whether one is personally using the phrase as an intentional call for a Jewish genocide is entirely irrelevant. Terrorist organizations which explicitly call for the expulsion and genocide of Jews in Israel have coopted that phrase and have clearly murderous intentions when promoting and popularizing it. Countless Jewish people view it as a call for genocide and ethnic cleansing. ~That alone~ should be enough to have it wiped from the lexicon of progressive, liberal movements. It's like using a sauvastika as a symbol for Palestinian liberation, then, when confronted, arguing that the sauvastikas and swastikas, because of their origin and alleged beneficent intent in this context, are not in fact genocidal symbols. Yeah, right. Sure. Is there really no better maxim we could come up with than the one popularized by the PFLP and Hamas? Are we really that morally bankrupt?
If we want to do anything besides pour gasoline on the IDF bonfire that is Gaza, we need to be able to condemn discrimination and crimes against humanity across the board. That includes not only the ongoing, inexcusable war crimes committed by the IDF, the Israeli settlements, and the denigration of Palestinian rights; we need to also condemn the ongoing, inexcusable slaughter and rape of civilians by Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist organizations, the constant bombardment of Israeli cities by terrorist rockets, and the festering genocidal rhetoric of the millions who cheered on October 7th and welcomed murderers and serial rapists as heroes and liberators. We need to be able to distinguish between setting up a Palestinian state with a relatively progressive government, and, on the other hand, condemning women, LGBTQ people, and religious minorities to a life under the despotic regimes of Islamic fundamentalists like those currently suffering under Taliban rule in Afghanistan.
We need to make sure that our own protest movements are truly divorced from the very things they purport to denounce. That looks like condemning hate and unjust discrimination across the board, not manifesting it in a different form. Let's change our approach while we still can.
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2024.05.14 21:46 1tayg3r Anything to do to earn me at least $20 for food?

I live in 3rd world country that is going downhill by the day. I work a job that earns me $96(Ghs1200) a month. I live far away from the job and the transport costs drain more than 60% of the money not to talk of even food. I eat once a day. Because of how expensive transport to work is, sometimes I come up with excuses not to go. I realized I can't continue with the work anymore. I've sent my resignation letter and would be quitting there 2 weeks time. It's draining me financially and mentally. I'd be incredibly thankful if anyone here could get me something that could earn me at least $20 for food.
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2024.05.14 21:40 HRJafael Rowe voters back park addition, two-town fire district

https://archive.is/gR1E0
Residents voted in favor of a non-binding resolution to create a shared fire district with Charlemont, to use a portion of town land on Pond Road for park and recreational purposes, and to change the town clerk position from elected to appointed during Monday’s Annual Town Meeting.
Roughly 25 residents gathered at Rowe Elementary School for a roughly one-hour-long Annual Town Meeting that followed a three-article Special Town Meeting.
Residents approved most of the 27 warrant articles, including the town’s roughly $5.29 million fiscal year 2025 budget (Article 7), unanimously without discussion. Residents also approved a residential property tax increase from $5.01 per $1,000 valuation to $5.29 per $1,000 valuation while the town completes the second year of a $1.85 million road resurfacing project.
Article 21, which asked voters to designate an approximately 2-acre wooded parcel of town-owned on Pond Road for park purposes, inspired discussion, with some residents suggesting the land be left as it is, or approved for park purposes under the condition that the town add language protecting residents’ right to hunt on the land.
Resident Fred Williams said since the parcel was set up to be designated parkland in accordance with the “Percy Brown covenant,” or the use restrictions established for the Pelham Lake Park land donated to the town by Percy Brown, hunting would likely not be permitted there.
“There’s one in the language either in the deed or the language of the vote in the Town Meeting has ‘parcels acquired for park purposes,’” Williams explained. “If the sentiment is strong enough [we can] change the wording to allow hunting on this little 2-acre parcel.”
Residents voted to strike references to the covenant from Article 21 before passing it unanimously.
Voters later passed Article 24 unanimously, allowing the town to pursue a shared fire district with the town of Charlemont and to establish a district-wide Prudential Committee to expend the funds approved by district meetings.
According to a statement provided by the Rowe Fire Department, the district would help the two towns combine firefighting equipment and staffing resources to provide better mutual aid services. Rowe Fire also noted that the district’s creation would take about four years after the article’s passage.
“These changes are going to require a huge increase in administration time, record keeping, modifications to current stations, medical physicals for responders, certification for firefighters and officers along with what we are currently burdened with,” the Fire Department stated.
After discussion, residents also passed Articles 22 and 23 to amend the town’s general bylaws, making the town clerk position a Selectboard-appointed position, rather than its current status as an elected position. According to Selectboard Chair Chuck Sokol, the change is intended to allow the town to promptly fill the position in the event of a sudden resignation or if the town clerk is not satisfactorily performing required duties.
“We have been very fortunate in that the last several town clerks we’ve had are effective at their role,” Sokol said. “That’s not necessarily always the case and when there is an elected position that is derelict in their duties, which are very important duties, the mechanism to remove or replace that official is through a recall election.”
In response to resident Bill Reardon’s concern that the power of elections should be left to residents, and not local government bodies, Finance Committee Chair Dan Pallotta noted that an elected official could, in theory, be absent for three years and remain on the town’s payroll.
“It’s a modern world now and we need checks and balances, unfortunately,” Pallotta said. Monday’s meeting concluded with the announcement that after roughly seven years serving on the Selectboard, Sokol will not seek reelection in Saturday’s town election. In an interview, Sokol said he will soon be moving to Braintree. Bill Baker, who formerly owned Baker Office Supply in Greenfield, will run for Sokol’s position through a write-in campaign.
“The town of Rowe is a delightful town and is well supported by its community,” Sokol said. “It’s been a pleasure to serve on the Selectboard. I felt very supported in that role, but life takes different turns and it was time for a change.”
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2024.05.14 21:39 CiaranKD Microsoft 365 Business (Personal Use)

For those who are like me and use M365 Business Premium for personal use, what do you use it for?
I use Business Premium because I use all of the features of Office in my day to day life (writing letters, managing finances through spreadsheets and PowerBI visuals, plus I enjoy having my phone enrolled in Intune knowing I have more control over it, and the various other things a normal person wouldn’t give a shit about, for example:
I’m sad I know, but I do enjoy making full use of a product, especially when it’s paid for and also helps me learn about things I can then implement in a work/production environment safely.
And I would never ever go back to having a free email account like @gmail.com, it’s just so unprofessional.
Cheers.
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2024.05.14 21:37 idiotikaro [request] Letters for an open mic project at Zürich pride 🏳️‍🌈

Hello! I‘m not sure if this is the right place to post my request, however, it‘d be just so cool if my plans would work out and i‘m running out of places to request letters.
I‘ll have 15 minutes to talk in front of thousands of people at the Zürich pride… I was thinking of telling them YOUR stories and showing them what being queer means in other parts of the world! It‘d be so lovely if you could share your experiences with me. There‘s no „right“ or „wrong“. Write down whatever feels right for YOU. Wheter you feel like diving super deep down into a love story of yours or just giving me some informations of the political situation considering the lgbtq+ community in your country - everything’s much appreciated. Of course i‘d also send you something back:). Please send me a message if you want more informations or if you already feel like participating. Thank you all so much already.
Best wishes, Karolina🌻
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2024.05.14 21:36 weirdballz STUDY TIPS FOR ATI: How I achieved a level 3 on my ATI exams

I would like to share some tips that helped me do well on all my ATI exams! For reference, I got a level 3 on all but one ATI exam! Fundamentals was my first ATI exam ever which I got a 2, and it helped shaped the way I continued to study for ATI. I hope this helps anyone who is either struggling with ATI or wanting to increase their scores.
How I utilized ATI textbooks:
Practice Exams/Dynamic Quizzes
Extra Tips for ATI
Outside resources
Test taking prioritization strategies you have to understand:
Other test taking strategies
It’s true that ATI will test you on things from other courses (some you haven’t taken yet), but the majority of it will be over the course you are studying for. The goal isn’t to get every question correctly. The goal is to use prior knowledge and test taking strategies to help you at least narrow down to 2 answer choices, and hopefully choose the right one. After doing a bunch of questions, you start to see patterns and understand how ATI wants you to choose the answer.
I know this is a lot, but I just wanted to be as thorough as possible. Please let me know if you have any questions! I am happy to help! 😊
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2024.05.14 21:30 Academic-Bluebird-92 Being a Muggle parent...

So, your child's getting an acceptance letter to Hogwarts. Via an owl. A bloody owl. First thought? That's a scam. My parents wouldn't even consider this to be true, let alone answer that stuff. But even if they were. How to find Diagnoalley? And if all goes well, my parents would've never opted for an owl. How do they write their children then? Sketchy letter, strange people selling all kinds of hilarious stuff, then the barrier to 9 3/4 (how do you even cross this, is there a first years 101 included in acceptance letters to Muggle parents?!)... I would never have been able to go. Even if Dumbledore came by, in person, to sort things out. My mum would FREAK out. Strangers know I live in the smallest bedroom? Heck, they would probably tell the police some fuckwit was stalking their precious little girl. I'd never make it in time for the first of September. I'd probably be able to go when I was 18, if that was an option.
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2024.05.14 21:26 squigglesbysaturn Changing jobs

I don't know if I need advice or just to vent, I may do by the end of this post though.
I'm moving jobs... My current work placement has been a killer for my mental health. I get both physically and verbally abused at work by the kids I look after. They're a lot and sometimes it leads to restraints to keep them or us safe. I've been working here for the last two years and have struggled from time to time. Recently I've had to take a month off to try and stabilise again, but it got scary. I started to hallucinate sounds and became unbearably paranoid. It was a constant battle in my own brain. They've changed my medication over to Ablify and I honestly feel more confused and am struggling to process more than before. I got a doctor's note to help me have a phased return back to work when I started to feel better, but it said that I need to avoid stressful situations including restraints. I'm grateful for that because I don't enjoy restraining kids. I don't think it's right. My boss got really funny about it and has gotten occupational health involved... At first I was really paranoid about this, but today I had an interview for another job. I got the job and am looking forward to starting something new. Maybe I'll get back into working with kids when I feel stable but for now I thought a change may be good. Anyway I still have an occupational health appointment on Monday... I don't know what they're going to ask and I don't know how I feel about all of this... I need to hand in my resignation letter tomorrow and I guess we will go from there. I'm a bit afraid that I do or say something stupid and it'll affect me in the new job. I'm so confused and overwhelmed... Am I doing the right thing? Has anyone else been here before? Why do I feel like I'm a bad person?
I hope this isn't that confusing to read. I'm struggling to process all of this.
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2024.05.14 21:24 rincongrl Maternity Leave/Not Signing Next Year’s Contract

Hi all. I’m a teacher in WA currently on maternity leave. My maternity leave goes through the end of the school year and I will be on Paid Family Medical Leave until July. Due to many issues I’m sure you all understand, I will not be returning to teaching next year.
Since I am on maternity leave now, I’m not quite sure the best way to exit. I’m not planning on signing next year’s contract, so what’s the best way forward for me? I was planning on going in and talking to my principal and department head and letting them know I’m not planning on returning, and immediately after emailing a letter of resignation to HR with my admin CCd. I am technically not breaking my current contract I don’t believe but should I reach out to HR first and confirm?
Additionally, do I have to worry about not receiving the remainder of my FMLA if I let them know my plans to not sign next year’s contract?
Thanks in advance for any insight!
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2024.05.14 21:23 Far_Technician2315 fear

hii, ive been writing poetry as a hobby for some time now but ive never really shown anyone, so id like to share my work, maybe receive some criticism .
in every crease in my brain
ever scar i obtained
people i ever clutched
all the lips i have touched
between the dirt
sunken deep in the soil
known by ants like crumbs
the letters i boil
words like explosion enlightens
i scream them to the wind,
while its breathing freightens
fingers go still, close over my wrist
breathing stops, falls out of my grisp
mouth falls slack, lips drying
mind goes berserk, coherency flying
known all across the canvas
deep rooted in my blood
making my bones feel anxious
my heart begin to pump
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2024.05.14 21:22 docmanhattans what should I tell my LOC writer to highlight?

Hi,
I have been volunteering for a reproductive health org for about a year and I the founder agreed to write an LOC for me but she asked me what she should highlight and I have no idea what to tell her.
I am a member of a smaller and newer branch of the org that focuses on young people, and we have not done a single thing since I have started. I have created numerous social media posts that the org never posted, and I even went about creating a great Notion and taught everyone how to use it.
I have read people creating docs that pretty much tell the letter writer what to say but I am not sure how to go about that.
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2024.05.14 21:13 Yurii_S_Kh Dachau 1945: The Souls of All Are Aflame

Dachau 1945: The Souls of All Are Aflame
by Douglas Cramer
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The Dachau concentration camp was opened in 1933 in a former gunpowder factory. The first prisoners interred there were political opponents of Adolf Hitler, who had become German chancellor that same year. During the twelve years of the camp's existence, over 200,000 prisoners were brought there. The majority of prisoners at Dachau were Christians, including Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Orthodox clergy and lay people.
Countless prisoners died at Dachau, and hundreds were forced to participate in the cruel medical experiments conducted by Dr. Sigmund Rascher. When prisoners arrived at the camp they were beaten, insulted, shorn of their hair, and had all their belongings taken from them. The SS guards could kill whenever they thought it was appropriate. Punishments included being hung on hooks for hours, high enough that heels did not touch the ground; being stretched on trestles; being whipped with soaked leather whips; and being placed in solitary confinement for days on end in rooms too small to lie down in.
The abuse of the prisoners reached its end in the spring of 1945. The events of that Holy Week were later recorded by one of the prisoners, Gleb Rahr. Rahr grew up in Latvia and fled with his family to Nazi Germany when the Russians invaded. He was arrested by the Gestapo because of his membership in an organization that opposed both fascism and communism. Originally imprisoned in Buchenwald, he was transported to Dachau near the end of the war.
In fact, Rahr was one of the survivors of the infamous “death trains,” as they were called by the American G.I.’s who discovered them. Thousands of prisoners from different camps had been sent to Dachau in open rail cars. The vast majority of them died horrific deaths from starvation, dehydration, exposure, sickness, and execution.
In a letter to his parents the day after the liberation, G.I. William Cowling wrote, “As we crossed the track and looked back into the cars the most horrible sight I have ever seen met my eyes. The cars were loaded with dead bodies. Most of them were naked and all of them skin and bones. Honest their legs and arms were only a couple of inches around and they had no buttocks at all. Many of the bodies had bullet holes in the back of their heads.”
Marcus Smith, one of the US Army personnel assigned to Dachau, also described the scene in his 1972 book, The Harrowing of Hell.
Refuse and excrement are spread over the cars and grounds. More of the dead lie near piles of clothing, shoes, and trash. Apparently some had crawled or fallen out of the cars when the doors were opened, and died on the grounds. One of our men counts the boxcars and says that there are thirty-nine. Later I hear that there were fifty, that the train had arrived at the camp during the evening of April 27, by which time all of the passengers were supposed to be dead so that the bodies could be disposed of in the camp crematorium. But this could not be done because there was no more coal to stoke the furnaces. Mutilated bodies of German soldiers are also on the ground, and occasionally we see an inmate scream at the body of his former tormentor and kick it. Retribution!
Gates of Dachau Concentration Camp
Rahr was one of the over 4,000 Russian prisoners at Dachau at the time of the liberation. The liberated prisoners also included over 1,200 Christian clergymen. After the war, Rahr immigrated to the United States, where he taught Russian History at the University of Maryland. He later worked for Radio Free Europe. His account of the events at Dachau in 1945 begins with his arrival at the camp:
April 27th: The last transport of prisoners arrives from Buchenwald. Of the 5,000 originally destined for Dachau, I was among the 1,300 who had survived the trip. Many were shot, some starved to death, while others died of typhus. . . .
April 28th: I and my fellow prisoners can hear the bombardment of Munich taking place some 30 km from our concentration camp. As the sound of artillery approaches ever nearer from the west and the north, orders are given proscribing prisoners from leaving their barracks under any circumstances. SS-soldiers patrol the camp on motorcycles as machine guns are directed at us from the watch-towers, which surround the camp.
April 29th: The booming sound of artillery has been joined by the staccato bursts of machine gun fire. Shells whistle over the camp from all directions. Suddenly white flags appear on the towers—a sign of hope that the SS would surrender rather than shoot all prisoners and fight to the last man. Then, at about 6:00 p.m., a strange sound can be detected emanating from somewhere near the camp gate which swiftly increases in volume. . . .
The sound came from the dawning recognition of freedom. Lt. Col. Walter Fellenz of the US Seventh Army described the greeting from his point of view:
Several hundred yards inside the main gate, we encountered the concentration enclosure, itself. There before us, behind an electrically charged, barbed wire fence, stood a mass of cheering, half-mad men, women and children, waving and shouting with happiness—their liberators had come! The noise was beyond comprehension! Every individual (over 32,000) who could utter a sound, was cheering. Our hearts wept as we saw the tears of happiness fall from their cheeks.
Rahr’s account continues:
Finally all 32,600 prisoners join in the cry as the first American soldiers appear just behind the wire fence of the camp. After a short while electric power is turned off, the gates open and the American G.I.’s make their entrance. As they stare wide-eyed at our lot, half-starved as we are and suffering from typhus and dysentery, they appear more like fifteen-year-old boys than battle-weary soldiers. . . .
An international committee of prisoners is formed to take over the administration of the camp. Food from SS stores is put at the disposal of the camp kitchen. A US military unit also contributes some provision, thereby providing me with my first opportunity to taste American corn. By order of an American officer radio-receivers are confiscated from prominent Nazis in the town of Dachau and distributed to the various national groups of prisoners. The news comes in: Hitler has committed suicide, the Russians have taken Berlin, and German troops have surrendered in the South and in the North. But the fighting still rages in Austria and Czechoslovakia. . . .
Naturally, I was ever cognizant of the fact that these momentous events were unfolding during Holy Week. But how could we mark it, other than through our silent, individual prayers? A fellow-prisoner and chief interpreter of the International Prisoner's Committee, Boris F., paid a visit to my typhus-infested barrack—“Block 27”—to inform me that efforts were underway in conjunction with the Yugoslav and Greek National Prisoner's Committees to arrange an Orthodox service for Easter day, May 6th.
There were Orthodox priests, deacons, and a group of monks from Mount Athos among the prisoners. But there were no vestments, no books whatsoever, no icons, no candles, no prosphoras, no wine. . . . Efforts to acquire all these items from the Russian church in Munich failed, as the Americans just could not locate anyone from that parish in the devastated city. Nevertheless, some of the problems could be solved. The approximately four hundred Catholic priests detained in Dachau had been allowed to remain together in one barrack and recite mass every morning before going to work. They offered us Orthodox the use of their prayer room in “Block 26,” which was just across the road from my own “block.”
The chapel was bare, save for a wooden table and a Czenstochowa icon of the Theotokos hanging on the wall above the table—an icon which had originated in Constantinople and was later brought to Belz in Galicia, where it was subsequently taken from the Orthodox by a Polish king. When the Russian Army drove Napoleon's troops from Czenstochowa, however, the abbot of the Czenstochowa Monastery gave a copy of the icon to czar Alexander I, who placed it in the Kazan Cathedral in Saint-Petersburg where it was venerated until the Bolshevik seizure of power. A creative solution to the problem of the vestments was also found. New linen towels were taken from the hospital of our former SS-guards. When sewn together lengthwise, two towels formed an epitrachilion and when sewn together at the ends they became an orarion. Red crosses, originally intended to be worn by the medical personnel of the SS guards, were put on the towel-vestments.
On Easter Sunday, May 6th (April 23rd according to the Church calendar)—which ominously fell that year on Saint George the Victory-Bearer's Day—Serbs, Greeks and Russians gathered at the Catholic priests’ barracks. Although Russians comprised about 40 percent of the Dachau inmates, only a few managed to attend the service. By that time “repatriation officers” of the special Smersh units had arrived in Dachau by American military planes, and begun the process of erecting new lines of barbed wire for the purpose of isolating Soviet citizens from the rest of the prisoners, which was the first step in preparing them for their eventual forced repatriation.
In the entire history of the Orthodox Church there has probably never been an Easter service like the one at Dachau in 1945. Greek and Serbian priests together with a Serbian deacon wore the make-shift “vestments” over their blue and gray-striped prisoner’s uniforms. Then they began to chant, changing from Greek to Slavonic, and then back again to Greek. The Easter Canon, the Easter Sticheras—everything was recited from memory. The Gospel—“In the beginning was the Word”—also from memory.
And finally, the Homily of Saint John Chrysostom—also from memory. A young Greek monk from the Holy Mountain stood up in front of us and recited it with such infectious enthusiasm that we shall never forget him as long as we live. Saint John Chrysostomos himself seemed to speak through him to us and to the rest of the world as well! Eighteen Orthodox priests and one deacon—most of whom were Serbs—participated in this unforgettable service. Like the sick man who had been lowered through the roof of a house and placed in front of the feet of Christ the Savior, the Greek Archimandrite Meletios was carried on a stretcher into the chapel, where he remained prostrate for the duration of the service.
Other prisoners at Dachau included the recently canonized Bishop Nikolai Velimirovich, who later became the first administrator of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the US and Canada; and the Very Reverend Archimandrite Dionysios, who after the war was made Metropolitan of Trikkis and Stagnon in Greece.
Fr. Dionysios had been arrested in 1942 for giving asylum to an English officer fleeing the Nazis. He was tortured for not revealing the names of others involved in aiding Allied soldiers and was then imprisoned for eighteen months in Thessalonica before being transferred to Dachau. During his two years at Dachau, he witnessed Nazi atrocities and suffered greatly himself. He recorded many harrowing experiences in his book Ieroi Palmoi. Among these were regular marches to the firing squad, where he would be spared at the last moment, ridiculed, and then returned to the destitution of the prisoners’ block.
After the liberation, Fr. Dionysios helped the Allies to relocate former Dachau inmates and to bring some normalcy to their disrupted lives. Before his death, Metropolitan Dionysios returned to Dachau from Greece and celebrated the first peacetime Orthodox Liturgy there. Writing in 1949, Fr. Dionysios remembered Pascha 1945 in these words:
In the open air, behind the shanty, the Orthodox gather together, Greeks and Serbs. In the center, both priests, the Serb and the Greek. They aren't wearing golden vestments. They don't even have cassocks. No tapers, no service books in their hands. But now they don't need external, material lights to hymn the joy. The souls of all are aflame, swimming in light.
Blessed is our God. My little paper-bound New Testament has come into its glory. We chant “Christ is Risen” many times, and its echo reverberates everywhere and sanctifies this place.
Hitler's Germany, the tragic symbol of the world without Christ, no longer exists. And the hymn of the life of faith was going up from all the souls; the life that proceeds buoyantly toward the Crucified One of the verdant hill of Stein.
On April 29, 1995—the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of Dachau—the Russian Orthodox Memorial Chapel of Dachau was consecrated. Dedicated to the Resurrection of Christ, the chapel holds an icon depicting angels opening the gates of the concentration camp and Christ Himself leading the prisoners to freedom. The simple wooden block conical architecture of the chapel is representative of the traditional funeral chapels of the Russian North. The sections of the chapel were constructed by experienced craftsmen in the Vladimir region of Russia, and assembled in Dachau by veterans of the Western Group of Russian Forces just before their departure from Germany in 1994. The priests who participated in the 1945 Paschal Liturgy are commemorated at every service held in the chapel, along with all Orthodox Christians who lost their lives “at this place, or at another place of torture.”
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2024.05.14 21:07 TheThingyGuy Should I quit nursing school?

I am struggling with whether or not I should quit nursing school.
Here are the reasons why I shouldn’t quit:
1. The school I go to is affordable and nearby and the BSN is one of the only bachelor’s degrees it offers. I don’t think I’m able to transfer with a different school to focus on getting a bachelor’s or masters (just some viable degree) in something else (unless I decide to focus on STEM) because I have too many credit hours.
2. I will get a degree and license that I can use to get a job that’s in high demand. With a BSN I will allegedly make good money.
3. The work is rewarding.
4. I’ve picked something. Most people haven’t even settled on a major. I am only 20 years old, and I’ve already picked a major. How many people can say that?
5. I’ve already invested all this time, money and energy into this. Quitting would be a waste.
6. Most people don’t get a career in something they enjoy, because the things they enjoy will not make them money. Especially artists/writers, which is what I am. Only a lucky few from that group seem to make it doing the things they actually enjoy.
7. My parents seem to have it in their heads that I have to keep doing this and that I do enjoy and can handle it. They are not letting me quit unless I convince them really well.
Here’s the reasons why I should quit.
1. After doing a couple semesters worth of work related to nursing, I have recognized that I lack a passion for it.
2. I fail to see its appeal. I don’t understand why my classmates seem to enjoy or look forward to it. I have to force myself to enjoy it.
3. This degree is NOT just a degree. I need to be doing something nursing related with it, and with it, I would STILL need to be doing patient care for a fairly long stretch of time before getting a different job that would still require the degree.
4. The only thing I even remotely liked was clinicals and that was only because of the parts where I’m talking to people. Felt neutral towards the work, hated reading and writing paperwork.
5. I hate talking about nursing. On my own time, I am always looking for conversation topics concerning anything but nursing. I also lack an interest in it outside of school. On my own time, I am never watching medical TV shows or doing anything healthcare related. When I’m relaxing, I am trying to avoid nursing as much as possible. I see it as a chore, and not as something to look forward to doing.
6. I cannot see myself in this career. Long shifts, high stakes work environment, colleagues I can’t relate to, continuing education every 2 years, bad pay for something I don’t like, some possible traumatic experiences, verbal abuse from patients and colleagues, work NOT being as easy to get as people make it out to be, etc.
7. It does not come easy to me. I struggle with every facet of the schooling and need to REALLY push myself to succeed. For instance, in a prerequisite class, the thing that tripped me up and made me need to retake it was checking someone’s blood pressure.
8. Nursing doesn’t make good money. It is something you choose to do because you enjoy it (if even a little bit!). If you hate it, you need to look somewhere else. (Now, what makes me doubt this point is that with a BSN I CAN make good money, from what I’ve heard…) Every nurse I’ve spoken to has shared the sentiment that you should not be doing it just for the money.
9. My professors have all asked me if I really want to be doing this, my peers seem to also have noted that all I seem to talk about around them is how much I hate nursing school. I know it is absolutely normal to hate the schooling part, but I cannot see myself enjoying working with ANYTHING related to the subject, either.

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2024.05.14 21:06 lovingnebulae new roomate is in legal trouble with their old landlord, need advice

This is a very dumb situation that I personally would never allowed myself to be in, and I'm merely trying to help a friend so, bear with me.
My roomate- who I just entered a lease with a completely different landlord which I was approved- isn't knowledgeable or willing to manage the exit procedure from their previous landlord. As a token of kindness, I'm trying to seek advice on her behalf as she is also my friend, so here goes.
We live in Atlanta, and her previous landlord appears to have gone back on their agreed upon vacancy notice after mediating her exit from the lease and is now suing her for 3x the amount expected. There is a written notice to vacate signed by both parties for her to be allowed to exit, with a deadline and prorated rent so that it fits within a 30 day notice range. Her lease was defaulted by her previous roomate who claimed he was actually planning on moving out and didnt intend to resign, two days into a new lease (he already signed the document). Personally I would have kept him on the lease, but supposedly the agent and property manager told her she could move out after she released him from the contract. Personally I felt this was the leasing agent manipulating her into being saddled with all the legal trouble of breaking the lease and the status of the home. I have no explanation as to why they would do that. Thinking the agent was on her side, she signs the document without reading it, allowing him to be completely off the hook for leaving without notifying the landlord. It's kind of giving me a headache to write all of this because if I was present I would have caused some kind of cataclysmic event and rebuilt a post holocene society not unlike the mad max universe and played out the storyline of all the movies in chronological order to prevent this. But alas, I was not.
So now they have given a date to vacate with a prorated rent, easy enough. Only now, after returning to the home, they have decided to pursue an eviction instead. Not only that, they are requesting rent from months that have already been paid, with fees, and a month past the agreed upon prorated fee. There is written documentation and proof of mediation, as well as reaching out to the company to ameliorate, even the leasing agent finally answered and said "oh wow, that doesnt make sense" and its like. wow. ok. insert norm macdonald news anchor picture here kind of moment. any help is appreciated
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2024.05.14 21:03 Few-Fix5247 Got this letter, can't understand it

Got this letter, can't understand it
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I can read German, but this style of writing is too much for me. Could you please help me? Also, what is a typical way to respond to such letters?
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