I loved and hated working in Korea. The people running the corporation were just like the alleged abuser of that dead girl (several stories I’ll only tell face to face when I’m certain there are no recording devices). The rest of the people I met were warm and a wonderful fusion of naive and sophisticated.
May South Korea quickly recover from the current false pandemic, find wiser leaders, and regain their strong traditions and economic success.
It has been three weeks now and still no one has been able to catch the Belgian Rambo. Their country’s virologist is in hiding now because he is on the hit list:
That “Belgian Rambo” guy is probably living on the Riviera with some rich lonely widow by now… Different suit, goatee, hair color… No one would even thing twice…
ChickenHead
3 years ago
History shows guys like Belgian Rambo find a secluded place where they kill themselves to keep their enemies guessing.
Panic fades to disinterest and it winds up in the cold case file while police tell the targets, and each other, “Yeah, he killed himself somewhere secluded.”
Let’s hope he and Killdozer are drinking beers together in Valhalla.
TOK
3 years ago
Hmm….I’ve watched the Youtube videos regarding the Kim and Pham spat and yes some fans are siding with Pham but most are in agreement that Kim saved the day and that Pham was a big crybaby.
So I’m not sure why Korean Man is saying that American baseball fans are “pouring hate” on Kim, when the overall mood shows that fans are siding with Kim.
All I can say is that it’s a poor attempt to light a fire and shows Korean Man ever continuing lack of thorough research.
I also work for a major Korean corporation and for female employees who have been sexually harassed things have improved dramatically, sometimes I might add too dramatically and at the expense of the male employees.
When Moon Jae-in came to power he pushed through new policies and appointed female minisiter(sometimes unqualified ones) in order to please the Democratic Party’s female support base.
One of those policies are new workplace sexual harassment laws, which made it easy, sometimes too easy for female employees to bring grievances and have those grievances acted upon.
Put it simply the female employee does not have to present any evidence and/or witnesses. All she has to say is “I’ve been harassed” and it will be dealt with.
This may have helped break down the organizational stonewalling and wagon circling in Korean corporations that we have recently witnessed in the ROKAF. However it has removed the checks and balances, meaning that if a certain Korean female employee wants to exact revenge on a certain male employee or make his life miserable, all she has to say is “I’ve been harassed”.
Case in point. I know a guy who had a female contract employee go to HR just before her contract expired and accuse him of giving her “a dirty look”. The guy got called to HR and instead of the HR guy asking his side of the story he was told to admit the whole thing and prepare himself to receive punishment.
The guy I know, told him that he barely knew the contract worker and asked the HR guy if there were any evidence and witnesses to back up an unconfirmed word from a contract worker who had already exited the company. When he was told that there were none and none were needed he then told the HR guy that he will hit him with a big defamation lawsuit if this continued on.
The HR guy dropped the investigation on the spot.
As for the ROKAF, it, like the rest of the South Korean military is still stuck in the early nineties. Heck the entire South Korean military still thinks that it is facing the North Korean military of the nineties. Not the North Korean military which has made significant investments to make the South Korean military miserable asymmetrically.
setnaffa
3 years ago
Good update, TOK!
I thought that over-reacting was the logical next step. And let’s face it, there are toxic people carrying both sets of plumbing (regardless of “gender”). Leftists always do their best via stupid policies to make everyone hate women and minorities
We can’t kill all the buggers. There’s too many and ammo is pretty expensive right now. Plus the authorities frown on activities that end up with extra bodies laying about. And some of ’em actually are the authorities.
All we can do is live as peacefully as possible, share good coffee (and other seasonally-appropriate beverages), and try to make the world a little nicer for us having been here.
And if I was talented, I’d try to make a limerick out of all that.
Mcgeehee
3 years ago
DoD: Rainbow flags cannot be flown on military installations.
DoS: can be flown at embassies.
Note: “can be flown” means “will be flown” … or else
A limerick for each paragraph
from the pen of a psychopath.
It would be a hoot
to make a skin suit
from a lefty, which would make me laugh.
High prices, for ammo, I’d pay
to hunt women, the colored, the gay.
I can’t shoot them all
but I’d have a ball
and for effort, I would get an A!
Peaceful living makes you a nut.
And beer drinking gives you a gut.
You might not drink coffee
But I’ll think of toffee
When you cough as I finger your butt.
Passengers test positive for covid on fully vaccinated cruise.
setnaffa
3 years ago
I just got back from my 4-year cancer-free checkup at a large hospital in Texas. Two of my oroviders told me to wait before getting the vaccine. Two told me to get it as quickly as possible–and any one was as good as any other.
Elon Musk took four COVID-19 tests in one day, an hour apart, using the same test batch, administered by the same nurse. The scores were, in order: Positive, Negative, Positive, Negative.
We already know the runaround on masks. We already know the runaround on Deaths by COVID-19 vs. Deaths with COVID-19. We already know at least some percentage of COVID-19 deaths were gunshot eounds, people not even tested for the viris, and added to bulk up the numbers and increase panic.
During the height of the so-called “pandemic,” apparently no one died from influenza, cancer, heart disease, or end-stage renal failure.
Color me sceptical.
setnaffa
3 years ago
I might get it anyway; but maybe after I survey another few physicians.
According to the article CSM of the Army Grinston was made aware of what this battalion commander said and an investigation has been started. It will be interesting to see if anything happens to someone this “woke”.
ChickenHead
3 years ago
Hmmm. I just scanned the above article… and…
…didn’t see anything wrong with it.
What did I miss?
Part of being a good leader is being empathetic with those you lead. You get more cooperation when they know you care about them and they are more willing to accept the wisdom of decisions that adversely affect them… as they trust you only did that because you had to rather than taking sadistic pleasure in their pain.
Further, a leader must take an interest in the people he leads… knowing everything personally about those in the small groups directly under him… or being able to carry on an intelligent professional conversation at the small group level if he leads much farther up.
Even being empathetic toward the enemy is a good thing… as long as it is a tool to understand and predict their actions rather than a cloud on your judgment and a hindrance to your goals.
Also, being empathetic to those under (and around) you allows you to make wise judgments on who needs help and who needs a bullet in the head and a kick into the shallow grave they just dug at your insistence.
Without empathy, you run the risk of treating them the same, good or bad, depending on who you are as a person.
Sooooo… I didn’t see a problem with the article… though I was too busy and lazy to read it in depth.
What did I miss?
setnaffa
3 years ago
CH, you might want to read “Command”, 1946 by James Warner Bellah.
I loved and hated working in Korea. The people running the corporation were just like the alleged abuser of that dead girl (several stories I’ll only tell face to face when I’m certain there are no recording devices). The rest of the people I met were warm and a wonderful fusion of naive and sophisticated.
May South Korea quickly recover from the current false pandemic, find wiser leaders, and regain their strong traditions and economic success.
It has been three weeks now and still no one has been able to catch the Belgian Rambo. Their country’s virologist is in hiding now because he is on the hit list:
https://www.the-sun.com/news/3022637/covid-scientist-belgian-rambo-at-large/
American baseball fans hate on South Korean shortstop baseball player for running into one of their homeboys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ-D57OVqzc&ab_channel=BALLCAPSports
That “Belgian Rambo” guy is probably living on the Riviera with some rich lonely widow by now… Different suit, goatee, hair color… No one would even thing twice…
History shows guys like Belgian Rambo find a secluded place where they kill themselves to keep their enemies guessing.
Panic fades to disinterest and it winds up in the cold case file while police tell the targets, and each other, “Yeah, he killed himself somewhere secluded.”
Let’s hope he and Killdozer are drinking beers together in Valhalla.
Hmm….I’ve watched the Youtube videos regarding the Kim and Pham spat and yes some fans are siding with Pham but most are in agreement that Kim saved the day and that Pham was a big crybaby.
So I’m not sure why Korean Man is saying that American baseball fans are “pouring hate” on Kim, when the overall mood shows that fans are siding with Kim.
All I can say is that it’s a poor attempt to light a fire and shows Korean Man ever continuing lack of thorough research.
@setnaffa
I also work for a major Korean corporation and for female employees who have been sexually harassed things have improved dramatically, sometimes I might add too dramatically and at the expense of the male employees.
When Moon Jae-in came to power he pushed through new policies and appointed female minisiter(sometimes unqualified ones) in order to please the Democratic Party’s female support base.
One of those policies are new workplace sexual harassment laws, which made it easy, sometimes too easy for female employees to bring grievances and have those grievances acted upon.
Put it simply the female employee does not have to present any evidence and/or witnesses. All she has to say is “I’ve been harassed” and it will be dealt with.
This may have helped break down the organizational stonewalling and wagon circling in Korean corporations that we have recently witnessed in the ROKAF. However it has removed the checks and balances, meaning that if a certain Korean female employee wants to exact revenge on a certain male employee or make his life miserable, all she has to say is “I’ve been harassed”.
Case in point. I know a guy who had a female contract employee go to HR just before her contract expired and accuse him of giving her “a dirty look”. The guy got called to HR and instead of the HR guy asking his side of the story he was told to admit the whole thing and prepare himself to receive punishment.
The guy I know, told him that he barely knew the contract worker and asked the HR guy if there were any evidence and witnesses to back up an unconfirmed word from a contract worker who had already exited the company. When he was told that there were none and none were needed he then told the HR guy that he will hit him with a big defamation lawsuit if this continued on.
The HR guy dropped the investigation on the spot.
As for the ROKAF, it, like the rest of the South Korean military is still stuck in the early nineties. Heck the entire South Korean military still thinks that it is facing the North Korean military of the nineties. Not the North Korean military which has made significant investments to make the South Korean military miserable asymmetrically.
Good update, TOK!
I thought that over-reacting was the logical next step. And let’s face it, there are toxic people carrying both sets of plumbing (regardless of “gender”). Leftists always do their best via stupid policies to make everyone hate women and minorities
We can’t kill all the buggers. There’s too many and ammo is pretty expensive right now. Plus the authorities frown on activities that end up with extra bodies laying about. And some of ’em actually are the authorities.
All we can do is live as peacefully as possible, share good coffee (and other seasonally-appropriate beverages), and try to make the world a little nicer for us having been here.
And if I was talented, I’d try to make a limerick out of all that.
DoD: Rainbow flags cannot be flown on military installations.
DoS: can be flown at embassies.
Note: “can be flown” means “will be flown” … or else
https://www.stripes.com/Theaters/US/2021-06-04/Rainbow-flags-will-not-be-flown-on-military-bases-for-gay-pride-month-Pentagon-says-1637837.html
A limerick for each paragraph
from the pen of a psychopath.
It would be a hoot
to make a skin suit
from a lefty, which would make me laugh.
High prices, for ammo, I’d pay
to hunt women, the colored, the gay.
I can’t shoot them all
but I’d have a ball
and for effort, I would get an A!
Peaceful living makes you a nut.
And beer drinking gives you a gut.
You might not drink coffee
But I’ll think of toffee
When you cough as I finger your butt.
LIMERICK
https://breaking911.com/2-passengers-on-first-fully-vaccinated-north-american-cruise-test-positive-for-covid/
Passengers test positive for covid on fully vaccinated cruise.
I just got back from my 4-year cancer-free checkup at a large hospital in Texas. Two of my oroviders told me to wait before getting the vaccine. Two told me to get it as quickly as possible–and any one was as good as any other.
Elon Musk took four COVID-19 tests in one day, an hour apart, using the same test batch, administered by the same nurse. The scores were, in order: Positive, Negative, Positive, Negative.
We already know the runaround on masks. We already know the runaround on Deaths by COVID-19 vs. Deaths with COVID-19. We already know at least some percentage of COVID-19 deaths were gunshot eounds, people not even tested for the viris, and added to bulk up the numbers and increase panic.
During the height of the so-called “pandemic,” apparently no one died from influenza, cancer, heart disease, or end-stage renal failure.
Color me sceptical.
I might get it anyway; but maybe after I survey another few physicians.
On second thought…
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2021/06/11/covid-19-vaccine-Centers-for-Disease-Control/1201623425184/
The covid vaccine is an intelligence test with one question.
Ptotip: pattern recognition, cause and effect, statistical analysis… will be just of the few skills tested.
Not to change the subject; but I thought this was interesting:
https://humanevents.com/2021/06/09/behind-the-beret-battalion-commander-reportedly-tells-troops-white-people-are-part-of-the-problem/
Apparently, it’s all based on skin color…
Less than a year ago, he sounded more like a YMCA camp counselor than a warfighter. https://companyleader.themilitaryleader.com/2020/08/31/leading-with-empathy/
Not certain about the direction the Army has chosen here. “Empathy” vs. “learning how to make tough decision under fire”?
They apparently don’t make ’em like they used to…
According to the article CSM of the Army Grinston was made aware of what this battalion commander said and an investigation has been started. It will be interesting to see if anything happens to someone this “woke”.
Hmmm. I just scanned the above article… and…
…didn’t see anything wrong with it.
What did I miss?
Part of being a good leader is being empathetic with those you lead. You get more cooperation when they know you care about them and they are more willing to accept the wisdom of decisions that adversely affect them… as they trust you only did that because you had to rather than taking sadistic pleasure in their pain.
Further, a leader must take an interest in the people he leads… knowing everything personally about those in the small groups directly under him… or being able to carry on an intelligent professional conversation at the small group level if he leads much farther up.
Even being empathetic toward the enemy is a good thing… as long as it is a tool to understand and predict their actions rather than a cloud on your judgment and a hindrance to your goals.
Also, being empathetic to those under (and around) you allows you to make wise judgments on who needs help and who needs a bullet in the head and a kick into the shallow grave they just dug at your insistence.
Without empathy, you run the risk of treating them the same, good or bad, depending on who you are as a person.
Sooooo… I didn’t see a problem with the article… though I was too busy and lazy to read it in depth.
What did I miss?
CH, you might want to read “Command”, 1946 by James Warner Bellah.
Here’s a link to a 1960 TV version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ks1hv8leq8
“A Thunder of Drums” with Richard Boone was the big screen adaptation.
“12 O’clock High” (the movie) was another good example.
“Empathy,” as used in the article, was essentially having the officer as surrogate mommy. Not a good thing in either direction…
No wonder the left doesn’t like the girl…
https://www.foxnews.com/us/north-korean-defector-ivy-league-nuts