What have you learnt today?

[Ibrahim]

I'm not sure whether one should draw general conclusions from anecdotal events, although the advice not to date co-workers has been going around for a while. But yeah, I'd be very careful with work relations, although the social interaction warning may be a bit much unless you work in some competitive financial or knowledge-based environment, which is why I try to avoid such companies in the first place.

normally one shouldn't, but here, it is food for thought.

yes, it is a knowledge based job--specifically in the Oil industry. No avoiding it here: I need the money to pay for graduate school.

Wow, that's pretty specific Ibrahim. I sense there is a story there (bloody genius I am), but it seems like the pendulum has swung all the way...

yes, there is. A long, stupid, and retarded one that has gone on nearly 9 months, cost me my job (temporarily), and convinced me that the person in question is an awful creature. (perhaps a demon inside the--admittedly pretty--body of a 26 year old woman)

and no, it hasn't swung all the way: it won't have till the higher ups get a clue and set things right: I can't, because they won't let me give my 2 cents to them or her: they tell me to "pretend it never happened". Kind of hard to do so when you've lost your job at one point over this, and at another was effectively slandered for a group rick-roll--isn't it?!

and the sick part? they know the last part is untrue--one of them actually saw the video (she didn't apparently. I'll let you figure out the implications here). Yet they won't set this right. No retribution, no damages payment, not even an apology. nope--just " you Ibrahim--female loggers are apparently more valuable for the company because of their "