What the Heck?! Thread (Closed)

[plawolf]

How could anyone stand the idiocy behind China uncensored enough to sit through even half of one of their moronic propaganda clips?

 

[Hytenxic]

Funny to see Falun Gong branching out these days

 

[SteelBird]

How could anyone stand the idiocy behind China uncensored enough to sit through even half of one of their moronic propaganda clips?

It's why I put it in What's The Heck thread

 

[MwRYum]

How could anyone stand the idiocy behind China uncensored enough to sit through even half of one of their moronic propaganda clips?

When you've HK university students and teaching staffs unamiously support those terrorist thugs, why'd you be surprised such idiots could exist?

 

[TerraN_EmpirE]

Responses as predictable as the sun rise. First unrelated events, second its the Non state actors who blur the lines. The IRGC elements in question were Uniform combatants covered by the GC same as the USN boat crews. You can try and make moral equivalency arguments all you want but they are non applicable. Case by case hear are two unformed forces of recognized states. There for the GC apply. AQ, the Taliban and ISIL are not in compliance with the GC and engaged in conflict as such they have already disregarded the recognized rules of war.

 

[plawolf]

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Israel boycott ban: Shunning Israeli goods to become criminal offence for public bodies and student unions

This isn't just What the Heck worthy, this is what the [all the bad words] league.

 

[Brumby]

Is this a 'What the heck thread" or a political/ideological ranting thread?

 

[TerraN_EmpirE]

Man Skipped Work For 6 Years And No One Noticed Until He Won An Award
"I wondered whether he was still working there, had he retired, had he died? But the payroll showed he was still receiving a salary."
02/15/2016 10:33 am ET | Updated 2 hours ago

Nina Golgowski
Trends reporter, The Huffington Post

For six years, a building supervisor in Spain quietly collected a $41,500 salary from his local government without showing up for work.

And he would have gotten away with it too if it wasn’t for him getting an award for his 20 years of loyal service.

Joaquín García, 69, was recently fined $30,000 for the extended paid vacation from a water treatment plant in Cádiz -- the maximum penalty government officials could deliver, the BBC reported.

According to deputy mayor Jorge Blas, it wasn’t until Garcia was due to be recognized for his hard work in 2010 that authorities realized his office was sitting vacant.

"I wondered whether he was still working there, had he retired, had he died? But the payroll showed he was still receiving a salary," Blas told Spanish newspaper El Mundo, according to The Local.

“I called him up and asked him, ‘What did you do yesterday? The month before, the month before that?’ He didn’t know what to say,” Blas said.

Garcia's water company coworkers thought the plant was being overseen by local authorities because they hadn't seen Garcia in so long.

Garcia’s attorney, speaking on his behalf, reportedly blamed bullying at his workplace for his absence. He also said there was no work to do.

People close to Garcia told El Mundo that he dedicated himself to reading philosophy instead and that he did not report the bullying out of fear that he could be fired.

Garcia retired after the allegations came to light, though he denies wrongdoing.

In the end, a court sided with the government, recently ordering him to pay the five-digit fine.

Garcia has since petitioned to the deputy mayor not to pay the fine and to have the judgment reviewed, The Local reported.

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"it wasn’t until Garcia was due to be recognized for his hard work " Seriously?

 

[AssassinsMace]

Not surprising. There was that story a few years back where I think it was a company's IT guy who outsourced his job to a company in China. He worked from home a lot so that gave him a cover from why he wasn't seen at work. He made something like $150,000 a year from his job and it cost him something like $35,000 to get the Chinese company to do it for him. His employer found out when they thought they were being hacked by China but it was just the company he outsourced his job to using his password doing his work for him.

 

[Zool]

Not surprising. There was that story a few years back where I think it was a company's IT guy who outsourced his job to a company in China. He worked from home a lot so that gave him a cover from why he wasn't seen at work. He made something like $150,000 a year from his job and it cost him something like $35,000 to get the Chinese company to do it for him. His employer found out when they thought they were being hacked by China but it was just the company he outsourced his job to using his password doing his work for him.

What's the phrase? Work smart, not hard? Sounds like the axiom this guy lived by.