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City Employee Gets in Trouble Again for Talking Like a Robot
New York Magazine ^ | September 29, 2015 | Jen Kirby

Posted on 09/29/2015 11:04:37 AM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 09/29/2015 11:04:37 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Slings and Arrows

Do androids dream of electric bureaucrats?


2 posted on 09/29/2015 11:05:16 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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He's probably a ton of fun to work with.


3 posted on 09/29/2015 11:07:36 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I miss my dad.)
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Isn’t he just acting his part as a cog inthe giant government machine?

give the man a medal for being honest about it


4 posted on 09/29/2015 11:08:06 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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5 posted on 09/29/2015 11:08:31 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I miss my dad.)
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He’s getting the publicity he wants.

He should be fired instead.

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6 posted on 09/29/2015 11:10:08 AM PDT by Mears
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To: nickcarraway; Bender2; GOPsterinMA; fieldmarshaldj; NFHale; stephenjohnbanker

He’s transrobotic. This is discrimination.


7 posted on 09/29/2015 11:11:03 AM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Travis T. OJustice

Sounds like a hoot! Lotdsa fun! The guy is funny!


8 posted on 09/29/2015 11:13:10 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: nickcarraway

Later


9 posted on 09/29/2015 11:13:31 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: Travis T. OJustice

Hi. is there a backstory to this? Sounds interesting. I hope I dont hijack the thread.


10 posted on 09/29/2015 11:17:27 AM PDT by drfeelgood ( and)
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To: nickcarraway

I listened to the clip. It sounds like a normal voice to me.


11 posted on 09/29/2015 11:20:13 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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Dillon was also censured for not responding to customer-service requests and purposefully misdirecting calls.

I used to work as a supervisor for a help desk, and one of the staff was doing this too. It was brought to my attention and I talked to him. He denied it and challenged me to prove it. I did, by sitting and listening to and documenting his calls for half a day. I fired him, and that is what this company should have done to Mr. Roboto. They would have been rid of their problem, and Dillon would have been robbed of his 15 minutes of fame.

12 posted on 09/29/2015 11:22:04 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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Obsessive-compulsive is a pretty compelling force. If the rituals are not performed in exactly the right order, then the whole mental construct goes awry.

“That-does-not-compute.”

“Danger-Will-Rob-in-son-danger.”


13 posted on 09/29/2015 11:22:57 AM PDT by alloysteel (If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers.)
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To: drfeelgood

Google up walmart shane. There are a bunch of funny whiteboard comments to shane like this. Shane supposedly is a deli guy at a walmart, I doubt it’s real, but I don’t know.


14 posted on 09/29/2015 11:25:18 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I miss my dad.)
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Ugh...


15 posted on 09/29/2015 11:38:09 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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sounds a lot like Skippy

The 213 things Skippy is no longer allowed to do in the U.S. Army

16 posted on 09/29/2015 11:42:11 AM PDT by Mr. K (If it is HilLIARy -vs- Jeb! then I am writing-in Palin/Cruz)
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To: Travis T. OJustice

That’s way funnier than the subject of this thread!


17 posted on 09/29/2015 11:44:01 AM PDT by bigbob
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Skippy rocked!


18 posted on 09/29/2015 12:02:25 PM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I miss my dad.)
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I...can understand that.


19 posted on 09/29/2015 12:07:37 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg | Instagram: hopalonginsberg)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Does this story qualify for your “DANG!” list?


20 posted on 09/29/2015 12:11:42 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (If you can't make a deal with a politician, you can't make a deal. --Donald Trump)
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