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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 709765" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Lil. I know you are a nice person. I had to stop reading your post, it was so painful for me to read. It triggered the memory of this incident, which I will soon describe.</p><p></p><p>But first I have to set the stage: You know how snow dogs differ from other dogs? I read a book once that said "regular" dogs descended from jackals and the northern breeds from wolves, causing the difference in personality, the gist of which is the jackals have a hierarchal social structure, the wolves, fraternal.. True or not, it stuck with me.</p><p></p><p>I am a snow dog. I can seem meek, sweet, a follower or passive. But at heart I am fearless, egalitarian and independent. I am at heart a loner. I do not do "authority" well in that I can be hard to control. I do not cause problems but I will not do what I will not do. Like, Lil, I am a nice person. Culturally, I am touchy feely, which means I might touch your arm when I talk to you very occasionally.</p><p></p><p>Well in one prison years ago, the boss was very mad at me, for being a Husky or Samoyed. A clerk colluded with him to accuse me of "violence in the workplace" accusing me of "grabbing" her arm and trying to hurt her. The boss used this accusation to try to put me on defensive. All of my colleagues knew what was happening, but they were afraid to support me. Nothing came of it, but it did prompt me to transfer, which was a good thing. I did not get any paper in my file, thankfully.</p><p></p><p>One by one, the other coworkers were set up too. Eventually the boss (it took maybe 10 or 15 years more) was fired for stealing millions of dollars from the State. Actually, in some ways this was a good job. To cover his own corruption the boss let all of us work only 5 or 6 hours a day in a 10 hour shift (we had contracts that allowed us to leave when work was done.)</p><p></p><p>There are so many stories I have, from work.</p><p> Good idea!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 709765, member: 18958"] Lil. I know you are a nice person. I had to stop reading your post, it was so painful for me to read. It triggered the memory of this incident, which I will soon describe. But first I have to set the stage: You know how snow dogs differ from other dogs? I read a book once that said "regular" dogs descended from jackals and the northern breeds from wolves, causing the difference in personality, the gist of which is the jackals have a hierarchal social structure, the wolves, fraternal.. True or not, it stuck with me. I am a snow dog. I can seem meek, sweet, a follower or passive. But at heart I am fearless, egalitarian and independent. I am at heart a loner. I do not do "authority" well in that I can be hard to control. I do not cause problems but I will not do what I will not do. Like, Lil, I am a nice person. Culturally, I am touchy feely, which means I might touch your arm when I talk to you very occasionally. Well in one prison years ago, the boss was very mad at me, for being a Husky or Samoyed. A clerk colluded with him to accuse me of "violence in the workplace" accusing me of "grabbing" her arm and trying to hurt her. The boss used this accusation to try to put me on defensive. All of my colleagues knew what was happening, but they were afraid to support me. Nothing came of it, but it did prompt me to transfer, which was a good thing. I did not get any paper in my file, thankfully. One by one, the other coworkers were set up too. Eventually the boss (it took maybe 10 or 15 years more) was fired for stealing millions of dollars from the State. Actually, in some ways this was a good job. To cover his own corruption the boss let all of us work only 5 or 6 hours a day in a 10 hour shift (we had contracts that allowed us to leave when work was done.) There are so many stories I have, from work. Good idea!! [/QUOTE]
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