YSaC, Vol. 599: I’m gonna sit right down…
Writer Needed For Very Small Job
I need a writer to writer to write a letter for me about an unethical situation to an ethics board.
This letter needs to be extremely heartfelt and compelling.
Please let me know if you are interested.
Thanks
I assume you’ll want a writing sample, yes? How’s this:
Dear Ethics Board,
I wish to report an ethics violation. Specifically, I wish to complain about someone hoping to pass off another person’s correspondence as their own. They have been soliciting for someone to write a letter to an ethics board for them, which they would then submit under their own name. I find this highly objectionable, and would urge that you take immediate action to discipline this person for their actions.
Love and Kisses,
Dan the Ostrimu
What do you think? Do I get the job?
(Thanks for the submission, Naomi!)
This person is looking for a “writer to writer” to write a letter. What exactly is a “writer to writer”? Apparently what this person really needs is an EDITOR.
This post has The Who written to written all over it.
When I say I need you you say you better
You better you better you bet
This an exaple of corporate buzzwords getting out of hand. Business to business, value add, high touch, action items…much more, too many to list.
Dunno, I often communicate with other writers better than non-writers. Except for when I do not, naturally.
I do try not to engage in convoluted Möbius logic quests though, unless the scribners are keen on Authorian ethos.
I tend to communicate better with… stuff. I’m not sure though, I can’t… you know… things and that other stuff.
But, you know what I’m sayin’ right? About the stuff? And the things??
I’ll save you spinach head! Stuff.
Bad, bad, wicked, evil Zoot! Stop lighting that beacon!
The Moat d’Author is full eno-!!11!!
I just might be the right writer to write that ethics board. Then again, maybe not……..
Dan-O, your letter is certainly heart-felt, but perhaps the tone is not exactly what this person is looking for.
No? I found the ostrimu kisses particularly compelling. Downright beaky, in fact.
Windrose – tone, or facts? 😉
So, how much is this person willing to pay the writer to writer to write? And how many people is he or she actually looking to hire? This could get pretty expensive.
I’ll write only the verbs for the bargain price of $12.75.
Adverbs are an additional $19.95 each.
Nouns require a credit check and co-signer.
Adjectives $5.95 each or two for $15.00
Conjunctions and Articles are two for the price of one or three for $10.00
Interjections are $25.95 each
But correct Punctuation is a minimum of $75.00. It’s just too hard to find.
Alternately:
Dear Ethics Board,
I wish to humbly and sincerely apologize for the numerous indiscretions I have participated in as the chair member of the board. These include, and are not limited to in any way: plagiarizing letters to the ethics board, sexual misconduct with the company mascot, use of board funds to purchase a full set of not.a.lion paintings, purchase of a free red table with board funds, hiring of a man to do all the things I won’t him to do, and many more that I haven’t yet been caught doing, too many to list. I wish to apologize to all of you for being caught doing these things, and I will endeavor to better cover my tracks and uphold the long lasting façade of ethical standards this committee has strived to maintain over the last 50 years.
Thank you,
Taco… Err, Chair of the Ethics Board… yeah.
Thank you, Taco. You made me burst out laughing in this way too quiet college cafe. You are the reason I quit drinking any liquids while reading the comments.
Thank you, I adore being showered with *snerk* praise about furthering the dehydration of board members.
*Bows*
P.S. This board made me spew coffee out my nose once. Not nearly as pleasant as I’d imagined it to be.
Bernie Madoff thanks you too. Finally, a letter that sums up his heartfelt confessions.
Glad to see you back TmMm…
Mudsy, if it’s Madoff then you need a falling-on-his-sword line in there about how it was all him and his sons/brother/wife/etc. don’t know anything about it, so please don’t prosecute them … so they can’t access the Swiss/Cayman/gold Kruegerrand stash (but leave out the last part).
Oh crikey. I was merely trying to cover the Craigslistian faux pas that TmMm touched up and that Bernie was finally fessing up to. Figured we’d leave the sword falling and the other bloody b.s to something other than a “very small job”.
With Bernie, we should be grateful for the baby steps regarding anything in the ethical and heartfelt categories.
Mudsy, from what I understand, you’re being nicer than I in assuming ol’ Bernie has a heart to feel.
Fun fact: he lived 8 blocks from where I work. When I found that out, I said, “I thought this was supposed to be a nice neighborhood!”
Lola: Regarding Bernie, I honestly was trying to be totally over-the-top-snarky; meaning that he would be unable to come up with something heartfelt over even something as mundane as a CL ethical violation.*
*apologies to Kurt Vonnegut for my use of the semicolon.
Lola, work-wise we may be neighbors!
Camille, really? I’m on Park in the mid-E. 50s. 😀
You have the same name as one of my cousins and I actually wondered whether you were she, but she has different dogs, and lives in California. No, our apparent connection may be something else.
Lola, I’m on Third Avenue in the mid-E.50s. And I’m definitely not your cousin in California.
*waves*
Cool – that’s pretty close. And you’re in a neighborhood I like. Anyone else here in our metro area (c’mon, there must be)?
We could have a Regional SnarkCom. Anyone seconding this idea can start a forum thread.
Re: nose spew – Try it with Cheerwine, TMm. Not only does it burn like the devil, it looks like you are having a fizzy nosebleed.
I nose spewed rice crispies once. That was interesting; thought it would have been better had they not landed in my still rather full bowl of breakfast.
And once, I did a piece of ham. Ham in the nasal cavity makes it almost impossible to eat lunch meat for several days.
I love to share.
I hate it when I find the spelling mistake just as ajax times out.
For future reference, in the above post please remove the second “t” from “thought” in order to make the sentence more… comprehensible.
Tw: Don’t leave us hanging!!! Did you finish the bowl or not???
Dear Ethics Board,
Firstly, let me begin by noting that this letter was written by me, with no help whatsoever by another party. I hope it will prove heartfelt and compelling as only something written by me about such a devastating incident could be.
Dear Ethics Board,
Please disregard that last letter, which was actually done with help from another party, unlike this one, which is truly heartfelt and real.
REAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! REAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is my theory, it is mine, and belongs to me, ahem, ahem,this theory, what is mine, is this: Brontosaurus start out skinny, then get bigger, the are small again. That is my theory, which is mine, the end.
“Much, much thicker in the middle” is one of our favorite family catchphrases.
My family can still get the giggles from the phrase “I have a theory.”
By Ann Elk, Miss brackets, end brackets.
I believe that this ad makes perfect sense if you apply CraigsList logic.
I will be happy to write you a letter worthy of the expectations of quality and high standards that we have all come to know as”The Craigslist Ad”. You get what you pay for.
Deer Bored Memebers:
i am a riter to writing a leeter abut an unethuncle situashun to yur ethics bored. pleez no that i am needing to be extreemly heartfeeling and cumpeeling abut this unethuncle problem that peopel are feeling there hearts abut. Thnxing you four yur bored ethuncle hearts.
<3
Is this job small enough?
Eye liek it! it espressus much hartfeldt sadnes, u git teh jahb 4 sur!!11!!11elebenty!+
I was practically weeping when I wrote it.
From the pain of intentional misspelling? Awww. *pat pat*
That, and the fact that my fingernails spontaneously fell off with each mis-stroke.
As Jeff Foxworthy would say, “You might be a lexiconophile (my word!) if…..”
“You know you’re a leper if…”
It’s the little heart emoticon which makes it art.
♥♥*mwah*♥♥
♥
^ Look! I made art!
Amzing, rly, [name] bad!!11!! $550-16
What are either Jayson Blair or Stephen Glass doing? The poster could get Blair to write the letter and Glass to represent him in front of the ethics board….
Okay, so Mr./Ms. Ethically Challenged is sooooo concerned about an ethical situation that he/she won’t even type of a freakin’ computer an anonymous letter voicing the concerns.
Didn’t anyone tell this brainiac that this isn’t the 40’s anymore, and you can’t trace letters to specific persons via typeset?
Sheesh….what.a.maroon.
To be fair, in order to write a heartfelt and compelling letter about ethics, you have to actually be sorry for what you’ve done… or at least good at pretending you’re sorry.
I’m guessing that this guy is neither of those things.
See, I was thinking he/she was wanting to voice concerns about someone/something/catmath elsewhere in the organization.
You know, a whistleblower…
Come to think of it, I like your interpretation much better…but it ups the “ewww” factor by at least 10.
As greasy as this guy seems to be, and reading between the lines of how this request is phrased, I’ve been forced to draw the conclusion that he is going before the committee to defend himself rather than blowing the wistle.
Specifically the following line is very suggestive:
This letter needs to be extremely heartfelt and compelling
A defensive letter would need these qualities, whereas a letter pointing out ethical violations of others would probalby do better without them.
I end my sudo coreyism with this:
I LIKE CHEESE!
I think someone needs to look up the word ethics for them. This person obviously has none.
That’s what Google is for. Google has everything.
“That’s what Google is for. Google has everything.”
Sarajean, your comment reminded me of this quote:
“Disco pants & haircuts, baby clothes…this place has got everything.”
Anyone care to name that movie??
Blues Brothers, as they are driving through the mall in the Bluesmobile.
Yup! Bianchi is right!. I love it! The police are chasing them, people are scrambling and they’re making comments like, “This mall is really roomy”.
“Didn’t anyone tell this brainiac that this isn’t the 40’s anymore, and you can’t trace letters to specific persons via typeset?”
Actually, you can still trace documents by characteristic marks left on the paper by the printer. Despite all coming off the same assembly line, each printer does leave unique characteristics on the documents it prints.
The ethics board received a complaint about a certain M & Ms science project mum who was trying to sell her kid’s project. No wonder she needs heartfelt and compelling given that was about as low as one can possibly go.
Dear Ethics Board:
Something unethical has happened. Fix it. Or pay me money.
Much love,
Stephanie
I have some sort of disease in my chest. My snark must be in my chest, too, because it seems to be lacking.
As a doctor, I can tell you for certain that your snark glands are definitely in your chest.
Can someone write a letter to the medical board for me? It seems that I am not actually a doctor.
The snark gland thing is true, though.
I will because, as so happens, I’m not actually a writer.
And I have transplanted snark glands. Got ’em from George Carlin right before he passed.
Since snark came up, I thought I’d share my latest plag- … fair use project with you all. It isn’t quite done, but I’ve been stuck on a few lines:
The devil went down to Craigslist, he was looking for a sole to buy.
He was in a bind ‘cos he was way behind: he was willin’ to pay quite high.
When he came across this comment board raggin’ on a post and snarkin’ it a lot.
And the devil created a quick profile and typed: “Guy’s let me tell you what:
“I bet you didn’t know it, but I like to be snarky too.
“And if you’d care to take a dare, I’ll make a bet with you.
“Now you all snark pretty well I think, but give the devil his due:
“I bet a red table against your soles, ‘cos I think I’m snarkier than you.”
The boards replied: “Oh well, you want our soles, how original.”
“We can’t think of anything wittier than a sole stealing devil, that’s all.”
The devil bowed his head because the best snarker wasn’t he.
And He posted that red table on craigslist and listed it free.
The Boards said: “Devil just come on back if you think you get our gist.
“Cause we told you once, you son of a bitch, there’s a bunch more, too many to list.”
I knew there was a reason you shouldn’t be reading bedtime stories to small children. Hehe…glad you kept the “sole” in Sole Train…
p.s. I hate Charlie Daniels. Saw him in a bar in Austin a long time ago and I swear, even back then, they had to grease the threshold just to get his head through the door. But thanks for sharing Taco.
That.Was.AWESOME.
I’m not huge into Charlie Daniels either. But the song came up on the radio during my YSaC time and my brain kicked in. Stupid brain and it’s thinking. I’m gonna go attack it with vodka now. We’ll see who’s smart then!
With your luck, all that you’ll be able to attack it with will be Bacontini.
“During your YSaC time”..? Is that anything like Romper Room?
“Za vashe zdorovie!”
Yes, Bacontini happy to attack your brain! He even do it for free, minus de cost of de Bacontini and a small rehoming fee of course.
All brains can be attacked wit de Bacontini! Especially de fine lady brains.
How strange, I’ve had that song stuck in my head since Friday. I guess it ain’t goin’ nowhere now.
Awesome plage…er…fair use TacomMMmMmMmmmagic.
ps: I always thought the devil’s fiddling was better than Jonny’s. Proof that I don’t know spit about fiddling or country music.
I always thought the devil’s fiddling was better than Jonny’s.
Hey, that’s a Ray Wylie Hubbard line
[corey]Per an interview with CD, they actually used two fiddles for Nick’s bit, one of which was tuned backwards to give a definite “wrongness” when “sawd” (to use the fiddler term-of-art I learnt) the same.
CD is also adamant that any who wish to learn either violin or fiddle not use Charlie’s technique as a guide.[/corey]
Christina! Blasphemy!
What I want to know is: is the devil looking for insoles or outsoles? Or maybe orthopedic soles?
Jackie, that’s an excellent question. It must be hard to fit cloven hooves. Plus, being thousands of years old, he might want something comfortable.
And probably fireproof. Do they make custom orthotics in asbestos?
I can totally write this letter. I have my Bachelor’s Degree in Jive.
Oh, wait, it says Ethics Board.
Nevermind…
Oh stewardess! I speak jive.
You know, I’d be more likely to find this funny if I hadn’t spent days of my life catching and busting plagiarists (to many to list). Now I’m just wondering is there’s a similar Craigslist posting out there asking for someone to write a 3-page paper about Hart Crane’s syntax for next Tuesday.
“It needs to be extremely heartfelt and compelling.”
Actually it’s for the symbology of Gatsby’s car, and I only need 2 pages.
Err… I mean… damn.
Isaac, I once had a doctoral candidate who was teaching say that finding sources when they suspected people of plagiarism was getting easier because they could find the “original” on the internet. Did you have to try to do this before the net was so prevalent, and if so, how did you prove it? And how can you prove, if you can, when someone else wrote the paper (to spec, not someone copying an already-extant paper)?
Signed,
Lola, the retentive, who never handed in late or handed in anything that wasn’t hers (seriously)
If I’m honest, I never plagarized anything either, Lola.
Making stuff up though, that’s another story. I learned very quickly in my classes that the more generic the assignment, the less likely the instructer was to check your sources for accuracy.
Granted that only worked for the first two years when most of my courses were “intro to [general subject]”.
Once I was in the master’s program I learned that there is a bit of an expectation that you know what you’re talking about. Go figure.
If I’m honest, I never plagarized anything either, Lola.
Making stuff up though, that’s another story. I learned very quickly in my classes that the more generic the assignment, the less likely the instructer was to check your sources for accuracy.
Granted that only worked for the first two years when most of my courses were “intro to [general subject]“.
Once I was in the master’s program I learned that there is a bit of an expectation that you know what you’re talking about. Go figure.
Ahh, I see what you did there.
LMAO….touché Bianchi!
I once plagarized a haiku, and got caught, whereby I was so shamed, I couldn’t comment for the rest of the day. Also, in fifth grade, I wrote an entirely fictional book report. The book didn’t exist, but I got an A. It would have been a good book though, maybe I should write it now.
I know everyone is thinking it, so I’ll just say it. Refrigerator.
I think that “Refrigerator” should be the book title. 8)
Steve-O:
I think Isaac has,
every haiku ever writ
duly memorized.
I’d like to say I’ve never plagiarized anything, but when I was in the first grade I copied down a poem from the other class’s blackboard and handed it in as my own. The teachers never figured it out, and printed it in the class “magazine”.
Epic Lola. That is perfect.
You and me both, honey. You and me both.
Lola — before the internet, people actually had to go to the library and read books or articles, and deliberately retype them, to plagiarize. It made their job harder, just like it made the professor’s job harder to catch — that is, unless you knew the relevant literature surrounding the topic and were able to spot when people were copying from the sources.
One way to prove that someone didn’t write their own paper is to sit down with them and have them talk about “their” paper: “Can you summarize your argument for me? Can you tell me what the word ‘misanthropic’ means? Tell me about this source you cited: how did it influence your argument?” If they can’t answer these questions, you can be relatively sure that they didn’t write their own paper. That, and you can usually tell when it’s not their “voice”.
Pathetic as it is that people are always going to try and rip off other people’s work, I’m glad that those in charge of grading have a few more ways to catch the cheaters. I wouldn’t have dreamed of it, even back when the internet was still a curiosity; part of it was fear of getting caught and expelled, and part of it was pride/hubris – at one point in my life, not that you can tell so much now, I wrote reasonably well and with little effort. To be blunt, I was probably too arrogant/self-assured to copy.
The term is expeeled Lola….shall I cite my sources?
I usually catch my plagiarists in a matter of minutes, once I realize that a fact or a phrase is outside the realm of their ready intellectual access. (I caught a kid once at the end of a poetry course, when I’d read more than a dozen of his adequate-but-not-challenging poems, when “he” used the word apothegm correctly in the first paragraph of “his” paper.)
I have, on occasion, had to work harder. Some students will perform synonym substitutions on major nouns and adjectives, which makes the paper read awkwardly, and obscures the plagiarist’s tracks, but is still not impossible to catch.
I never had to deal with it in the pre-internet age. I’ve often told my students, “If you can find a paper with Google, I can find it that way, too.”
When I was in high school, a classmate in a Creative Writing class wrote a poem that was so good, the teacher read it aloud to us. It was particularly impressive because the classmate had never shown any signs of poetic genius before. Several years later, I spotted the poem in an anthology – written by someone else long before. I have no idea if the teacher suspected.
Drmk, did you silently correct my memey “to many to list”? Wasn’t that the way the original poster spelled it?
I did correct it … and no, it was spelled right in the original!
http://www.yousuckatcraigslist.com/?p=3946
Yeah… my wife teaches high school math, and when the students are turning in papers (don’t ask – there’s some bizarre outgrowth of No Child Left Behind that has resulted in papers in math class) that, for a paragraph, are suddenly correctly spelled, grammatically correct, coherent, and not quite related to the paragraphs before and after, it’s easy to tell something’s afoot.
All I really needed to know, I learned in kindergarten: how to cut, how to paste, and how to share with others. “Sharing is Caring” is it not?
[rant]
I mean really, if you ask me a question and I copy the answer from a book is it plagiarism? If you ask me the vapor pressure of mercury at 100C standard atmosphere and I pull it from my Perry’s Handbook, is it plagiarism? It is a fact, right? Unless this is PChem Lab, I do not have to whip out my home physical chemistry set and measure it. So, how is it plagiarism if you ask me what the green light at the end of the dock means and I copy a paragraph from a reference book?
I agree that passing off research you did not do or giving some original insight that is not yours as your own would be plagiarism. When asked for original thought, you should say what you feel. Nevertheless, when was the last time anyone really had a unique viewpoint on that [explicative-deleted] green light?
Personally, I have always chafed at the intellectual snobbery disguised as justified elitism so rampant in the Language Departments. I have never understood why they get so wound up in their undergarments over the fact that I chose to cut and paste facts without embracing the joy of re-writing another author’s work. Seriously, I have lab results that need to be translated from Geek to Finance which requires serious legerdemain.
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Facts are different than whole copying for one reason only:
Facts are not covered by copyright law, the words used to express those facts are. Partial copying of another’s work, if properly cited is allowable under the Fair Use in Title 17 sections 107 through 118 of the US copyright code.
You may therefore rip off as many facts as you want, provided you present them with your own words OR you attain the original author’s approvial (via written permission) to use his exact words if you wish to use more than is allowable by Fair Use quotation.
Plagerization in the legal world is understood to be stolen copyrighted content by copying intellectual property beyond fair use without expressed consent by the original author. Further, in instituationalized acadamia it is expected that you do your own work, so whole copying of another’s work is considered, at best, lazy.
In actuallity, you could write an entire book based on the facts in another book provided that it was all your wording (and not simple re-wording of all content). This has been done in the past… quite a lot actually. Since facts are not protected by copyright law and are considered public domain, you can do whatever the heck you want with them. It meerly helps your case if you can cite more than one source. Cest la vie.
Glad I could corey that up for you.
It should be noted that people love to sue schools almost as much as they love to sue doctors. So they do tend to be hypersensitive to plagarization above and beyond what is actually required by the law.
All facts and ideas are in the public domain.
[corey]
The fair use of a copyrighted work…
for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.
To qualify as fair use:
1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
2. the nature of the copyrighted work;
3. the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
4. the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
Titles, short phrases, and format, are not copyrightable.
[\corey]
[Opinion]
So, to lift a FACT, which is therefore public domain, and paste the short phrase which is its definition from a copyrighted work, where only a fraction of the overall original work is used, into a document which is a scholarly and non-commercial work that would in no way
substitute or diminish the market potential of the original, is NOT plagiarism.
So, “The green light is [insert copied definition here].” cannot be defined as plagiarism, yet I would surmise that you have dinged offenders, such as I, as having done so.
[\Opinion]
[Fact]
We are way off topic, and I should have never started this. Mea culpa.
From now on, I will stick to Snark and Adventure Stories. BTW, it was yellow.
[\Fact]
This isn’t exactly true. Facts like “the year Benjamin Franklin was born” or “the names of Benjamin Franklin’s parents” are in the public domain, and wouldn’t need to be cited. However, if you opened up a book on Benjamin Franklin and copied the opening paragraph of the book, which stated when he was born, what his parent’s names were, and where they were born and what their occupations were — and you copied the paragraph exactly, without changing anything, that would be plagiarism. The facts and ideas themselves are public domain or common knowledge — it’s the way of expressing them that is the concern here.
For another example, if someone writes an article making a connection between Author X and Musician Y, and you’re writing a paper about that idea, it is not YOUR idea and you need to cite it — even if you’re not directly quoting from it! The connection was found by that scholar, and unless you have done all of the exact same research the scholar did, you are using their ideas even if you’re not using their wording.
BigUncleJohn, I sense that this is a sore subject for you. It is for me as well — but for me it’s a sore subject because I have to deal with students cutting and pasting whole paragraphs and pages from books, articles, and Wikipedia entries on a regular basis.
I find Laurence Lessig’s idea of a “remix culture” simultaneously interesting and somewhat upsetting; on the one hand, as someone who produces artistic, literary or musical works, I want to make sure that my rights to those works are protected for a reasonable period of time. On the other hand, I hate that Disney’s copyright extension act (oh sorry, the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act) has made it so that the vast majority of art, musical and literary works created in the 20th century will never fall out of copyright.
You’re right though — we’re pretty far off topic. There’s always the forums if you’re interested in further discussion.
I highly recommend “Fair Use – The Story of the Letter U and the Numeral 2” by Negativland. It documents the band U2 suing the band Negativland for using samples of “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” as the basis of one of their singles and (Probably more importantly) for making the title of the single (U2) bigger than the name of the band (Negativland) on the single’s cover, thereby potentially fooling people into thinking they were buying a U2 single.
Sounds dry, but it is a great read. At one point the Negativland get The Edge on the phone and he pretty much agrees with them, but by then there are too many lawyer involved, and well… You gotta find a copy.
As put by the ministry of cultural purity: “Are these goodfacts™ or truefacts?”
Remember, we don’t want to dirty ourselves with inconvenient truefacts when the goodfacts™ are so much more wholesome for the people of Earth.
Speaking of which, I’m pretty sure the craiglist poster is on the board of cultural purity.
Hey…are you my b-i-l??? He’s an intellectual property/patent attorney with an offbeat and wacky sense of humor.
He’d agree with your assessment.
And, I might add, that as a writer (which I am for blogs, etc) I must be ever-careful not to “borrow” someone else’s work. Besides, I’m a snob and wouldn’t dream of passing someone else’s work off as my own.
I’m much too brilliant a writer to stoop so low.
😉
Cest la vie? Ahhh, French. My favorite language (next to Irish and English)
Waoh, I’m tri-lingual. GASP, not the Bi-Lingual rant! RUN AWAYYYY! *snark*
I was taught that it’s fine to quote, paraphrase, or otherwise borrow other people’s ideas as long as you cite the source. I was practically obsessive-compulsive about putting the MLA citation after anything that wasn’t the most obvious generality, or my own original thought (even when I was rephrasing the idea in my own words) back when I was in college.
Can music be plagerized? Because I just sent Ysac ™ a VERY BAD rant about someone complaining that Kanye West “sampled” music from The Alan Parsons Project without using a Cite.
Even worse than catching student plagiarizing, my partner caught one of his professors plagiarizing the entire content of one of his courses. He brought it up with the dean, who sided with the teacher and gave him an incomplete for the course.
No good deed goes unpunished, for certain!
http://www.medleague.com/blog/2010/02/17/should-a-nurse-go-to-prison-for-reporting-concerns-about-a-physician-by-pat-iyer/
Sending supposedly anonymized letters to ethics boards can be hazardous if the complainee is unethical enough…
bitbot. bitbot? bitbot. bitbot. Here, bitbot. Punch time, bitbot. Come on, then, get your card out! bitbot, where are you?
You get the job only if you stop using the plurals “their” and “they” as neutral pronouns for a singular noun “someone”.
I am now crawling back into my grumpy-grammarian cave, wherein I will grouse for hours about “fewer/less” confusion and bemoan rampant apostrophe abuse.