I Have A Government Job

The following is a true story.

I had a question regarding a case I had been assigned, so I took it to my supervisor.
My supervisor told me what to do.
I documented the conversation I had with my supervisor in the case and did what he told me to do.
I disposed of the case (meaning it no longer is something I work on, but it goes to somebody else).
Months pass.
Today my supervisor comes into my office and asks me if I remember the case.
I kinda remembered it, as it's not often that I have to ask my supervisor what I need to do, so when I go talk with him, it's a bit unusual.  I didn't fully remember the details of the case, but I remembered that there had been some case at some time that sorta sounded familiar to what he was describing.  And the more he talked about it, the more I remembered it.  But it was never really clear.
He told me the case had been returned from our regional office because we hadn't developed the case correctly.
Normally, this would be my fault, as the development of MY cases is MY responsibility.
However, since I documented my conversation with my supervisor and it was clear I had made the decisions I had made based on my conversation with him, it was now HIS responsibility that the case wasn't developed properly.
As he told me all of this, I started having questions:
Is this a teaching moment and you're trying to teach me how to develop this case correctly in the future?  No.  Okay, are you telling me that my actions should be different in the future?  Yes.  What actions should be different?
So I tried to clarify.
"Is there some other way that I should have developed the case?"  He told me that I shouldn't put his name on the cases.  Rather, I should put down "appropriate measures are..." or "policy dictates that...", and I should leave his name out of official documentations.  I laughed a little, as I was starting to get the picture of what he was saying to me. 
I asked if it was inappropriate for me to ask him for help with development.  He said it was completely appropriate.
I asked if it was expected that I document any kind of help I receive.  He, again, said that is what I should do.
I said, "So pretty much what you're saying is I should document receiving help from my supervisor without actually indicating that you, personally, are my supervisor.  Or I should develop the case without indicating that my supervisor has given me instructions so that I get talked to in the future rather than you?"
He smiled a little, and said yeah, I pretty much understood.
I spelled his last name out loud, as I smiled a smile that was supposed to indicate my intellectual superiority without pushing it into an insubordinate arena.  "Just making sure I know how your last name is spelled so that I can document this conversation that we've just had, where you've told me that you take no responsibility for your work."
He smiled, and said yes, and left my office.  The look on his face let me know that he knew he hadn't pushed me over this time.
I felt a little better, but also a little pissed that this is the environment I work in.  This is the environment I live in: Fuck Your Neighbor Before You're Fucked, No Matter What.
I Have A Government Job.

Creating Our Own Nightmare

I don't quite know when it started, maybe back with the "pre-emptive strikes" on Iraq, but we now live in a world where we act on the fears of what might happen but hasn't yet, overlooking the horrors that are currently taking place.  Our imagination has usurped our reason.  We've created the nightmare we live in by stopping life from happening.

Wrong To Doubt

Battling
Covert apocalypse
The only real slip
Was being human

Bottling
Lifelong abandonment
You know what prayers meant
That never found you

Once, it would be nice
Or maybe twice
To see the wronged righted
Dance, under the stars
Throw off the bars
To light the nighttime.

She knows
She knows the reason
She knows the reason
But doesn't want to
Always
Has known the reason
Not just a season
But hopes she's wrong to doubt

Raggedy
The run of hidden traps
Always the looking backs
On what we could've done

Magically
These never-ending treks
Begins with tiny steps
Just trying to count to one

Once, it would be nice
To make a sacrifice
To bring a peaceful end
But, with each concession brings
The theft of bigger things
All too familiar trend

She knows
She knows the reason
She knows the reason
But doesn't want to
Always
Has known the reason
Not just a season
But hopes she's wrong to doubt

Can I
Can I just have please
Can I just have please
One do-over?
Can I please
Take back that last move
Take back that last move
Take back that last move
Take back that last move
Take back that last move
Oh, god, please!

She knows
She knows the reason
She knows the reason
But doesn't want to
When you
You know the reason
You'll know the reason
And you won't want to

Fucking Piece Of Shit Security Guard

The security guard said, "A bullet shot straight in the air won't hurt you when it falls back down. I was watching MythBusters last night, and they said it wouldn't give you any more than a headache because of 'terminal velocity'. So you don't have anything to worry about."

So I checked it out, because, personally, I know this security guard to be a piece of shit whose neck hasn't been attached to his body since 1964. If you wanna follow along, you can do so at http://mythbustersresults.com/episode50. In the event that you're just as lazy and willfully ignorant as this Piece Of Shit Security Guard, I'll duplicate the website's information below:

Bullets fired into the air maintain their lethal capability when they eventually fall back down.
busted / plausible / confirmed
In the case of a bullet fired at a precisely vertical angle (something extremely difficult for a human being to duplicate), the bullet would tumble, lose its spin, and fall at a much slower speed due to terminal velocity and is therefore rendered less than lethal on impact. However, if a bullet is fired upward at a non-vertical angle (a far more probable possibility), it will maintain its spin and will reach a high enough speed to be lethal on impact. Because of this potentiality, firing a gun into the air is illegal in most states, and even in the states that it is legal, it is not recommended by the police. Also the MythBusters were able to identify two people who had been injured by falling bullets, one of them fatally injured. To date, this is the only myth to receive all three ratings at the same time.


So, not only does MythBusters say that a bullet shot directly in the air won't kill you, but they also say that it's very difficult for a human to do this, and there have been recorded cases of people dying from bullets falling out of the sky after being shot. Fucking Piece Of Shit Security Guard is a Fucking Piece Of Shit.