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I hated it when older men did it at me, especially when I was toiling for minimum wage and they were venting their divorce dad frustrations at me.
I find it kind of attractive every which way, but also yes
It might be a context thing for me, like if I was thrown from my bed and tormented every night by someone wearing a cool hat.
As a far left gun nerd in a rich western country >.>
I am also gathering stories from my new place of work (Drafting office, mech eng)
Sounds like worthwhile reads in the making.
Mostly slop, just the most brain dead liberal take about everything.
Also the sales reps at the defence company I was at had star sign conversations. Also it sucked in a really bureaucratic way (everything was mediated with Microsoft systems, no admin or even ability to use an ad blocker, so if I looked up an instructional video I had to watch a bunch of ads). The work load and standards of work were extremely low, so it was cruise in other ways. I ran pretty roughshod with restricted information (wasn't given anything classified to handle)
Fear and Loathing at the Military-Industrial Job Faire
Also engineers think of themselves as smart, but uh... They might be good at a few things but holy shit do a lot of people in the field have problems connecting nominally distant bits of information together.