The Story of Jorge the District IT Tech

[seymourflops]

Yes, this relates to the COVID debate, specifically, why some people are holding out against being vaxxed.

So in a district whose details I will fictionalize without changing the important parts of the story, there is an IT tech who works on four different junior high campuses. I'll call them North Junior High, South Junior High, etc. Jorge is Hispanic, and very much the millenial, preferring to wear jeans and t-shirts with messages.

I worked for West Junior high as a teacher until the end of last year. At the beginning of this year, I attended their early meetings and trainings as a consultant. At the first meeting they sang the praises of Jorge, the IT tech. He is always johnny on the spot when a teacher has a computer issue or needed something installed. Unlike the previous tech, he would not grumpily tell us to fill out a work order. The campus computer teacher asked us to complete the work order even after Jorge did the work, because otherwise it would look like Jorge did nothing for West Junior High and he would be assigned elsewhere. Everyone agreed that they did not want to lose Jorge's services.

That was the first meeting.

The second meeting, Jorge walked in to string some cable or whatever, when someone noticed that he was wearing a t-shirt with the logo of the North Campus Junior High Polar Bears, not a hated rival, but not the West Junior High Grizzly Bears. Someone said, "Why is he wearing a Polar Bear shirt?" As if on cue another teachers said, "Polar Bear Shirt? This is West!" I waited for them to say, "just kidding," but no.

They weren't kidding, not even a little bit.

Jorge was taken aback but didn't want to show it so he finished quickly and left. That afternoon - I kid you not - the computer teacher promised the principle to "talk to him about that." Trying to be helpful, I said, "Maybe North Junior High gave him a t-shirt. We should do that." The principal glared at me and said, "we DID give him one." Again, not kidding at all. I decided to keep my mouth shut.

Well, Jorge did not wear the Polar Bear shirt again. But he never wore a Grizzly bear shirt either. He switched to t-shirts with sarcastic expressions like "nope, not today," and "you've mistaken me for someone who cares."

That's exactly what you are doing to the "anti-vaxxers." the more you nag, harangue, and insult them, the less likely they are to go along with your wishes.

Many of you have as much as admitted that you don't really care about changing their minds, it's too much fun to have someone to ridicule. Have at it, but don't be surprised when the vaccination rate stagnates.

 

[madman]

chilli dogs

 

[Helix]

Some people are holding out on being vaccinated because they are choosing willful ignorance. I don't much care about convincing them via posting online. I want their employers and the transportation industry to convince them, though i would support a vaccine passport, too.

 

[watsup]

Yes, this relates to the COVID debate, specifically, why some people are holding out against being vaxxed.

So in a district whose details I will fictionalize without changing the important parts of the story, there is an IT tech who works on four different junior high campuses. I'll call them North Junior High, South Junior High, etc. Jorge is Hispanic, and very much the millenial, preferring to wear jeans and t-shirts with messages.

I worked for West Junior high as a teacher until the end of last year. At the beginning of this year, I attended their early meetings and trainings as a consultant. At the first meeting they sang the praises of Jorge, the IT tech. He is always johnny on the spot when a teacher has a computer issue or needed something installed. Unlike the previous tech, he would not grumpily tell us to fill out a work order. The campus computer teacher asked us to complete the work order even after Jorge did the work, because otherwise it would look like Jorge did nothing for West Junior High and he would be assigned elsewhere. Everyone agreed that they did not want to lose Jorge's services.

That was the first meeting.

The second meeting, Jorge walked in to string some cable or whatever, when someone noticed that he was wearing a t-shirt with the logo of the North Campus Junior High Polar Bears, not a hated rival, but not the West Junior High Grizzly Bears. Someone said, "Why is he wearing a Polar Bear shirt?" As if on cue another teachers said, "Polar Bear Shirt? This is West!" I waited for them to say, "just kidding," but no.

They weren't kidding, not even a little bit.

Jorge was taken aback but didn't want to show it so he finished quickly and left. That afternoon - I kid you not - the computer teacher promised the principle to "talk to him about that." Trying to be helpful, I said, "Maybe North Junior High gave him a t-shirt. We should do that." The principal glared at me and said, "we DID give him one." Again, not kidding at all. I decided to keep my mouth shut.

Well, Jorge did not wear the Polar Bear shirt again. But he never wore a Grizzly bear shirt either. He switched to t-shirts with sarcastic expressions like "nope, not today," and "you've mistaken me for someone who cares."

That's exactly what you are doing to the "anti-vaxxers." the more you nag, harangue, and insult them, the less likely they are to go along with your wishes.

Many of you have as much as admitted that you don't really care about changing their minds, it's too much fun to have someone to ridicule. Have at it, but don't be surprised when the vaccination rate stagnates.

Yeah, sure, blame it on us rather than the anti-vaxxers who show up at school board meetings to harangue or walk into the principal’s office to threaten. BLAH! It’s the hateful anti-vaxxers that you need to talk to so that they would meet their social RESPONSIBILITIES to get vaccinated in order to protect both themselves and those around them from severe illness and even death, and to quit coming to school board meetings to yell about their so-called “freedoms” and “rights” and complain about the “lies” of Dr Fauci and the others who are simply trying to educate them.
No, you have chewed out the wrong people. It’s those f**king assholes who claim to know everything about the COVID and the terrible vaccines who have become a total scourge on society, and it’s they that you need to address. Just realize that when you do, they will call you every name in the book and tell you how hopelessly ignorant you are about the terrible vaccination conspiracy being put upon is by Bill Gates and the UN.
Again.....BLAH!

 

[seymourflops]

Yeah, sure, blame it on us rather than the anti-vaxxers who show up at school board meetings to harangue or walk into the principal’s office to threaten. BLAH! It’s the hateful anti-vaxxers that you need to talk to so that they would meet their social RESPONSIBILITIES to get vaccinated in order to protect both themselves and those around them from severe illness and even death, and to quit coming to school board meetings to yell about their so-called “freedoms” and “rights” and complain about the “lies” of Dr Fauci and the others who are simply trying to educate them.
No, you have chewed out the wrong people. It’s those f**king assholes who claim to know everything about the COVID and the terrible vaccines who have become a total scourge on society, and it’s they that you need to address. Just realize that when you do, they will call you every name in the book and tell you how hopelessly ignorant you are about the terrible vaccination conspiracy being put upon is by Bill Gates and the UN.
Again.....BLAH!

You either completely misunderstand human nature, or you have no real desire to change the minds of the seventy million U.S. adults still refusing to be vaccinated.

Or both.

 

[watsup]

You either completely misunderstand human nature, or you have no real desire to change the minds of the seventy million U.S. adults still refusing to be vaccinated.

Or both.

Neither. I have said exactly how it is. Show otherwise. You can’t. The anti-vaxxers are a bunch of hateful pricks without an ounce of social responsibility. Do you read their posts in this forum? Go ahead. Find a few in this forum and try to change their mind and see where it gets you. I dare you. As for me, I am quite tired of their hatefulness and falsehoods which they heard on FOX and faithfully parrot.

 

[Noodlegawd]

Yes, this relates to the COVID debate, specifically, why some people are holding out against being vaxxed.

So in a district whose details I will fictionalize without changing the important parts of the story, there is an IT tech who works on four different junior high campuses. I'll call them North Junior High, South Junior High, etc. Jorge is Hispanic, and very much the millenial, preferring to wear jeans and t-shirts with messages.

I worked for West Junior high as a teacher until the end of last year. At the beginning of this year, I attended their early meetings and trainings as a consultant. At the first meeting they sang the praises of Jorge, the IT tech. He is always johnny on the spot when a teacher has a computer issue or needed something installed. Unlike the previous tech, he would not grumpily tell us to fill out a work order. The campus computer teacher asked us to complete the work order even after Jorge did the work, because otherwise it would look like Jorge did nothing for West Junior High and he would be assigned elsewhere. Everyone agreed that they did not want to lose Jorge's services.

That was the first meeting.

The second meeting, Jorge walked in to string some cable or whatever, when someone noticed that he was wearing a t-shirt with the logo of the North Campus Junior High Polar Bears, not a hated rival, but not the West Junior High Grizzly Bears. Someone said, "Why is he wearing a Polar Bear shirt?" As if on cue another teachers said, "Polar Bear Shirt? This is West!" I waited for them to say, "just kidding," but no.

They weren't kidding, not even a little bit.

Jorge was taken aback but didn't want to show it so he finished quickly and left. That afternoon - I kid you not - the computer teacher promised the principle to "talk to him about that." Trying to be helpful, I said, "Maybe North Junior High gave him a t-shirt. We should do that." The principal glared at me and said, "we DID give him one." Again, not kidding at all. I decided to keep my mouth shut.

Well, Jorge did not wear the Polar Bear shirt again. But he never wore a Grizzly bear shirt either. He switched to t-shirts with sarcastic expressions like "nope, not today," and "you've mistaken me for someone who cares."

That's exactly what you are doing to the "anti-vaxxers." the more you nag, harangue, and insult them, the less likely they are to go along with your wishes.

Many of you have as much as admitted that you don't really care about changing their minds, it's too much fun to have someone to ridicule. Have at it, but don't be surprised when the vaccination rate stagnates.

I think we're beyond trying to convince people with reason or ridicule. They need to have consequences, other than the totally unnecessary risk they pose to themselves and others.

 

[seymourflops]

I think we're beyond trying to convince people with reason or ridicule. They need to have consequences, other than the totally unnecessary risk they pose to themselves and others.

All seventy million of them? What did you have in mind?

Do you plan to get them all, even those living in their mom's basement? How?

 

[Noodlegawd]

All seventy million of them? What did you have in mind?

Do you plan to get them all, even those living in their mom's basement? How?

Seventy million? Where do you get that number? It's a lot more than seventy million.

What I have in mind is making it costly for people who choose not to get vaccinated. Delta's approach is a good idea, for instance, and a lot more things like that could be applied. Giving them last priority for hospital beds when they get Covid might also have some effect.

 

[ataraxia]

Yes, this relates to the COVID debate, specifically, why some people are holding out against being vaxxed.

So in a district whose details I will fictionalize without changing the important parts of the story, there is an IT tech who works on four different junior high campuses. I'll call them North Junior High, South Junior High, etc. Jorge is Hispanic, and very much the millenial, preferring to wear jeans and t-shirts with messages.

I worked for West Junior high as a teacher until the end of last year. At the beginning of this year, I attended their early meetings and trainings as a consultant. At the first meeting they sang the praises of Jorge, the IT tech. He is always johnny on the spot when a teacher has a computer issue or needed something installed. Unlike the previous tech, he would not grumpily tell us to fill out a work order. The campus computer teacher asked us to complete the work order even after Jorge did the work, because otherwise it would look like Jorge did nothing for West Junior High and he would be assigned elsewhere. Everyone agreed that they did not want to lose Jorge's services.

That was the first meeting.

The second meeting, Jorge walked in to string some cable or whatever, when someone noticed that he was wearing a t-shirt with the logo of the North Campus Junior High Polar Bears, not a hated rival, but not the West Junior High Grizzly Bears. Someone said, "Why is he wearing a Polar Bear shirt?" As if on cue another teachers said, "Polar Bear Shirt? This is West!" I waited for them to say, "just kidding," but no.

They weren't kidding, not even a little bit.

Jorge was taken aback but didn't want to show it so he finished quickly and left. That afternoon - I kid you not - the computer teacher promised the principle to "talk to him about that." Trying to be helpful, I said, "Maybe North Junior High gave him a t-shirt. We should do that." The principal glared at me and said, "we DID give him one." Again, not kidding at all. I decided to keep my mouth shut.

Well, Jorge did not wear the Polar Bear shirt again. But he never wore a Grizzly bear shirt either. He switched to t-shirts with sarcastic expressions like "nope, not today," and "you've mistaken me for someone who cares."

That's exactly what you are doing to the "anti-vaxxers." the more you nag, harangue, and insult them, the less likely they are to go along with your wishes.

Many of you have as much as admitted that you don't really care about changing their minds, it's too much fun to have someone to ridicule. Have at it, but don't be surprised when the vaccination rate stagnates.

They are endangering and hurting us. And you want us to engage psychoanalysis to figure out the beat way to get them to stop and act like responsible neighbors, citizens, and adults?

 

[seymourflops]

Seventy million? Where do you get that number? It's a lot more than seventy million.

What I have in mind is making it costly for people who choose not to get vaccinated. Delta's approach is a good idea, for instance, and a lot more things like that could be applied. Giving them last priority for hospital beds when they get Covid might also have some effect.

"Delta's approach?" What is that?

What about people who are collecting PPP checks and sitting at home playing GTA?

How are you going to ferret them out?

Do you see this as a federal effort, or a local one?

Will national guard units be federalized to track down the non-vaccinated?

Details, man! Give me details, if this plan of yours is to work.

 

[seymourflops]

They are endangering and hurting us. And you want us to engage psychoanalysis to figure out the beat way to get them to stop and act like responsible neighbors, citizens, and adults?

If your goal is to get them to vaccinate, yes.

What else?

 

[Noodlegawd]

"Delta's approach?" What is that?

+$200/month for health insurance.

What about people who are collecting PPP checks and sitting at home playing GTA?

No vaccine, no PPP check. C'mon man, the answer was in your own question.

How are you going to ferret them out?

We wouldn't have to. Do it right, and they'll be begging for the vaccine.

 

[Logophile]

All seventy million of them? What did you have in mind?

Do you plan to get them all, even those living in their mom's basement? How?

Lol!! Welcome to aspirations of the totalitarian ultra left. Even Orwell couldn't forsee how heinous they could be. They think 70 million people are going to their bidding because well, they threatened them. They'll MAKE those people do it!! Ah well. Beautifully written story about Jorge. It's remarkable how petty people can be, aside from the fact that I like polar bears. If I come across a polar bear t shirt, I will buy it to honor Jorge's "resistance." Thanks!!

 

[Slartibartfast]

Let us know with Jorge lands himself or others in the hospital, on a ventilator, due to complications of wearing a t shirt.

 

[Slartibartfast]

All seventy million of them? What did you have in mind?

Do you plan to get them all, even those living in their mom's basement? How?

Increase insurance costs, not being able to go to concerts or the theater, not being able to fly, not being able to visit other countries.

Businesses (and foreign governments) are doing the work here, it seems.

For example, I am going to see a concert tonight, featuring a famous singer, and you cannot get into the venue without showing your vaccine card or a recent negative COVID test. Stuff like this means I can go about enjoying my life without having to worry about the idiots, the businesses seem to like my money and my preference for a safe venue.

 

[snakestretcher]

"Delta's approach?" What is that?

What about people who are collecting PPP checks and sitting at home playing GTA?

How are you going to ferret them out?

Do you see this as a federal effort, or a local one?

Will national guard units be federalized to track down the non-vaccinated?

Details, man! Give me details, if this plan of yours is to work.

Delta Airlines imposes $200 monthly surcharge on unvaccinated staff

The US airline also says Covid sufferers won't get sick pay unless they are double-jabbed.

www.bbc.co.uk

Exactly as it should be. Attack these idiots where they'll feel the most pain-in their bank balance.

 

[watsup]

Lol!! Welcome to aspirations of the totalitarian ultra left. Even Orwell couldn't forsee how heinous they could be. They think 70 million people are going to their bidding because well, they threatened them. They'll MAKE those people do it!! Ah well. Beautifully written story about Jorge. It's remarkable how petty people can be, aside from the fact that I like polar bears. If I come across a polar bear t shirt, I will buy it to honor Jorge's "resistance." Thanks!!

Totalitarian ultra left blah blah blah.....

 

[Paradoxical]

Some people are holding out on being vaccinated because they are choosing willful ignorance. I don't much care about convincing them via posting online. I want their employers and the transportation industry to convince them, though i would support a vaccine passport, too.

PSHAW!

Totalitarian ultra left blah blah blah.....

Orwell was the best prophet ever. A nit-picking totalitarian left wing snot-nosed leftist would say "He was wrong because he said it would be 19844 and here it is 2021 so his predictions were wrong. NANANANANA!" He only changed the date he wrote it which was in 1948, to 1984. He saw what leftism wrought and the ultimate and we are seeing that today.

The idiot TV guy Kimmel says unvaccinated people shouldn't be treated. The thing is, he is SERIOUS! This is how Orwellians control people....through fear and intimidation. We ARE in 1984 right now.

 

[seymourflops]

Increase insurance costs, not being able to go to concerts or the theater, not being able to fly, not being able to visit other countries.

Businesses (and foreign governments) are doing the work here, it seems.

For example, I am going to see a concert tonight, featuring a famous singer, and you cannot get into the venue without showing your vaccine card or a recent negative COVID test. Stuff like this means I can go about enjoying my life without having to worry about the idiots, the businesses seem to like my money and my preference for a safe venue.

Wow, a famous singer? Is it Weird Al?

I have no problem with employers requiring vaccinations. Nor with an employer requiring each employee carry a lucky rabbits foot or wear a mood ring.

Government rying to force unwilling Americans to be vaccinated won't work though.

 

[Slartibartfast]

Wow, a famous singer? Is it Weird Al?

No

I have no problem with employers requiring vaccinations. Nor with an employer requiring each employee carry a lucky rabbits foot or wear a mood ring.

Government rying to force unwilling Americans to be vaccinated won't work though.

It probably would have, but government is not willing to step in.

 

[watsup]

PSHAW!

Orwell was the best prophet ever. A nit-picking totalitarian left wing snot-nosed leftist would say "He was wrong because he said it would be 19844 and here it is 2021 so his predictions were wrong. NANANANANA!" He only changed the date he wrote it which was in 1948, to 1984. He saw what leftism wrought and the ultimate and we are seeing that today.

The idiot TV guy Kimmel says unvaccinated people shouldn't be treated. The thing is, he is SERIOUS! This is how Orwellians control people....through fear and intimidation. We ARE in 1984 right now.

See post #18.

 

[watsup]

Wow, a famous singer? Is it Weird Al?

I have no problem with employers requiring vaccinations. Nor with an employer requiring each employee carry a lucky rabbits foot or wear a mood ring.

Government rying to force unwilling Americans to be vaccinated won't work though.

You've done a lot of complaiming, but you haven't said what will work. Nor will you accept my challenge to try to change the mind of any of the anti-vaxxers right here in DP. There are a couple of them in this thread alone making their typical outlandish statements and charges, but you simply ignore them instead of trying to convince them otherwise. Seems like you are all hat and no cattle in this regard. As usual, a couple of anti-vaxxers have hijacked your thread with their normal conspiracy theories and anti-left hysteria. Do you have any criticism of them, or is it reserved for those who are doing the right thing by getting vaccinated and wearing a mask?

 

[Paradoxical]

See post #18.

Totalitarian ultra left

You were right for once. Pat yourself on the back.

 

[watsup]

You were right for once. Pat yourself on the back.

At least once more than you with your typical crazy-ass far right conspiracy ranting.