I agree with you wholeheartedly. There is no excuse.

• Editor here stunned by new MT's attitude - polly deportia
  • New MTs 'Tude - RettaB
  • In her case, I'm guessing personality or mental disorder. After all, they are pretty common. NM - MsIndigo
  • Sounds like a bad apple. - I wouldn't generalize and
  • I believe this is an unfortunate side-effect of cyber-space. - MT50
    • but day one? to be so rude? nm - polly deportia
      • I agree with you wholeheartedly. There is no excuse. - MT50
        • OH MY GOSH, THANK YOU - polly deportia
          • You are so very welcome. - MT50
  • Unfortunately rude behavior - Scribbles
  • I hope you cut her loose--FAST! - nm
  • This is why MT profession is in bad shape - Rambling Rose
  • Apparently hasn't been fired enough times - nm
  • That "it's everyone's fault but mine" mentality. - nm
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Oh. but I DO know how GREAT it is to not live with this type of personality any longer (married 13 years, divorced him and now 15 years without him and I am SUPER HAPPY).  Unfortunately, there are also passive-aggressive women out there in the world, equally as oppressive as the men who have this diagnosis. 

By the way, my ex was never *formally diagnosed* - I diagnosed him myself.....and today I feel bad for his  wife of nearly 5 years; however, I never deal with them, have never met her....I simply feel sorry for her from afar....because horses NEVER change colors.

So, yes, I not only lost the oaf, but a mere 5 years after the divorce, I dropped 50 pounds and KEPT IT OFF!!!  *talk about big weights being lifted* 

Best of luck to ALL who are going through life dealing with a passive-aggressive personality on ANY level.

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   First, if someone does not like her acting style or anything else about her, they are certainly entitled to their opinion.  I think through chance or intent I have seen  every thing released to date that she has done - Hackers, Girl Interrupted, Gia, Beyond Borders to name a few.   She steps up to every different role and continues to grow.     She is 30 years old and has been speaking more intelligently in interviews for years than a lot of 40 and 50 year old actors and actresses.  She is putting herself out there and putting herself in harm's way as does anyone who puts their face, famous or otherwise, on a cause.

     Many of the humanitarian roles she has assumed now are ones she has been asked to do.   Since practically birth, and particularly since her teen years, everything she has done has been under a microscope.    Now, everything she does is under a different kind of microscope and I think she is doing an admirable job of walking the line.  No question she has a wild spirit -  didn't most of us have some wild at 20 and 30?  She is now formally representing the US and I cannot begin to imagine how stressful it must be to have to say the right thing to everyone every time and still try to achieve the objective.  She has looks, brains, money and could be doing anything including sitting around whining about any number of trivial pursuits.    Is she an actress who wants to be a philanthropist, or a humanitarian at heart who wants to act?  I don't know, but I for one enjoy the entertainment and only wish I had all her gifts so that I could go out and make that kind of a difference.   For the record, in my mind there are no similarities between Princess Diana and Angelina, other than perhaps the eye of the world being on them at any given time.  Diana's circumstances were forced and tragic and I believe her unbelievable heart and empathy were borne mostly of her pain.  She did not strive professionally to be an actress.   As a member of the royal family, she was both expected and required to be involved in some charitable works or humanitarian efforts.  What she became is a reflection of her true heart, I think, and I admire her very much in that regard.   If a single child does not die of thirst and hunger on a floor of dirt because of Angelina Jolie or Princess Diana, I think the world is already a better place.    

I do work as an IC for an online company that does not require a line quota and does not dictate my hours.  They only require that the work I take is back with 24 hours.  So, I think you've made a blanketed statement here.  I certainly do believe that MTSOs do abuse IC status in more ways than one.  I have a whole lot of experience in this field, and I can tell you that it is abuse.

>>>A drink (in moderation) every now and then, in my opinion, is better than being hooked on Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, etc. 

Not if you have a legitimate chemical imbalance and require any or all of these medications to give you a normal life. It's when you don't take them under doctor's orders that you can have problems.

It clearly states OUTSIDE the post that it is NOT MT related...so you shouldn't have read it if you weren't interested. 

However, I believe that this is an open forum for MT issues, plus other things we would like to discuss.  Take a scroll on down the board, there's lots of non-MT related topics being discussed.

If you have a problem with non-MT related topics, DON'T READ THEM...dang...