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VA Manager's Email Mocks Veteran Suicides

reload999reload999 Member Posts: 3,080 ✭✭✭
edited March 2015 in General Discussion
Pretty disgusting that she is still employed.

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/03/09/va-managers-email-mocks-veteran-suicides.html?ESRC=army.nl
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  • nmyersnmyers Member Posts: 16,892 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I won't go that far.

    Sometimes folks in high stress jobs relieve that stress with inappropriate humor. In most cases, there is no record of these outbursts. Her mistake was sending it in an email.

    I just hope that she gets the mental health care that she so desperately needs. Even a LCSW may need help.

    Neal
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  • TooBigTooBig Member Posts: 28,559 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    They should fire her and take away her pension but then again nobody in the current administration is held accountable
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  • bigoutsidebigoutside Member Posts: 19,443 ✭
    edited November -1
    She is on paid administrative leave a/o this evening.
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  • chiefrchiefr Member Posts: 14,115 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    As long as she swears loyalty to Obama and the socialist cause, she has job security.
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  • Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,623 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Who makes up these numbers? "A veteran commits suicide every 65 minutes." That would be about 23 a day, 690 per month, and 8,280 per year. That's BS!
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  • bigoutsidebigoutside Member Posts: 19,443 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Smitty500mag
    Who makes up these numbers? "A veteran commits suicide every 65 minutes." That would be about 23 a day, 690 per month, and 8,280 per year. That's BS!





    10k WWII Vets die of old age every day.

    There are a LOT of veterans.
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  • drobsdrobs Member Posts: 22,620 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I just can't get upset over a Christmas email dealing with their workplace.

    Maybe "inappropriate" but that's about it.

    Someone with their panties on too tight could easily get upset by anything posted on the Duffel Blog.

    http://www.duffelblog.com/
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  • lpaalplpaalp Member Posts: 951 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    "Dark", or morbid humor. No big deal - we've all used it.

    Not politically correct, therefore an opportunity to make national news for a local reporter/newspaper.
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  • drobsdrobs Member Posts: 22,620 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Some disgruntled former employee getting their panties in wad over Elf on the Shelf:

    elf-on-the-shelf-ideas1.png
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  • Sam06Sam06 Member Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by lpaalp
    "Dark", or morbid humor. No big deal - we've all used it.

    Not politically correct, therefore an opportunity to make national news for a local reporter/newspaper.



    I agree this was blown all out of proportion. I am a vet and this does not offend me at all.

    Take a close look at the Wounded Warrior program if you want to get your panties in a wad.
    RLTW

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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yep, I got a donation request from Wounded Warriors the other day and it contained a one dollar bill.
    WTH??
    Hell of a way to run a railroad.
    [V]barto[V]
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  • babunbabun Member Posts: 11,038 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by bigoutside
    quote:Originally posted by Smitty500mag
    Who makes up these numbers? "A veteran commits suicide every 65 minutes." That would be about 23 a day, 690 per month, and 8,280 per year. That's BS!





    10k WWII Vets die of old age every day.

    There are a LOT of veterans.




    ??????????????
    Thats over 3 million a year!!!


    It"s more like 413 per day, according to the VA.
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  • v35v35 Member Posts: 12,710 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    People have been terminated for less "politically / socially insensitive remarks.
    I don't understand this graveyard humor, especially having our soldiers as the subject.
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  • discusdaddiscusdad Member Posts: 11,427 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    graveyard humor or really heavy ethnic jokes. any difference? if you get mad at 1 you should get mad at the other
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  • Rack OpsRack Ops Member Posts: 18,596 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't have a problem with the dark humor, but sending this through a government email is stupid beyond words.


    If it were up to me, she would be removed from a management position.
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