I worked with a guy that if he slept in or ran late for work tossed his gym gear on instead of his work clothes and ran into the office apologising and went to the bathroom to get changed.

People thought that he was a fitness NUT and he always stayed back to make up the time so he was called dedicated. In truth I knew he trained after work and regularly stayed up mega late playing COD and slept through his alarm.

Id say the one thing I kind of disagree with here is the emails. If I'm at my computer and the email says "Are you able to handle this 15 minute job for me by EOD?" I respond immediately "Yeah, I can fit that in." and then go back to whatever it was I was doing and handle it later.

If someone is asking me to do a big job I dont reply immediately and go do some prep work for the big job and email them an hour later. "Not a problem, Ill get on it ASAP."

If you respond and get tasks done immediately sometimes it makes them think you must be in the middle of something when you dont. When someone gives you a big task that will take 4 hours and they check in on you 3 hours after you reply to the email and you're almost finished, it puffs up your ability.

But in general I agree, responding to emails is a great tool for managing perceptions and expectations.

No way, Ive been on the antidepressant merry-go-round before. They were not a pleasant experience for me.

Chewing nicotine gum.

Havent had a smoke in years but trying to give the gum up means I turn into a raging asshole.

I cant wait to jump on Amazon and order my net launcher.

Yeah but the comments were usually kind of a shitshow.

Googles "Suicide help line"

Google: "Do it Fa**ot"

You want carnage? Can we please feed it the entire history of 4chan?

Only 1?

I used to race alot, by my count Ive bent 6 cars into a nonfunctional condition.

Michael Jackson young, R Kelly young or Leonardo DiCaprio young?

Theres a non-zero chance that Linus Sebastian just did something really dumb. LoL.

I mean, theres 3 categories for giving them a pass on their transgressions (as a fan, not legally or morally speaking) IMO.

1. The art/performance was just so far beyond good that you cant deny the cultural significance. E.g Michael Jackson, Elvis, Tupac.

2. You had a personal connection to the art before they did the shitty thing or before it came to light. (In my case: early Chris Brown, Kid Rock) They were big in my late teens and early 20s and I have positive memories associated with their songs. Not the percieved quality of the art.

3. They had their day in court, did their time and time has passed. E.g Mark Wahlberg, I dont know the guy, I dont know if he is a good person or not these days. But the last documented occasion of him being a huge violent racist asshole is 1992... 32 years ago.