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    mer.at reacted to ReallyThough in Madison reveals experiences working at LMG   
    To start, sorry for the upcoming wall of text, but keep in mind my point of view on these situations have been formed
    from my own experiences simliar to what Madison is describing.
    As someone who has experienced this myself and witnessed it happening to other people, I have to take this story
    with a huge grain of salt.
    I have witnessed female and male coworkers abuse he said/she said allegations to get what they want way too
    many times.
    Examples would be a female coworker when I was in college. She disliked the work we did and as long as no one was
    watching, would basically do nothing and study or do homework (both things against employement agreement).
    At some point she got into an argument with the manager about this very topic, indicating that the rules don't apply
    to them for whatever reason and when she didn't get what she wanted she escalated to the person who ran the business.
    When she still didn't get what she wanted and was told to go back to work and to stop doing school work during work hours,
    she ignored this and eventually got fired.
    A few weeks later the manager was escorted out of the building under allegations of sexual misconduct and assault.
    Big surprise for me as I was the only one who knew he was gay, and found this particular female repulsive in both looks and
    personality and would do everything to not be physically around them. Upper management ignored this as it was out of their hands
    at that point.
    3 years this person waited for their court date, and on the day of their court date, the ex employee told the judge
    that they decided not to go through with it and that they had lied. She apologized to her manager for what happened as her
    mother pushed her to make these allegations.
    Nothing happened to either of these people, the manager was unable to get any good employement after that, even though
    the case was dropped, and there were 0 ramifications for the female employee.

    Another instance of a place I worked at, they hired me and a women (we were both around 20 at the time).
    We worked together and got along well. That includes flirting and innapropriate for workplace comments and touching.
    Never went further than light flirting and gentle tickles or putting an arm around shoulders etc.
    The issue wasn't with me but the owner. He was an old fellow, probably close to 60, and she would flirt with him
    constantly. She would sit in his lap and it was obvious he was enjoying the attention. His wife had been passed away for
    20ish years and he never got together with someone else.
    At some point, their inter office banter changed. I noticed that she was getting lazy and just screwing around all shift,
    and it wasn't ever busy so I could easliy keep myself busy picking up her slack.
    The owner didn't like this and made a comment about it and how he wanted to see us both working equally hard.
    She did not like this and got into an argument about how she works just as hard as I do etc.
    The next few days were awkward silence etc.
    Then she left and a few days later the police came to speak to us.
    I got interviewed and asked questions about the work place and my interactions with the ex employee.
    It was freaking nerve wracking as I had been flirting with this person and worried that I was going to get in trouble.
    She had made allegations that the owner would flirt with her and say innapropriate things (he did but she had set the bar for their interactions).
    and they made her feel uncomfortable and he would touch her innaproprietly.
    I just explained truthfully the things I witnessed myself and that was that, we never heard back from them or the ex employee and I left
    soon after that. The owner was never the same after that, he didn't joke or smile, and people had obviously heard about
    the police and allegations etc. And even though nothing happened, his rep was destroyed and he lost business and eventually retired.

    The last time I witnessed something similar to this was a male employee who liked to joke innapropriately with his female
    manager.
    They would have fun one upping each other in who could say the most awful thing, usually sexual in nature. They would have frank conversations
    about their dating life etc. They were truly what I would consider "bros".
    At some point something changed and he accused her of assaulting him and touching him without his consent.
    Like my other experiences, this was not a black and white situation where both parties participated in innparopriate talk/behaviour for an office
    location, but in this case it didn't matter, manager was fired.

    Now I have also had conversations with friends who've been on the receiving end of absolute sexaul assualt at work places,
    where the situations were pretty straight up black and white, so I know it happens.

    But in this case, I hope that Madison is being completely honest here in describing what happened, because
    engaging in conversations where you indicate that certain topics are ok with you, then turning around and saying they were innapropriate is NOT ok.
    And I've seen people have their lives unfairly ruined because of this.

    If what she said is true, then people need to be fired at LMG, and potential criminal charges for assault, that's not ok.
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    mer.at reacted to Taf the Ghost in Madison reveals experiences working at LMG   
    Aside from being off topic, the stuff about Depp / Hurd is objectively false.
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    mer.at got a reaction from Jumper118 in Post your Cinebench R20+15+R11.5+2003 Scores **Don't Read The OP PLZ**   
    Nice Overclock there.
    My cpu need the same voltage, but is not primestable at 4.0. Had to drop to 3.95
     
     

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    mer.at got a reaction from Jumper118 in Post your Cinebench R20+15+R11.5+2003 Scores **Don't Read The OP PLZ**   
    looks better now, even got the memory@3200 benchstable
     
     

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    mer.at got a reaction from App4that in Unigine Valley Benchmark Scores Thread + SUPERPOSITION ***Over 1000 Submissions!***   
    Now something for the List.
     
    R7 1700@3.9GHz
    1080Ti @ 2063GPU and 1534 Vram

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    mer.at reacted to Shoob in What song are you listening to right now.   
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    mer.at reacted to Volbet in What song are you listening to right now.   
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    mer.at reacted to Volbet in What song are you listening to right now.   
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    mer.at reacted to Volbet in What song are you listening to right now.   
    Think old Sepultura, Hellhammer, Sarcófago, maybe some Endless Pain-era Kreator and old Sodom. 
     
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    mer.at got a reaction from AlwaysFSX in Car Enthusiast Club [Now Motorcycle friendly!] - First thread to 150k! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯   
    Howdy.
     
    Since i'm new here, i wanted to share my owned car list.
    1. Jeep Cherokee XJ 1995 - with 2.5L Diesel Engine from an italian company. Normally used as ship engines, therefor the header it broke every 80.000km. it requiered 25°C seawater to cool it down, not 90°C water inside a car.  Got rid of it when headers broke ...
    2. Volvo V40, 1.6l gasoline engine. Quite nice car, no breakdowns, but the engine was shit. way to revy and loud for a quiet commute at 130kph.
    3. Mazda MX5 NC, 1.8 (126hp), had it for 8 years, great car, no major breakdowns
    4. Subaru Legacy 2.0 (125hp), was 13 year old when i bought it. used as a car for winter, to save the MX5 from the harsh austrian winters. no major breakdowns. engine ran like a dream. smooth and silent
    5. BMW E90, 325i, got the one with the N53 engine. 3L I6, and let some guy retune the engine (it's almost the same engine as in the 330i). With Super100 Gasoline it's producing about 260-270hp. Did shave of 1.2s from 0-100kph
     
     
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    mer.at got a reaction from MEC-777 in Car Enthusiast Club [Now Motorcycle friendly!] - First thread to 150k! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯   
    Howdy.
     
    Since i'm new here, i wanted to share my owned car list.
    1. Jeep Cherokee XJ 1995 - with 2.5L Diesel Engine from an italian company. Normally used as ship engines, therefor the header it broke every 80.000km. it requiered 25°C seawater to cool it down, not 90°C water inside a car.  Got rid of it when headers broke ...
    2. Volvo V40, 1.6l gasoline engine. Quite nice car, no breakdowns, but the engine was shit. way to revy and loud for a quiet commute at 130kph.
    3. Mazda MX5 NC, 1.8 (126hp), had it for 8 years, great car, no major breakdowns
    4. Subaru Legacy 2.0 (125hp), was 13 year old when i bought it. used as a car for winter, to save the MX5 from the harsh austrian winters. no major breakdowns. engine ran like a dream. smooth and silent
    5. BMW E90, 325i, got the one with the N53 engine. 3L I6, and let some guy retune the engine (it's almost the same engine as in the 330i). With Super100 Gasoline it's producing about 260-270hp. Did shave of 1.2s from 0-100kph
     
     
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    mer.at got a reaction from JoaoPRSousa in Car Enthusiast Club [Now Motorcycle friendly!] - First thread to 150k! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯   
    Howdy.
     
    Since i'm new here, i wanted to share my owned car list.
    1. Jeep Cherokee XJ 1995 - with 2.5L Diesel Engine from an italian company. Normally used as ship engines, therefor the header it broke every 80.000km. it requiered 25°C seawater to cool it down, not 90°C water inside a car.  Got rid of it when headers broke ...
    2. Volvo V40, 1.6l gasoline engine. Quite nice car, no breakdowns, but the engine was shit. way to revy and loud for a quiet commute at 130kph.
    3. Mazda MX5 NC, 1.8 (126hp), had it for 8 years, great car, no major breakdowns
    4. Subaru Legacy 2.0 (125hp), was 13 year old when i bought it. used as a car for winter, to save the MX5 from the harsh austrian winters. no major breakdowns. engine ran like a dream. smooth and silent
    5. BMW E90, 325i, got the one with the N53 engine. 3L I6, and let some guy retune the engine (it's almost the same engine as in the 330i). With Super100 Gasoline it's producing about 260-270hp. Did shave of 1.2s from 0-100kph
     
     
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    mer.at reacted to sobe in Pretty Music Please   
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    mer.at got a reaction from Jumper118 in Post your Cinebench R20+15+R11.5+2003 Scores **Don't Read The OP PLZ**   
    Watch out, 2010 hardware plowing through!
     
    2x X5670 stock

     
    and something newer:
    6700k @ 4.6GHz

     
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    mer.at got a reaction from Pasi123 in Post your Cinebench R20+15+R11.5+2003 Scores **Don't Read The OP PLZ**   
    Watch out, 2010 hardware plowing through!
     
    2x X5670 stock

     
    and something newer:
    6700k @ 4.6GHz

     
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