On the other hand, who cares? This isn't a political board, is it?
Leonard Nimoy Passes Away
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There are any number of statistics here in the States addressing the money and value lost at the workplace due to "mental health days", as we like to call them.
kirkfan may be right in that this is not a "political board", but it had to be known that if and when one posts a bald statement like taking off work kinda sorta because you feel like it was gonna get a comment or two...
...and, enough of the derail, especially in a Thread honoring/mourning a man who probably never took a day off in his life.
I would bet dollars to donuts that someone (on this very board) is working on some kind of Nimoy compilation, as mentioned UpThread, and it will be available somewhere very soon.
kirkfan may be right in that this is not a "political board", but it had to be known that if and when one posts a bald statement like taking off work kinda sorta because you feel like it was gonna get a comment or two...
...and, enough of the derail, especially in a Thread honoring/mourning a man who probably never took a day off in his life.
I would bet dollars to donuts that someone (on this very board) is working on some kind of Nimoy compilation, as mentioned UpThread, and it will be available somewhere very soon.
Most likely typed quickly on a smartphone...
I didn't realize we had so many perfect people on these boards. Just to clarify, at that time my employer gave everyone so many vacation days and also so many sick/personal days per year, based on length of employment. Sick/personal days were interchangeable. You could take them off if you were sick, or you could take them off for "personal" reasons - no questions asked. If I wanted to "finish a fucking book" then I could do so without repercussion. It was time off that I earned so I had no problem taking it off and feeling guilty.
The same goes for vacation, we could take a vacation day if we chose. One bout of the flu could wipe out all our sick time so we would then use our vacation time when we were sick. I suppose those people should have been fired for using vacation when they were sick, instead of actually vacationing?
Or maybe, just maybe, it was a good idea to take a day off after working over 30 straight days in a row? The job I had required lots of overtime (voluntary, but sort of expected) -the bottom line is you have no idea of the any of the details of my job or its requirements. Some people worked over 60 days in a row with no time off (technically wasn't allowed but often overlooked) - and some of us were "forced" to take a weekend off if/when our manager felt we needed a break.
All of you perfect people need to take a look at the title of this thread and get back on topic, instead of thinking you are so much better than others.
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No one has claimed to be perfect, but you certainly didn't clarify or qualify your statement as to why you took the day off just to read a book. You're only doing so now rather than initially.
Now back to our regularly scheduled discussion.
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That's one hell of a typo and also what an unfortunate coincidence!
Wasn't he the host of a show called "In Search Of" or something like that in the 70's?
Yeah, I was at my friend's house when I heard the news. Truely sad.
http://www.businessinsider.com/leonard-nimoy-bu-convocation-speech-on-jfk-2015-2
This story about his meeting with JFK is wonderful.
This story about his meeting with JFK is wonderful.
Yes, he was. It ran for 5 or 6 years. I loved that show!
And BTW: you guys arguing about sick days and such need to knock it off. Poor form, especially in this thread.
A few things I haven't heard said yet about Nimoy, the man: One of the key reasons we all are here commenting and grieving, and a few of us arguing, in a forum devoted to one of the thousands of TV series produced in the 20th century, is not just because this actor played this role so very well.
It's because there emerged a new phenomenon: a piece of fiction could hold up an ideal strong enough to give millions of people a reason to rally together and proclaim something to be in common between them. But that ideal would have withered and probably died had not one of the actors realized the power of this phenomenon in its early stages, and actively worked, entirely on his own volition (it's not like he was being paid royalties), to refuel the ideal and build it into a movement.
With respect to everyone else in the original cast, Nimoy saw this first and became the role model for the others, and for actors who would follow. He built fandom into a community. I think George Takei may have been the first to follow along, but then the rest came to realize, one-by-one, that there was a lot more to the conventions and the appearances and the graduation speeches than promoting a TV show in syndication or a movie. There's only one reason Shatner is so good at this now: Nimoy showed him how.
And Nimoy wrestled with this personally, as his two biographies attest, and from time to time he didn't really like being someone other than Nimoy, as the whole bit about being killed off in TWOK shows. That was his own personal humility revealing itself -- the "Why me?" feeling many of us get when being trusted with something bigger than ourselves. But not only did Nimoy figure all this out, his final tweets show that as he was dying, he was at peace with the whole situation, as with the responsibility he assumed as a role model for literally billions of people.
So yeah, we wouldn't be here without the strength of Spock, but on top of that was the strength of Nimoy. We are doing this today not so much because of Spock as because of him.
DF "Also Starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock" Scott
It's because there emerged a new phenomenon: a piece of fiction could hold up an ideal strong enough to give millions of people a reason to rally together and proclaim something to be in common between them. But that ideal would have withered and probably died had not one of the actors realized the power of this phenomenon in its early stages, and actively worked, entirely on his own volition (it's not like he was being paid royalties), to refuel the ideal and build it into a movement.
With respect to everyone else in the original cast, Nimoy saw this first and became the role model for the others, and for actors who would follow. He built fandom into a community. I think George Takei may have been the first to follow along, but then the rest came to realize, one-by-one, that there was a lot more to the conventions and the appearances and the graduation speeches than promoting a TV show in syndication or a movie. There's only one reason Shatner is so good at this now: Nimoy showed him how.
And Nimoy wrestled with this personally, as his two biographies attest, and from time to time he didn't really like being someone other than Nimoy, as the whole bit about being killed off in TWOK shows. That was his own personal humility revealing itself -- the "Why me?" feeling many of us get when being trusted with something bigger than ourselves. But not only did Nimoy figure all this out, his final tweets show that as he was dying, he was at peace with the whole situation, as with the responsibility he assumed as a role model for literally billions of people.
So yeah, we wouldn't be here without the strength of Spock, but on top of that was the strength of Nimoy. We are doing this today not so much because of Spock as because of him.
DF "Also Starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock" Scott
Stardate June 1982, Captain Kirk, wasn't late for Spock's funeral.
Stardate March 1st 2015
William Shanter, is late or can't be bothered to go to Leonard Nimoy, his closest friends funeral.
William Shanter, would rather attended a planed charity in Florida, wtf. What are your thoughts on this? I think its disgraceful.
Stardate March 1st 2015
William Shanter, is late or can't be bothered to go to Leonard Nimoy, his closest friends funeral.
William Shanter, would rather attended a planed charity in Florida, wtf. What are your thoughts on this? I think its disgraceful.
Serving at a charity event is not the same as "can't be bothered."
Stardate June 1982, Captain Kirk, wasn't late for Spock's funeral.
Stardate March 1st 2015
William Shanter, is late or can't be bothered to go to Leonard Nimoy, his closest friends funeral.
William Shanter, would rather attended a planed charity in Florida, wtf. What are your thoughts on this? I think its disgraceful.
A thread on this was already closed. Please do not turn this into a Shatner bashing thread (who are we to judge?).
Please stick to the subject.
Is Shatner making it after all?
ETA: Or not....
Maybe there'll be a shiva that he'll have the chance to attend?
ETA: Or not....
Maybe there'll be a shiva that he'll have the chance to attend?
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