FB Update 07-18 - HONOR ROLL and CD issues

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The Joker said:
Shit, my school gave sashes for everything and I came from a town where most of us will work as construction workers or in the logging area, maybe even a fisherman off lake Huron. I actually got a stupid sash for getting into community college.
Chris whined then raged about not getting an award but I say the school gave him "honor roll" so he wouldn't run off the stage crying, but look what happened.
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I remember the awards ceremony at my school was held separately roughly a week prior to the graduation itself. The awards had tacit thresholds and if you knew the people receiving them, you knew exactly why they were getting them. As it happened, I recall a small number of dedicated students picking up about half of the awards at the ceremony, but everything was tacit.

I'm sure MHS would have had to have made similar arrangements.
 
Muncie Anderson said:
One of the three high schools I attended (My dad's job transferred us across the country a couple of times) had a policy where they would retain a student's records for up to eighty years after graduation before they were destroyed. If you withdrew from that district for any reason before graduating, your records were kept for just five years before being put in the circular file.

So, yes, it is possible that Chris and his permanent record are both still on file at Manchester High.
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I worked at a school district for a few months a while back. One day, someone had moved a bunch of long, small boxes into the hall. I took a peek inside one, it was full of registration cards for students dating back to the late 1920's (why they were in a school that was built in 1950 is a mystery). Another set of boxes had similar cards from the 60's. Yeah, they hold onto stuff for a long time, especially now that everything's digital. Chris graduated in 2000, so the chances that his report cards and transcript are just digital files living on some server somewhere is pretty damn good.

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I actually work with a few radio stations and yeah, if the FCC was going to act, they wouldn't be so kind as to send out any C&Ds. To give you an idea of what kind of fees the FCC throw around, they will ding a radio station a cool $5,000 for simply failing to identify themselves once per hour. Although I don't believe the FCC would waste their time chasing after some autistic manchild for trying to sell CD-Rs of a nearly 25-year old recording from the equivalent of a public access radio station, if they were feeling ornery, they could easily slam Chris with a fee in the five-figure category.
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Oddly enough, I now work at a TV station. A while back, some mishap in one of the CG systems accidentally reverted an ID back to pre-DTV switchover and identified us with the wrong callsign. For a few months. Once someone noticed that the ID was wrong, some of the higher-ups were very concerned they'd get slapped with huge fines. Luckily, the FCC didn't notice.
 
qld said:
But wasn't the lemonade stand in association with the church? There must've been some supervision on that one. But much like the contest where he said he would share the winnings with the congregation, it came down to it that they didn't get as much as he originally pledged. Without proper supervision for fundraising, who's to say he won't use those tens of dollars to cover shipping as the eBay orders come in, and conveniently forget to forward WTJU their fair share?
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The Lemonade Stand Incident happened because he wanted some free Lego that was a tie-in with the charity. In order to obtain the Lego you had to pledge to host an event. It's called Alex's Lemonade Stand and it has literally raised millions for research in childhood cancer. He originally stated that he would hold his Lemonade Stand over the course of two days in the parking lot of a now-closed Circuit City. When he realized that he would be a sitting duck for weens and trolls he scurried it over to his church where he could hide in the safety of the annual pot luck. As usual, he half-assed the whole thing by buying some store bought lemonade (and per the charity you can have any type of lemonade you wish, store bought, homemade, etc) and setting out a big bowl of ice and a donation box. He said he raised $50 or so and it was handed over to Rocky and mailed out. He also raised some funds online and those go straight to the charity -- you cannot access those funds for personal use. The thing that completely pisses me off about it is that he put up a big picture of Bob and boo-hooed about how cancer killed his daddy. (It did not) -- Chris paid lip service to a children's cancer charity so that he could get a Lego exclusive targeted at little girls, and as someone who has worked with Alex's Lemonade Stand and as a cancer survivor, I count it among his more nefarious "something for little or no effort" schemes.
 
sikotik said:
He also made the Dean's List, or so he claims.
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Oh hell yeah. The dean loved him.

Seriously

I understand that behavioral discipline has no bearing on academic honors. Just a bit of humor :-)

Chandler Cats said:
The thing that completely pisses me off about it is that he put up a big picture of Bob and boo-hooed about how cancer killed his daddy. (It did not)
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I never understood why he did that. It's especially insensitive and borderline facetious, even for Our Pet Lolcow. He would have gotten the lego just by holding the event.
 
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Chris honestly believes that cancer did kill his father. Really, he's that stupid.
 
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So Chris' account is low?
I thought the estimate of his e-bay earnings was around $3,000. Did he blow through it that fast?*sigh*
He is living in a rental home and odds are not for long. He had a opportunity to stow away some (essentially free) cash to take care of future issues or pay off his debt, and instead he blows it all on lego and vidya. I know this should come as no surprise to anyone but it is just cringe inducing stupidity. The fact that he can't even complete the work he has already been paid for is a big indicator that this is just going to spiral into another big problem for him. I don't think he realizes that his customers can and will get their money back from him if he does not deliver on his promise. All I can say now is that at least I won't feel bad for laughing when his stupid ass gets evicted and he has to live in the street.:alog:
 
Henry Bemis said:
The thing to remember about the lemonade stand is that it coincided with a concentrated effort on Chris's part (bear with me here) to walk the straight-and-narrow, or at least appear to do so, having been arraigned a few months before and lacking much other evidence of good character. (Because good character overpowers all legalese.) He thought his Pokemon gym leader stint got him out of a stern(er) punishment in for the Target incident, so why not a lemonade stand to counter a failure to stop charge?

Here, there's nothing that can hold Chris back from lying. There was no formal agreement between him and the station, and therefore no consequences for breaking it.
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I think he might be scared of the jerkops coming to his house if he doesn't donate to the radio station as promised, though.
 
I still think it's possible he may have been on honor roll at some point, but probably not all through HS. My guess is that he got it his first semester and has since assumed that he had it all four years.
Granted, he was also somehow convinced that he managed the basketball team too when he clearly did no such thing!

Regarding his transcripts, I remember that in the nurses office (of all places!) at my middle school, there was a whole wall of cupboards with student transcripts dating to the 60's. It's possible the truth still lies buried within the hallowed halls of MHS.
 
IwegalBadnik said:
I remember the awards ceremony at my school was held separately roughly a week prior to the graduation itself. The awards had tacit thresholds and if you knew the people receiving them, you knew exactly why they were getting them. As it happened, I recall a small number of dedicated students picking up about half of the awards at the ceremony, but everything was tacit.

I'm sure MHS would have had to have made similar arrangements.
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Giving Chris a sash, and telling him that it was for making "Honor Roll" wold definitely be the path of least resistance and by far, preferable to dealing with Bob and Barb. We all know that MHS worked with Bob to "negotiate" friends for Chris. Keeping that it mind, it all makes a sort of warped sense.
 
The Joker said:
Shit, my school gave sashes for everything and I came from a town where most of us will work as construction workers or in the logging area, maybe even a fisherman off lake Huron. I actually got a stupid sash for getting into community college.
Chris whined then raged about not getting an award but I say the school gave him "honor roll" so he wouldn't run off the stage crying, but look what happened.
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"Honor roll" is not a precisely defined term. The standard rule is a 3.5 GPA, but schools can make their own rules. My inclination is to believe that Chris was on some sort of Honor roll, considering how long he has been insisting on it. His lies don't usually last nearly as long as his honest truths. But we don't know exactly what it means. Perhaps MHS had a lower standard, either a lower minimum GPA or not counting your worst marks. Perhaps Chris got A's in classes like "coping skills" which pulled up his GPA to a decent number. Perhaps things like good attendance factored in. Perhaps special ed kids had their own standards for honor roll.

Holdek said:
I think he might be scared of the jerkops coming to his house if he doesn't donate to the radio station as promised, though.
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I am inclined to agree with you, Holdek, that Chris probably does plan to donate the money. The one thing I will say is that I could see him taking something going wrong as justification for not doing it. "Mmm, yeah, so because of all the troll-filled stress to my current mental state, I have not donated da dang money to da radio station, as such."
 
timtommy said:
I am inclined to agree with you, Holdek, that Chris probably does plan to donate the money. The one thing I will say is that I could see him taking something going wrong as justification for not doing it. "Mmm, yeah, so because of all the troll-filled stress to my current mental state, I have not donated da dang money to da radio station, as such."
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Or he could just forget. They say never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. I'd wager that should go double for :stupid:.
 
Chandler Cats said:
The Lemonade Stand Incident happened because he wanted some free Lego that was a tie-in with the charity. In order to obtain the Lego you had to pledge to host an event. It's called Alex's Lemonade Stand and it has literally raised millions for research in childhood cancer. He originally stated that he would hold his Lemonade Stand over the course of two days in the parking lot of a now-closed Circuit City. When he realized that he would be a sitting duck for weens and trolls he scurried it over to his church where he could hide in the safety of the annual pot luck. As usual, he half-assed the whole thing by buying some store bought lemonade (and per the charity you can have any type of lemonade you wish, store bought, homemade, etc) and setting out a big bowl of ice and a donation box. He said he raised $50 or so and it was handed over to Rocky and mailed out. He also raised some funds online and those go straight to the charity -- you cannot access those funds for personal use. The thing that completely pisses me off about it is that he put up a big picture of Bob and boo-hooed about how cancer killed his daddy. (It did not) -- Chris paid lip service to a children's cancer charity so that he could get a Lego exclusive targeted at little girls, and as someone who has worked with Alex's Lemonade Stand and as a cancer survivor, I count it among his more nefarious "something for little or no effort" schemes.
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Woah, when did this happen?
 
Holdek said:
Or he could just forget. They say never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. I'd wager that should go double for :stupid:.
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Yes, I won't claim I suspected he had some nefarious, convoluted scheme to bilk people in the name of charity. I will claim I never trusted his ability to deliver the collections without proper supervision and safeguards in place. Whether incompetent or downright fraudulent, either are charities to avoid.
 
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Butterballs said:
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Unable to issue refunds? Is that because he doesn't have enough money, or because of some other reason? I ask since his inability to issue refunds basically 86's his plan to give rebates on shit. Also, when you buy something and don't get it, you're not real happy about getting something you didn't want (or possibly already have in this case) in its place.
 
Some JERK said:
Unable to issue refunds? Is that because he doesn't have enough money, or because of some other reason? I ask since his inability to issue refunds basically 86's his plan to give rebates on shit.
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I am willing to bet as soon as any money he recieves almost instantaneously goes towards more lego crap
 
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