 Real quick, I actually recorded this episode on Tuesday Before I found out about the Andre Duxen incident with the trademark in Russia If you are curious at all about what's going on with that, I will have an extra message at the end of this video Explaining just a little bit of details on that. So stay tuned for that if that's what you're here for. Oh Hoi-hoi fancy seeing you here. I Wrote a tale for the SCP wiki. I think it was Sunday. Yeah, it was on Sunday and It's already posted. I mean I came up with it had a few hours Free wrote it posted it. It's doing pretty well. I think it's close to plus 30 now and I thought why not? Read it for the channel. This is the kind of thing I do anyway. Like it's one of these sort of monologues and tales that I've done before and I thought why not do another one I know This summer and it's actually already written it on the wikis. I don't have to ask you whether or not I should write it down or not Anyway, I Will say this there are The subject of addiction and suicide comes up. So if these are problems for you Maybe skip this video. I hate saying that because well, that means less money for me But I think it's important that you know what you're getting into. It's not serious It's not super heavy and it's a little heavy at the end, but it's not too bad But it is it is there it exists. So Anyway, let's get started The absolute worst thing I ever saw That's actually pretty easy You know after I finished up with SCP to four five I didn't have a job and I was bouncing around For a while when the hires up tried to you know, figure out what to do with me and for about a year and oh seven I was working in human resources at site 88. Our office was a adjunct site in Bay Manette Like right next to the daycare department. Yeah, we had a daycare department at the SCP Foundation. I mean They were HR guys on site as well Like obviously, but we handle the bulk of the paperwork and processing off-site because we have to deal with the families of our employees a lot of the time and Also, since there was already a child care department. It made more sense, you know, which Obviously these days we kind of work a little bit differently, but we still provide childcare to employees It makes them it makes a huge amount of sense Like any good company knows that people miss work because their kids all the time So if you can provide some sort of an opportunity for them to have childcare They don't have to like pay for a babysitter like that's a huge benefit for people and it keeps people from quitting sometimes There was this one woman and I always remembered her because she had this like real haughty stance every time she came in and Like, you know, she puffed out her chest to come and demand this and demand that or you know, just drop her kids off Sometimes both at the same time. She had to like an adorable six-year-old a nine-year-old boy She was never rude but she was definitely proud and Always a little demanding and her husband was one of the MTF agents at site 88 He was 53, you know a couple years from the optional retirement age and seven years off of mandatory return Well, not really retirement, but a reassignment. I only met him a few times like that's a few company functions It was like he was leaking sunshine out of his ears like every time I talk to him He says loud boisterous, but never bully. I should say that it's hard to really define a person like that he'd been with the foundation for almost 30 years and He'd been like that the whole time according to everyone who I ever talked to about him Like no one ever had a bad thing to say about this guy and then he got reassigned to went and Mon talk now I should say it wasn't a punishment. He didn't do anything wrong. It was just a matter of accounting My boss always used to call it that when like a critical project was short on people It was just a matter of accounting like that made it any better I remember the moment the guy got told because I could see through the window and he didn't argue or anything He just well, he did shrink a little I was used to seeing that like HR has that effect on people regardless of what the reassignment is But he came back a month later after like a full course of amnestics, but it was like he left something behind I saw him next I think at the Fourth of July company event with his mtf buddies They were laughing about an old mission But I remember looking in his eyes and the spark Like what made him him it was gone I Think if that was all it would have been fine But a month later he took a bullet to the knee in a firefight with the insurgency And I stuck him on desk duty during his recovery and you know, they prescribed per cassette for the pain after the surgery Nobody thought a lot about that at the time I mean the guy was a drinker, but it was not that serious and besides he had a family So even if it was unlikely we figured guy was gonna work as hard as he could to get back into the field but the problem really with treating addiction like a moral failing is you could never see how a good man could end up strung out on pills I mean we got better because stuff exactly like this. That was like the mid-2000s. We just weren't there yet So he failed the drug test two months later for oxy and Vicodin Neither of those were ever prescribed to him by anybody So we put him on supervised leave for a few months. I was literally all we did by the way No drug treatment programs. No counseling. No mandatory anything. We just put him on leave Told him to get his shit together and cut him off from the perk. I said He came back just a little bit before Christmas totally clean past all of his tests My boss figured that was the end of it. Yeah, I was a good soldier close to retirement We just keep him chained to a desk from now on until he hit 55 and then we would make that voluntary retirement a bit more forced And a week later he failed another drug test heroin They put him on leave again this time without pay and my boss started talking about how we couldn't keep the guy in the payroll, I mean use the word degenerate a few more than once but I Went home that day and He tried to use the roof of his mouth as a pistol silencer my boss said the problem had solved itself and Then the guy's wife came in with her kids. Thankfully. He's the one that had to deal with them. I Didn't hear exactly what had happened until afterwards but Because he had violated the terms of his employment and he was on an unpaid suspension He'd lost his pension and his life insurance was voided because it was a suicide Let me just say real quick. I disagree with that policy I sort of understand why it existed. I mean suicide is serious and for lack of a better word contagious Site 42 lost half a dozen people just last year before they got the situation under control and back in 07 Part of our policy was that if you killed yourself, we would find excuses so your family got nothing that was supposed to be a deterrent because Suicide and depression is a serious problem at the SP Foundation. It's the worst possible solution to it, but it's a solution and So there this woman was like like always standing tall and puffed up and then she just broke I Mean it was like it was like she'd been replaced by a smaller version of herself She just Shrank into herself She just lost her husband and I'm betting that she hadn't processed it yet much less Everything else my boss told her I Mean we got the kids out of the room and I actually stayed with the wife for the rest of the day while she tried to get herself together and And then I put in for a transfer the next day Thank you very much Hopefully you enjoyed it. It's the kind of tale that I have Usually kicking around in my head every once in a while and I sometimes write it and sometimes don't Anyway If you like the video, please hit the subscribe button and then hit the notification bell after that That way you'll be notified the minute I upload new videos And if you want to support this kind of content head on over to patreon.com Ford slash D Samarian and pledge at any level It's nice to know that I'm not alone out here, and I'll see you all again on Tuesday So there's going to be an actual video about the trademark situation in Russia probably next week I Want to do it as soon as possible, but I also don't want to do it until the Donation link for the legal fund is up And yes, there is going to need to be a legal fund because the scp foundation wiki is going now to take legal action against somebody Who has an illegal trademark in Russia and is trying to enforce it first on the scp? Russian branch if they can do it to the Russian branch, they may be able to do it to others It's unlikely, but it's still possible and it becomes more possible if we let this stand Plus the Russian branch didn't do anything other than right creative commons scp content So they deserve to be protected regardless the donation link should be available sometime later today I'm recording this in the morning on Thursday, but this should be Either later today or tomorrow either way there will be a spot in my description I'm going to take my own patreon link out. There'll be a spot in my description. They'll link to the Legal fund. I'll probably tweet about it if you're following me on Twitter I'll make a community post about it too because I don't think I'm going to be able to Fit a video about this topic into my regular schedule for this week So it'll just be tacked on to this video and I will do a hopefully very detailed video Next week. I might do it on Tuesday and move dank memes to Thursday Depending on how long it takes for me to put that together. I may do it the other way around Anyway, let's get to the rest of the outro Oh and Mary Yeah, I know you skipped hitting the subscribe button I want you to go down there and hit the subscribe button like this is not a joke I need you to do that. Otherwise, how are you going to know when I put out a new video?