A KEY SKILL FOR MENTAL-HEALTH THERAPISTS:
Knowing how to handle paperwork.
(Thanks to Blair Keel)
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June 30, 2004
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Wow. I wish I could do that to paperwork. We don't even get a shredder.
Posted by: leigh7911 | June 30, 2004 at 06:06 AM
"a mental health practitioner and professional counselor" - just savor that. I guess I'm qualified for that job, at least close enough for government work.
Posted by: Wally Ballou | June 30, 2004 at 06:14 AM
He must have learned to do that by processing medical insurance claims. So far as I can tell, that is how such claims are routinely handled (or they might as well be).
Posted by: Blue Meanie | June 30, 2004 at 06:14 AM
A little sympathy for the poor guy - you can get awfully worn down teaching Anger Management over and over and over again...
Posted by: jamester | June 30, 2004 at 06:17 AM
"Allright men, one of us is going to go in there and tell Powers that he's been Let Go. We'll draw straws. I have a Kevlar jacket and helmet for the lucky winner... Hey, Hey where is everyone going....get back here you...YOU COWARDS!"
Posted by: Lily | June 30, 2004 at 06:28 AM
Really -- it's tough being a therapist. You have to deal not only with patients but with HMOs & insurance. That alone will make you want to shoot something or someone.
In a couple of years I should be a licensed counselor also, but in the state of Texas. My guess is that it's perfectly ok to be shooting memos here in Texas. The guy was just in the wrong place.
Posted by: JCT | June 30, 2004 at 06:33 AM
You can use being so angry you might shoot someone as an excuse to stay home from work? I see some three-day weekends in my future.
Posted by: Lairbo | June 30, 2004 at 06:37 AM
So, any bets on whether one of the supply drawers had the meds in it?
So young and sooooo cynical.
Posted by: Cheesewiz | June 30, 2004 at 06:40 AM
now that he's unemployed, maybe can pursue a career in firearms instruction.
nice shootin' pardner.
Posted by: wyatt erp | June 30, 2004 at 06:56 AM
Well, there goes honesty RIGHT out the window. It's coming to terms with your anger part of what being a theorpist is all about?
Suppose he could have NOT told them and ....?
Posted by: kibby F5 | June 30, 2004 at 07:27 AM
His rage probably has its origins in a traumatic childhood experience
(n.b. - you will be traumatized too if you click on that)
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves | June 30, 2004 at 08:48 AM
His last job was probably at a post office.
Posted by: bugs | June 30, 2004 at 09:16 AM
Hey - wot th'?! That's a picture of ME!
By the way, that's the same sink we washed our dinner dishes in....
Posted by: Wally Ballou | June 30, 2004 at 09:21 AM
"Powers took the memo and shot it several times with a .22-caliber handgun before returning it to the office, the document says."
Hmmm ... wonder what he used on his pink slip .. a bazooka?
Posted by: Rayfast | June 30, 2004 at 01:35 PM
If Hollywood makes an "Office Space II" this could be a scene in it. "Take that, TPS reports!"
Posted by: kj | July 01, 2004 at 12:46 PM