Educational Television
Welcome back from the holiday weekend (at least for us in the US), MagicPotHeads. I hope it was relaxing for all of you- I had a lovely time destroying all hopes of future off-hours productivity by getting myself good and addicted to World of Warcraft. I’ll be tearing myself away from it for the evening, though, because the season premiere of House, MD is tonight.
Why do you care? Because Greg House is the prime example of what NOT to do in the workplace. He went on a date with his female employee, he makes cracks about how his black employee must know how to rob a bank, he makes lacivious comments about his boss, he’s rude to the patients, he neglects his clinic hours. He’s about ten different lawsuits waiting to happen, but they put up with his antics because “he’s the best damn doctor in this hospital.”
Ironically, the thing they all seem to have the biggest issue with, his Vicodin addiction, is the thing covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
So you see, my devotion to this show is professional, and has nothing to do with the novelty of Hugh Laurie playing a smart-ass American. Right.
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September 5th, 2006 at 4:08 pm
My wife Pam and I finally caught up on the last few episodes last night; we’d recorded them (god bless the DVR) during a particularly busy springtime, and thought we’d watch them all across the summer. Which we did… technically. Alas, we spent a lot more time out of the house than in, so we didn’t catch up as quickly as we had imagined.
Of course, since my wife’s cousin has a recurring role on the show (Dr. Wilson), it made for some awkward conversation at a summertime family reunion, where we had to admit we didn’t quite know what everyone was talking about. (Thankfully, he wasn’t in attendance, though the rest of his immediate family was. To be perfectly honest, I think he would have cared the least.)
September 7th, 2006 at 4:04 pm
Oh man, Warcraft.
I can barely interact with real people on a social level anymore.