Drat this working for a living all to heck.

So. Remember the bronchoscopy? I was to phone the doctor's office for a follow up appointment in two weeks.

Called. He's away for two weeks, and he is fully booked until October.

So, I told his reception person my woes about trying to call him at the hospital, and then left the whole problem in her lap.

I completely wash my hands of this. I assume (I know) that if something horrible is going on that someone will let me know before it kills me. I suspect I feel this way because I don't really think something lethal is going on.

In the meantime I am wrestling with a small annoyance. For the three mornings after the procedure I am to cough up whatever is in my lung and spit it into a specially prepared receptacle. There is a receptacle for each morning. My problem is two-fold: I don't have very much to cough up, and I was taught very thoroughly not to spit, so getting the very little I've got into the receptacle almost involves a barf reflex. Oh well. I hope I'm getting something more than just saliva into the little tub.

So, I have had one of my comments censured.

Here is the content of someone else's post I was responding to:
"Am I alone in thinking that if we expect someone to live somewhere as part of their job then we should also provide a refurbishment budget for it, and make it regularly a nice place to live?"

Here is the comment:
"April Goodwin-Smith
The higher up the food chain the employment is, the more likely there will be help to move and resettle. The generosity of the help is commensurate with the salary, so the less the person actually "needs" to resettle, the more they actually get. This is why Canada is having difficulty with agricultural work - it is temporary and the accommodations are hilariously terrible, and the cost of relocating eats all of the pitiful wage - but it is *really* because Canadians are lazy and entitled, doncherkno."

This is the reason:
Your comment goes against our Community Standards on hate speech and inferiority
No one else can see your comment.
We have these standards to protect certain groups of people being described as inferior to others.

New cogitation about this.

I do understand that FB uses autobots and cargo-rythms to make decisions, and so sarcasm is right out of their balliwick. I suspect if I removed everything after "pitiful wage", it would be fine. I think the trigger is GROUP NAME + is/are + LOADED WORDS. I was wondering whether changing it to " ... because we are lazy etc ... " would circumvent it, but I doubt it.

Sometimes I wonder whether some of these process aren't meant to enrage people, because I have certainly seen offensive comments that are obviously NOT OKAY but have also obviously not triggered the nanny. But then there's the whole malice/incompetence thing.

I have to say that considering that FB was started as a way for male students to rate female students, I vote malice.

... apparently ZOOMER stands for Zippy bOOMER.

Ugh.

(Edited to say: sorry, that should be Zesty bOOMER. Ugh. Doesn't make it any better.)