[jacobriis]

  "in... recovery"
  "drank the chemicals beneath the sink"
  "stuck a fork in a light socket"
  "tried a Tide Pod"
  "Hi mom, (very dead; very sad)"

(edit: He removed the truly insane parts from the Google Doc)

You think this is funny, but you sound like a nut. If you're convinced you're actually actually funny, go try stand up. Good luck.

If you are actually autistic like you say, that would explain why you don't get it.

Just cut that out. You can't really afford to turn people off when oh yeah I'm also a felon.

[2-718-281-828]

i'm also suffering from alienating people i just met by means of ill-adapted funniness. if one identifies this issue it's probably best to intentionally avoid attempting to be funny at all during the first or even first few interactions.

[drc500free]

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/06/16/the-failure-state-of-...

> 1. The effectiveness of clever on other people is highly contingent on outside factors, over which you have no control and of which you may not have any knowledge; i.e., just because you intended to be clever doesn’t mean you will be perceived as clever, for all sorts of reasons.

> 2. The failure mode of clever is “asshole.”

[atoav]

1. People have a different sense of humor, that means what you find funny isn't always what others find funny. If you have a very... peculiar.. sense of humor, it might happen that nobody finds your jokes funny ever.

2. What is funny also depends on the context. The same joke will land differently if you tell it on the internet, in a chat, on a date, in a pub, to a stranger to a friend etc. If you have a hard time understanding what the context does to a joke, don't make them.

3. The purpose of jokes (typically) is to lighten the mood and to ease potential tensions in social situations. If you dice a 0 on joking however the outcome will be that people will see red flags and connect you with that weird guy that totally overdid it for them. If you are constantly rolling zeros, maybe stop rolling because it is hurting yourself.

[jacobriis]

No you're not funny stop it. But if I'm not funny then am I just boring? Yes. Still stop.

[freedomben]

At least when I read it, it said specifically that he had NOT drank the chemicals beneath the sink, or tried a Tide Pod. He DID stick the fork in a light socket. It sounds funny to me, but if it had said that he DID drink the chemicals or the Tide Pods then I would agree it sounds nutty.

Are you sure it said that he DID do those things when you read it?

[ahahahahah]

One way to consider that all is that it's actually a good way to filter out people who aren't going to want to hire a software engineer that's a felon for computer crimes.

[pb7]

Another perspective is that OP already has massive baggage associated with him so he should tread extremely carefully, not add even more baggage. You want to look like an exemplary employee, not a liability.

[atoav]

Exactly. My idea of someone that I would hire who is a felon is someone that has "learned their lesson" and in this case being dead serious and to the point might help. After all OP wants to convince others that he doesn't do anything stupid again.

[jacobriis]

Nah not all felons are creeps probably most aren't.