I am sure I’ll want to forget what I cannot remember doing last night. That’s typically how these things play out. A mass text message apology fishes out the most memorable mishaps and outlines the more personal apologies I might owe to people (for any number of reasons). Apparently, everyone is aware of my love for sausage (of the polish and vienna variety, not any other type of sausage). That’s not too bad, but I’ll spend the rest of the weekend nervous until all of the details are filled in by co-workers on Monday.
I guess some people might call this problematic. I just call it a good time.
I am a firm believer of personal responsibility, though. That is why I am quick to find out the horrors (not whores) that I have done, own up to them, and make my amends. Inevitably, the photos will surface on Facebook, and James ‘James Malins’ Malins will be tagged in the most ridiculing of situations.
But, I will never untag those photos. No matter how bad. Not as the firm believer of personal responsibility (see previous paragraph) that I am.
As more and more people and companies use Facebook and MySpace profiles of perspective hires as resume/interview annotations, this could potentially be problematic. I don’t agree with people, though, who take issue at companies doing this. The complainers argue it is outside the work setting, or the lesser of arguments, they were drunk and it shouldn’t be held against them.
If you consciously decide to drink, and drink to the point that you do regrettable things, even if you don’t remember doing them, it’s your own damn fault. No one made you/me drink that much. Unless you were unconsciously drugged, you are always responsible for your behavior, regardless of the state you might have been in when you did it. Own up to it, and deal with it.
It is the only way you will learn.
That said, if you are going to engage in immoral or reprehensible activities, get blasted, visit strip clubs or porn shops, or sodomize farm animals in front of cameras, there is one way you can escape some blame. If people cannot prove it is you, in some sense, you are free of on-going blame (you do have to account for it initially, but there won’t be any long-winded aftermath.
This little invention will help you out.
Side note on MySpace profiles: While I never had one myself (that is one of my favorite self bragging points), if you are a MySpace owner, you will be interested to know about this.