I told Hubby about self-confessed sociopaths, and his reaction was "Oh, how kind of them to identify themselves, we can get a recording and send it to the police as fair warning."

I don't know about sociopaths. Except what I see on Criminal Minds and I know that's not accurate.

So, work is hitting a rough patch, mostly due to technical problems and a little bit because I'm getting conflicting information. My department manager is telling me to look to my resources on the employee system before asking people, but other people are telling me to ask people first.

And parts of the employee system frequently go down so there's no way to look them up anyway. Or I'm doing key word searches the way I think things should be phrased but doesn't work with the company's phrasing.

I brought up the idea of making a binder with useful information and told my dept manager but he started to shut it down becuase he doesn't like binders, but I pitched him the idea and he asked for a mock up. So I need to mock something up.

The other full time person in my position gave her 2 weeks notice yesterday, but I think they approached a guy who is a full time cashier and has worked at the store for several years for the position. I kind of hope he gets it because we get along and work well together.

This is all really long but if you've read that far I could use some suggestions for portable, non messy (to carry or eat), filling snacks. Preferable things that don't need refrigeration and are not hummus (I don't like hummus). It's really hard to find someone to cover my position and there's usually overlap between the opening and closing person but that not until 2 or 3 in the afternoon.

And they rearranged our little pick up/phone area so it's less private and customers can see more. So I'm looking for snacks I could shove in a desk drawer and nibble on.

Snack pack sizes of almonds.

Almonds are a good idea. I usually bring a little container of roasted nuts to work so I can snack on them all day. I'm also a big fan of Kind bars, especially the sea salt and dark chocolate bar.

Nora, are you thinking of buying something in NO?

Thinking about it vaguely. It's not something we need to do, but I liked the look of this place despite the work it needs and the location is right next to a super booming area.

Small bags of baby carrots. Presliced apples.

Sociopaths are not all criminals! They may determine that it's disadvantageous to commit crimes. There are reputedly a lot of them in high finance where having no conscience is useful.

Burrell, that's rough.

I'm perfectly willing to accept that there are plenty of sociopaths out there. I'm just thinking if I were a sociopath I wouldn't tell anyone. Unless sociopaths put a high value on honesty, but why would they?

Not according to the DSM! Being a poopy lie head is a diagnostic criteria!

I mean, neither socio or psychopath is a diagnosis--it's all anti-social personality disorder, as mentioned above. There's some weaseling around where some professionals use them to distinguish between nurture made and nature made. All that said, I'm not 100% sold on the whole concept of personality disorders as currently defined, given the givens, the demographics generally labelled as such, and given the softness of the science when it comes to mental health issues.

I mean, fuck, it's not all that far removed from humours at times.

PS, for shits and giggles and eyerolls, y'all should lurk on ASPD forums.

In which many of them whine about how much more sympathetically aspies are treated, because the aspies have better press. (Which leads to my entirely specious notion that many people diagnosed with or suspecting they have ASPD are just asswipes who happen to be on the spectrum.)

I'm not 100% sold on the whole concept of personality disorders as currently defined

Meaning the new DSM-V? I haven't read it over, but I've heard a lot of grousing from my therapist friends about the new criteria and diagnoses.