I need help from the Hivemind! How do I tell someone from my previous job agency that when/if my manager opens up the vendor position for me, I have chosen to go with a different agency? The tricky bit is that if the vendor position doesn't happen, my previous job agency is the one that is the best bet for finding contract work. (They just suck as a vendor company.)

I almost posted this in b'crazy, but here: Flaming drives online social networks.

The researchers also noticed that avalanches of negative emotion – floods of messages with low happiness scores, spurred by a single post – produce self-organised behaviour amongst users.

Negative emotions accelerate the number of messages sent by users, in turn generating social groups from nowhere, says Thelwall. A single post can quickly generate a community of feeling if it is provocative enough.

It's not our fault! It's in our nature!

It's not our fault! It's in our nature!

Doctor Who posited much the same dynamic to make himself feel better about his partial failure in Genesis of the Daleks.

What failure, poopyhead??

It's not our fault! It's in our nature!

One of the ways I help dog people understand the distinction between the way they think, compared to their pets is:

Primates stare at trouble! That's why soap operas, politics and car wrecks are so compelling.

It's a survival instinct that is the burden of the higher order thinker...It is constant, even when we'd be better off without it.

Now I can add flame wars and social media as examples.

What failure, poopyhead??

Yeah, it all turned out well, as Daleks are inherently amusing.

What failure, poopyhead??

His instructions were either to destroy them or modify their development to make them less one-note emotionally. He didn't accomplish either, instead only imprisoning them for a millennium or so.

His instructions were flawed.

ow do I tell someone from my previous job agency that when/if my manager opens up the vendor position for me, I have chosen to go with a different agency?

So does that mean that you might want to work with that agency in the future? Will you be applying for the job through an agency, or what? How does it work?

His instructions were flawed.

I'm not really sure what other instructions you give for a Dalek adventure. Nuance is rare (though ninth Doctor "Dalek" managed pretty well). Still, it gave rise to one awesome adventure:

Time Lord: "ZOMG Daleks R teh suxxors! Do something about it, will you? kthxbye."
Doctor: "Invisible krav maga."
Harry and Sarah: t variously get shot at, tortured, enslaved in a radioactive rocket silo and at one point nearly eaten by a giant walking clam
Nyder: "Ceiling Nazi is watching you plotsturbate."
Davros: "YOU! ARE! MY! CREATIONS! DESTROY! THE! THALS! AND! THEN! CLEAN! YOUR! ROOM!"
Daleks: "THE! DOCTOR! HAS! GIVEN! US! A! TEENAGER! GENE! YOU! ARE! NOT! THE! BOSS! OF! US!"
Good Guys: "Bling to the rescue!"