Buying fucking pizza does not make up for the fact that we are working through lunch

The BBQ Pit
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Okay if you choose to take that route Hastur, that is your decision, but don’t freak out if I don’t go ballastic on you…cuz I know you want a response out of me that makes me look like the fool. You want me to call you names and threaten to leave the boards, I said that, you want someone to be a drama queen…you do admit it.

It’s not gonna happen.

You don’t know me, you know nothing about me. You are just hurt because I didn’t pick up on your sexuality, like I give a rats ass about anyone’s sexuality I don’t know in person or through careful consideration, you aint one of them bud. Please go back through your past emails or posts…I don’t even know what sparked that shit. :rolleyes: Like I am to know you from anyone else that I could give a shit about about on this board. I have my close contacts and people that I give a shit about, you aren’t one of them so if anyone needs a reality check (from our past, since you are bringing up pasts) it’s you.

So I have to “shut the fuck up” now…Oh my gosh, Hastur said it I must do it…I now must bow down to you too? You are God, you are my savior, my world can’t exist without a tongue lashing from you.

< gets on knees >

Hastur, I think you need to rethink what you mean to me or what a few other people on this board think of you. I don’t confront you when I disagree unless confronted first, you don’t do the same in return you like the attack, you seem to dwell on the past. If my words offend you, then so be it. You can whine and rant and tell me to “shut the fuck up” but eh, I know what’s important…I told you I am past that. If it means that much to you to bring up the past and hang on to it like a pitbull, go for it. It only shows how petty and childlike people can be.

I have crossed paths with a few on this board that I have had problems with in the past. We have had decent exchanges because we let go of the past. I don’t fault them for their past, they may still fault me but aren’t at your level, quite high schoolish.

Think about it. What good is it for you to hang on to this?

That’s all I have to say to you regarding this subject. If you find this post offensive or meaning that I will go away in a huff…please do yourself a favor and go outside, walk around the block and know I didn’t do anything to warrant this little piss-ant rant you have against me but for the fact I posted. Think about it, think about it clearly. You saw me post in the Pit and no matter what I would say it would get you all pissy. That’s what I see based on your initial post to this thread.

Then you had all of three short sentences to go on about the OP…Hastur your colors are showing and they aitn pretty.

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Too late, dear.

Far too late to stop that.

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Okay so I said I was done with this with you…but what are you trying to say here?

Simply because I post I offend you?

Please explain Hasture. I really an wanting to know this.

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Perhaps if you used a dictionary, I could understand what you are saying. Grammar and spelling go a very long way in being understood.

By the by, were you really done, you wouldn’t respond.

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Grammar aside Hastur, please explain…I mean really, explain, explain… I didn’t start out to offend you or anyone, I stated my God Damned opinion, is there anything wrong with that?

I am not here to be perfect in my grammar nor my spelling, I am here to ask you what the hell you have against me and why you feel so determined to make me look like such a loser even though things in my life have changed…if you were my family I would disown you like the trash I take to the curb every week. No feelings just push you off.

Okay I admit I said that’s all I had to say but once you decided to chide me (pardon my spelling or even word if it’s incorrect) but I don’t get your motive other than to try to bring out my worst. I admit to my shortfalls (at least some people do and don’t walk around with false identities)…I shouldn’t have said I wont respond, I have sinned against the world I will forever live in hell.

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You have been going around to BBQ Pit threads where people have a legitimate gripe and telling them they have nothing to complain about. You have told them that your life is so much more difficult than theirs, and that they need to basically just suck it up and stop whining.

You have become intolerable, not that you have ever been that tolerable. While you may think they have no reason to complain, that does not make you right, nor does it give you carte blanche to piss in their cheerios.

I am not determined to make you look like anything other than what you are. You make it quite apparent what you are, and whip people regularly with your bitterness and antagonism.

Step off the fucking cross, because you aren’t the chosen one, babe.

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If she ain’t the chosen one don’t persecute her like she is the chosen one. It’s the pit. She’s allowed to come in here and bitch VOILA! that is what it is for.

What then gives you the right to berate her? See people have a past but you can learn to look past it. I’ve not agreed with everything techchick has said before but I can understand exactly where she is coming from. You attacked her when she was trying to make a point. She didn’t belittle, berate, or make fun of anyone. Just chill out a little and let it go.

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Jeesus F’n Christ Hastur, I hardly even frequent the Pit anymore except for an very occasional thread, I have been in other fora for the most part, occasionally here but hardly to the degree you paint it to be. If I am here it’s not to chastise or put people down but to give my own perspective without resorting to Pit flames.

I think you need to rethink how you interact with people, I don’t think I need to. I don’t tell people what horrible people they are like you do:

at least I don’t think I do, I try to give them a different perspective.

Then Oh yes…You really know how to make you look like a very stable being:

Oh geez, I respond to a Pit thread and therefore I am intolerable…God forgive. :rolleyes:

First off this was a freaking Pit thread. I didn’t attack the OP I was very strong in my feelings but I didn’t put the OP down (not that I can see) in any flaming way. I was against the words, not the OP…get this straight.

I have changed, thank you for your non-affirmation, your non-affirmation means the world to me, please help me slit my wrists.

Look Hastur, I have changed, if you can’t see that then please take off your glasses, look around you and know that I don’t go and get pissy like I used to. I am explaining myself because you continue to beat my words like a rug in Spring, it’s will never be clean enough for you.

If that’s the case then stop beating that rug, get rid of it and go on with your life. Stop with your beating my character up over things that happened a long time ago. What does that do for you?

I still don’t understand your motives behind this. I haven’t said anything to you since my return and I get this kind of response, I am very disappointed in people on the SD if they have to pick at the past and the most minor things…this is the Pit, I wasn’t a bitch with the OP I said it as I saw it within my scope of knowledge, is that so freakin bad?

The OP doesn’t have to agree with me, I don’t have to agree with the OP, so why the picking apart of the person here?

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I used to hate having to work through lunch or work late and eat cheap, company-bought pizza. But since I got laid off three months ago, oh how I’d give anything for that right now. I’ll work overtime! I’ll work through lunch! I’ll eat cheap, nasty pizza! Even the ones with the freakin’ cheese in the crust! Just give me a damn job!

On another note, what is it with beer? I mean, when I do a favor for someone, they say something like they’ll buy me a beer for my trouble. Why is it always beer? Why not a gigantic bottle of Dasani? Because I’ll need it after dehydrating myself from beer.

Haj, I’ll take your job. Just let me know who to talk to.

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Techchick: Whatever. You can paint it red, but it’s still bullshit.

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Please explain the bullshit hastur, please, you haven’t explained it to me, and I am the one asking.

I stated my opinion of the OP, I didn’t flame him/her, yet I was accused of:

Also:

Oh and:

I aint your babe but the kicker:

Come on explain it hastur…you started all this, I haven’t flamed you once for asking you why you feel the need to say these horrible things to me. Don’t be backing out on this now. You said them…

I stated my opinion to the OP in a very straight forward way; then you decided to bring up things that this thread isn’t even about hastur, I am asking you again, WTF do your statements have to do with my responses to the OP? You’re back-sliding here, seriously.

BTW, I MUST STATE AGAIN, the OP said some things I felt were pretty lame, I am not against the person I was just trying to get the person to see another light with regards to to the whole OP, in a non-threatening way! If you read into my first post some kind of vendeta or some means by which I am trying to be a martyr, you need help.

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In an attempt to drag this thread kicking and screaming back vaguely near the direction of the OP:

I know what you’re talking about man. Only for us it was always a couple of plates of shitty sandwiches. It’s about respect - especially if you’re in a professional job where you are used to demanding respect. A dodgy bit of lunch doesn’t seem like suitable compensation for shelving one’s lunch plans.

I don’t know if it’ll help you in your situation, but FWIW I’ll pass on what happened at my workplace - we brought it up. No, not the food (ho ho), the situation. It turned out that everybody just kinda assumed that everybody else wanted lunchtime meetings three days a week. After that we started scheduling 'em for work hours instead.

So maybe you should ask if it can wait until after lunch?

pan

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Oh and techchick - I think that people are* complaining about the fact that you didn’t have one iota of sympathy for the OPer’s position. Not one jot. Simply because others have it worse. But this isn’t a logical stance. You can express sympathy that the OPer has to do something that he doesn’t want to do without betraying your sainted father you know.

pan

*well that is what people were complaining about anyway. It now seems to have simply degenerated into a slugfest between you and Hastur.

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Techchick wrote:
“BTW, I MUST STATE AGAIN, the OP said some things I felt were pretty lame, I am not against the person I was just trying to get the person to see another light with regards to to the whole OP, in a non-threatening way! If you read into my first post some kind of vendeta or some means by which I am trying to be a martyr, you need help.”

Techchick, what exactly is your job? From your posts, I’m guessing you write instruction manuals for cheap imported VCRs.

So the guy said some things that were lame. So what? You needed to go out of your way to point that out? That’s just rude. Now Hajario is sitting there thinking “Great, not only to have to eat crappy pizza for lunch, I’m also lame.” He doesn’t need the extra grief. He started this thread to vent a little steam about his life. Let him fucking vent in peace. Get some manners.

P.S. This “passive-agressive” crap isn’t going to wash. Don’t think your fooling anyone.

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kabbes, I wish it were that easy…I really do, but reread some of that, consider we are in the PIT. I did not provoke I simply stated my opinion. I am not required anywhere to be sympathic to anyone, anywhere but I do think it my duty to state my opinion in the best way I know how when I feel the topic right.

It’s the Pit Nimune and I have been very gracious with the OP about his situation. I stated my opinion and did not get extremely bitchy with him which can be a consequence of this place called the Pit. I have not called him names, I have not said he was a loser I stated my opinion based on what I know. For God’s Sakes, hajario stated he was pissed about things I came back and stated that I felt he was wrong with those opinions. WTF? I could have really been a complete bitch, I wasn’t.

Look, this is the the Pit. It may not be the same Pit I knew from a year ago but what bothers me is that I am looking like the bad person for saying my opinion here based on his/her opinion in the OP and subsequent people that don’t like it if I speak up to begin with. I didn’t flame, I didn’t berate, I stated my opinion. I don’t get it.

Then, two newer people here get on my case for a freaking Pit thread that I disagree with and I didn’t even chastise the OP? What the hell is this? Basically, if you don’t agree with the OP you should keep your mouth shut? Hullo? Where are the PC er the “don’t hurt someone’s feelings police because you didn’t agree with everything someone said?”

I don’t say a lot of things in the Pit that I wish to. I keep my mouth shut on a lot of things in the Pit these days because I don’t want to “offend”. I tell a guy, basically to lighten up and I am horrible for it, even if it’s the Pit…I don’t get this, not one freakin bit.

Am I required to have sympathy to the OP? Am I required to, on this or any other board, follow like a sheep in a flock? What are you all, the freakin thought police?

This is bullshit.

The OP states something in the Pit, I don’t get Pit like but I express my feelings against his thoughts. I get berated by people from the past and now I am being a meanie because I go against the thoughts of the OP from relatively new people? WTF is up with you people. I almost think I would have been better off calling him all kinds of names and being a complete ass rather than expressing my genuine thoughts in a thoughtful manner.

You amaze me to all great feats of the imagination. You jump on the bandwagon of people who clearly don’t like me but miss my post altogether. I wasn’t putting the OP down, just the topic at hand…my God.

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Amazing. It starts off civilly - polite even - but as the post rolls on you can almost see the flecks of foam forming at the edge of the mouth.

Calm down techie. This “relatively new” person is not telling you that you are a meanie. And I’m not telling you not to have opinions or that you are wrong for stating them. I’m not putting you down, I’m not having a go at you and I’m not emotionally invested.

I’m merely pointing out that to have no sympathy for someone forced to do something they don’t want to do is to invite criticism. It’s a red rag dude.

Just reverse the situation - if you let off a little steam about something you didn’t like and I came in telling you that you should be grateful you have a life at all in order to experience that thing, then I strongly suspect that you would not be very happy. Was it really necessary to tell hajario that “You like your job, so deal with it. Some people don’t even get that much”?

I agree that your original reply post was civil and lacking in attack. But it still wasn’t very nice. And you wouldn’t like it done to you.

Tha’s all. I’ve no wish to cause you grief here. If after reading that you still think that you were being entirely reasonable then that’s cool - it’s your perogative. But please don’t think that I am “jump[ing] on the bandwagon of people who clearly don’t like [you] but miss[ing] [your] post altogether.” Nothing could be further from the truth.

pan

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I pity tha fool that tries to get me on that aeroplane!!

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<Flanders> Techchick, the SDMB’s answer to a question that NO ONE ASKED!!! </Flanders>

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Sheesh! You people really get worked up over this!

I’ve worked through a few lunch times or late, and gotten pizza. It’s a nice gesture, and I appreciate it. In no way does it cover the cost of my time, but no one expects it to.
What really got me pissed off at one of my past jobs was when a group of us voluntarily came in early on a Sunday with no pay to finish up a job. At lunchtime the Boss invited us to lunch. We went to MacDonald’s. We didn’t get a ride. But what really got me was that he didn’t pick up the tab at MickieD’s!!! I mean, we were saving his butt more than our own, and it seemed REALLY cheap not to offer to buy.