dumb people

The BBQ Pit
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I thought I would post my own little gripe here … as it will momentarily make me feel better ! chuckle

I work as a technical contractor along with one other gentleman. We are the lowest paid people in the company (as contractors we are dirt … or so I have been told) … we are paid less than the guys who mow the lawns. This is presented to us from a budgetary point of view and I like the job so there I am …

Anyhow, just recently the company announced a huge yearly budget surplus that they are going to be spending here and there and there and there … lots of money going around. So the other contractor I work with decides to talk to management. He ends up having coffee one morning in the staff room with the CFO and the CEO … so he asks them bluntly if any of the surplus is going to go towards giving the technical contractors raises … they both simulatenously burst into laughter. As they continue to laugh, the CEO tells him, not likely.

I mean come on … sure you are not going to give us any more money … such is life. You breed a lack of company loyalty and worse … I will of course be on a constant search for better employment and you will be stuck with trying to find another technical person to cover your nees in the small town I live in (good luck … you had to import me from somewhere else).

But to laugh in his face?.. that is pretty low.

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I have considered your dilemma long and hard, giving thought to your plight with reference to the teachings of Confucius, Socrates, Nietzsche and other learned men. With due consideration, there really is only one answer.

Fuck 'em.

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Let me get this straight, ozonebaby (if that’s your real name), you post an “I’m outta here” thread, then you get your username changed and come back?
Way to blow your dramatic exit.

Sua

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A short story made long.

First, don’t worry too much about people saying that they hate you. It happens in life.

When I was in college, before I was drafted, there was a real smart guy in one of my classes, that just skewed the class curve. Everyone hated this guy. Was it because he was smarter than everyone except God? No, it was because he was a self righteous little prick, about it. (I am not in any way inferring you are). Even so, I never said, “I hate you” to him. In fact, I never said anything at all to him.

It was our fate to meet again in basic training. As our company was double-timing back from the rifle range, about 8 miles, this guy fell back through the ranks from the first platoon, all the way back to the third platoon. He was now running with me and two other guys, the last rank of our company. (I didn’t even know he was in the company and had not seen him.) It was our job to “help” the stragglers maintain the pace, so that they would not fall back into the company behind us. I will let you imagine what techniques we were encouraged to employ.

I could have gotten even for my lower grade, by administering some physical therapy, but being the nice guy that I am, I actually helped this guy. I took his pack and carried it for him. The other two guys took his weapon and his helmet. After he ran (with no weight) for another mile or so, he started to fall back even more. Two of us started to drag him along, but with his weight and carrying his equipment, we all started to straggle. The CO saw what was happening and stopped the company. What the CO did to this guy was a little brutal, but they let him a ride back to the barracks. Just as the jeep was leaving, he looked at me and said, “F*** you, I hate you”. What reason could he have to hate me? Beyond me.

That night, his unit put a blanket over him and then threw him down a couple of flights of stairs. They broke his arm and he had to do a few extra weeks of basic training. I didn’t see him again while we were in the Army.

A few years after I got out of the Army, I ran into this guy in a bar one night. He recognized me, and came over and told me what a rotten prick I was for making him get the shit beat out of him in basic training. I had nothing to do with the fact that he was a punk and a quitter, or that his platoon beat the crap out of him. I and was about to go off on him, but the owners of the bar threw him out.

Not long after the bar incident, I was visiting a friend from work, and he introduced me to his next door neighbor, a very attractive single lady. It turned out to be a very nice experience, and we had many afternoon delights.

A few days after meeting this lovely lady, I ran into this guy in another bar, and he again starts his “I hate you” crap, so I, as you say, knocked his ass into next month. End of story, right? Not on your life!

I met this guy one more time, two days later. He still had a fat lip and a black eye, when he walked in on me, doing his mother on her couch, during one of our trysts. I had already beat the shit out of him once, so he didn’t do anything, except, you guessed it, say, “I hate you”.

So, kid, if someone is going to hate you, at least give ‘em a good reason!

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And that post up there, boys and girls, is what we call “bullshit”.

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Sounds like the Hitchhiker series. Arthur Dent keeps killing this guy over and over.

Funny stuff. Carry on.

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I’m with Scylla - people don’t mean anything by it. I have friends who tell me they ‘hate me’ because I’m skinny. People tell my boyfriend they ‘hate him’ because his dad bought him a BMW. I tell my friend I ‘hate her’ because she has flawless skin.

Sure, it gets old after awhile, but usually people don’t usually mean it in the literal sense.

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I tell people I hate them all the time as a joke. They may think I mean it, but who cares.

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Well, in my home, I am. Come on over some time, and I’ll fry up some scallops with garlic mashed potatoes on the side.

You bring the beer.

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I hate it when people get mad at me for the dumbest reasons. They hate me and don’t talk to me just because I read on the bus, or I don’t hate someone that they hate, and just because they hate me, they say that the music that I listen to (they listen to it too!) sucks. If that isn’t dumb, nothing is.

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As miatachris mentioned, don’t worry about it too much, since the people doing this seem to be the ones who think it’s much cooler to skip classes, smoke, and turn their noses down at anyone who isn’t exactly like them. You know, the so-called “popular” group that no one actually wants to be like, but everyone wants to not get on their bad side since they seem to know how to make everyone’s lives miserable? When I went to Cegep, that “popular” high school crowd fell apart, they couldn’t keep up in their classes, and generally had a rougher time of things than everyone else. In fact, they were trying to become friends with the “smart” people with whom they would NEVER have talked to in high school. I don’t even know how many of them are in university right now, but of the ones I do know, not many have scholarships or great grades. Things change. Social standing means nothing when you get into higher education. Keep up the marks, keep the friends you have and make the best out of your life.

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It’s been really fun checking out the entries for my old school at Friends Reunited recently.

It’s pretty much what you’d expect and what I was told (but didn’t believe) when I was at secondary school - the guys who worked hard, handed essays in on time and generally were not part of the “in crowd” are the ones who got to a decent university and are now in nice jobs and moving on with their lives. The well 'ard lads who used to hang round the school gates and terrorise the rest of us are still living in the same boring villages, doing crappy jobs and going no-where.

On a similar note, over the summer I was working at my Dad’s office in the mail room to earn enough money to fund a Masters degree here in Cambridge. I lost count of the delivery drivers and cleaners* who looked down their noses at me cos I was doing an even worse job than they were - I didn’t say anything to them cos I needed the job but it felt v. good to know that my starting salary would be more than what they are earning now.

To ozonebaby - stick at it matey! A’s are good: make them most of 'em while they last :smiley:
– Quirm

  • I obvously don’t wish to imply that all cleaners and delivery drivers are knobs - just those who look down at me :slight_smile:
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Remind me to never compliment you, jackass. You’re exactly the type of person that makes the world a little bit more unpleasant than it needs to be. Or going to grow up to be one of those…

Please tell me that you were trying to be ironic with that last line. Although i’m not sure you have any intelligence to flaunt, if calling someone stupid when they compliment your intelligence isn’t arrogance, i don’t know what is.