If you really think that this is a fair summation of this thread, then I have my reason for thinking you’re an asshole all sorted.
OK Sean Spicer, anybody can look upthread and see that you were flopping like a fish on a hook. So, your product/service isn’t ready to be released to the public yet and you have to adhere to confidentiality agreements? You could have just said that at the beginning and saved yourself a lot of grief. Moran.
It wasn’t a “flop”, it was a “flopp”. Completely different!
While the OP has done little except take a shovel to the hole he has dug for himself, it is a pretty good summation of a decent portion of the thread. A sizable portion of the Teeming Millions seems to believe complaining about people being slovenly in public, which is 90%+ of the OP, is the fault of the one cleaning up after/dealing with their slovenly ways.
Fair enough, but the whole reason for people questioning what happened to the furniture, why it was necessary for it to be there, and such were because the OP was so vague as to specifics such that reasonable people could surmise that maybe, just maybe, the OP might’ve been misplacing his anger.
If he doesn’t want to give even the vaguest of details to sketch out his ambiguous tale, then perhaps he shouldn’t act like such a petulant douchebag, as if we’re the ones out of line here. Fuck that.
You know, I’m a little sympathetic, especially with your needing to fight off the prying comments. But let me try to expand a little on your summary:
OP: I really don’t appreciate it when people sit on the furniture we put in our booth, and litter it.
VARIOUS POSTERS: Why do you have furniture if you don’t want people to sit?
VARIOUS POSTERS: You think that’s bad, I can top that with an ever wilder customer story.
(note that no one criticized you for being annoyed at folks who littered your booth.)
VARIOUS POSTERS 2: What does your company sell? Because I’m trying to figure out what your booth looks like and why you have furniture that you don’t want anyone to touch. I’m honestly trying to understand this set-up.
OP: …
SUBSET OF POSTERS 2: I DEMAND YOU TELL US!!!
(Yeah, here you have my sympathy. I agree with whoever said you would have done better to have answered that you’d rather not say, but it was rude to demand your personal info like that.)
OP: I decline to answer.
BULLY: If you dont, we’ll reveal it for the world to see and get you fired.
OP: Oh really??? Is that so???
BULLY: HAR HAR JUST KIDDING, OP!
POSTER 3: OP is an ASSHOLE!!! He’s been rude to everyone who disagrees with him even slightly in this thread.
Anyhow, that’s what I read.
Sounds like a jerkish thing to do.
Sure, it’s kanicbird and the best one can expect from a kanicbird post is no misspellings, but that sounds like criticizing the OP for being annoyed.
Personally, I think that simply knowing that furniture is part of the display and not the product is enough information, and that was apparent in the OP.
That said, being a jerk when looking for sympathy doesn’t reflect well on the OP, though I can sympathize. Been there, done that, got the merit badge, don’t ever want to do it again. The subset of people that this complaint is about put me off dealing with the public much more than their opposites make me want to deal with the public. Or with people in general.
Nice one. Took me a pause before the penny dropped.
It’s fairly obvious in the OP that russian_heel’s company sells furniture covers, at least it was to me. The guy wiping his hamburger be-greased hand on the furniture cover was “the straw that broke the camel’s back”.
SOPHISTICATED furniture covers, at that.
My thoughts exactly, and coming from a gal who has worked plenty a booth at trade shows.
I am sure this thread has been an eye opener for the OP. :eek:
If nothing else, it is obvious the person doesn’t belong in sales.
It’s possible he doesn’t belong in public.
That documentary is appropriately named for our OP.
I cannot find this part of the thread, could you please point it out for us?
Thanks,
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I was thinking Mrs. Bucket more than asshole, personally.
See, I disagree with your expanded summation of events.
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That post was quite clearly (from my POV, anyway) a case of mild teasing, rather than the “serious threat” or “instance of bullying” portrayed.
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They didn’t say or imply anything about it being revealed to anyone.
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Most importantly, there’s no possible way anyone could’ve known, or even inferred, that the information would’ve gotten OP fired if it was revealed, because that never came up until that post–at which time, it was, in the nature of this thread itself, revealed in the most dickish way possible.
Seriously, reading through this, the OP is going out of their way to respond in the most antagonistic way possible. They could’ve just said from the get-go “I’d prefer not to say because I could get fired if I do”, but instead they started by equating it with revealing their Social Security number, then went on to say “I’d rather not say” (at the behest of another poster chiding them for that response), then went with a snide comment about the firing.
Frankly, they don’t have to reveal anything they don’t want to, but their lack of tact fueled a fire that could’ve been put out ages ago (possibly before it even started) if they just said everything from the beginning that they ended up saying anyway. Nobody would care if OP didn’t turn it into a personal challenge.
I assumed the op didn’t want to answer what the product was because it might “out” their real-life identity, not that they’d be fired. And I’m sympathetic, because I said something about local reactions to gun laws – something that is true of every major city on the north East coast, and much of the rest of the north east, as well as of urban California, and some blowhard refused to engage with me unless I told him exactly where I lived, and badgered me repeatedly about it. It’s by far the nastiest exchange I’ve had here. So I’m sympathetic to anyone else who gets the “tell us precise details about your life or we’ll be jerks to you” treatment.
Whew, I’m glad not be lumped in with them! I am allowed on all floors of my father’s house.
–gigi, burger inhaler
But if you don’t want to say for fear of giving away your real identity, just say so and people will either drop it or look like asses. When you get cagey and talk about your ‘sophisticated’ product, then make angry, hyperbolic comparisons to revealing your SSN, you end up looking like a raging idiot. Also, vaguebooking about what happened while looking for sympathy also doesn’t work - people will wonder at the details (like, why have chairs if you’re not selling furniture) and it undermines sympathy for your rant.