# Is it really so hard to do your job? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 8, 2006, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-really-so-hard-to-do-your-job/371876 "2006-09-08T03:33:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-really-so-hard-to-do-your-job/371876/21 "2006-09-09T19:09:26Z")
[QUOTE=BoBettie] Maybe the lady was packing heat or there was some obvious reason you didn’t do this, but why in the world did you not go back up to your computer and say “Move.” or even “These computers are for students. Please move your child.” Are people really that afraid of even the most minor confrontations? I agree the lab people should have done it, but man, you would really consider walking across campus to the library to find another computer before doing this? Ridiculous. I’m having trouble working up any sympathy at all. Did the other people who had computers taken over just stand there looking at them and seething or did they say something and address the problem? [/QUOTE] I don’t why this stuff never happens to me. I hear so many stories of people being blatantly rude and inappropriate like this, and all I can think is “Man, I **wish** this would happen to me so I could come back, demand the kid get off the computer I was away from for a brief moment and verbally reprimand the mother for her behavior.” Maybe I wouldn’t do that, I don’t know, because I never get these opportunities. Not once in my life has something of this type of rudeness, where I can directly confront the person, really happened. I’ve had people be rude to me, but it’s always in some situation where I don’t have a chance/cannot confront the situation. But I’m pretty sure if I came back to find out that someone had taken my computer I’d tell the mother she needs to move her child immediately, I’m not entirely sure what I’d do if she refused. But probably something along the lines of just sitting down next to her, grabbing her keyboard, and basically commandeering the computer she’s working on. Or if I felt like that wasn’t going to work and wanted to be petty I’d just turn the power off on her computer and her kids computers then leave. ---
**Author:** ![brendon\_small](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brendon_small/32/17101_2.png) [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-really-so-hard-to-do-your-job/371876/22 "2006-09-10T04:19:44Z")
[QUOTE=kimera] If you don’t mind me asking, what college are you attending? When I went to UC, there were some crazies in one of the labs I often visited. One of them, was this guy who spent all of his time trolling. He would often go into chatrooms and pretend to be females and get guys to cyber with him. Then he would start saying crazy shit in the middle of the cybering while laughing his ass off out loud. He was very creative and intelligent, just completely insane. LonesomePolecat, college standards have slipped. You should see the schools I’m getting into. 😉 [/QUOTE] I go to Shawnee State University located in Portsmouth. It was a branch of maybe OU until 86… Good news about UC…gf starts her online masters program next week! glad to hear there are crazies there as well. Brendon ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Call\_Me\_Shirley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Don\_t\_Call\_Me\_Shirley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Call_Me_Shirley)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2006, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-really-so-hard-to-do-your-job/371876/23 "2006-09-12T13:41:53Z")
Not lame at all. One time I was waiting in a line to get into the computer lab in my dorm. There were about ten computers, all in use, and these two bitches were sitting **right next to each other** and chatting (this was over 10 years ago, when chatting was new, in fact, it wasn’t really chatting, but I can’t remember what it was called at the time.) One would type out a message, and then lean over and **watch the message pop up on the other’s screen** , giggle, then repeat. This went on for about 10 minutes and there were four of us waiting for a computer to open up. We started off with a loud conversation about the important work we had to do, paper due the next day, etc… When this had no effect one of the other people waiting went berzerk on these two bitches, which, although it just brought on more giggling, did get them off the computers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-really-so-hard-to-do-your-job/371876.md?page=1)