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Why I hate people.
Topic Started: Jul 20 2008, 06:03 PM (5,678 Views)
esttelle
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Crazy people live to be crazy in their sixties sometimes



Lol ! Thanks, Lori. That's me, in just a few years.

As far as me explaining myself....

Nah, I'm just going to let you hate me.


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I hate people who walk in public like nobody exists beside or behind them. They wander aimlessly in and out of your path... stop in the middle of nowhere... walk super slow... spread out accross a whole path etc etc.

I have been known to purposefully elbow these people upon passing. I don't even spare the old fuckers.


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It must be a cultural difference. But then again, since working with old people, I have an exceptional amount of patience and sympathy when it comes to them. I mean, they're old and nearing the end of their life. They're already humiliated enough by their failing bodies. Shit. Most of them move slower and hurt in ways we have not yet realized.




I work with a old woman who should be retired - but she won't, because she's convinced she won't have enough money to live off of. She's over 65, she's having memory problems, she can't multitask, she wastes time on the phone calling our software provider because she can't figure anything out herself...if anything, my experience with this old person has taught me how selfish old people can be. I had to get a second job for financial reasons, and all she would have had to do is cut back on her hours - she owns her house, she lives alone...but she wouldn't. My in-laws were in town this summer, and I had to still work some while they were here because my old coworker "had to paint her house". She never takes shifts for me, ever. I worked for her for five months straight while she had cancer surgery - I could have refused, and had my boss hire a part-time girl, but no. I kept her spot open for her. Was she grateful? No - everytime she came in, she'd remind me that she still works there, that I wasn't taking her job...

There are patients that only come in when I'm working because if she's working she makes them feel uncomfortable. She harrasses them if they miss an appointment, or don't want to rebook. She forgets which rooms already have patients in them, and sends people to occupied rooms. She insists on wearing stupid little loafers in the winter instead of suitable footwear, and has burned out two of my heaters for under our desk because she's cold all the time.

I give up my spot in a long grocery line for old people with a few items. In the mall once, an old woman knocked over a bunch of calenders and we picked them up for her. If I see an old person struggling with groceries I'll help them, no problem. But if an old person is being a dink, I don't see the problem with treating them as such. Young people don't deserve any less courtesy than old people. If anything, it's the mistreatment of young people by the seniors in our population that leads to these levels of disrespect.

I'd have a lot more respect for my coworker if she acknowledged her limitations and loosened her wrinkly grip on her position than I do now, having to make constant exceptions for her.
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Jan 19 2009, 11:38 AM

Mock, you talk as though you know me, yet you don't. You don't know what I have said about my significant other when guests are over.... or do you?

You're creepy--shut-up Plague.


My child was with me and my child is a member of this earth in a little journey called life. He is not "spared" from reality and in fact, he is better adjusted than most his age.

Now fuck off and die :).


Oh right, I tried to ignore this, really I did, but come on? :lol:
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Jan 19 2009, 06:57 PM

I had to get a second job for financial reasons, and all she would have had to do is cut back on her hours - she owns her house, she lives alone...but she wouldn't.

Most of the things you say are completely reasonable. This bit just struck me as odd though. Why would someone do something so selfless unless they were a very close friend who sympathised?

I mean, this woman is probably going to live until 85 or longer. She lives alone and supporting herself in the future is only going to get more difficult. Work probably even makes her feel somehow useful.

On the other hand, you could just poison her coffee.
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Most of the things you say are completely reasonable. This bit just struck me as odd though. Why would someone do something so selfless unless they were a very close friend who sympathised?



Selfless? Is moving over in the job market to allow for younger people to support their families selfless?

Or is it just common courtesy?

I believe in a mandatory retirement age. Too many old farts are sitting on extremely high incomes that companies are being forced to pay out, while scrimping on hiring younger people.

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I mean, this woman is probably going to live until 85 or longer. She lives alone and supporting herself in the future is only going to get more difficult. Work probably even makes her feel somehow useful.


She would have her pension plan - which is more than a person needs to live off of. She's not making much more at this job than she would were she to retire. She lives alone, but spends her time with her ex-husband at his property - she divorced him before her mother died so she wouldn't have to share her inheritance with him. It was HER money, she reasoned.

I don't care if work makes her feel useful. That's her issue, not mine. If a person is going to insist on remaining in the workplace, he/she needs to have the skills necessary to do so - instead of preying on the sympathies of employers, as this woman is currently doing.

She should have spent her years contributing to society, being a nicer woman to her family, and working towards a retirement plan - as opposed to being snarky to her family, and ending up working in a clinic, desperate to hang onto a position she can no longer mentally fill, just because she has no one to spend her final years with.

I just arrived at work, and look - there's a note from the senile old crone! She wants me to write down every payment of insurance we receive, and she'll do it too, because she wants to prove my boss wrong on something he said. Is she fucking kidding me?

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I get that she's incompetent. I'd want her to fuck off and retire too. I don't think that from her perspective she should though, certainly not as a common courtesy.

I'm interested to see what other people here make of it.
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If you're incompetent, you shouldn't be there. It's quite simple, one would think.
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I thought this was a lynching party, how did we end up discussing subliminated cross-generational same-sex workplace romance through desktop post-it notes and our troubled understanding of the prejudice that the senescent population faces on the workplace?

If this old woman was a young Muslim mother, with the same temperament, skillset and level of ineptitude, Pestiferous would be flogging her back to shreds, in accordance to the punitive rituals of the Lefist Church Of Multiculturalism, for ever dreaming up these blasphemous notions of self-minded conceit.
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If this old woman was a young Muslim mother, with the same temperament, skillset and level of ineptitude, Pestiferous would be flogging her back to shreds



And fucking loving it.
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I agree that if you can't do your damn job, you should stop relying on people to feel sorry for you and just retire or quit and find a less challenging job. (Though in this case, there's no need for her to work, clearly. And if she needs "fulfillment" she can volunteer!)
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Jan 19 2009, 01:40 PM
Does seem a little aggressive to me, Swords. Maybe in conceding that she had circled that car park four times, which she may have, you can imagine the situation in reverse? I'm sure had it been you in her shoes, you'd now be just as emphatic about how you were correct.

I'm not saying you're a sociopath or anything but even if she 'stole your place' it does seem like an excessively confrontational way to deal with an elderly woman.

I agree with Koril. Age is not an automatic qualifier to behave however you please and go around taking things because you think you deserve them. Everybody struggles in one way or another and those who have a self-appointed entitlement deserve the least respect in my opinion. The woman could have come out of that car and said "I'm sorry, I'm really tired etc, etc whatever, I did see you there but please understand..." and I would have been fine with it--really. But she didn't. I don't care if she circled the lot 4 times, and if the situation were reversed, I wouldn't expect anyone else to care either.

In reference to Ardra's post:

First let me say that I was not circling the lot to find a spot close to the doors for my "lazy ass", and I'm not sure where that insinuation comes from? I stumbled on the spot right away.

Also, it should be know that I work with the elderly too and I would like to note that in the scheme of things, I don't consider 60s to be old. I take detailed information from older people about their health concerns all day long and age doesn't seem to be as clear cut when it comes to health as one might think. I talked to a 97 year old woman the other day who is on no medication and has no current treated health concerns--she told me the last time she had a concern she was in her 20s and she had her appendix (sp?) taken out. I also spoke to a 48 year old man who was on 10 medications and on his last leg. Basically, my point is that nobody has the right to assume anyone is more or less fit than they are.

I should also note that this woman walked fine, and could muscle her way into carrying TWO boxes of cheap wine back to her car.

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Would it have been okay if she'd bought expensive wine? I find the cheap wine drinking geriatrics the worst.


I know exactly what you mean though, I was queueing for the toilets in a supermarket the other week, and some woman brought her 5 year old daughter in, and jumped the queue! She said her daughter needed the toilet and couldn't wait. I was furious. I told her daughter she was a fucking joke of a human being if she couldn't control her bladder yet, and I punched her in the face for good measure. :fight:


I was being facetious, but maybe the old lady really needed a piss and was incontinent? Did she smell like piss?

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Give me a break monkey. If she asked me for the spot and had a reason, I would have obliged--she didn't. Of course she was in a car, but when I pulled up she could have given me that reason. She wanted wine, and she was impatient. Fuck her. :D

So.... when I'm 60, I am free of all social obligations of courtesy?
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Yes! That's the best part of being 60! That's when you get to 'accidentally' smack kids about the legs with your walking stick. I'm looking forward to it, I'm going to be an evil old lady.

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I know exactly what you mean though, I was queueing for the toilets in a supermarket the other week, and some woman brought her 5 year old daughter in, and jumped the queue! She said her daughter needed the toilet and couldn't wait.



I've lied and used this excuse before - next time you should ask her to prove it.
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Jan 19 2009, 06:19 PM
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Crazy people live to be crazy in their sixties sometimes



Lol ! Thanks, Lori. That's me, in just a few years.

As far as me explaining myself....

Nah, I'm just going to let you hate me.


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I hate people who walk in public like nobody exists beside or behind them. They wander aimlessly in and out of your path... stop in the middle of nowhere... walk super slow... spread out accross a whole path etc etc.

I have been known to purposefully elbow these people upon passing. I don't even spare the old fuckers.

Hmmm.....

A bit of an over-dramatisation dontcha think? I never said I hated you, I only said that you frustrate me. I truly wanted to explore the cultural differences you were referencing, but honestly I wasn't sure what you were talking about.
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I'd also like to add that I've gone above and beyond for the eldery at times in my life. When I was 15 I ran a badminton club for seniors because I believed in the cause, and I donated countless hours of my time in my early 20s volunteering at an elderly hospital giving manicures, pedicures and setting ladies hair in curlers. I've also helped nurse 3 elderly relatives through their death. These people didn't get my respect blindly because they were old, but because they were kind. When I came accross a biligerant elderly person in the hospital I volunteered at, I simply would skip their appointment. Being sick, and being old do not give you the right to be an ass.
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Fuck seniors.

Everytime a senior balks at the price of our services, they inevitably ask "Does that include the senior discount?" like everywhere should give a senior discount.

We don't - the services a senior gets are the same as everywhere else.

And then they get twatty, and mention being on a fixed income. Yeah? You're on a fixed income? Big deal, welcome to the fixed income club.

Sword has a lot more empathy towards the elderly than I do. I wish we could go back to the old days, where seniors had more self-respect and would pitch themselves over a cliff when they were no longer useful.

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I know exactly what you mean though, I was queueing for the toilets in a supermarket the other week, and some woman brought her 5 year old daughter in, and jumped the queue! She said her daughter needed the toilet and couldn't wait.



I've lied and used this excuse before - next time you should ask her to prove it.

Seriously?! I totally believed her, the kid was so convincing! Now I think that her mother just taught her to act that way... through regular beatings and withholding the Disney Channel.


I've lost all faith in humanity.
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So you're willing to accommodate an extremist cult of religious devotees that have yet to enrich their insulated culture with the notions of equal rights and universal suffrage. Setting the feminist movement back in Canuckstan for fifty years because of the privileged position that these newcomers enjoy in the precedence list? First race, then sexuality, then religion(will take precedence in combination with race) and only then gender. Age has yet to sink in the fascistoid mindset of proponents of the Leftist Church Of Multiculturalism. After all, massive immigration is their panacea to an aging workforce. More versatility in the workplace, whatever for? Diversity is the official mantra.

If you're over forty the ageism sets in at full force when you're switching jobs, (depending on your field of expertise and level of education), at fifty you should consider yourself fortunate that you're employed at all -- with early retirement seeming to be the prevailing sentiment amongst your colleagues and coworkers.

You disappoint me once again, Pestiferous. And it isn't simply that you're incompetent at civil discourse and dialectical exchange. :P

Edit: Faultless, to an extent.
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