Just because a person has nice things, and respects the things they have worked hard for doesn’t give you ANY right to say they are a bad person. I’ll have you know I worked all year for the things that I have and if you can’t accept that, then too bad. Just because you took a year off to not work doesn’t make you special, it doesn’t make you a better person than me, and it doesn’t make you more humane. I have friends that took time off work, the difference is they did it to do good things for humanity. What did you do that was so goddamn great? That’s right. Nothing.
You don’t know me, and you don’t know where my money goes, I helped you WAY too many times to be brought down to what you label me. I am a nice person, and I help people in NEED, not people who bum off others and expect the world to owe them. You’ve got a lot of growing up to do… —Don’t Bite the Hand that Feeds You
This article appears in Mar 1-7, 2012.
I hate to break the news to you OP, but you’ve been *organ crescendo* – OCUPIED!.
You probably first noticed random hackeysacks lying about the living room. Then, tents began popping up, anywhere there was flat space in your apartment/house. Then, your roaming charges went through the roof. Now you can’t stand the smell of humanure , Wilco and Rage Against The Machine produce a visceral sense of revulsion, your kids keep talking about someone called Noam, and you haven’t seen your pets in a couple of days. You, my friend have a full blown Occupy Infection.
Call the Orkin Man
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Here is what this is all about OP. Self-righteous douchebags are self-righteous specifically because they believe they’re something very special. They believe that their observations on life are, far from being stale, overused and likely repeated verbatim from something they read on the onion, in fact brilliant groundbreaking philosophical phenomena that have never been conceived before and will change life on earth as we know it.
So naturally, these douchebags are shocked and appalled when nobody seems to recognize their brilliance for what they believe it is. To protect their over-inflated egos, they adopt a (not new) assumption that they ARE in fact recognized for their brilliance, so much so that The Man is afraid of their influence and is keeping them down so the winds of their monumental revolutionary genius don’t spread to the masses and infect us like the holy bastion of brilliance they so clearly are. Ergo, if you DO find success and recognition in your life, you’re clearly just a mediocre dumbass that The Man uses as a placeholder to keep the TRUE genius (ie: this giant douche) from changing the world, man!
Or, to sum up, they would rather assume they’ve been victimized by some sort of intellectual conspiracy than admit they’re actually nothing special and are probably going to face a lifetime of failure after monumental failure.
You have this job because you’re a “bad person”. Not because you’re smarter, more hardworking or more capable than he is.
This is not to say that there are NOT assholes out there who got their jobs specifically on the merit of being assholes. I’m merely suggesting that a turd like the one you’re describing hasn’t a clue how to tell the difference.
You hold their opinion in to high esteem, OB. If you do something for the recognition or for any other reason than to be helpful, then your just a douchebag. Philanthropists don’t do good deeds for the credit, it’s up to you to decide who, how, and when to lend a hand.
Can you be just be a little more vague OP? Specifics please.
I love having nice things! Just bought me a vintage Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) instead of paying my BlackBerry bill.