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Stupid people...

concealedG36concealedG36 Member Posts: 3,566 ✭✭
edited August 2002 in General Discussion
Can't get into the specifics, but I HATE some of the people with whom I work. I am a consultant and I have several clients, but one in particular (my largest) is FULL of IDIOTS!!!

I'm serious, today I drove home for 1/2 hour in total silence (radio off) clenching my teeth the whole way home. I try to remember that I do this for my wife and daughter. But, I have VIVID daydreams of literally ripping the throats out of some of the people I deal with. Stupidity and 100% absolute lack of common sense run rampant. The irony is, the majority of these individuals are Ph D's!! (No offense SaxonPig)

Do any of you have jobs that you know you're good at but you have trouble dealing with SELFISH people who are only interested in POLITICS and the status they can attain (regardless of actual knowledge of ANYTHING)? The same kind of people that'll tell you how to do your job when they don't have the foggiest clue of what they're talking about. Some days I wish Judge Dread's meteor would collide with the Earth RIGHT where I work! Ugh!

Thank you, rant mode now off...

G36


Gun Control Disarms Victims, NOT Criminals

Edited by - concealedG36 on 08/07/2002 20:00:14

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  • concealedG36concealedG36 Member Posts: 3,566 ✭✭
    edited November -1
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    Ashley Warden may have caused herself some major trouble on Facebook. She makes a veiled threat against the police, as a server for a major restaurant chain. She also has a breathalyzer interlock on her car. Not just anyone gets one of those! She also posts complaints about her employer for the world to see!

    She is the woman who was in the news a while back for receiving a very expensive citation because she let her 3-year-old son pee in the yard. I didn't, and don't agree with such a citation, but the place to take care of it is court, not one's own workplace.

    I wonder what happens next!
  • HighballHighball Member Posts: 15,755
    edited November -1
    Get another line of work. Your wife and youngsters deserve you to be there...blowing a artery will do them no good at all.
    Most people in this country today with phds(piled higher and deeper) arn't fit to clean out a horse barn.This country was built with people able to DO things...not wave a piece of paper around.

    God,Guts,& GunsHave we lost all 3 ??
  • BuckshotBuckshot Member Posts: 54 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sounds like the SUPREME court with a side order of Politicians..they definitely fit the catagory..but..."Only the Shadow Knows"
  • RosieRosie Member Posts: 14,525 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Either join them or move on. I joined that rat race over 30 years ago not knowing what I was getting into and after a few stabs in the back I caught on real quick. I figured what the hell I can stab as good as the rest of them! Still at it. I never forgive and I never forget. After everyone else found that out it made my life a lot easier.
  • 4wheeler4wheeler Member Posts: 3,441
    edited November -1
    Good luck in finding a place to work where none of this occurs.You know the old saying"It is who you know not what you know".I do not like it but sometimes that is the way it is.I have always said every college student should be made to take 4 semesters in "common sense" I guess the reason it is not offered as a course is no one is quailfied to teach it.

    "It was like that when I got here".
  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    cG36, Oh, yeah, I know *exactly* how you feel. There are many in the corporate world alive today only because I wouldn't be much good to my kids behind bars. Stupidity and office politics should be capital crimes. My biggest problem is that I'm too damn honest. If I screw up, I say so, get PO'd if someone tries to take credit for my work and refuse to take the fall for idiots. In most cases, not all, the more education a person has, the bigger their ego and the less contact they have with reality. In twenty years of working in manufacturing, the best managers I met had no education past HS except graduate degrees in the real world. I vividly remember being called in to write proposals, five year plans, name it, for MBAs, MSc, and the like who knew lots of great theories but couldn't manage their way out of a wet paper bag, much less write a coherent paragraph. Duplicity, BS, ignorance . . . . arghhhhhhhh! You got me started. Sorry. BTDT, big time. My sympathies. Will buy you a brew if we ever meet & we can take a common sense approach to solving the world's problems!
  • AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,092 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Okay you forced me to share this email I got today:

    THIS IS AN ACTUAL LETTER OF RESIGNATION FROM AN EMPLOYEE AT ZANTEX
    COMPUTERS, USA, TO HIS BOSS.

    HIS BOSS APPARENTLY RESIGNED SOON AFTERWARDS!

    Dear Mr. Baker,

    As an employee of an institution of higher education, I have a few very basic expectations.
    Chief among these is that my direct superiors have an intellect that ranges above that of the
    common ground squirrel. After your consistent and annoying harassment of my co-workers
    and myself during the commission of my duties, I can only surmise that you are one of the
    few true genetic wastes of our time. Asking me, a network administrator, to explain every
    little nuance of everything I do each time you happen to stroll into my office is not only a
    waste of time, but a waste of precious oxygen.

    I was hired because I know how to network computer systems, and you were apparently
    hired to provide amusement to myself and other employees, who watch you vainly attempt
    to understand the concept of "cut and paste" for the hundredth time. You will never understand
    computers. Something as incredibly simple as binary still gives you too many options. You will
    also never understand why people hate you, but I am going to try and explain it to you, even
    though I am sure this will be just as effective as telling you what an IP is. Your shiny new iMac
    has more personality than you ever will. You walk around the building all day, shiftlessly looking
    for fault in others. You have a sharp dressed useless look about you that may have worked for
    your interview, but now that you actually have responsibility, you pawn it off on overworked staff,
    hoping their talent will cover for your glaring ineptitude. In a world of managerial evolution, you are
    the blue-green algae that everyone eats and laughs at. Managers like you are a sad proof of the
    Dilbert principle.

    Seeing as this situation is unlikely to change without you getting a full frontal lobotomy reversal,
    I am forced to tender my resignation, however, with a few parting thoughts:

    (1) When someone calls you in reference to employment, it is illegal to give me a bad
    recommendation. The most you can say to hurt me is "I prefer no comment". I will have friends
    randomly call you over the next couple of years to keep you honest, because I know you would be
    unable to do it on your own.

    (2) I have all the passwords to every account on the system, and I know every password you have
    used for the last five years. If you decide to get cute, I am going to publish your "favourites" list, which
    I conveniently saved when you made me "back up" your useless files. I do believe that terms like
    "*" are not usually viewed favourably by the administration.

    (3) When you borrowed the digital camera to "take pictures of your mother's b-day", you neglected to
    mention that you were going to take pictures of yourself in the mirror nude. Then you forgot to erase them
    like the techno-moron you really are. Suffice it to say I have never seen such odd acts with a ketchup
    bottle, but I assure you that those have been copied and kept in a safe place pending the authoring
    of a glowing letter of recommendation. (Try to use a spell check please, I hate having to correct your
    mistakes.)

    Thank you for your time, and I expect the letter of recommendation by 8.00 a.m. tomorrow. One word
    of this to anybody, and all of your little twisted repugnant obsessions will be open to the public.

    Never f**k with your systems administrator. Why?..Because they know what you do with all that free time.

    Sincerely,

    Darryl Brewster.


    "If you ain't got pictures, I wasn't there."
    ?The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.?
    Margaret Thatcher

    "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
    Mark Twain
  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yup, educated idiots are a BIG pain in the lower nether region.

    If I knew then, what I know now.
  • Shootist3006Shootist3006 Member Posts: 4,171
    edited November -1
    C..G36 - as a consultant, you should be aware of the aggravation surcharge. Sounds as if these folks need about 50%. Advise them that your rates are going up and get them to (at least) pay for the Tagamet.

    Quod principi placuit legis habet vigorem.Semper Fidelis
  • MercuryMercury Member Posts: 7,840 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Shootist,
    Hahahaha........never thought of the "aggravation surcharge" I call it a "Stupid Tax" :)

    Seriously folks.......if you are self-employed, and you have PAIN IN THE BUTT clients/customers, GET RID OF THEM!

    I did........90% of my problems were caused by 5% of my customers!

    I just told them "Sorry, you are fired as my customer. Please do not shop here again."

    The look on their face was priceless, but well worth it.

    I make more money, and have less hassles now. Good riddance.

    Merc



    NO! You may not have my guns! Now go crawl back into your hole!

    ****************************************

    "Tolerating things you may not necessarily like is part of being free" - Larry Flynt
  • ccasey612ccasey612 Member Posts: 901 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had a boss that was a moron one at one point. I was this close to leaving the company but found out a better way to get back at him. He was taking my ideals and presenting them to the Board and never gave me credit. I ended up giving him the most stupid ideals and let him present it then I pointed out how stupid it was infront of the whole board. End result I ended up getting promoted over him.

    If you will blame gun makers for every shooting then blame car maker for every car accident.
  • 4GodandCountry4GodandCountry Member Posts: 3,968
    edited November -1
    I work with some of the dumbest engineers dupont money can buy. They waste enouph money annually to run a small country and thats just in my facility. I cant imagine the waste they produce throughout the whole organization. The girl in the next office over is from Michigan and spends most of her day talkin long distance to her family. She has screwed up every project she has touched but they will never fire her, shes a minority.

    When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You dont need an asteroid .... a 100p propane cilinder and a lit candle at the other side of the building will suffice....


    (this is not a sedition remark ,just an expresion to liverate stress as in TV or children cartoons were they shoot and blow each others heads off ...Psicologists agree it does not affect social tendency)
    nor is affecting to alter personality in negative ways ....)

    DO IT ! darn!!! [}(]


    JD

    400 million cows can't be wrong ( EAT GRASS !!! )
  • dakotashooter2dakotashooter2 Member Posts: 6,186
    edited November -1
    I have no problem with educated people but unfortunatly in most cases their educations are lacking in one vital element. HOW TO WORK. This is a skill generally learned through the experience of working your way up from the bottom. Unfortunatly now days everyone wants to start at the top or near it and do not know the business they are in from top to bottom which I feel develops the best employees.
  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    DK there are times that the ones starting from the bottom are still the idiots they were and just reached the upper level that their mediocre mids can reach , So is at 90% of goverment and military jobs.

    JD

    400 million cows can't be wrong ( EAT GRASS !!! )
  • dads-freeholddads-freehold Member Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    greetings, that principle is called the peter principle, a person rises to his highest level of ineficency, it happens in politic, business, interpersonal relatioships, etc. lawerance peters wrote the book back in the earily sixties, very good reading,and true more so today as then. respt submitted dads-freehold
  • Wild TurkeyWild Turkey Member Posts: 2,425 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Try being a school teacher in Kentucky:

    Each spring students spend 5 day taking big statewide test. Schools have to keep improving their scores or state will take over the system. Problem is the kids taking the test don't receive any results good or bad. The school gets all the consequences.

    This test is based on a set of "exit expectations" for each grade. Teachers have to document when they teach each exit expectation. That way if a kid doesn't do well the administration can prove it wasn't their fault.

    Oh yeah, the last test is given their junior year, because the first year they gave to seniors and --guess what-- seniors have a lot of important things on their minds in May, and they didn't do very well.

    Now seniors seem to think it doesn't matter what they do their Senior year.

    Each student has to produce a "portfolio" of 5 written pieces, each with certain requirements. A teacher got taken out of the classroom by a state administrator because she had the audacity to point to a sentance in a student's essay and say "You need a comma there." She had interfered with the student's "ownership" of the paper.

    And today they finally noticed that --another big surprise -- that teachers haven't received a real raise in over 10 years. Budget keeps go up because the number of administrators to take care of this test keeps going up.

    I could keep going, but you get the idea.

    Been there, done that, got the blood pressure to prove it!



    Wild Turkey"if your only tool is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail"
  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Get a search engine and start looking for "Homeschooling"

    JD

    400 million cows can't be wrong ( EAT GRASS !!! )
  • homer4homer4 Member Posts: 128 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    G36...the crud balls are placed in our lives to bring out strength and fortitude that sometimes we don't know the level of which exists in us.
    Not trying to sound lofty...I too have people like that in my life.
    Hang tough.

    "...Abby someone""Abby who"..."Abby Normal"
  • BlueTicBlueTic Member Posts: 4,072
    edited November -1
    Again - I must say - Been to school - Been in a profession - now I just put down my hood and weld. I tell my boss I hate him every day (or at least flip him off) but he knows I'll do the work - so he keeps me around for laughs.

    IF YOU DON'T LIKE MY RIGHTS - GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY (this includes politicians)
  • concealedG36concealedG36 Member Posts: 3,566 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks everybody for your support and input. I have cooled off a bit, but it looks like the IT Director at my client site is resigning today. She can no longer handle the politics. I guess it wasn't just me who was frustrated!

    In any case, I'll get through this like I always do. It just feels good to B*tch once in a while.

    Thanks again!
    G36


    Gun Control Disarms Victims, NOT Criminals
  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    OOHHH ! that means you already have the propane cilinder the matches and The candle...

    JD

    400 million cows can't be wrong ( EAT GRASS !!! )
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