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Urgh! Fuck!: A thread for untamed hate and anger [PICS]

 
  

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Papess
11:56 / 13.02.08
You're just too good for them, AAR. They must have felt threatened by that.
 
 
Jack Fear
11:57 / 13.02.08
And that is why—if the manager has an ounce of sense—you will get the job, and those thirty others will not.

Granted, I'm not an expert in managerial theory, but if the point of the exercise is to see how you work with others, it sounds like you succeeded, and the others failed.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
12:14 / 13.02.08
Well, except at the middle of the day they read out the list of people they wanted to take further and I was not in evidence. They said there's a slight chance they'll ring up a few more people (literally 2 out of 350) based on the application forms we sent them as well, so.
 
 
Jack Fear
14:06 / 13.02.08
Ah.

This must be some managerial criterion with which I am unfamiliar; The HEY! INSTEAD OF FOSTERING A COOPERATIVE WORKPLACE STAFFED WITH FRIENDLY PEOPLE LET'S HIRE A PACK OF SOCIOPATHS AND TURN THEM AGAINST EACH OTHER! WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? Principle. Or somesuch.

Anyway, it sucks.
 
 
Evil Scientist
14:11 / 13.02.08
Bizarro Managers are a pain in the ass.

Or not a pain in the ass (technically).
 
 
*
14:47 / 13.02.08
AAR, what a great place not to work! I'm so relieved for you.
 
 
Dead Megatron
14:50 / 13.02.08
Maybe this is a corollary of the Dilbert Principle: stupid, incompetent middle managers will hire stupid, incompentent people. The only question remaining is: do they do it so as to not look bad in front of their bosses, or do they do it because they simply are incapable of recognizing real work quality and/or ethics?

anyway, AAR, good luck
 
 
HCE
15:30 / 13.02.08
Why are people scum. Why.
 
 
Olulabelle
16:23 / 13.02.08
I don't know if you're being sarcastic, but some people really are horrible, like the lady whose dog jumped on mine today and made him fall over because he's only just started being able to walk, and instead of being sorry or even just a bit shocked she just laughed at my poor dog all wrong angled on the floor.

And the people who came into my house via the back garden the day before yesterday and stole my college bag off the table. To get in they would have had to shimmy over about three sets of fences and over my locked six foot gate, then come in the back door which wasn't locked because we were in and had just let the cat out. And then they just threw my college stuff all over someone elses garden a few street down because all they wanted was money.

Now I'm really freaked out about people being in our house and keep checking the doors and feeling scared, which is just FUCK OFF with that feeling, I don't want to feel like that and I don't want to hate people either, but STUPID lady and STUPID burglars and STUPID crap managers of AAR's.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
16:38 / 13.02.08
Oh, Lula...I'm so sorry.

Did you get shouty at the woman with the bad dog? Please tell me you did because FUCK OFF, that's just a horrible way to behave about an incident with an injured animal.
 
 
Olulabelle
16:49 / 13.02.08
I did shout at her and she told me that I should grow up. But my boyfriend said that's just because she realised how horrible she was being and was embarrassed and that made her be all defensive and mean. Which was a very sensible and rational way to look at it.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
16:59 / 13.02.08
That's still pretty terrible. How's your dog doing now?
 
 
Papess
17:04 / 13.02.08
Dear gawd, lula, they broke into your home? Can you at least make a complaint to the police? They may not be able to do much but the incident being on file could be helpful for future reference for your own home and your community.

Anyway, here is hoping you and your pooch are feeling better. Your bf is right, btw. People know when they are wrong and make all sorts of idiotic excuses and commentary to cover it up.
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
17:29 / 13.02.08
I agree with your boyf. I remember the stupid mother who got very indignant when I asked her to stop her precious bundle of joy from pulling all the books of the shelf while she just watched.
 
 
Olulabelle
17:30 / 13.02.08
The first thing I knew about it was when the police came! They knocked on the door yesterday and said, "We've found your college bag", and I said, "How can that possibly be, it's in the kitchen on the table." But of course when I went there it wasn't. I didn't go to college yesterday because I had a headache, but if I had have I'd have been hunting everywhere for it, thinking I must have left it somewhere and that I was an idiot.

They came and dusted for fingerprints and took statements and everything, but they say there's very little chance of finding the people. Mostly I'm just done in about the burglars coming in the house.

L&R, the dog's OK, and actually in one way it's a relief to see he's a bit less fragile than he was - even though his legs collapsed he's not done any more damage to the injuries so that's good. But horrid woman!
 
 
Papess
18:15 / 13.02.08
Mostly I'm just done in about the burglars coming in the house.

Yes, it is quite violating. It may take a while before you feel safe again.
 
 
Olulabelle
18:31 / 13.02.08
It's bloody weird actually. Violated is the right word. It's not as if they even did anything much, it's just the thought of them being there. I mean I think I'm quite a strong and capable person, I don't really see myself as someone who wibbles in the corner and is afraid of the outside, but yesterday I felt really exposed standing in the kitchen with the light on when it's dark outside, and I found I had to wash my bag because it felt 'dirty'. I'm aware that's a really strong reaction to what is essentially a minor crime, and frankly I'm a bit pissed off with myself for being wet about it.
 
 
Triplets
18:49 / 13.02.08
It's not strange for someone to feel that way, dude. Is this the first time something like this (B&E, theft of property) has happened to you?
 
 
Papess
18:55 / 13.02.08
It's a fairly normal reaction, Lula. Don't be so hard on yourself. There were people, in your home, uninvited and unbeknownst to you. While you were still in the place for pete's sake! That would make anyone uncomfortable, at the very least. Just having one's purse rifled through can ilicit that kind of reaction.

I have had someone break into my home and steal nothing before. It made me feel weird, also. I didn't feel safe where I thought I should feel safe. It is not unreasonable to want to feel safe in one's own home.
 
 
The Idol Rich
09:52 / 14.02.08
I'm aware that's a really strong reaction to what is essentially a minor crime, and frankly I'm a bit pissed off with myself for being wet about it.

I don't think that's a strong reaction at all. Years ago there was a break in at the house I lived in (almost certainly by kids and virtually nothing was taken) and I actually quite literally had nightmares about it for several days afterwards. I think it really brings home to you how much you unconsciously associate your home with safety and privacy and how easily that can be threatened by the idea of someone - yes I think it's the right word - violating that.
In the house I live in now there have been three (or was it four?) attempted break-ins and on two of those occasions my girlfriend was in the house on her own. This had a profound effect on her as you might expect to the extent that she was unwilling to stay there at all for some time.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
13:02 / 14.02.08
Having your home broken into is one thing, I guess, but you tidy the place up, you deal with the ID parade, and then you at least try and move on. Except no you don't, because then there's the insurance company to speak to.

At the moment, the Royal Sun and Alliance are asking me to explain why I, fraudently, apparently, took out a policy that doesn't seem to apply to my domicile.

I mean curses, really ... what a criminal masterstroke that would have been, if it hadn't been for the sharp eyes of my specialist claims handler! I could have gotten away with paying £150, only to reap my ill-gotten gains when the kitchen window was kicked in.

(The thing is, I'm more than capable of making stupid mistakes when it comes to filling in forms; it's just in this case, because I have done it in the past, I was careful not to. Not that this, or the police report, is likely to facilitate an easy solution to any of this, now.

Worse still, I've been asked to write back, explaining the irregularities in my claim; it's not a matter they're prepared to discuss on the phone.

I suppose getting the sarcasm down to anything like a sub-nuclear level is going to require more of an effort than I, or anyone, should really have to make, under the circumstances.



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Papess
13:54 / 14.02.08
whoa, hang on AG!

If you had filled out your Ins. Application form to the best of your ability and the policy was granted to you, then the mistake lies with the agent, the underwriters and the Ins.Co. Don't let them bamboozle you. They have time to check these things and it is not as if you can hide your residence. The fact that they may have overlooked something is their problem, not yours. The agent has a fiduciary duty to their client and should inform you properly in regards to your policy application.

Unless, you outright lied. Then they would have case against you.

The difference being between a "mistake" and a "misrepresentation". The former being something that is unintentional. The latter can be disputed but does not always end up in the Ins.Co.'s favour.
 
 
*
14:30 / 14.02.08
Grandma, that's really shitty. Is there some organization that offers free or low-cost advocates?
 
 
Alex's Grandma
16:30 / 14.02.08
I could get a lawyer friend to look into it, certainly.

It's just, what a pain in the arse, really.

I'd understand, just about, if I was trying to claim that the guy had run off with a set of original paintings and a plasma TV, in the vintage Jag, but all we're talking about is a damaged blind, repairs to a couple of kitchen chairs, and replacing an old, if cherished laptop that was pretty much destroyed in the struggle.

I don't know, perhaps I'm being f***ed with here precisely because I didn't go for broke with the claim?
 
 
Alex's Grandma
16:16 / 15.02.08
After what feels like, and actually pretty much is, a day on the phone to the insurance company, I would rather the home invader had tied me down and shat in my face, really.

It would have been over, quickly.

As it is, it seems as if I'm limbering up for months of discussions with these f***ing idiots.

I should give up, and accept that whatever I do, I'll always be talking to a person from the wrong department -'I'll put you through, what was your name again?'

'My name is LEGION!'; it doesn't do any good.

And that, I suppose, is the whole point of these people behaving like the way they do in the first place. To put off the claimant.

What Royal Sun Alliance in Halifax don't seem to understand is that life is cheap in London; I'm not going to make the call obviously, but £75 and a McDonalds is enough to get anyone clipped in this terrible city, so I figure, property vales being what they are, that £500 might be enough to have a set of loft residences in Halifax totally incinerated.

'Put this in writing,' I would mutter, as the charges fell like little butterfiles.

Still, into every life a little rain must fall.

And it's not as if I'm going to ... hurt myself over this. People have harder times. Plus, the thing is, I would name the guy, but what if he got run over, or some such?
Would the Dibble, the Badge, be after everyone's pal?
 
 
My Mom Thinks I'm Cool
11:35 / 17.02.08
A fully-equipped hospital that lay unused for two years has burned to the ground in northern Nigeria.

The General Hospital in Maiduguri was built in 2006 but the state government refused to open it until the president came to cut the ribbon.

Several surgical theatres, the intensive care ward, and the clinical section which held millions of dollars of equipment were all destroyed.

...

Borno was recently hit by a measles outbreak that killed hundreds of children across three states.


I want to break things.
 
 
Pingle!Pop
19:58 / 24.02.08
Telly was on in the train earlier. Some ghoul was interviewing the wife of (for those who haven't been exposed to the British press for the past however-long, user-then-killer of several sex workers) Ian Wright:

"Do you think that if your, y'know, sex life had been better, he wouldn't have felt the need to go do this?"

Nnnnngggggh. And for not-quite-untamed-but-definitely-hate-and-anger, I came home to find that the Independent thinks what *really* needs to be asked about the John McCain-lobbyist maybe-affair scandal thing is "Why have an affair if the mistress looks like the wife?"

I <3 the society I live in.
 
 
Triplets
21:04 / 24.02.08
Telly was on in the train earlier.

Train station?
 
 
Pingle!Pop
21:20 / 24.02.08
No, train. I didn't really like that, either, but its being there was much less aggravating than what was actually on it.
 
 
Thaddeus "B." Glands
15:56 / 25.02.08
So tell me, you mindless, moronic little twit, what business you have telling my partner that its essentially her fault that some awful pondscum felt her up when she was too drunk to know what was going on because she "shouldn't have gone with him to his room for a drink"?

And then, of course, you back-pedal and claim that you meant that "that sort of thing is to be expected in this society", which means EXACTLY THE SAME THING, but conveniently hoists the blame from you onto some intangible concept of "society" for the fact you think that she should have known better than to think that she might have the right to have a drink with someone without it leading to an assault.

If anything good is going to come out of your awful fuckery, then it should be that other people start noticing what an offensive simpleton you actually are. Maybe after that you'll stop expecting people to marvel at how MORALLY AWESOME YOU ARE, just because you're not a homophobe anymore (congratu-fucking-lations, it only took you twenty years).

...

Credit where credit is due, this creature has actually managed to grow some insight and has actually noticed that I hold him in no small contempt. Of course, he has no idea why, and I'm sure he thinks I'm very mean for doing so. Perhaps I should explain it to him in ways his small brain can grasp.
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
16:41 / 25.02.08
The Sun want to bring back capital punishment. Fuck-candles.
 
 
matthew.
13:26 / 26.02.08
I'm mad at myself. I really want to talk to my ex-girlfriend and find out how she's doing, as I still care for her, but she clearly wants nothing to do with me. She even deleted all of my wall posts on her Facebook. So I'm mad at her too. Our breakup wasn't terrible or vicious. But I still love her and I'm furious with myself.
 
 
matthew.
18:17 / 26.02.08
So I ended talking to her via text messaging and I feel a smidge better. She's just totally uncaring about anybody but herself. I think I can move on now. Let the healing begin (the meds, the exercise, the diet, the job are also helping)

It's now been tamed anger and hate. So right now, no urgh or fuck
 
 
jentacular dreams
19:13 / 26.02.08
Matthew, that sounds a bit shit. Going through somewhat rubbish girlfriend troubles myself at the moment, but nothing quite that divisive.
 
 
penitentvandal
20:07 / 27.02.08
Thank you, you prunts, for not letting me study Ed Psych at a university that will allow me to continue living with my wife. Now I either give up on my goal or live without the love of my life for three years.

Sometimes it's hard to walk in this world.
 
  

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