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I might require a virtual hug or two...

 
 
Tezcatlipoca
13:13 / 19.06.03
Ok, up until about 3 hours ago I worked a small side job to get enough money for rent. This was fine. What wasn't fine is that I worked for quite possibly the most rude and hypocritical man I have ever met. His mistakes were always everybody else's fault (the resultant cause of today's quitting), he was perpetually rude about pretty much everyone (this includes generalised groups such as 'Yanks', 'Queers', and 'Niggers'), and - to cap it all - he would split his time in the office between snatching paperwork from people's hands and demanding to know what it was all about, and sitting at his desk moaning about his life.

Today he spent his time muttering away about the PC system (he treats computers with extreme suspicion), and complaining that business was slow. Then he accused me of having moved his paperwork (the paperwork being sat on his desk where he left it), and I snapped, telling him he was an ill-mannered hypocrit, and that in my opinion he needed professional help before people refused to do business with him altogether.

I know I really shouldn't get annoyed, especially as this was just some shitty part-time thing to earn enough cash to live off whilst I write, but I'm feeling very angry at the situation right now (and seriously contemplating hooking up to the office PC from an internet cafe via FTP and raining electronic havoc upon his head).

So, I need vitual hugs to make the nasty thoughts go away whilst I recover and begin working out what the fuck to do now.
 
 
Persephone
13:21 / 19.06.03
Hug. Hug.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
13:22 / 19.06.03
Have a gigantic bear hug from me and he sounds like a complete cunt! You're too good to work for someone like that, far far too good!
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
13:26 / 19.06.03
Oh, huggles. That sucks, but on the bright side you can now find a job without a tosser at the wheel. Don't do anything with FTP, as you have no doubt concluded - it would be too easy to identify you as the prime suspect and would potentially prejudice future employment.

Meanwhile, was this just temping? If so, a friend of mine emailed the number of an agency he swears by. If not, what sort of specialised stuff were you doing? Maybe somebody here has a line out...
 
 
Smoothly
13:26 / 19.06.03
Sorry to hear about all this Tez. You shouldn't put up with shite like that though. I'll be unemployed in 6 weeks and so have some empathy with your anxiety. Perhaps we should set up some kind of Barbelith job club.
 
 
Ninjas make great pets
13:31 / 19.06.03
you poor thing!

If it makes you feel any better I lost my temper with my boss one day and threated to cut off his manhood witha scalpel. He ws far more behaved around me afterward.

good luck kiddo
 
 
Bill Posters
13:35 / 19.06.03
from what you've said it sounds like congratulations are in order but have a huggle too. Nice to see people standing up to tossers like that... I have a not entirely disimilar situation in my life and (as usual) have gone for a more subtle, avoidance-type solution to the problem.
 
 
Bear
13:47 / 19.06.03
If anyone has rights on passing out bear sized huggles...

Well done for standing up to him though, with a bit of luck you might keep him up tonight thinking about whether your right.

Good luck finding another job...
 
 
illmatic
14:06 / 19.06.03
Good for you, Tex. YOu shouldn't have to take that sort of shit just so you can pay the rent. Manly huggles.

Here's to your next job which will be vastly superior.
 
 
Ariadne
14:23 / 19.06.03
He sounds like a horror - I think you're well out of it. Good luck on finding something else fast - I'm sure you will. And don't go doing anything to him, just put it behind you. He sounds like he's pretty miserable as well as a git, so just let him wallow.
 
 
Tezcatlipoca
14:25 / 19.06.03
*sniff*, thanks all. Actually I've calmed down a great deal now, certainly to the point where realising taking any form of revenge - electronic or otherwise - would be monumentally stupid.

It's not as bad as it seems, I guess. I've been looking for somewhere else for a while because of him, so already have some interviews lined up (which, in hindsight, probably made me a lot less willing to take shit today). But I'm still kind of fuming that anyone can behave like that and get away with it. I think I might have to redirect any spare hugs towards the poor sod who replaces me.
 
 
Unencumbered
14:53 / 19.06.03
Hugs aplenty from here, too. I've worked for one or two assholes in my time, so I know how unpleasant it can be.

Keep a stiff upper lip, and other such codswallop.
 
 
Alphonse commands you!
15:44 / 19.06.03
Sympathy. I'm always impressed by people who have the guts to tell these wastes of oxygen to take a running jump. I never have, even though I've been there a few times.

Try the bar manager who came on shift, took a bottle of white wine from behind the bar, sat at the corner table and drank her way through it - in company or alone. Every single shift.

Less personally offensive than amazingly cheeky and lazy, but still.
 
 
Gary Lactus
15:47 / 19.06.03
Fuck the hugs, you get a big pat on the back for not simply tolerating the arsehole and expressing yourself. Hooray!
 
 
Mourne Kransky
15:49 / 19.06.03
Yeah, keep your pecker up, Tez.

All that negative energy you've been expending on coping with that creep can now be redirected more constructively. Hope you find a part time earner that's more amenable soon.
 
 
Seth
16:52 / 19.06.03
Nice one, Tez. Have a kiss and a backrub.
 
 
pomegranate
17:34 / 19.06.03
working for psychos sucks! have a hug from me.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
17:38 / 19.06.03
What they said. Well done for telling this idiot where to get off, and good luck in finding someting soon.
 
 
captain piss
20:44 / 19.06.03
Yes, it certainly sounds like a chapter best closed, tezzer - you've done your bit, and good on you.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
23:56 / 19.06.03
Huggles and congratulations, Tez.
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
05:39 / 20.06.03
Well, congrats for doing something many of us would only dream about, I hope you find somewhere more deserving of your talents ASAP.
 
 
ephemerat
14:11 / 20.06.03
Congratulations and commiserations, dude.

As ever I prescribe a few healthy beverages...
 
 
angel
15:43 / 20.06.03
Oh dear!

Well I send virtual bandages for the poor camel with the broken back, and huge cheers and celebrations and loved-up-ness for you for being foolhardy and brave and honest.

Haus is right, you can now expend the energy on much better things, like getting a happy job and writing.

May good luck flow to you over the next few days!
 
  
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