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What is wrong, exactly?
Feb. 14th, 2025 08:17 pmI'm sitting here, minding my own business, reading some interesting things on LinkedIn about service management (don't judge me!) when I suddenly see a slew of updates from people I don't know, complaining about *other* people being able to work from home.
It really is quite bizarre. Whether or not someone else works from home in part, or full time, has absolutely nothing to do with me. I really don't care what someone else does in that respect. I mean, it's nice if you and they are in the office from time to time so you can catch up and natter more than you might on say Slack or Teams or whatever, but...to be genuinely, frothing-at-the-mouth *angry* about someone you don't know, who does a job you wouldn't understand even if someone offered their time, energy, and crayons to tell you? I mean...isn't that a bit...well...stupid?
And this arseholery runs far deeper than just being annoyed that some people are able to work from home. It extends into every facet of life, it seems. There are people out there who, for reasons probably best kept to themselves, get angry at other people have romantic relationships that are not the EXACT same as the ones they would choose for themselves. Uhm. Hello - what the bloody hell does it have to do with you anyway? Oh yeah, nothing.
There are people out there who believe that their imaginary friend in the sky is the best one ever, and they get terribly upset if anyone else might not agree. Again - what does it have to do with you? Again. Nothing. If your belief in your almighty sky daddy is reliant on *everyone* around you believing the exact same thing as you, then might I suggest your "faith" is preeeeeetty hollow and weak. And that's me being polite.
If you don't like tattoos...don't get one. If you don't like piercings...don't get one. If you don't like the idea of eating meat...don't. If you don't want to be Vegan, don't be. If you don't want to...wear red, or dance, or read, or drive a car...don't. You HAVE that choice. What you don't have, is the right to make any of those choices for anyone else.
The amount of revelling in the pain, or even the mild inconvenience of others is really weird. What is so lacking in your life that you have to go round hoping other people are having just as rotten a time as you are clearly having? What makes you think that you have to behave like that? Do you think it will make you feel any less rubbish? Do you think it somehow makes you stronger? Because the fact that these people behave the exact same way in so many area, and don't seem to gain any sort of satisfaction beyond transiently believing they've "got one over" on the person who is, "different" from them. They keep behaving like it, so clearly it's not working to give them any sort of fulfilment.
Now, don't get me wrong. I am not about to pretend that there haven't been times in the past, when I've heard of a misfortune to befall someone who has hurt me...that I haven't allowed myself a small smirk of entertainment. But that tends to be people I've known on a personal level, who have done something unpleasant to me, or to a friend. Seeing them get a mild karmic kick up the backside HAS made me feel a little better about things. But to crow over the idea that certain people wont be allowed to vote, or travel, or own property, or get an education, for example? You have got to be one sick puppy to think that's acceptable behaviour.
I wonder how much of it stems from "soshul meedja", with its opportunities for people to "anonymously" be as cruel and unpleasant as they want, seemingly without consequence. And as the old saying goes, hurt people hurt people.
The sad truth is though, that I suspect these people are aware of how pathetic they are, and there is shame there - but instead of using that shame as a way to seek improvement in their personal dealings, they lash out, trying to make their shame someone else's fault. These are the same sort of people who lie, and believe the lies told to them by other liars that they desperately want to emulate. The endless cycle of stupidity.
All things change, and I hope to live long enough to see the pendulum swing back from the current repugnant nonsense happening across our globe.
We are, whatever some people might want to suggest, one race, one species. And unless we start remembering that, we doom ourselves to extinction. Although I reckon that the Dodos would have got a good laugh out of that...
It really is quite bizarre. Whether or not someone else works from home in part, or full time, has absolutely nothing to do with me. I really don't care what someone else does in that respect. I mean, it's nice if you and they are in the office from time to time so you can catch up and natter more than you might on say Slack or Teams or whatever, but...to be genuinely, frothing-at-the-mouth *angry* about someone you don't know, who does a job you wouldn't understand even if someone offered their time, energy, and crayons to tell you? I mean...isn't that a bit...well...stupid?
And this arseholery runs far deeper than just being annoyed that some people are able to work from home. It extends into every facet of life, it seems. There are people out there who, for reasons probably best kept to themselves, get angry at other people have romantic relationships that are not the EXACT same as the ones they would choose for themselves. Uhm. Hello - what the bloody hell does it have to do with you anyway? Oh yeah, nothing.
There are people out there who believe that their imaginary friend in the sky is the best one ever, and they get terribly upset if anyone else might not agree. Again - what does it have to do with you? Again. Nothing. If your belief in your almighty sky daddy is reliant on *everyone* around you believing the exact same thing as you, then might I suggest your "faith" is preeeeeetty hollow and weak. And that's me being polite.
If you don't like tattoos...don't get one. If you don't like piercings...don't get one. If you don't like the idea of eating meat...don't. If you don't want to be Vegan, don't be. If you don't want to...wear red, or dance, or read, or drive a car...don't. You HAVE that choice. What you don't have, is the right to make any of those choices for anyone else.
The amount of revelling in the pain, or even the mild inconvenience of others is really weird. What is so lacking in your life that you have to go round hoping other people are having just as rotten a time as you are clearly having? What makes you think that you have to behave like that? Do you think it will make you feel any less rubbish? Do you think it somehow makes you stronger? Because the fact that these people behave the exact same way in so many area, and don't seem to gain any sort of satisfaction beyond transiently believing they've "got one over" on the person who is, "different" from them. They keep behaving like it, so clearly it's not working to give them any sort of fulfilment.
Now, don't get me wrong. I am not about to pretend that there haven't been times in the past, when I've heard of a misfortune to befall someone who has hurt me...that I haven't allowed myself a small smirk of entertainment. But that tends to be people I've known on a personal level, who have done something unpleasant to me, or to a friend. Seeing them get a mild karmic kick up the backside HAS made me feel a little better about things. But to crow over the idea that certain people wont be allowed to vote, or travel, or own property, or get an education, for example? You have got to be one sick puppy to think that's acceptable behaviour.
I wonder how much of it stems from "soshul meedja", with its opportunities for people to "anonymously" be as cruel and unpleasant as they want, seemingly without consequence. And as the old saying goes, hurt people hurt people.
The sad truth is though, that I suspect these people are aware of how pathetic they are, and there is shame there - but instead of using that shame as a way to seek improvement in their personal dealings, they lash out, trying to make their shame someone else's fault. These are the same sort of people who lie, and believe the lies told to them by other liars that they desperately want to emulate. The endless cycle of stupidity.
All things change, and I hope to live long enough to see the pendulum swing back from the current repugnant nonsense happening across our globe.
We are, whatever some people might want to suggest, one race, one species. And unless we start remembering that, we doom ourselves to extinction. Although I reckon that the Dodos would have got a good laugh out of that...