I just found out I'm a noob!
By
Aisynia,
Posted on: 2010-05-08 08:15 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Quote:
|
Fire Lilly has seen both ends: Orly?! In my area, it's pretty much like sticking your hand in a bucket of skittles to find the right color. Here's what I mean: In a specific area where I work, the teens are generally well behaved. Especially compared to other areas I've been in. While some might feel entitled, most of the kids are pretty self policed. Now on the other hand, things get way more fun when you get one of those cases of self entitled, cynicle old folk. Just the other day I was waiting in line at a Sprint Customer Service and Repair Center. Some scary looking older woman walked in, wasn't even in the line for three minutes when she barged over to the back of the room and started giving the employees crap about how they weren't doing their job! They just laughed it off (When she wasn't looking). The employees may have been short staffed, but they were doing their job and working hard with the tasks they were given. |
Oh, sure, in no way is it restricted to the teens. And, yup, sounds like you work with a bunch of people like me, that don't take that stuff. But there's enough out there who will that keeps them trying, even when it doesn't work.
Heck, just tonight at a gas station/convenience store I stop at on the way to work, some guy three deep in line waved a can of pop at the clerk and literally threw a dollar at him. The clerk said "Hey, I have to scan that, you know, please just wait your turn." But I'm sure the motarded customer had had enough people just take the dollar that he figured he could get away with it.
Dec out.
Quote:
That made me smile. | Fire Lilly has seen both ends: |
Quote:
Ahem. That's 1337|
Originally Posted by MaestroMavius
a ill-concieved notion of being 733t.
|
Thanks
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by eltonio
This is over the top mental slavery.
|
Quote:
A sense of entitlement spans generations for some people|
Originally Posted by Fire Lilly
Now on the other hand, things get way more fun when you get one of those cases of self entitled, cynicle old folk. Just the other day I was waiting in line at a Sprint Customer Service and Repair Center. Some scary looking older woman walked in, wasn't even in the line for three minutes when she barged over to the back of the room and started giving the employees crap about how they weren't doing their job! They just laughed it off (When she wasn't looking).
|
(former retail veteran here).
Its a personality trait moreso than a generational thing. That said, I think it's safe to say that there's alot of belligerently stupid kids on the internet who comprise a very vocal majority of the belligerently stupid demographic.
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by eltonio
This is over the top mental slavery.
|
And one must also remember Bill Cosby's theory that being a teen-ager makes you brain-damaged. 
It's the hormones in the hamburgers, I tell ya! But some grow out of it.
Dec out.
Quote:
Well, I'm not sure about that. I haven't worked retail, but going off the Internet, a lot of the most self-entitled jerks aren't actually kids. I used to think they were, up until a forum thread comes about where we share our age, and some of the most belligerent people end up being 40 or 50 or so.|
Originally Posted by Smurch
A sense of entitlement spans generations for some people
(former retail veteran here). Its a personality trait moreso than a generational thing. That said, I think it's safe to say that there's alot of belligerently stupid kids on the internet who comprise a very vocal majority of the belligerently stupid demographic. |
It has been my experience that adults of all ages are very easily capable of acting more juvenile than the actual juveniles, and not in separate occasions, mind you. I used to travel by bus a lot before, and by FAR the most "scenes" were being made by senior citizens who felt they shouldn't HAVE to show their free travel cards because they're so obviously senior and bothered with the process and felt that you HAD to get out of your seat and offer it to them even if you hadn't seen them and there's an empty seat right behind yours. I guess it's more satisfying when you take it from someone else.
But again - it's not an age thing, it's a personality disposition thing. The archetypal grumpy old man isn't grumpy because he's old, he's grumpy because that's just how he is. I'm barely 24 and I'm already grumpy enough to be 60. The kind of arrogant self-entitlement is just how some people are, I guess, but I keep wondering how so many retain that kind of attitude for so long.
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
|
[QUOTE
But again - it's not an age thing, it's a personality disposition thing. The archetypal grumpy old man isn't grumpy because he's old, he's grumpy because that's just how he is. I'm barely 24 and I'm already grumpy enough to be 60. The kind of arrogant self-entitlement is just how some people are, I guess, but I keep wondering how so many retain that kind of attitude for so long.[/QUOTE]
So true i used to be a right tosser till i became a dad , suddenly the fact that i haven't got a team for a week does not seem important compared to the fact that some one is depending on me for everything 
.
Another quote from a paper comes to mind..
"Everyone wants rights but no one wants responsibilities "
Quote:
Theory: Too many people tolerate them, rather than effectively tell them off. Over time, having most people tolerate thier behavior just reinforces the fact that they can get away with it most of the time. If "not getting thier way" occasions happen rarely, then thier response to those occasions will escalate.|
Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
The kind of arrogant self-entitlement is just how some people are, I guess, but I keep wondering how so many retain that kind of attitude for so long.
|
Year 2: Not getting thier way, they yell, then stomp out of the way.
Year 8: Not getting thier way, they yell, make threats of violence, knock stuff over on thier way out.
Year 12: Not getting thier way, they hit someone and are honestly surprised if there are repurcussions.
Self-Entitlement grows upon itself if fed.
But that's just a theory.
Quote:
Also:|
Originally Posted by Cyberknight
"Everyone wants rights but no one wants responsibilities "
|
Everyone wants respect, but no one wants to act respectfully?
or
Everyone wants respect, but few are willing to earn it?
*shrug*
Quote:
This right here is the thing.|
Originally Posted by BBQ_Pork
Also:
Everyone wants respect, but no one wants to act respectfully? or Everyone wants respect, but few are willing to earn it? *shrug* |
A lot of parents are unknowingly turning their kids into little monsters because they tell them: 'Don't take crap from anybody. You can do anything you want. No one has the right to tell you what to do...' etc.
They tell them by having the wrong attitudes in the first place. They can't pass on respect and responsibility because they have none of their own. They don't have to teach them with words, they teach them just fine by their own actions(or lack thereof).
Also, as to Cyberknight's statement about becoming a father making you a better person. I have to say that I disagree. People are who they are. I know more fathers than I can count who remain the same a-holes they were after having 2, 3 or even 4 kids. If becoming a parent automatically made you a better person, then the world would be a total utopia. I think that becoming a parent just means that either you pass your crap onto your kids, you try to hide it(and usually fail and show it anyway), or your kids benefit from having a parent who was actually ready to become a parent(sometimes this comes a total shock to the parent in question).
[Tell] -->Guy?: No, thank you.
[Tell] Guy?: would u like some mega xp?
[Tell] -->Guy?: "but that's less than "super-secret decent player, not a scrub PL'g boot-stain XP" so no thanks."
or something there abouts... Mega-XP lol, sounds like something from a transformers MMO :P
In-game and now on Twitter @Tsumiju Zero "The Nightmare of Dra'Gon"
"The flow of battle can only be influenced, not by realtime tactics, but by strategy."
Proud resident of the Union EU Server.
B.A.F. Trial Guide