I just came home from work and I'm pissed. It should be below me to feel this way, but I can't help it, so here I am to rant.
I do a lot of reading. I don't remember everything, but when something peaks my interest, it gets locked in my brain forever.
I don't carry a smartphone, so its pretty easy for people to challenge my memory, because I'm not usually in a position to provide citations upon request.
Today, however, I was.
I do a little part-time contract work for a non-profit organization and I was just finishing up a shift a short while ago when my coworkers I were discussing the organization's multimillion dollar funding deficit, due to some investments that went belly up in the last couple years.
There have been a lot of cutbacks as a result and as it came up in our conversation, I commented that the organization's cafeteria and internal catering service (which is technically a private company, but is owned by the organization itself) had 3% of its funding cut.
Two of the three guys I was talking to immediately and aggressively started calling me a liar.
"No, that's impossible. You're wrong."
I assured them that I was correct, I'd read it in the official company newsletter, just one day prior.
The third member of the conversation happened to have a copy of the newsletter on his desk and passed it to me.
I found the relevant quotation and read it to me.
Silence. Shoulders shrugging. No response.
This really pisses me off, because I pride myself in what I do know, which on most issues is nothing, but on some issues is quite a lot. Yet people challenge me and get in my face because they don't like the facts that I am sharing.
The deny them just because they can.
I know I'm right, but I can't prove it to them. And even when I can, they'll just be pissed at me for being right.
These guys got very aggressive with me before I shut them down by reading the newsletter. If the newsletter copy hadn't been on hand, they would have smugly continued to live ignorantly.
They'll pull this stupidity again and again for the rest of their lives.
I have a personality that helps me weed out the people that I don't believe are worth even acknowledging the existence of. A friend warned me the other day that I might miss out on knowing some good people if I keep doing what I do, but I disagree.
Most people are narcissistic assholes and I quickly figure out who is full of **** and who is actually a nice, genuine person.
In my experience, there are an exceptional few who aren't assholes when they can get away with it. I'm happy with the few people that I consider worth my time. The rest are dead to me and I'd consider it just if they met a traumatizing death.
Can anyone here relate with these feelings?
I do a lot of reading. I don't remember everything, but when something peaks my interest, it gets locked in my brain forever.
I don't carry a smartphone, so its pretty easy for people to challenge my memory, because I'm not usually in a position to provide citations upon request.
Today, however, I was.
I do a little part-time contract work for a non-profit organization and I was just finishing up a shift a short while ago when my coworkers I were discussing the organization's multimillion dollar funding deficit, due to some investments that went belly up in the last couple years.
There have been a lot of cutbacks as a result and as it came up in our conversation, I commented that the organization's cafeteria and internal catering service (which is technically a private company, but is owned by the organization itself) had 3% of its funding cut.
Two of the three guys I was talking to immediately and aggressively started calling me a liar.
"No, that's impossible. You're wrong."
I assured them that I was correct, I'd read it in the official company newsletter, just one day prior.
The third member of the conversation happened to have a copy of the newsletter on his desk and passed it to me.
I found the relevant quotation and read it to me.
Silence. Shoulders shrugging. No response.
This really pisses me off, because I pride myself in what I do know, which on most issues is nothing, but on some issues is quite a lot. Yet people challenge me and get in my face because they don't like the facts that I am sharing.
The deny them just because they can.
I know I'm right, but I can't prove it to them. And even when I can, they'll just be pissed at me for being right.
These guys got very aggressive with me before I shut them down by reading the newsletter. If the newsletter copy hadn't been on hand, they would have smugly continued to live ignorantly.
They'll pull this stupidity again and again for the rest of their lives.
I have a personality that helps me weed out the people that I don't believe are worth even acknowledging the existence of. A friend warned me the other day that I might miss out on knowing some good people if I keep doing what I do, but I disagree.
Most people are narcissistic assholes and I quickly figure out who is full of **** and who is actually a nice, genuine person.
In my experience, there are an exceptional few who aren't assholes when they can get away with it. I'm happy with the few people that I consider worth my time. The rest are dead to me and I'd consider it just if they met a traumatizing death.
Can anyone here relate with these feelings?
I'm the King of Beijing!