I've not posted things that piss me off in a while. Am I going mellow in my old age?
Anyway, this pisses me off. People who say shit like "when I win lotto, I'm going to tell my boss where he can stick his job!"
What
I'm hearing is "I'm a soft cock who licks the boss's boots and, even
though I hate my boss, my job and my life, I lack the balls to do
anything about it."
Seriously, unless you are working
in some third world sweat shop (and then you are not likely to be
reading my blog), you have the option to look for another job. In most
countries, you have the legal right to report your boss for
inappropriate behaviour.
I've been in a couple of
situations where I've told people I work for their behaviour is
unacceptable. In one case, it worked because the person involved
actually realised what she was doing was jerky. She actually apologised
and changed, and later thanked me for telling her. Okay, that's a
pretty rare thing in this world and I really respected that.
In
other situations, I think the people involved have been worried about
reprisals. Unless you work in a small business, your boss has their own
bosses to think of.
Instead of bitching, take
action. Unless you actually hate all work and feel entitled to get
money for just existing. If so, good luck with that. Even if you did
win lotto, you'd piss the lot against the wall and be crawling back to
your boss in record time anyway.
Absolutely. My other favourite is those lucky few who do actually win it then say "I won't let it change me."
ReplyDeleteThen why, pray, did you buy the fucking ticket in the first place? I can kind of understand it as a shorthand for "I'm not going to be a dick about this," but if I got ten million quid in the bank you can be damn sure I'd be making a few changes.
Yeah that is always strange. Obvs it is going to change your lifestyle at lease. I love the people too who say stuff like 'I'm going to pay off my mortgage'. You have 10 mill and all you want to do is pay off your mortgage?
DeleteI might not ever tell someone at work how much of a prat they are, I'm just not brave enough, also, a prat never recognises their prattyness so there's really no point. I just avoid them, and possibly look for a new job because democracy is good that way.
ReplyDeleteI would buy a house in cash if I won the lottery, so I guess it would change me, because I can't do that now. I would also keep working, at least for a while, because I don't do well with nothing to do, but then, I could just be a permanent student and gets loads of degrees in loads of cool stuff.
I have a friend who is brilliant on calling ppl on their bullshit. She can say it straight out in a non-offensive way so that people listen. It's a real talent. I can do it sometimes but it's hard when you feel emotional about something.
DeleteI don't do well with nothing to do either. Studying and travel would be tops though.
"Unless you actually hate all work and feel entitled to get money for just existing. If so, good luck with that. Even if you did win lotto, you'd piss the lot against the wall and be crawling back to your boss in record time anyway."
ReplyDeleteTHIS! This all the time even if they don't win the lotto. They wank about work and then rage quit. Then they have no job and complain about how they don't have work. So you are right even if they did win the lotto they would end up pissing the money away and back to bitching about having to work. *sigh* some people just need to go away.
The world doesn't owe you a living - it's so true.
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