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Rainbowreflect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 12:41 PM
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Warning, Rant!
Can anyone please explain to me why people who are rude and mean and just plain assholes get what they want? While nice, kind, considerate, polite people get screwed? I hate it when my boss says we have to break all the rules and bend over for a client becasue they are a demanding, pain in the butt. But the clients who are nice and work with us have to wait and go through all the steps. It really pisses me off.
Thank you, I feel a little better.
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davhill Donating Member (854 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 12:43 PM
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1. Because the former type
is more likely to cause trouble.
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alexwcovington Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 12:44 PM
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2. There's the answer
Because the mean ones don't play fair, and people still cater to them.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 12:45 PM
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3. Because Bosses are like diapers!
Need I Say More?
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 12:46 PM
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4. Because an asshole is likely to say...
"Fuck it I'm going somewhere else"
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Rainbowreflect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 12:55 PM
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6. They can't go somewhere else.
They are stuck with us. I work for the gov.
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demnan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 12:47 PM
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5. Read Compensation by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong. "No man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him," said Burke. The exclusive in fashionable life does not see that he excludes himself from enjoyment, in the attempt to appropriate it. The exclusionist in religion does not see that he shuts the door of heaven on himself, in striving to shut out others. Treat men as pawns and ninepins, and you shall suffer as well as they. If you leave out their heart, you shall lose your own. The senses would make things of all persons; of women, of children, of the poor. The vulgar proverb, "I will get it from his purse or get it from his skin," is sound philosophy.

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished. They are punished by fear. Whilst I stand in simple relations to my fellow-man, I have no displeasure in meeting him. We meet as water meets water, or as two currents of air mix, with perfect diffusion and interpenetration of nature. But as soon as there is any departure from simplicity, and attempt at halfness, or good for me that is not good for him, my neighbour feels the wrong; he shrinks from me as far as I have shrunk from him; his eyes no longer seek mine; there is war between us; there is hate in him and fear in me. "

http://www.rwe.org/works/Essays-1st_Series_03_Compensation.htm
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