Marsupialized wrote:This one lady insisted I wear these fucking booties over my shoes so I wouldn't track my obviously non-rich filth around her home.
man, have you heard of "projection"? it's a psychological term, i think. the booties aren't about whether you're rich or not. i've seen contractors on multiple projects, on multiple occasions, cause dirt such that cleaning bills were being payed for and items were being *added* to the punch list, which is obviously not what anybody involved wants. it's not based in class discrimination so much as it's based on fuckup avoidance. it's purely practical.
Marsupialized wrote:Another would not let me use the bathroom, I was there working for about 10 hours and he just couldn't live with the fact a non-rich person had pissed in his toilet I suppose.
So yeah, rich people have been annoying me as of late.
that's fucked up about the bathroom. talk to your supervisor and tell him you don't think that's realistic. and that if you can't take a leak there, you're going to have to take breaks and go drive somewhere like McDonald's or some such. to take your leaks. as humans must.
have you ever heard my story about one of the richest people i've ever met, a guy who *builds* those subdivisions for a living? one time when i was there as a freelance computer/audio consultant, as a personal side project from having done his home automation system through my employer, he made me stop working and come down to the kitchen with him and his wife and a couple of his kids, and watch a video of the Yardbirds, while he cooked burgers for his family and me. he told me next time i come back, i should be ready to jam out on Crossroads with him. he had several guitar cases in his basement, which i can only assume were amazing collector-caliber guitars. when i had finished my work that night, and his wife asked what they owed me, and i figured two hours at $75 an hour (which included the time i was watching the video and eating the burger) so i said $150. she wrote me a check for $200 for no good reason.
not saying they're common, just coming to the defense of "rich people" for the sake of those rare guys with millions of dollars worth of "stuff" who are actually badass. i would agree that most of them are jackasses. but i know of at least two of them who are really fucking cool people who share like motherfuckers.
OH YEAH! on topic then... i was thoroughly annoyed by a woman who works for a government agency i shan't discuss, that pays my employer large amounts of money for consulting-type stuff. in meetings yesterday and today-- each 8 hours long with a couple breaks to "hit the head" (or for me and one other guy out of like 30, to smoke) and one for lunch-- there were a handful of occasions where she decided she needed to dominate the meeting by arguing and talking nonsense about stuff she clearly didn't understand. maybe i couldn't stand it because she reminded me so much of me... but man did i wanna interrupt her and say "okay, stop talking now". i could feel it in the room, people just willing her to shut up. and when she finally would, at least half of the time, there was dead silence, on the part of everyone, long enough that it was clear that thread was done with. and then someone would start talking about something meaningful.
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LVP wrote:If, say, 10% of lions tried to kill gazelles, compared with 10% of savannah animals in general, I think that gazelle would be a lousy racist jerk.
