I don't understand people who drive company vehicles with the company's name plastered on the side and a sticker on the back that says "How am I driving? Call 1 800-Ima-Jerk to report bad driving" along with an identifying number and they drive like completely assholes.
Do they really expect that cutting people off and driving big pick up trucks like sports cars isn't going to result in people dropping a dime on them? Or do they just not give a damn about getting yapped at for being assholes on the road?
In today's economy with record layoffs all over the place and a market flooded with qualified and eager workers, wouldn't it make sense to do everything in your power to keep your job? I.e. don't behave like a douchebag on the road?
My guess is that they don't think they are driving like jerks or they don't think people will call them on it. But if you cut me off and I've got some way to bring a little smackdown on you for doing it, you can rest assured that I'll be dialing your company up in a heartbeat.
Why can't people drive with some manners?
Showing posts with label jerks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jerks. Show all posts
2.12.2009
12.15.2008
The Bottom Ten
Taking a cue from a list on the Guardian web site detailing their top twelve douchebags of the year, a third of whom I've never heard of, I thought I'd run down my bottom ten list of jerkoffs, wankers and wastes of space.10. Bill O'Reilly - so self important that facts and truth cannot penetrate his veil of ignorant hate.
9. Fred Joyal - the 1800-Dentist guy. He just annoys the holy fuck out of me.
8. Rush Limbaugh - smarmy, divisive and completely divorced from honest discussion.
7. Madonna - she's a mean-spirited old cougar who divorced her husband to get together with A-Tool (Alex Rodriguez).
6. Alex Rodriguez - had to be guilted into spending Thanksgiving with his children. You sir, are a douchebag.
5. The Mormon Church - dropping millions of dollars to legislate intolerance, marriage intolerance with your own polygamist history. I hope the backlash teaches a painful lesson about what the separation of church and state is supposed to be about. That and what a boon having a non-profit status is. Jerks.
4. Tom Cruise - attempting to spin your jackassery into a PR positive is a smart move but I'm not buying it and I remain firmly of the mind that you are a complete prick. A wee little one at that.
3. Arnold Schwarzenegger - leaders lead, idiots quote their movie lines because that have nothing of real substance to say. You sir, are an idiot. And a truly shitty governor.
2. John McCain - never before have I seen a man so totally sell out everything he purports to stand for to try and weasel his way into the Oval Office. From selecting Sarah Palin to his campaign of lies, smears and detraction, he sold every last shred of respect and still failed miserably.
1. George W. Bush - a lame duck acting like a limp dick. Good riddance to a dismal failure. Obama Day cannot come soon enough to remove this jackass from power.
That should do it for now. Got a list of the bottom ten you want to share? Post it in the comments or post a link to your blog.
6.25.2008
Jerky People
You know what pisses me off? People who are jerks for no reason. Like the asshole who shot a father and two of his sons to death this week in San Francisco. Why? The guy was actually being polite and letting you merge into traffic so you shoot him and two of his kids to death? I hope you get caught and thrown in prison for good.
But it doesn't have to be anywhere near as extreme as triple homicide.
It can just be someone opting to not help you out. It can be a co-worker using a bureaucratic loophole to not be helpful. Like the guy at one of my schools who refused to let me into the office so I could get started working because I didn't have a pass which had to be issued by the workers in the office who weren't there or I wouldn't need to be let in.
Instead of just letting me in and moving on with his life, he got to exercise whatever shred of power he had and deny me entrance. Because he's a lazy jerkoff who does the absolute minimum amount of work possible to get his paycheck. This I know because I've discussed him in the past with some of the teachers. But, because of the academic bureaucracy, he is safe from getting fired without massive and annoying hoops to jump through. The school is diminished just that little bit more because it cannot slough off loser workers who couldn't care less about the school or how well they do their job. And his attitude discourages people who are on the fence about staying because I can't think of anyone who would like to work with a jerk.
I've worked for jerks before, I've worked with jerks before and I've managed jerks before. The reason most of them are jerks is because they think the world is out to get them. And it is, because they're jerks. They expect the world to break the cycle so they can stop being jerks but the world doesn't work that way and they are too hidebound by their attitude to approach their universe from any other perspective save the disgruntled one. They are caught in their own vicious cycle of jerkdom. Nobody likes being around a jerk, not even themselves.
If you're a jerk and you're reading this, stop. Stop being a jerk. Heck, make a concerted effort to stop being a jerk for a week or two weeks and see how much nicer the world is. You create your own reality and the reality you create is you being a jerk then quit complaining about it and change your reality to better suit your desires. Unless you like being a jerk and then maybe you should just go juggle cannonballs at the bottom of a lake.
But it doesn't have to be anywhere near as extreme as triple homicide.
It can just be someone opting to not help you out. It can be a co-worker using a bureaucratic loophole to not be helpful. Like the guy at one of my schools who refused to let me into the office so I could get started working because I didn't have a pass which had to be issued by the workers in the office who weren't there or I wouldn't need to be let in.
Instead of just letting me in and moving on with his life, he got to exercise whatever shred of power he had and deny me entrance. Because he's a lazy jerkoff who does the absolute minimum amount of work possible to get his paycheck. This I know because I've discussed him in the past with some of the teachers. But, because of the academic bureaucracy, he is safe from getting fired without massive and annoying hoops to jump through. The school is diminished just that little bit more because it cannot slough off loser workers who couldn't care less about the school or how well they do their job. And his attitude discourages people who are on the fence about staying because I can't think of anyone who would like to work with a jerk.
I've worked for jerks before, I've worked with jerks before and I've managed jerks before. The reason most of them are jerks is because they think the world is out to get them. And it is, because they're jerks. They expect the world to break the cycle so they can stop being jerks but the world doesn't work that way and they are too hidebound by their attitude to approach their universe from any other perspective save the disgruntled one. They are caught in their own vicious cycle of jerkdom. Nobody likes being around a jerk, not even themselves.
If you're a jerk and you're reading this, stop. Stop being a jerk. Heck, make a concerted effort to stop being a jerk for a week or two weeks and see how much nicer the world is. You create your own reality and the reality you create is you being a jerk then quit complaining about it and change your reality to better suit your desires. Unless you like being a jerk and then maybe you should just go juggle cannonballs at the bottom of a lake.
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