RE: "Some stuff came up"
March 8, 2013 at 11:09 am
(This post was last modified: March 8, 2013 at 11:35 am by Creed of Heresy.)
(March 8, 2013 at 10:11 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: But it really does seem like my generation is the worst group of parents and we have raised a hoard of spoiled little entitled sponges.
This is probably the reason for why I am so disconnected from the mainstream individuals of my generation. Trust fund babies. I came into the world at the tail end of that sort of thing but it is still prevalent enough to disgust me. "I don't have to work, mommy and daddy will take care of everything" mentalities. There's a difference between loving your child and assisting them, and just refusing to let prepare them for the world because you did everything for them and never let them experience anything. I had a friend who was very much a result of the latter. Me and her were friends for years but her "woe is me" attitude every time something minor and trivial came up started getting on my nerves in a hurry. I became friends with her now-ex-boyfriend, and when she eventually cheated on him [as she had cheated on her last two boyfriends] because she was so friggin' up her own ass with her own idea of what her worth really was, well, I sided with him. It didn't help matters that she was a wiccan, and very much up her own ass about it and alternative medicines and was just gullible as all fuck all around, convinced of herself through no force of experience but just because mommy and daddy had always told her she was right no matter what. She's not my friend anymore, and while she was the one who broke it off with me, I instigated it by mocking her on facebook openly after a while because I both wanted her gone from my life while also feeling a supreme level of contempt for her.
There's quite a few like that out there, and I've long learned that they're not worth dealing with. They're fucking useless in every sense of the word, contribute nothing, and ultimately do nothing.
(March 8, 2013 at 10:16 am)frankiej Wrote: I don't think it is really the fault of parents... I'd more likely blame the media and society as a whole.
That's like saying "blame video games/movies/television/the internet for making our kids violent." Which has long been proven to not be the case. Parents are the ultimate point of responsibility for the way a child turns out. This is non-negotiable, by simple parameters of the fact they accepted that burden silently by having a kid.
I should add in that personally I WOULD love to be able to call in sometimes and just be like "Yo...Mike...uh...I'm really stoned. I felt like getting stoned. Lemme get someone to cover for me-"
Oh. Wait. I can.
I actually did once already, but only because I'd given my manager like a week's notice. "I'm probably going to be smoking up a bit over the weekend cuz I seriously need to kill the stress I've been dealing with with all the shit going on the last couple, you know, YEARS, so...I miiight have to have someone cover for me. That fine? If not, I'll hold off."
Manager just grinned and said "As long as you have someone covering you, fine by me."
Pity this job doesn't pay more or it'd be perfect.
