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Post by winterwhispers on Mar 7, 2011 23:18:03 GMT -8
So, at work today, I was working with a co-worker that I work closely with every freight day. We always chit-chat as we're working. She started off telling me about how she was one of "those" customers at JoAnn's yesterday and in the end left with $80 worth of stuff for $38. She had bullied the sales associate, and then gave the cashier some lip as well. Then went on to proudly tell me she was a bully in school and was actually expelled for it. What bothered me was the sheer joy she had in just describing how she had completely destroyed two specific kids lives. She was PROUD of it!!!! I started to feel physically ill. I told her that I had been one of those kids that was bullied so bad I almost committed suicide. She LAUGHED! FUCKING LAUGHED!!!!!!! There's something terribly wrong with her. She kept going on about how good it felt to unleash on that guy yesterday too. Ugh!! My head is still spinning. I let one of my bosses know, and she sympathized with me and admitted that she herself had been bullied growing up. I told her I can't work with that person any longer and she was obviously completely understanding. Gawd... I'm still twitching over it.
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Post by Nico on Mar 7, 2011 23:31:07 GMT -8
A person like that was most likely horribly abused as a child by someone they should have been able to trust. I'm not excusing their behavior at all, just saying that you're absolutely right - there is definitely something quite wrong with them. If they had to spend any length of time alone with their own demons, they'd be crushed to a fucking pulp.
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Post by winterwhispers on Mar 8, 2011 10:08:59 GMT -8
She had said that when she was on her tirade at the store that her dad had been waiting in the car and went to come in to see what was taking them so long (she was shopping with her disabled mother) he could hear her going off on someone when he walked through the door, so he turned around and went right back out to the car. Because she was doing it again. Apparently she used to go off on people in stores frequently. I have a feeling that she wasn't abused in the traditional sense, but rather her parents lack of disapproval and making consequences for her actions that has helped her to become the adult she is.
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Post by Nico on Mar 8, 2011 10:49:18 GMT -8
Interesting. I actually know this guy whose older sister absolutely wasn't abused by her parents and from the time that he was an infant she was allowed to abuse the hell out of him because they put no limitations on her. Apparently, some people are just fucking evil and if you don't teach them how to behave they never learn.
Fortunately, her abuse didn't turn him into a bully.
ETA: Of course, "abuse" can sometimes be that your parents were alcoholics or drug addicts or neglected you, so I suppose it's not really fair that I said they didn't abuse her. Because her parents were definitely alcoholics.
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