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  • Are you REALLY that heartless?! (a tiny bit of language.)

    And...out comes the inner-geek in me.

    I'm sorry if this isn't the right place to post this, but this person just literally made my jaw drop a few minutes ago.

    Back-story:

    Okay, I play the MMORPG World of Warcraft. (Yes, I'm a geek!). I have a program called Vent (Ventrilo). For people who don't know what that is, it's a program that lets you chat verbally via the internet with a microphone/headset. You can have multiple channels on it so people don't have to talk over each other all the time.

    Anyways. I was playing WoW with Vent, I was in a group in a dungeon. This person comes into our channel while we were trying to discuss strategies, and launches into the following story.

    H: Unbelievable scum POS, sorry excuse for a human being.
    Me: Obvious :P

    H: Hey guys. I need your opinion on something.

    Me: On what?

    H: Well, not opinion, but I want you to tell me how tactful I was earlier today. I have a story, and I think you guys will think it's amusing.

    Me: *Slightly peeved, as it was obvious we were busy.* ...uh....okay?

    H: I went to K-mart, and right when I hit the electronics department, there was this older man on the floor, having a heart attack or something. The paramedics were there, pumping on his chest, trying to revive him. I think he was dead. The manager was standing next to them, all panicking. I went up and needed to know where the headphones were. He just looked at me funny, and I said, 'I'm the customer, you're supposed to help me, now where are the headphones?'

    Me: *Interrupting his oh-so-funny story.* Wait a minute..what?! You saw a guy possibly dying, and you just demanded that the manager help you, when he's obvious having more important things to deal with? Like a GUY DYING?!

    H: The guy was dead, so he wouldn't be a paying customer anymore. The paramedics were there, so it wasn't the manager's responsibility anymore. I was alive and was a paying customer. *Laughs* He should have been helping me!


    I think my expression went like this upon hearing his story....
    ..... .....

    Me: Get. The. Hell. Out. Of. My. Channel. Now. You speak to me again, I will ban you from vent. Do not open your mouth again, just leave my fucking channel NOW.

    I stunned the other people in the channel into silence.

    I just couldn't handle....how heartless that guy was. That was the toned down version, some of what he said was blurred out of my mind because I was so pissed off. But he was laughing and going on about how that manager shouldn't have been panicking, and how bad he was because he wasn't helping "A paying customer."
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  • #2
    Hello fellow WoW player.

    Yeah, your friend needs his ass seriously kicked. If I saw someone on the floor DYING in a store I think I'd be too traumatized/upset to even continue my shopping. A human life is more valuable than headphones! But try telling that to some SC! "How DARE he be dying when I need to be SERVED!!! I'm the CUSTOMER!!!"
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    • #3
      I'm an EQ2 guy myself but man the suck is strong in that one. What the hell ever happened to common decency and concern for your fellow man? I swear my faith in humanity dies a little more every day.

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      Mr. T: SHUT UP FOOL!
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      • #4
        I guess his headphones were more important than some guy's life. What an idiot.
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        • #5
          That makes me mad just reading about it! Even if it wasn't a life and death emergency, if I saw paramedics and the manager dealing with them, I sure as hell wouldn't interrupt to ask where something was. Assuming the situation was under control and there was nothing I could do to help, I'd stay out of their way and find another employee to help me.
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          • #6
            As somebody who watched a guy writhing on the floor in pharmacy due to a brain hemmorhage which eventually killed him, and later found out an SC was demanding he be rolled off to the side so she could pick up her prescription, that really angers me.

            How can people be so cruel to their fellow man?
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            • #7
              That guy is sad and pathetic. However, as disturbing his behavior was, I can't say that I'm actually surprised. Mans inhumanity to man and all that....
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              • #8
                Quoth Irving Patrick Freleigh View Post
                As somebody who watched a guy writhing on the floor in pharmacy due to a brain hemmorhage which eventually killed him, and later found out an SC was demanding he be rolled off to the side so she could pick up her prescription, that really angers me.

                How can people be so cruel to their fellow man?

                I've heard numerous tales from pharmacys where people have been receiving *urgent* treatment, be it after MI, stroke GANGREEN, seizures etc and people still want them dragged away so they can get their precious little bits (normally asprin* or other suitibly dull drug)

                *analgesics, if over a certain quantity, can only be sold at a pharmacy counter.
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                • #9
                  Are you sure he wasn't just trolling for reactions?

                  I'm not doubting someone would do it, but the wording and the way he bragged about it seem a little contrived to get a shock reaction.
                  Too tired of living and too tired to end it. What a conundrum.

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                  • #10
                    We can only hope he was just telling stories, Ree. The way it's worded, he did sound a little too over smug, didn't he?
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                    • #11
                      I really hope so. But even if he was, that is a horrible, horrible thing to joke about.
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                      • #12
                        Quoth Irving Patrick Freleigh View Post
                        How can people be so cruel to their fellow man?
                        But they're in a hurry and more important!
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                        • #13
                          That's just heartless and cold. People like that dude on vent piss me off and disgust me!
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                          • #14
                            Quoth Ree View Post
                            Are you sure he wasn't just trolling for reactions?

                            I'm not doubting someone would do it, but the wording and the way he bragged about it seem a little contrived to get a shock reaction.
                            Sounds like /b/ to me. Or possibly the opening to a Fresh Prince (where you troll someone over voice or IRC or somesuch, really get them going, and then start quoting the Fresh Prince theme).

                            Way too smug to be real. But I'm really sorry you had to hear that. I would have had the same reaction even knowing he was probably voice-trolling.
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