How dare you eat you sky slave!

[BethB]

Okay... I've been reading this site for years and I still don't get it. What goes on in these people's minds? It's beyond me.

Apparently we're supposed to be robots...Like Stepford wives only we're Stepford wage slaves

[mikoyan29]

The other day I went to best buy and got a new stereo. OUr company shirts are roughly the same color as the Best Buy shirts (I should have known better...I knew I was going to Best Buy...) Anyways, I was wheeling my stereo out and this guy stops me and says, "I think that's mine". I look at him, "I don't work here"...."Oh..."

[XCashier]

Today I was sat eating a yummy bagel and drinking a coffee when the woman sat next to me glares at me and says "I don't think it's very professional for stewardesses to eat in public."

Not being in work I just shrugged. "Actually I've had a really busy day, I'm hungry and I'm a human being too. Oh and by the way, it's flight attendant, not stewardess. I also think you'll find I'm not in work so I can do what the hell I want."

Good for you for standing up for yourself!

The SCs need to be reminded that we are human too, and they couldn't function if they didn't eat for eight hours.

[hobbitt97]

taking space in my head

I have had to deal with idiots over the years. I used to let them upset me. I no longer do that. If someone is rude and nasty to me, they become a non-entity person. I will not give them the pleasure of being an asshole. I just turn them off. There are more nice people out there that deserve my time.

[bainsidhe]

If there was anyone I wished was forced to take a p/t job working retail...

[Geek King]

Okay... I've been reading this site for years and I still don't get it. What goes on in these people's minds? It's beyond me.

Its really quite simple when you think about it. It their own minds, people like this have fully convinced themselves that they really are the most important person in the world--or at least they are part of a class that really are better than everyone else-- and everything should revolve around their personal comfort. Once you consider what that world view would do to a person, you can see exactly why they react that way to something that clashes with their whim. I believe it is a rather facinating form of self-delusion given that their are so many indicators to the contrary of what they believe on a daily basis.

[Broomjockey]

people like this have fully convinced themselves that they really are the most important person in the world--

I think it's more the monkeysphere effect.

[Geek King]

I think it's more the monkeysphere effect.

Interesting article. Pretty much what I was thinking with the bit I but in about being a part of a group that thinks they are better.

See? I'm pretty good at PSB*.

*Pseudo-Scientific B*******

[Canarr]

You know, there might be something to that...

A quick story, not quite related to that "skyslave" thing, but to the monkeysphere:

My girlfriend sings in a choir. Every Christmas, they hold a Christmas concert, normally in one of the churches around her neighborhood. Last year, the concert was Saturday evening, so immediately afterwards, all decorations had to be removed in preparation for Sunday Mass. Unfortunately, that included a rather large assemble-yourself-stage, that consisted of many, many, single wooden blocks, that were combined to form the stage.

Now, some of those blocks were large, and heavy. So large, in fact, that the only way to get them out of the church was through the central aisle, between the rows of... pews? Those benches you sit on? Well, since that was immediately after the end of the concert, friends and family of the choir members (and whoever else had attended) were still there. Some inside, some outside. And some 15-20 milling about the central aisle, talking to people they knew, catching up, whatever. Unfortunately, they were massively in the way of our blocks-removal-mission, so we had to call out to them to please clear the aisle.

Seems simple, right? You get the hell out of the way so the people doing the heavy lifting can get that shit over with and also spend some time with their friends and family, right?

Well, they did move when told to. But, they also moved RIGHT BACK AGAIN once we'd passed them with our load. Sometimes right in front of the next couple of guys carrying the next block.

They saw us coming through there, again and again. I took four or five trips, and EACH AND EVERY TIME, I had to shoo people out of my way.

It's like they couldn't see further than just their immediate surroundings; the next step in a logical chain of thoughts, "Damn, they'll have to move through here several times to clear that out. Guess we'd better find another spot to chat." apparently never entered their thoughts. Or, their sphere.

[MadMike]

Not being in work I just shrugged. "Actually I've had a really busy day, I'm hungry and I'm a human being too. Oh and by the way, it's flight attendant, not stewardess. I also think you'll find I'm not in work so I can do what the hell I want."

At least you didn't do a "Bad Santa" and tell her "I'm on my FUCKING lunch break!!!"

If this wasn't enough she tried to get in the same lift as me to reach the exit. I'm afraid I was very immature and closed the door on her. She looked mega annoyed!

Oh I'm sure you didn't do it on purpose. If she would have complained, I'm sure you simply didn't see her.

[Misanthropical]

Apparently we all work where ever we happening to be standing at the time. Well, according to the general public, anyway.

My little guy says that when I'm mad I'm scarier than the Emperor in Star Wars (yes, he is a big Star Wars fan, why do you ask? ) I give the Stare of Death when people try to tell me something as stupid as I shouldn't be eating or drinking in public.

Yes, I have had people try to get me fired from places I have never once in my life worked for.

[MadMike]

My little guy says that when I'm mad I'm scarier than the Emperor in Star Wars

I've been told I'm pretty scary as well. I only recently found out that my eyes change color according to my moods, and when I'm angry they turn bright silver. What I did notice is that my voice dropps a few octaves, and it almost sounds like I'm growling when I speak.

Someone pissed me off at the bar a few weeks ago, and it freaked out my one friend who was sitting with me. Normally when I'm there, I'm hanging out with my friends, and I'm all smiles, friendly as anyone could be, and just having a good time. But my friend later told me that when I was in the mood I was in, she "wouldn't have fucked with me for a million dollars."