A disturbing trend has been happening in my office lately and its the other office workers (all women) telling me (man) that I’m selfish.
I’m extremely sorry to hear that.
You may be misinterpreting what they are saying. If your coworkers are inebriated, as is common in the American workplace to-day, or if their mouths are partially occupied by delectable confectionery or other foodstuffs, they may in fact be saying, “You’re so Shellfish!”
“You’re so Shellfish!” is a compliment that has been making its way around the younger speakers of the Athabaskan and Creole dialects. The meaning, as far as folk etymologists are able to discern is; “You are so tempting, although I know to indulge my desire for you would violate every religious tenet I hold dear. Also, you sometimes make me sick if I have too much of you.”
The proper response to this expression is, “At least I’m not fat.”
Tell them they are stupid whores.
That should shut them right up!
LOL,
I wrote a long edit as i hit submit too quickly but I wasn’t logged in and that didnt save…dammit.
My point is this:
The other workers (women) have labelled me selfish for a few things when they have it all backwards.
My philosophy in life is that we should all live it individualistically…meaning do our own thing and take care of our stuff and as long as it doesnt negatively affect anyone else, its fine. The problem is when altruism gets involved and incorrectly labels us egotists when its the altruism that creates the egotism in the first place.
A very basic case in point: I lived with a friend for awhile. We made the deal that we clean our OWN dishes. One day he was cleaning his and he decided to clean one of mine…fine. BUT, a few days later I was cleaning mine but left his bowl in the sink. He got slightly upset. Was that my fault…NO. He created the problem by being altruistic in the first place and that is what caused the conflict…stick to yourself and there will be so much less conflict.
The women at my office got upset today because I went to lunch and didn’t bring back anything for the receptionist because earlier in the day she mentioned she had forgotten her lunch. Did she ask me to get her something when I took off to get my own lunch…NO…It’s her problem, not mine…if she had asked, sure, no biggie, but she didnt and they got upset at ME for it…ridiculous.
They also tell me I’m selfish because Im 42 and have no kids…what the hell. It’s my CHOICE not to have kids…MINE and MINE only. I have never even been with a women who wanted kids (they’ve all had them) so there’s absolutley NO reason to label me something which I’m not…drives me nuts.
Its the altruistic people who label others as selfish when they are the ones creating the problem in the first place.!
Oh… my.
“I’m not selfish, it’s just that all these other people are so unselfish! Making me look bad! It’s all their fault!”
If you can’t have a philosophy in life without whining on the Internet about it, you need to get a new philosophy in life.
Nobody cares about your life, or your life’s philosophy, or that you’re 42 and have no kids, or certainly about your office politics. Your mom was wrong. You are not special. Your life is not interesting.
I’m not being sarcastic or flaming you. This is honesty.
Based on the posts I’ve read so far, there’s no way this guy is a “Good Shape”.
What’s with the odd bashing of people who post one or two personal bits in the Everything Else forum lately?
I mean granted, the guy does sound like a bit of a freak (hint: people who overthink things and draw wierd lines in the sand contrary to the rest of society because they’ve “thought it through” irritate everyone; take it from someone who does it). But it’s odd to attack him not because he’s a freak, but instead because he dared to start a thread about something personal that happened in his life.
By the way, my toe fungus has just reached stage three, for those who are keeping tabs.
QT3 should have the following subsections:
Games
Movies
Books, Comics, TV, Music
Politics and Religion
Hardware and Technical Stuff
Everything Else
Help Me Deny Being a Misogynist
Wow.
Actually, I’m a super nice, normal, computer game playing, sports loving, intelligent guy who thought posting a topic such as altruism vs. egoism would possibly bring up some intelligent discussion on a forum which, I thought, was full of some intelligent people…that’s it.
Again, I take these examples of things to the extreme to try and promote some discussion, not personal attacks…jeez.
Oh this problem is easy to solve.
Tell everyone, “I totally don’t ever pick up on hints. I mean, if you don’t go outright and say what I’m supposed to do, I’m gonna miss it. I want to do stuff for everybody, but honestly, and I don’t know why, it just doesn’t occur to me. Sometimes I’m thinking about work, sometimes if Unicorns would win in a fight against Batman, whatever. Long and short of it is, I grew up in a household where people just said things straight out, and so I don’t ask a lot of questions and I tend not to notice the finer points. If you thought you made it clear and I didn’t do it, trust me, the reason I didn’t do it wasn’t because I don’t like you or I don’t want to do things, I just honestly missed your point entirely. Come on, I’m a man, how good do you think my listening skills can be? Some people are born good looking, some are born not so good looking, some people are tall, some are short, some people are born sensitive…and then, well, there’s me.”
If they challenge you, say this. “You know how there are celebrities that are gay? Before we all knew they were gay, and we all thought they were straight, because whatever? And then one of them gets busted for carrying on with a police officer in a public bathroom? Take that feeling that everyone gets, which is totally like the end of the Sixth Sense, where the guy thinks…I’m sorry, have you seen the Sixth Sense? I’m not ruining a movie for you, am I? Ok! See, I’m working on it. Anyways, what was I saying, oh ok, so then the guy looks back and he thinks about all those super obvious signs that he’s dead, like the fact he got shot and died, and nobody talks to him, and he walks through walls and stuff. But it’s about George Michael, so everybody is like…ohhhh yeah! Now I see it, how could I have missed it!?! He’s always dancing with guys, he’s singing songs about love and saying “boy,” never had a girlfriend even though every woman in England thought he was the finest thing, you know, as opposed to your average Elton John type. Anyways, that feeling you get when someone points out that one little thing, and you feel really stupid because then you remember all those clues you totally ignored? Well I’m like that, all the time. So don’t feel bad, honestly because if you want something done, you gotta spell it out for me. Or… you know, <wave hand right over head> WHOOOSH!! So I don’t like feeling like a jerk, and you probably don’t like going without lunch, so, yeah mmmmm…you know…fly em in low.”<hand signal of plane landing>
Problem solved. Easier than changing, easier than forming an Ayn Rand cult. You’ll get stuck doing stuff for people that play the rules of your little game, and you have plausible deniability for everything else.
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No, you’re both right. Everybody’s selfish. We’d all be dead if we weren’t. Beyond that, what a stupid argument. Here’s you and about 700 million other people:
“I’m not selfish! You’re the one who’s selfish, because…because you never think about me and what I want! How selfish can you get!”
Wait, do go on. I love it when when somebody insists it’s all everybody else’s problem. De Nile, she flow strongly, and she don’t never flow backwards!
My philosophy in life is that we should all live it individualistically
My philosophy in life is that we should know what the Hell all the big words mean in our philosophicalistical mission statement, so we don’t come right out of the gate looking really, really dumb.
…meaning do our own thing and take care of our stuff and as long as it doesnt negatively affect anyone else, its fine. The problem is when altruism gets involved and incorrectly labels us egotists when its the altruism that creates the egotism in the first place.
And now for my jism in your schism to cure my priapism, if you’ll indulge me. But you won’t, out of altruism mistaken as egotism, and I’ll tell you truthfully, I was hoping up until now you had accidentally dropped an “r” there. Because, people mistaking your altruism for ergotism…well, that would fucking rule, is all I’m sayin’.
Wait, no it isn’t.
A very basic case in point: I lived with a friend for awhile. We made the deal that we clean our OWN dishes. One day he was cleaning his and he decided to clean one of mine…fine. BUT, a few days later I was cleaning mine but left his bowl in the sink. He got slightly upset. Was that my fault…NO. He created the problem by being altruistic in the first place and that is what caused the conflict…stick to yourself and there will be so much less conflict.
Like, what precisely the fuck is wrong with you? These are the events and decisions that weigh upon your burdensome brow? Your roomate droppin’ plates on your ass? Not to risk accusations of one-upsmanship, but do you wanna hear about my old roommates?
But you’re right, it is his fault. What the Hell was he thinking, moving in with a fruit like you? Man, don’t I long for the day you hear about all the careless, inconsiderate shit you pulled around that place when you lived there, that your roommate obliged you for anyway, because living in simpatico sure beats, I dunno, flipping out because you had to rinse out a fucking bowl. Ho man, there’s him - or her, or Mr. Ed, or whomever was gullible enough to live with an unmitigated Felix like you - transferring your wet clothes into (and out of) the dryer, buying more milk after you left naught but a damp film at the bottom of the carton, etc. etc. I’d’ve bonked you with that Mickey Mouse bowl until you were fuckin’ goofy for that. He wasn’t pressuring you to tweeze his perineum, Gunga Din. Just flush the excess Cheeze-Whiz out of his Mickey Mouse bowl, eff eff ess. See, there’s not this crazy Bizarro World in place that you’re perceiving, where you’re just going along to get along and people keep mucking with your groove, like you were so much Station Agent. There’s just people being more or less normal people, and you being a shortsighted, inconsiderate jagoff.
The women at my office got upset today because I went to lunch and didn’t bring back anything for the receptionist because earlier in the day she mentioned she had forgotten her lunch. Did she ask me to get her something when I took off to get my own lunch…NO…It’s her problem, not mine…if she had asked, sure, no biggie, but she didnt and they got upset at ME for it…ridiculous.
If you’re ever on fire, and I’m like the only person around, could you please tell me you’re that guy TheRock from Qt3? I mean, it’s expensive to keep refilling this gallon jug of model rocket fuel. I’d hate to miss out on using it for its intended purpose, that of immolating you with flair and extreme prejudice, simply by a case of poor recon on my part. Help me help (set) you (on fire), is that too much to ask?
They also tell me I’m selfish because Im 42 and have no kids…what the hell. It’s my CHOICE not to have kids…MINE and MINE only. I have never even been with a women who wanted kids (they’ve all had them) so there’s absolutley NO reason to label me something which I’m not…drives me nuts.
Its the altruistic people who label others as selfish when they are the ones creating the problem in the first place.!
“I’m not selfish! MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE!” Are you fucking serious?
Or it could be they are all on their period at the same time. You know how women get when they are in herds.
Come on, Bill, he’s got a legit beef with that one.
The women at my office got upset today because I went to lunch and didn’t bring back anything for the receptionist because earlier in the day she mentioned she had forgotten her lunch. Did she ask me to get her something when I took off to get my own lunch…NO…It’s her problem, not mine…if she had asked, sure, no biggie, but she didnt and they got upset at ME for it…ridiculous.
I think he right in this one as well. I mean jesus dude how the fuck are you supposed to know to talk to some lady because she forgot her lunch. If she wanted something she could have asked. Thats not being selfish at all.
“Can’t I have something thats just for me? Is that so selfish?”
"Actually… thats the definition of selfish.