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chump primitive being a Scrooge
« on: December 03, 2009, 01:07:09 PM »
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Oh my.

Full of cheer and goodwill, the chump primitive:

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chemp  (453 posts)      Thu Dec-03-09 10:57 AM
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I just snapped at an employee

I work on a college campus. I literally run around all day moving from one area to another.

In the Student Union, elementary school students set up once a year, just before the holidays to sell crap they made. I'm not sure where the money goes.

I have to run through that area 15-20 times an afternoon, and they swarm like mosquitoes EVERY TIME.

I was grumbling about it and one of my employees called me a scrooge, and I snapped.

I pulled her aside, and told her:

I don't worship your god.
I don't celebrate his birthday.
I find being called "Scrooge" very insulting.

She looked at me like I was crazy.

Well, most might agree the chump primitive is crazy.

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AngryAmish  (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-03-09 10:58 AM
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1. You should learn to take it easy, Scrooge.

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cdsilv (717 posts)      Thu Dec-03-09 11:01 AM
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8. reply to her - Bah! Humbug! and move on....

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DavidDvorkin  (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-03-09 10:59 AM
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2. Good for you

Christians need to hear this much more often.

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Prisoner_Number_Six  (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-03-09 01:05 PM
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81. We Christians DO hear it all the time.

It doesn't bother us even a little bit.

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DavidDvorkin  (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-03-09 01:13 PM
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88. It's a matter of educating Christians not of bothering them. At least, that's what I meant.

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didact (76 posts)      Thu Dec-03-09 01:18 PM
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94. Ego much?

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FBaggins (522 posts)      Thu Dec-03-09 01:25 PM
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99. There's no evidence of any christians to educate here

Christmas is weeks away and the "holiday season" holds important days for people of many faiths (or none at all). Dickens' characters are a part of our societal underpinnings whether or not you are a christian.

All we know is that some kids, obviously with the college's (the OP's employer) approval, used a time of holiday cheer (obviously lacking in the OP) for a little fund-raising. Might as well be a scene right our of A Christmas Carol, and our OP filled the star role perfectly.

There's most definitely an education needed here... but there's no evidence that anyone in need of that education had ever heard of Jesus Christ.

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Fire_Medic_Dave  (1000+ posts)      Thu Dec-03-09 01:37 PM
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110. Educate them about what?

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Fire_Medic_Dave  (1000+ posts)      Thu Dec-03-09 01:36 PM
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109. He's the one that turned the conversation to religion.

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boston bean (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-03-09 11:00 AM
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Scrooge!

I hear ya, but their kids, who have a right to their beliefs too.

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chemp  (453 posts)      Thu Dec-03-09 11:04 AM
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16. It wasn't the kids I was complaining to

just expressing my inability to go about my job.

You literally have to push your way through them.

What is the chump primitive's job anyway?  A campus mail courier, maybe?

The chump primitive doesn't get much sympathy at this enormous bonfire.

And then the chump primitive answers franksolich's question.

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phantom power  (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-03-09 11:01 AM
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9. Well... were the kids selling their holiday stuff or were they evangelizing?

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chemp  (453 posts)      Thu Dec-03-09 11:08 AM
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22. "selling" hardly defines it.

I've been to calmer street markets in Egypt or Greece.

Swarms. Shouting and waving their items at you. I'm carrying money for a retail register, or swapping draws for a new cashier.

They are an obstruction at best.

Oh.  The chump primitive's job is running cash-register drawers in between the accounting office and the cash registers in the campus bookstore.

The chump primitive gets NO sympathy, no sympathy at all:

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cbdo2007 (1000+ posts)      Thu Dec-03-09 11:01 AM
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10. Maybe you should find a job where you only have to deal with people with the same beliefs as you.

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timtom  (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-03-09 11:11 AM
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24. LOL!

I quit reading right here. Hilarious.

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chemp  (453 posts)      Thu Dec-03-09 11:14 AM
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27. Oh! It's me?

32 weeks out of the year, my employees complain about the college students setting up in that area.

the students play music, and have food drives, petitions or membership drives.

they let you pass as you go about your job. They ask once. They remember you from the last 40 times you traveled through.

they are polite. I'm sure most of them are christian. I don't hate christians. My wife is a christian. I hate bigots.

I grumble about the kids and I am hurled an insulting name.

And you turn this on me? On my beliefs?

I am not the intolerant one.

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Go2Peace (748 posts)     Thu Dec-03-09 11:19 AM
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34. Yes, you sound stressed and you sounded a little like a bully boss

it is hard to say for sure, but from your description. Even your description of "my employees" sounds a little over authoritarian. I suspect you take yourself a little too seriously and may take it out on your employees a bit.

Yeah, franksolich always has a problem with this "my" employee or "my" secretary bit, as compared with "the employee" or "Miss Brown," for example; it smacks of the old Democrat slave-owning mentality.

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dhpgetsit (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-03-09 11:22 AM
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39. Yes, it's you.

In your own words, you snapped. If you can't handle the stress, maybe you're in the wrong job.

The chump primitive gets NO solace, none at all.

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FACTSfirst (8 posts)      Thu Dec-03-09 11:52 AM
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55. Wow...with problems like yours it kinda makes all the world's other problems seem small...

do you feel like a bad ass now?snapping at an employee over some trivial crap like that and then rushing here to brag about it?

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Zywiec (1000+ posts)      Thu Dec-03-09 11:26 AM
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42. Sounds like you're a joy to be around

Do you still beat your wife and kids?

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Little Star (1000+ posts)      Thu Dec-03-09 11:30 AM
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48. and is so busy because of those little ****ers, also has time to post on DU....

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tammywammy  (1000+ posts)      Thu Dec-03-09 12:13 PM
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65. You're just a shitty manager

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Zywiec (1000+ posts)      Thu Dec-03-09 01:20 PM
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96. People regularly brag here about screaming at someone as if it's a badge of courage. I think all of them are kooks.

It's a funny bonfire, and I strongly suggest one read the whole thing in its entirety on Skins's island; there's lots of jewels of comments, and I'm sure I missed many of them.
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Re: chump primitive being a Scrooge
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2009, 02:12:30 PM »
Mole alert. :popcorn:
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Re: chump primitive being a Scrooge
« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2009, 02:51:37 PM »
Who's the mole?  I don't see it.  But I'm not an expert on these things. 

What an entertaining thread, Frank.  Thanks for finding it! 
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Re: chump primitive being a Scrooge
« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2009, 03:06:21 PM »
Quote from: Karin on December 03, 2009, 02:51:37 PM
Who's the mole?  I don't see it.  But I'm not an expert on these things. 

What an entertaining thread, Frank.  Thanks for finding it! 

OP at the DUmp.
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Re: chump primitive being a Scrooge
« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2009, 08:40:46 PM »
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In your own words, you snapped. If you can't handle the stress, maybe you're in the wrong job.

And we all know how stressful carrying small boxes all day can be.  :rotf: :lmao:
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Re: chump primitive being a Scrooge
« Reply #5 on: December 03, 2009, 09:00:34 PM »
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Yeah, franksolich always has a problem with this "my" employee or "my" secretary bit, as compared with "the employee" or "Miss Brown," for example; it smacks of the old Democrat slave-owning mentality.

I don't think it relates to democrat slaveholders. I think it has to do with DUmmy mentality. To DUmmies, the thought of having employees, of having subordinates, is a fantastic dream. A DUmmy's entire career, and his life outside his career, is spent as a clear subordinate to nearly everyone he meets. Having employees, bossing people around is a privilege reserved for those hated rich people, nearly always Republicans, and the envy and hatred is what forms a DUmmy personality. This DUmmy, who is apparently a part-time assistant to the adminstrative assistant, works ferrying bags of change back and forth to the campus bookstore. Speaking of "my employees" in an imaginary tale at the DUmp makes him feel monumentally important. He's one of those peabrains who chant "I am somebody" with Jesse Jackson.
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Re: chump primitive being a Scrooge
« Reply #6 on: December 03, 2009, 09:42:37 PM »
So the chump primitive doesn't like the Christmas season because it reminds him of religion and happy children fundraising with items they made with their own hands make him grumpy.  Looks like we have another poster child for the Dem party on our hands.

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Re: chump primitive being a Scrooge
« Reply #7 on: December 04, 2009, 12:53:40 AM »
What a complete dipshit! Too bad one of the Dads wasn't there to give him an attitude adjustment.
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Re: chump primitive being a Scrooge
« Reply #8 on: December 04, 2009, 02:44:58 AM »
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to sell crap they made

I thought DUmmies loved the arts.  :evillaugh:
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Re: chump primitive being a Scrooge
« Reply #9 on: December 04, 2009, 08:31:37 AM »
Maybe we should change calling Chemp "Chump" to Chimp?  Seeing as we already have a Chump here. 

You think?
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Re: chump primitive being a Scrooge
« Reply #10 on: December 04, 2009, 10:57:19 AM »
The OP needs a crotch punch.
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