primitive gets fired from hotel front desk clerk job in Maine

[Chris_]

Where did the PTSD originate from?  Most DUmmies blame parental or sibling relationships for their problems, but this DUmmie still lives with both and apparently gets along with them.

He claims he was molested by a neighbor.

I didn't want to dig further than that.

[kraven]

I don't get this PTSD, as in "I'm so incapacitated I can't hold a job and I'm not responsible to my actions.
Bullshit. I had a shitty childhood with mentally ill abusive parents and foster homes and shelters. I don't think God "punished me", although I absolutely believe He helped me though it. I guess I could waste my life dwelling on it and asking why and feeling self-pity, but wtf is that going to do for me? It is in the past, I had no control over it and certainly can't go back and fix it. What I can control and fix is my present and future, so that is where my focus lies. And I sure as hell know right from wrong. And I sure as hell can hold a job, be a parent and spouse and a good citizen. Yes, sometimes something will trigger a bad memory or bad association. I just acknowledge it, tell myself it happened, you survived it, it is over. Time to move along.

[BlueStateSaint]

I don't get this PTSD, as in "I'm so incapacitated I can't hold a job and I'm not responsible to my actions.
Bullshit. I had a shitty childhood with mentally ill abusive parents and foster homes and shelters. I don't think God "punished me", although I absolutely believe He helped me though it. I guess I could waste my life dwelling on it and asking why and feeling self-pity, but wtf is that going to do for me? It is in the past, I had no control over it and certainly can't go back and fix it. What I can control and fix is my present and future, so that is where my focus lies. And I sure as hell know right from wrong. And I sure as hell can hold a job, be a parent and spouse and a good citizen. Yes, sometimes something will trigger a bad memory or bad association. I just acknowledge it, tell myself it happened, you survived it, it is over. Time to move along.

That's the difference between a conservative and a lefty.  A conservative says, "Life may have sucked, but I'm going to do what I can to improve it," and moves on.  A lefty wallows in the shit and treats the shit as their own hot tub, to wallow around until someone yanks them out of it by their ears.

H5, BTW.  Also, one of the reasons I love the DUmpster is this--when I think that my life might have dealt me a deuce when I was pulling for an inside straight, I go here and can see examples of idiots who have been through a lot less (the DUmpster dwellers) and a lot worse (other Cavers, as it turns out), and how they have responded/reacted.  I use those examples as 'learning experiences.'  It works wonders.

ETA:  My brother just went through an experience where he was promoted into a co-CFO position at one of the local auto conglomerates around here.  He kept having to stay until late at night (10-11 PM was normal) and to go in on weekends.  So, he asked the CEO for some help.  Not only did the CEO refuse, he told my brother that he had to teain his replacement.  What did my brother do?  He got busy and looked for something.  Well, after the CEO told him that he wanted my brother to stay on until Labor Day (another month-and-a-half), my brother went out and found a new position.  Yeah, he has to commute an hour-and-a-half one way to get there, but he took charge of his destiny, rather than wallow in shit.  (I hate to say this, because of sibling rivalry and all, but I'm proud of him.  He's inspiring.)

[Skul]

She explained that the Boss (rich guy, owns two hotels, etc.) wouldn't be willing to take on the liability of having an unstable employee.

Makes perfectly good sense. What employer would willing do that to begin with?
If the DUmmie is a liability, and costing the boss money instead of contributing to the bottom line...out he goes.
Business is there to make money for all involved, not just provide for one.

[Karin]

Sometimes I get tired of solving life issues for these DUmmies, but I guess someone has to do it.

Thank you for your service.

Mr. Mannn, thanks for expressing what I was feeling about this PTSD.  Every DUmbass over there claims to have it, and it does feel like stolen valor to me.

[Gina]

(I have 1500 hotel nights and 3 million air miles)

spread the love 

[DumbAss Tanker]

spread the love 

Cool your jets, he said "Hotel," not "Motel."

 

[Gina]

You have to admit, the guy does have some qualities.  He came back to work to see about keeping his job.  He just didn't take off to another state or steal from them.  Sounds like he is just really messed up mentally and his parents didn't raise him or his sibling to have a gung ho spirit.

[Gina]

Cool your jets, he said "Hotel," not "Motel."

 

Just give me a few nights in a hotel room alone.  I need the sleep bad!  I want a bed to my own. 

[Ralph Wiggum]

I know it was very irresponsible for me to take off without calling in yesterday.

Well no shit, DUmmy.

[Dori]

Just give me a few nights in a hotel room alone.  I need the sleep bad!  I want a bed to my own. 

With my second one, I could not get enough sleep.  The fatigue was the worst part of my pregnancy.

[NHSparky]

PTSD

You keep using that word, DUmmies.  I do not think it means what you think it means.

And the fact that you didn't IMMEDIATELY seek or have help provided to you after being molested by your neighbor surely has some bearing on your issues today.  It's a horrible ordeal to endure, one I wouldn't wish anyone, but you need to start the healing process YESTERDAY, DUmmy.

[Aristotelian]

Frank, is there a list of how many primitives have PTSD? It sounds like an epidemic over there.

Imagined P.T.S.D. is highly contagious - so contagious that one only needs to read about another person having it before catching it oneself. Thankfully, most of the population is naturally immune to the disease...so it only spreads among populations of useless fools who are looking for somebody else to blame for all of their ills (alias DUmmies).

[dandi]

Frank, is there a list of how many primitives have PTSD? It sounds like an epidemic over there.

Back when I worked on an acute psychiatry unit, there was a running joke that went, "PTSD is the only mental illness that is contagious, because you can put one PTSD patient in a day room with thirty other patients and the next day they'll all have PTSD, too", alluding to the fact that PTSD symptoms are relatively easy to fake, and the others learn that they can do so to get disability payments for it. I suspect the same dynamic is at play in the fever swamp that is DU.

I've read medical articles that suggest up to 80% of PTSD cases are either misdiagnosed by the doctor or faked by the patient for the aforementioned monetary gain. That is not to say PTSD isn't real and some people do suffer from it long-term, such as veterans in extended deployments in combat zones, but most actual PTSD is a short- to intermediate-term condition that resolves with the passage of time after the sufferer is removed from the stress-causing stimulus.

The real disservice is to those with legitimate problems who may be looked on with suspicion because of the sheer number of people trying to game the system. Much like the tiresome playing of the race card by moonbats, when someone does suffer the effects of real racism they may not be given the credibilty they deserve because of the "Boy Who Cried Wolf" syndrome that has been created.