Messing with people's headsTheophilous Thunderwulf says: What have you done to fuck with people? Was it a long, carefully planned piece of psychological warfare, or do you favour quick, off-the-cuff comments that confuse the terminally gullible? Have you been dicked with, and only realised many years later? Are you being dicked right now? Tell us everything.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:25)
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A ten year wait is nothing compared to 16 years for "The Phantom Menace"1996 was not a great year. Amongst many jobs I had that year was working for 6 weeks for a industry computer / IT firm in an unheated garage in Birmingham (where, amongst other things, I found "Dans Gallery Of The Grotesque") and was a phone monkey trying to sell IT kit by cold calling endlessly off an infertile list of jaded purchasing staff and IT helpdesks. In the midst of a biting rainstorm, I - and most of the other new staff - decided to congregate away from the wind in the entrance hall which had a buzzer for visitors to announce themselves. We discuss the utter hopelessness of our careers and the frankly absurd targets we had been set. One by one, we were marched in and made jobless within an hour of returning to without being given a reason. (I even asked explicitly to be told "No reason".)
The reason being, of course, that the man who had built this company up from dirt with his bare hands had spent the hour in his office listening to our conversation about his utterly hopeless way of running a business. The kind of person who, if his name was incorrectly spelt on a letter ("Steven" spelt "Stephen", for example), threw away any letter from anybody, no matter how important or expensive the consequences of that were. His ego was matched only in size by his uncomprehending denseness.
Fast forward 10 years, and I am leading the purchasing decision for a major IT Project for my employer worth millions of quid. Said firm - and in fact, the self same person that fired me a decade earlier - submits a gloriously hopeless (and piss poor) bid to provide the service. When I signed the rejection letter and awarded it to someone else, I almost smiled. I wonder if he ever connected losing the biggest contract he had bid for that year (which was three months total revenue for his entire firm at the time) with the kid he fired without even providing a reason a decade earlier.
But as I intimated, to call him "thick as pigshit" would be an insult to the pigshit.
(, Fri 13 Jan 2012, 22:45, 3 replies)
It may be... but revenge is where it is obvious. The trick is he only knows it's revenge if he's smart enough to connect the dots. (And why would you fuck with someone's head if not to gain an element of revenge?)
(, Sat 14 Jan 2012, 0:06, closed)
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