Someone just told me I have anger issues. Really? Really? What’s the name of this blog? I’m not Mellow Old Cripple, I’m Grouchy Old Cripple. One of the reasons I retired from IBM at 58 was I got tired of dealing with idiots on a daily basis. A year after I retired, the manager who hated me offered me my old job back as a contractor. A year after that he did it again. The contractor who replaced me couldn’t do in 40 hours what I did in 30. Plus, I had network skills. My old manager forgot why he hired me away from the hardware people in the first place. Funny about that. I turned down a lot of money because I didn’t like dealing with idiots. Fortunately, I was a SRF and had a nice pension and some investments so I could afford it.
I had some of my IBM buddies over to my house a few years after I bought it. One of them asked me if I ever watched House. I told him I had never seen the program. He told me to watch it because at work I was just like House. Turns out he was right and like House I don’t like dealing with idiots and I don’t suffer fools gladly.
Yeah. I have anger issues. I don’t like rudeness and I don’t like bullshit. If people are rude to me, I reciprocate in kind. If people give me bullshit, I give it back. The thing is, I can be ruder and I can give more and better bullshit.
There is a back story to this post that I may write about in a couple of months. Let’s just say that I had a little kerfuffle with someone who had very little in the way of manners and decided to pick a fight with me. I fought back. I responded to rudeness with rudeness. I am better at it. It’s prolly because I have “anger issues”.
I’m with you. Working with slow-witted a-holes is a bitch. They have no idea the persona they possess. Being given rudeness and BS deserves the same. I can only imagine what yours is like. Wished I possessed the high level you have.
I too return rudeness with rudeness, although I’d rather be well-mannered. It’s just that as I age I especially don’t want some rude bastard to try to take advantage of me in any way. I like to let them know that they crossed the line into rude behavior, and I call them on it. It also helps to have read Louis Safian’s book “2000 Insults for All Occasions”!
Rusty
Holy crap! Back when that show was popular that is exactly who everyone called me. Here’s to us and those like us – to them, well, fuck them. JHFC! I really need to get my ass down to Jawja, and have a few Crown Manhattans with ya. Alpharetta, ain’t all that close to Beautiful Dunwoody, is it? I don’t need no more fucking boats.
C’mon down! Alpharetta is very close to Beautiful Dunwoody, just a few miles up GA 400. We got boats down here and two nice lakes nearby, Lanier, a little bit further up GA 400 and Allatoona on the Northwest side of Atlanta. There are five exits off I-75 for Lake Allatoona.
When someone tells me I have ‘anger issues’ I punch em in the neck to show them they are wrong.
Peter Gibbons: Let me ask you something. When you come in on Monday and you’re not feeling real well, does anyone ever say to you, “Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays?”
Lawrence: No. No, man. Shit, no, man. I believe you’d get your ass kicked sayin’ something like that, man.
Denny,
I worked in electronics for 27 years for the likes of Lockheed Martin, Harris Corp. and Jabil circuit so we could probably swap idiot stories. One time figured out why we had 3 thousand robotic control boards that would not work when they warmed up. It seems that some idiot purchaser decide to buy from a cheaper vender. The cheaper chips couldn’t handle the speed recs especially when hot. I was pulled in the office and told I was lucky because they were going to fire me. WTF
An “Anger issue” when you’re just expressing your feelings?
Whoever accused denny of having an “An Anger Issue” should spend an hour with me.
That’s make Denny look like Father Mulcahy.
FTW!
Denny- judgin’ from your stories goin’ back to your Navy days, you’ve always been willin’ and able to dispense the “fuck yous,” even before you amassed the “fuck you money” that’s keeps you comfortable. As someone who ain’t quite in your league, I really appreciate watchin’ a Master Grouch at work.
May we continue to read your grouchin’ for many years yet.
“fuck you money”
I understand the concept and have accumulated some of that over the years.
I just never knew what to call it.
I’ve always loved the name, but lots of us have always understood the concept.
I think it was ol’ Herb Caen in the SFChron who told the story of one of the scruffians from the Airplane or Dead that walked into a Mercedes dealership (or maybe it was Ferrari, whatever) wearin’ his tie-dye and ratty jeans. Most of the salesmen ignored him, but the one who didn’t made a very nice sale.
Fuck you money is a very nice thing to have.
I have three kids and seven grandkids. Hell, yes, I have anger issues, ya think? I call them on bullsh##, and they don’t want to hear it because they’re “grown.” Doesn’t bother me much, as I’m going to leave all my stuff and the house to the one kid who hasn’t treated me like crap. Gonna be a big surprise to the other two.
Bless you, ma’am. The entire Entitlement culture needs a wake-up call just as you describe.
Thank you, sir. I tried to raise them with a work ethic and at least they all work. But the younger two spend like drunken sailors and I’ve told them they will be old one day. Goes in one ear and out the other at the speed of light. Their problem, not mine; why should I leave them anything when they don’t save a dime? They’ll blow through their inheritance in about 3 seconds flat and then whine about it. No, sir. I’ll leave it to the one who consistently saves and at least calls me once in a while.
Just an offering of advice… make sure you place everything (all assets) in a Trust.
http://wills.about.com/od/overviewoftrusts/a/revvirrvtrs.htm
Depending in the choice, there are huge tax advantages, and you choose the Executor. The sad fact about a will is that they can, and most likely will (no pun intended) drag out in probate (shysters rejoice) if a party claims the deceased wasn’t “stable” either during its draft or, once deceased.
Just my 2¢
Fortunately I don’t have to worry. Only two people will lay claim on my money and both are in the will: My sister and her son.
A mellow persona….
Everybody who reads my posts knows just what a sweet joy I must be around given my even tempered posts & response`s. I do my best to present Denny with an alternative to being grouchy but it don`t seem to work
Ask Socialist Sally, Prosper, Assorted French Frogs, Urban planners & Liberal Socialists or Ignorant Fools….they will all say how refreshed they feel after being the main topic of one of my posts .
Denny, I bailed at 58, too. I get it. The backstory will be interesting, but you don’t need to provide justification, just a good story!!