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Woocfot asks: Tell us all about that turning point in your life when it started going downhill. Yeah, that drunken conversation with my dad when he suggested I become a civil servant. Dammit, I could have been an astronaut

(, Thu 28 Feb 2013, 11:32)
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All began when I offered to to extra work for free at my job
cos I enjoy it.

Since I started working there years ago I took on extra stuff that nobody wanted to do and in some cases stuff that nobody was able to do.

Last year we took a 20% salary cut, some were mighty pissed off. Couple of colleagues took exception to my selfish attitude - I shouldn't take on extra work as this might give more ideas to management.

Then the intimidation from colleagues started. Ostracising, whispering campaigns. Provocations.

The bullying has reached new levels of bastardness. Not face to face, they haven't the balls. Just lower levels of nastiness. Pretty savage, calculated to hurt.

I can't fucking sleep. I didn't know people could be such bastards. All over money. None of them will starve, the pay is still relatively good; no, I guess it's the principle of it for them.

And management? They haven't a fucking clue, useless fuckers.
(, Thu 7 Mar 2013, 2:39, 14 replies)
"No good deed goes unpunished." - WC Fields

(, Thu 7 Mar 2013, 4:22, closed)
I was looking for a quote online for a while - lot's of funny ones.
But what I wanted was sitting on my daughters desk beside me. On the weekend we'd had a discussion about intolerance. She'd asked me for some reading about it - amongst the books I gave her was Heart of Darkness. She was looking at it the other day.

“I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.”
Joseph Conrad.
(, Thu 7 Mar 2013, 5:07, closed)
Yeah, the WC Fields one is better

(, Thu 7 Mar 2013, 7:54, closed)
And your quote is?

(, Thu 7 Mar 2013, 8:21, closed)
Mine is 'shut up Ringo you philandering tosspot'.
Can't remember who said it though.
(, Thu 7 Mar 2013, 8:23, closed)
Probably
you.
Nvm Monty - you'll be famous one day.
(, Thu 7 Mar 2013, 8:34, closed)
scab

(, Thu 7 Mar 2013, 8:53, closed)
Never
in a million fucking years would I have pegged you as a unionist.
Welcome to the brotherhood. I'm happy to be your rep.
(, Thu 7 Mar 2013, 9:05, closed)
Come the revolution...

(, Thu 7 Mar 2013, 10:43, closed)
This is what i thought

(, Thu 7 Mar 2013, 10:47, closed)
Star Wars?

(, Thu 7 Mar 2013, 9:17, closed)
You still here?

(, Thu 7 Mar 2013, 9:31, closed)
Maybe stop doing extra work?

(, Thu 7 Mar 2013, 9:45, closed)
Do the extra work, get promoted, use the money to wine, dine and shag all of your colleagues' wives
Then chill out by your pool.

We all would, given the chance.

"The working class can kiss my arse; I've got the boss's job at last ... "
(, Thu 7 Mar 2013, 10:32, closed)

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