Originally Posted by ShimmerFade

You can't let bastards/a-holes get you down too much. For the most part I've learned not to let them, but I happened to respond to the majority of these comment while at work & running the register. Hell, my attitude changed so much just from being at work to getting home last night that scyclops assumed a very legitimate statement was just me being facetious.

Working in the clinic there are so many ungrateful people who have no idea how much the team puts in to help them get better and be able to go home, and hopefully keep enjoying life.Now your experience with a-holes is unquestionable! Clinic doctors put up with more ungrateful people than probably any other profession I'm aware of, & have to go through years & years of school to do it. Much respect!

Everyone can be a bastard sometimes, and a person who is not satisfied with their own life (or just having a bad day) will be much more prone to this. Some people were simply never educated to understand that they should be appreciative when a person is going out of their way to help them out. While I don't like it when these people let it out on me, I feel really sorry for them, and at first try to make them maybe laugh or smile. If that doesn't work then they receive the best care I can give them, but no personal investment from me (and BS complaints will be ignored).We were just going over this in psychology, how individualist countries (like the US) have a tendency to take full credit for everything they do & always judge others harshly based on what others do, & never give anyone the benefit of the doubt that they would always expect others to give them. It's sad, really, & I'm more guilty of it then just about anyone I know. But I'm working on it.

It sounds to me like you are just working somewhere where you yourself are not happy with the situation. Maybe you should try to take a few hours, and try to find somewhere else to work.Very much so, & I am. Hoping to get a job working with my sister-in-law down at an insurance call center in Macon that has a good reputation for competent management & (relatively) amazing pay. I was able to deal with the customers a lot more easily before my old boss was transferred across the state & they replaced him with someone whose way of dealing with stress is by blaming everyone around her for everything that goes wrong.

I really respect anyone who works and goes to school at the same time, and I know how hard that can be. I would also really recommend going abroad, but remember everywhere has bastards (though in some places they can be more concentrated). Have you looked into exchange/study abroad programs? Sometimes you can get scholarships, or work part time in the country where you travel to making it quite a bit more realistic than trying to go abroad without any sort of program.I'm still trying to get my credits/GPA up & keeping my eyes open for any such opportunity. I was a screw up in high school & didn't start out my higher education with many colleges jumping at the chance to give me a scholarship. I know, my fault. Such is life.

Originally Posted by scyclops

I'm pretty sure he was being facetious with the whole traveling abroad thing (but maybe you already knew that )