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CuntsDidn't know where to put this, but since it's bugged me enough all day, here it goes. Bare with me.
Today's work was installing a bunch of arcade games in one these cool new offices where they do things like this for their staff. Their canteen is basically an expensive coffee shop, but everything is free.
Everything was good, but this is the bit that nagged at me:
They took our order, I said I'll have a hot chocolate please. I don't drink coffee, and I don't trust them to make a proper tea. She comes back with the HC and says
"Hot Chocolate? That's a bit childish isn't it?"
"Em, no, is it?"
"Yes I think so. It seems a bit childish to drink hot chocolate".
I think to myself "I'm installing an air hockey machine and arcade games for you and your mates to play with, but I'm the childish one? Thanks for the drink, fuck you".
Then my colleague is in a kinda well known band. Another person comes up to him and saying nothing, sticks his phone in my mates face. Apparently he was showing him pictures of his own band. My mate is like "Well yeah, that's me alright".
Hipster dude just casually says, in that nasally American voice "Yeah, like I just put it out on my insta that the guy putting video games in for my office party is actually in a cheesy metal band".
A cheesy metal band? I mean, yeah they are I suppose, but he has been doing it for a long time. To just reduce a guys lifes work like that and think you're just making casual conversation, like... well haven't you just got everything figured out except decency?
They were just so astoundingly rude and they had no idea. And of course, we couldn't say anything about it, we just had to suck it up.
I'll still go back. The hard part is always the people.