It's been awhile since I've blooged.... Okay, that was supposed to have said "blogged" but, fuck it, that typo's staying. Anyhoo, yeah, the last time I posted anything was before I moved into the new place. Which, by the way, is awesome. Roommates are awesome too. Except Emma. She can be a raging bitchaholic most of the time. Comes from drinking too much bitchahol, I'm afraid. I can't really complain though, as our conflicting schedules make it so I rarely see her. Come to think of it, I rarely see anyone I live with (except Brian, but that's just because we work together as well), which is awesome. I work, come home, read comics and play on the internet all night, sleep, rinse, repeat. And on some occasions I even go out. SOMETIMES EVEN WITH OTHER PEOPLE! *Gasp!* It's a pretty great life, if I do say so myself, but that's not really why I decided to write here tonight. No, lately, I've noticed something. A severe lack of integrity, and accountability, in people. And by people, I mean grown ass ignorant men who should be ashamed to behave this way. Of course, anybody reading this can probably guess that one of the people I'm talking about is mc chris. If somehow, you're reading this blog and you don't know who mc chris is, I'll make it brief: He's a man-child, who's more child than man. He wants to be renowned as a rapper, but everyone just knows him as MC Pee Pants, from Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Which is probably not the best thing to help him gain any cred as a legitimate rapper, since there's always the risk of both his fans recognizing him out in public and being like "Hey, MC Pee Pants! Where's your diaper, you cow?!" But, that's the path he chose in life, so he has to deal. And that brings me to my actual point. mc chris wants to make a cartoon. No, he doesn't just *want* to. It's his dream. And not just any cartoon, mind you. Oh, no, no, no. It's the "mc chris cartoon" which, I can only assume, is gonna be based on him. Now, I mentioned before that this guy's famous for work on ATHF. Well, he also did voice work on Sealab 2021 and I guess did animation or some shit for other [as] shows. Or so the legend goes. I dunno, I can't be bothered to find the facts. Anyways, the point is, the guy has ties and connections with adult swim, who are pretty much the guys you want to go to to get your show on the air. I mean, these guys aired Tim & Eric for multiple seasons. Hell, they even aired a spin-off show from them. Clearly, they don't have standards....
...And yet, mc chris can't seem to get them to take a chance on his show. So, what does he do? Does he take his show and try to find another way to get it out to the public? Does he use the money he's made from touring, merch sales, fan generosity/donations, or Honda? Or does he solicit his fans for $150, 000* dollars to kickstart his "dream" because "he shouldn't have to risk his own money on it"?
Yep, that's right. The answer is C. Because, apparently, your dreams are only worth approaching if there's no risk to you. But it's fine if it's a risk to others though. Bill Clinton said it best: "If things don't go your way, just keep complaining until your dreams come true."
Pfft. What a fucking joke.
Okay, that's enough about him and what an outstanding personality he is. I have two more examples of adults who act like entitled fucking children. One's a customer where I work, the other is a co-worker.
Now this first guy, he makes it a point to be as annoying as possible. Seriously, he's even admitted this. Well, his actual words were "I like to talk a lot when I first meet someone, to see how they react, and see what kind of person they are?" to which all I could think to respond was "Pestering people with asinine drivel, and asking questions that not even a developmentally challenged three year old would think to ask, is your way of getting a feel for someone's personality?" But, seeing as how I was on the clock, and I both like and need my job, I simply said "Yeah, man, that's cool". Now, at my job, we deal in entertainment, both the buying and the selling of it. This guy, let's just call him "John" (because that's his name. Nobody's innocent), this guy John, he likes to sell back books. Which is fine, because that's what we do. What's not fine is the way he tries to scam us, and cheat our system to get back as much as he can. For instance? We have a very specific grading system for the books we buy back. Period. They don't meet criteria, you don't get top dollar. Simple as that. Everyone else accepts that these are our rules but not John, no sir. No, he'll argue with you until you give him the extra twenty cents, or whatever, just to get rid of him. He's also claimed to have Asperger's. But he only mentions this after someone's refused to cater to his whims. Now, I'm not saying I'm a hundred percent that he's lying. But I am a hundred percent that he's the type of person who would lie about something like that. Just the other day, he tried to sell back a bunch of text books We don't buy back text books. At least we're not supposed to. Although, some do get past us on occasion, though it's mostly when the retail side handles a book buyback. But I don't really blame them for that, as they haven't been trained on what exactly to look for when purchasing books back. Anyways, he tried selling back a bunch of text books and the cashier (I was just an observer in all this, since he doesn't want me helping him anymore, as I've made it clear I won't bend the rules for him), who knows our policy and procedures on book buybacks, told him "We can't take these back, because they're text books, and we don't buy them back" to which John responded "I've sold text books back here before". Then it was explained to him that those were our rules and that, even though sometimes mistakes do get made, we would not buy them back. So, what does he do after he's told this? Does he say "That's fine" and leave it at that, accepting the rules of our business? Or does he say "I'll just take them up to the front counter next time. They'll take them back"?
Yep, you guessed it! He would actually exploit people's naivete, rather than abide by the rules that have been set for everyone. The guy has no integrity whatsoever, and I'm not the only one who thinks so. I've spoke with the store manager about him, and he hates the guy as well. Unfortunately though, since he's not breaking any laws, there's not much we can do. Now, I know some of you are probably thinking "Why isn't everybody at your store trained on book judging criteria?" We tried doing that but, honestly, we're just too busy to train everybody. Hopefully we'll be able to some day but, as it stands right now, it's not gonna be any time soon.
Third, and final, example, is a co-worker of mine. This guy is a sixty-something year old man, working in a sea of twenty-somethings. Now, I'm not of the mindset that older people should be shelved somewhere to make room for the younger generation. However, this guy should be. We work in a relatively fast paced environment, and he's shown on numerous occasions that he can't handle it, physically nor mentally. On top of that, he's always miserable, he doesn't communicate with the rest of us, and he's just an unpleasant person to be around in general. Seeing this, a majority of us decided to just give him his space, until he eventually decided to quit or die of a stress/rage related brain hemorrhage, whichever came first. What did he decide to do instead? He decided to go to our boss and accuse every single one of us of being in cahoots against him, making up hair brained theories as only the elderly can. So, we explained to our boss how things actually are, and she asked if we could just try to make nice with him. We agreed. So, the other day, him and I are working together, and he asks a question about something I had been working on that day. I explain to him what was going on with it, only to look up and realize that he's looking past me at another employee behind me, who didn't have any answers for him, seeing as how he hadn't been working on the project.
So, you want people to be all nice and friendly to you, but it's okay for you to be a complete asshole to them? Fuck you, prick.
Point is, I'm tired of seeing adults act like immature children. It seems that, lately, more and more people think that the world should just bend over backwards for them. I'm sorry, but that's not how life fucking works. You slave and sweat, and you get back what you put in. And that's only if you're one of the lucky ones, as most people don't even get that.
So, to anyone out there who thinks they're entitled to anything, I have news for you. You're not. And I can only hope I'm there when each and every one of you eventually gets put in your place. It's gonna be glorious.
On that note, I leave you all now. For it is almost 2:30 in the morning, and I need to be up in four and a half hours to go to work. Like a mature, accountable, responsible adult.
Fuck yeah.
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