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[–] 166 points 1 year ago (7 children)

lol the pettiness of some people

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  • [–] 115 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    We don’t know that was why they denied it, this could be shadenfreud (sp?) because they would be denied regardless.

    At least I choose to believe that, because I can’t imagine being petty enough to do that.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

    Usually, one feels Schadenfreude when something bad 'just' happens to somebody else, like Karma, but not due to ones own actions.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Right? "Made me cry on a school trip" (for reasons that I'm sure we're totally out of line on the teacher's part and omitted just for brevity's sake)

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    [–] 63 points 1 year ago

    Six years ago my former coworker's house burnt down and I gave them a decent amount of money, no strings.

    Three weeks ago the same person gave me a job making 30% more money than I was.

    It goes around the nice way too sometimes.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    [–] 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    To normal people: be nice to kids because they need the support and encouragement to grow into stable adults with a healthy sense of self worth.

    To the selfish people: be nice to kids because you never know when you might need their mercy in the future.

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    [+] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)
  • [–] 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    had a teacher traumatize and humiliate me for four years.

    I contemplated suicide at 12 years old.

    Luckily I found strength in my spite and hatred for her to push forward.

    last I heard, her husband died of colon cancer, she lost the farm and her house, and her only son turned out to be gay (they were "Christians").

    I still remember her nasty mustache and shitty attitude, and will always remember her.

    I'm doing good in my life, better than her.

    there's only one other person who I hate more and I'm eagerly waiting to toast to their deaths.

    they are literally the only people I could never forgive.

    before you pass judgment ask yourself this, "who tells a bullied overweight 12 year old who is clearly having home problems that they need to 'lose some weight' and they won't 'be so fat'. 'who knows, you might not be such a loser like your father.'

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Y'all need to stop carrying so much unresolved anger and learn to carry out elaborate revenge plots instead.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    There's been exactly one school shooting in my country. Teacher bullied a kid whose father was a strict army man. Gave him worse grades on purpose knowing he'd have to run 20 km home for it, etc. So one day he went to school with a gun and shot that one teacher and nobody else. So that's what a shitty teacher (and a shitty father) can do to a child.

    Wasn't my hometown but I knew people who went to the same school at the same time. Nobody condoned the murder, but people did see where he was coming from.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'm all for pettyness in most cases.. but uhh. This is a bit much don't ya think?

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    [–] 32 points 1 year ago (18 children)

    I've never heard the phrase swings and roundabouts used this way.

    Usually it means two things are similar so you don't really have strong feelings either way.

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    [–] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I’d like to know more context. Without it, it makes the poster seem like a traitor.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You don't get to choose. The numbers go into a spreadsheet. An answer comes out.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, my reading of this is that this poster took particular personal satisfaction from denying an application, but it didn't cross my mind that there was any element of actual control or decisionmaking.

    It's like when someone cuts you off and then crashes their car. You didn't cause the crash, and a crashed car is a much more severe punishment than simple rudeness would deserve, but you can still derive satisfaction from the sequence of events.

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    [–] 24 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    This reminds me of the simpsons when Lisa learns what kind of life her teachers live so she decides to be much nicer to these people who spend so much of their days with children sacrificing to a life of service and little thanks.

    But you’re the opposite.

    Face it: kids can be a lot. Sometimes you got to own that you were the little shit in someone’s life sometimes.

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    [–] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I’ve held an interview with one of my former school bullies from highschool for a position under my team. I only had a suspicion when I came across the resume, but I just knew it was him when I saw his face on cam.

    It was nice seeing him fumble over the curveball technical questions that I threw at him, and told HR that he wasn’t only a poor fit, but not to even send a follow up response l either.

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    [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There are some teachers I had who were absolutely bad people, but honestly, they are teachers and you are not. You already have the best revenge.

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    [–] 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Well, OP is just an asshole then. (I'm guessing this isn't really OPs post)

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  • [–] 73 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They didn't say they rejected it out of revenge.

    Maybe the teacher was a shitty mortgage applicant with terrible credit and multiple foreclosures and the fact that they got to reject the application was just the cherry on top.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Depends on the circumstances. One might feel a bit smug when karma strikes back as long as one acts professionally. The teacher might have gotten rejected for absolute objective and normal reasons. Like thousands of people do.

    And after handling that professionally the poster can humanely feel smug and happy for a short moment in their otherwise likely stressful adult life. And that's okay.

    By profession (emergency medicine with a stint in forensic mental health) I get into contact with some really bad people who have done really nasty things. Will I treat them as professionally as I treat every patient? Yes. But there are moments. Years ago I responded to a patient getting bitten in his ass by a police dog(as in the dog literally did bite a seizable piece of meat out of it)after fleeing a scene of a DUI stop(and punching a young police officer). At the same time as we arrive the detective superintendent arrives(as it is protocol here in these cases when someone gets injured by police directly). He is a fairly nice chap I went to school with - and who was relentlessly bullied by a guy a few grades above us. Like...really really bad...to a level that would land one in prison these days. Well, the world is small and guess who Mr. Dogfood was.

    Well. We did our job as professionally as we do it with everyone. But when the patient was handed over in hospital we had a good chuckle, cracked a few bad jokes somewhere no member of the public could hear us,asked each other how the respective wives were doing and went on with our workday. And that's okay.

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    [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You get what you give. Don't become the monster. A real class act would just dangle it in front of them and then just approve it anyways. Like bitch I'm over it, I don't give a fuck. You're just a dumb ass speed bump.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (16 children)

    Seeing the people that are happy to ruin someone else's life because they were bullied by them a decade ago...goes to show you no one can ever forgive. Just animals the lot of ya....people change, maybe give them a chance.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    As someone who was bullied, and who still has flashbacks and triggers from it... Yeah I would try to forgive them, but I'm not going to feel bad about delivering some consequences.

    Like I'm glad that you grew as a person but the injured party should decide if the person who inflicted the injury gets a free pass. And either way they're 100% correct.

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