Comments on: being a secretary http://elberry.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/being-a-secretary/ flotsam and jetsam from a broken world Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:44:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: anon http://elberry.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/being-a-secretary/#comment-2436 anon Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:05:14 +0000 http://elberry.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/being-a-secretary/#comment-2436 Having visited former Soviet-Union, where the communist regime was crushingly suppresive, and despite the end of the communist era, the same authorities and same system exists, run by the same people, you will find those "bitter old secretarial hags" only in far worse attitude, miserable fuckers who go out of their way to frustrate anyone whom they should be serving, I won't go into details, but there were numerous occassions when I had to use great restraint not to punch the lights out of such individuals, but I saw the locals were immune to such hostile treatment, because they were used to being treated like shit from anyone in any kind of authority, however menial the position they held. I don't think they get pleasure from it, but they get satisfaction for sure (if there is a difference between the two, I guess you will understand what I mean), partly the sad pricks are minions of a wider system that is designed to frustrate the public, and partly some people are just miserable fuckers who have no vision of what humanity really should be about Having visited former Soviet-Union, where the communist regime was crushingly suppresive, and despite the end of the communist era, the same authorities and same system exists, run by the same people, you will find those “bitter old secretarial hags” only in far worse attitude, miserable fuckers who go out of their way to frustrate anyone whom they should be serving, I won’t go into details, but there were numerous occassions when I had to use great restraint not to punch the lights out of such individuals, but I saw the locals were immune to such hostile treatment, because they were used to being treated like shit from anyone in any kind of authority, however menial the position they held.

I don’t think they get pleasure from it, but they get satisfaction for sure (if there is a difference between the two, I guess you will understand what I mean), partly the sad pricks are minions of a wider system that is designed to frustrate the public, and partly some people are just miserable fuckers who have no vision of what humanity really should be about

]]> By: Neil Forsyth http://elberry.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/being-a-secretary/#comment-2435 Neil Forsyth Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:09:22 +0000 http://elberry.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/being-a-secretary/#comment-2435 A touching post, Elberry. Those who exercise power to thwart others, not to achieve something, but merely to enjoy the frustration this causes, lead lives that are painfully, cripplingly circumscribed and dull. They are not stupid enough to be oblivious to this fact, but they are, nonetheless, so limited in their mental faculties that they are unable to imagine any other possible way to satisfy their need for recognition, for self-expression. Negative attention is better than no attention at all for these wretches. I come across them quite often, as we all do. But let's not be too harsh, they are not always thoroughly unpleasant. In fact, I can think of one who does have some redeeming qualities, but I just can't think of what they are right now. My own way of dealing with this type, if I must, is to smile, be courteous (sometimes overly so) and to wallow in the delicious absurdity of the moment. A touching post, Elberry. Those who exercise power to thwart others, not to achieve something, but merely to enjoy the frustration this causes, lead lives that are painfully, cripplingly circumscribed and dull. They are not stupid enough to be oblivious to this fact, but they are, nonetheless, so limited in their mental faculties that they are unable to imagine any other possible way to satisfy their need for recognition, for self-expression. Negative attention is better than no attention at all for these wretches. I come across them quite often, as we all do. But let’s not be too harsh, they are not always thoroughly unpleasant. In fact, I can think of one who does have some redeeming qualities, but I just can’t think of what they are right now. My own way of dealing with this type, if I must, is to smile, be courteous (sometimes overly so) and to wallow in the delicious absurdity of the moment.

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