[Wry]

And one could say you are an Ass...but i really onlyhave myself to blame.


I recomend the chilli solution if the contest starts to heat up lol

[Assail]

 Wry, on Apr 15 2009, 02:52 PM, said:

And one could say you are an Ass...but i really onlyhave myself to blame.


I recomend the chilli solution if the contest starts to heat up lol

Lmao yours isn't as cool as mine because my name is ASSAIL, not Ass. Hahaha, I'll go chili solution if you will.

God this reminds me of 3rd grade

[Wry]

You yanks are weird... over here we don't apply chilli to our junk till at least fifth grade.










... wait you meant the name calling?

[Assail]

 Wry, on Apr 15 2009, 02:59 PM, said:

You yanks are weird... over here we don't apply chilli to our junk till at least fifth grade.










... wait you meant the name calling?

Lmao I'm an Aussie mate. Hahahaha, I was definitely not referring to the name calling.

[Tsundoku]

I lost my temper today and shoved a coworker. I may have even gone on with it if others hadn't stepped in between us. The worst part is that he wasn't even being BAD, just a dumbarse. I've warned him for ages, and even 5 minutes beforehand, but I still basically took the first shot.

I shouldn't have let it get to me, but I did. I could blame the heat, being sick and tired of this place, sick of the idiots' "look at me, win at all costs etc" attitude, misplaced competitive spirit - it was a social game of volleyball, ffs - but I won't. I blew my cool, and that just won't do. Not when you're supposed to be in the ultimate team-player environment. And it's not as if I'm even a testosterone charged grunt. I'm just a fucking storeman. I shouldn't let things get to me, but they do, and sometimes it's a constant battle not to say something vitriolic. Or worse. I can has anger management issues.

And that little loss of control may come back to haunt me - not with a charge or anything like that, as everyone basically acted as if it didn't happen, but everyone present (and everyone who hears the story as it will no doubt make the rounds in this excitement-starved shithole) will mentally mark me down as not a team player/loses his cool etc. Which may mean a problem switching jobs, getting another deployment, postings etc.

And the one guy here I actually think of as a friend is looking at me like I'm some sort of untrustworthy half-wild animal. That hurts.

Maybe I need to learn some of that zen calm shit. I just wish I could go to sleep one day and have my temper disappear. Actually, add the vast majority of my emotions to that as well.

Cheers,

La Sombra, .. shit

This post has been edited by Sombra: 18 April 2009 - 10:05 AM

[Aptorian]

So... you didn't punch his lights out? What did he do to invoke Sombra's righteous anger?

I sense a great lack of drama in Sombra's post.

[MTS]

I forgot to go get some drinks for tonight, and now all the local bottle-o's are closed. I have a 21st that I'm going to, which will now be experienced sober, unless I can scab drinks all night...sigh.

[Centzon Totochtin]

Shit Sombra that doesn't sound like fun But give it a few days, something else will happen and it wont matter as much any more hopefully!! Good luck over there!

Mappo: how can you forget drinks for a 21st?!?!?!

My groove is sleepy and horny but fine

This post has been edited by Centzon Totochtin: 18 April 2009 - 10:29 AM

[Tsundoku]

 Aptorian, on Apr 18 2009, 07:03 PM, said:

So... you didn't punch his lights out? What did he do to invoke Sombra's righteous anger?

I sense a great lack of drama in Sombra's post.

So sorry to disappoint.

No I didn't get to throw one - a good thing I dare say. What he did wasn't just that minor stupidity, it's just the straw that broke the camels' back after 6 months in this dump.

I'm mad at myself for letting it get to me and showing it. End of story.

I've always tried to be fair and calm, and I thought I could manage here, on this cruisy deployment. But I slipped, and basically I can probably kiss goodbye to anything better.

@Centz
Thanks.

Cheers,

La Sombra, ... you were expecting maybe JCVD?

[Aptorian]

 Mappo's Travelling Sack, on Apr 18 2009, 12:04 PM, said:

I forgot to go get some drinks for tonight, and now all the local bottle-o's are closed. I have a 21st that I'm going to, which will now be experienced sober, unless I can scab drinks all night...sigh.

What kind of backwards country is Australia if you can't get beer, booze or even, as a last resort, wine on a saturday evening?

Do you live in the outback?

And I thought Sweden was a terrible place when looking for alcohol.

[MTS]

 Centzon Totochtin, on Apr 18 2009, 08:28 PM, said:

Mappo: how can you forget drinks for a 21st?!?!?!

It wasn't that I forgot, I just had lots of things to do today and never got around to getting some drinks. I had to buy an appropriate novelty gift (I decided on a rather charming blow-up doll named Mandy), I had to get an appropriate costume (harvey birdman ftw), and I went paintballing with the person whose 21st it is. It was after all this that I got home bruised and colourful and realised that I never went to the grog shop like I told myself I would.

@Apt, it's not that Australia is backward, I just live in a very inconvenient area for grog shops (not the bush btw). There's only two and they both close at 6, and the nearest one that's open is about 3 k's away. Normally it wouldn't be a problem as I would just drive, but my brother took my car on a road trip this week, so I have no way of getting there.

P.S. Train rides at night suck. There's a lot of creepy people around. I really want my car back...

This post has been edited by Mappo's Travelling Sack: 18 April 2009 - 11:28 AM

[Aptorian]

 Mappo's Travelling Sack, on Apr 18 2009, 01:25 PM, said:

and the nearest one that's open is about 3 k's away.

WALK DAMN IT!!!

I don't get people. As soon as something is a hundred meters away they need a car!

Fucking run or walk or take a bike!

[Dr Trouble]

Get a taxi. Fuck.

Lucky for me, I live across the road from a bottle shop that is open till 12. Hurrah!

This post has been edited by Other: 18 April 2009 - 12:10 PM

[Mezla PigDog]

 Sombra, on Apr 18 2009, 11:32 AM, said:

I'm mad at myself for letting it get to me and showing it. End of story.

I've always tried to be fair and calm, and I thought I could manage here, on this cruisy deployment. But I slipped, and basically I can probably kiss goodbye to anything better.

Ah, fuck it Sombra! It's done now so don't beat yourself up about it. Damage limitation is where its at now, so just laugh at yourself for losing it.

Messing with my groove - in work, on a Saturday and I feel rather unwell and I promised an overseas visitor that I would take him to see the sights this afternoon and I don't want to pike out but I might chunder in a minute!!

[Dag]

 Sombra, on Apr 18 2009, 12:32 PM, said:

No I didn't get to throw one - a good thing I dare say. What he did wasn't just that minor stupidity, it's just the straw that broke the camels' back after 6 months in this dump.

I'm mad at myself for letting it get to me and showing it. End of story.

I've always tried to be fair and calm, and I thought I could manage here, on this cruisy deployment. But I slipped, and basically I can probably kiss goodbye to anything better.

Basically what Mez said. Don't let it keep you awake at night. You can have nerves of steel, but one or other little idiot will always manage to get through, if they keep filing on them long enough. These kind of things happen - drink a nice beer, get some sleep, and what might look like a huuuuuge damage today, might turn to be a last year's snow tomorrow, and you might find yourself being the only person making drama about it. Nobody is going to cast stones - we're all guilty of this very same crime occasionally...

[Zanth13]

 Sombra, on Apr 18 2009, 10:58 AM, said:

I lost my temper today and shoved a coworker. I may have even gone on with it if others hadn't stepped in between us. The worst part is that he wasn't even being BAD, just a dumbarse. I've warned him for ages, and even 5 minutes beforehand, but I still basically took the first shot.

I shouldn't have let it get to me, but I did. I could blame the heat, being sick and tired of this place, sick of the idiots' "look at me, win at all costs etc" attitude, misplaced competitive spirit - it was a social game of volleyball, ffs - but I won't. I blew my cool, and that just won't do. Not when you're supposed to be in the ultimate team-player environment. And it's not as if I'm even a testosterone charged grunt. I'm just a fucking storeman. I shouldn't let things get to me, but they do, and sometimes it's a constant battle not to say something vitriolic. Or worse. I can has anger management issues.

And that little loss of control may come back to haunt me - not with a charge or anything like that, as everyone basically acted as if it didn't happen, but everyone present (and everyone who hears the story as it will no doubt make the rounds in this excitement-starved shithole) will mentally mark me down as not a team player/loses his cool etc. Which may mean a problem switching jobs, getting another deployment, postings etc.

And the one guy here I actually think of as a friend is looking at me like I'm some sort of untrustworthy half-wild animal. That hurts.

Maybe I need to learn some of that zen calm shit. I just wish I could go to sleep one day and have my temper disappear. Actually, add the vast majority of my emotions to that as well.

Cheers,

La Sombra, .. shit

Dont worry Sombra, its a common enough thing to have happen, every single school and deployment ive been to ive gotten into some type of fight with a fellow soldier, its almost impossible not to happen when you work with so many different types of people in stressful situations...

and i refuse to believe its because im an asshole...

at least not much of one

[stone monkey]

Just to add my tuppence worth. There are always idiots and no one, however saintly, can put up with them with equanimity forever. Don't be so hard on yourself.

[Darkwatch]

@Sombra:
Zanth and SM are right. Besides you warned him.

On my part I hate pedestrians that walk on bike paths when there's a walkway not 10ft away.
Not only that, but they love just jumping onto the path when there's cyclist barreling around at 30kph expecting us to be able to brake in time or avoid them by going off the path into the trees that line it (you know the ones that are there to also show there's a sort a barrier).
We should ba allowed wooden swords to make ride by swipes at anyone foolish enough to walk there.

[Ain't_It_Just_]

 Aptorian, on Apr 18 2009, 09:19 PM, said:

What kind of backwards country is Australia if you can't get beer, booze or even, as a last resort, wine on a saturday evening?

BLASPHEMY!

Cheer up Sombra, everyone cracks it once in a while. It'll die down eventually.

Anyway, I have an annoying little shit of a brother bothering me.

[teholbeddict]

Hey Sombra! Sorry to hear about your blow up, I completely understand where you're coming from. I have a horrible temper and a pretty short fuse, I tend to get ridiculously angry, but it's over quickly and then I'm stuck regretting my blow up. As the others have said though it happens to even the best of us. Just hold your head high and don't let it get to you. You're a good person, bad temper of no and I'm sure your co-workers know that too! Everyone has a bad day now and then, plus this guy had clearly been getting on your nerves for a while now. It may seem disasterous now, but it will look less and less so as time goes on, it'll probably even seem much better come morning! Keep your head up and try not to let it get you down, like I said you're a good person don't let this one incident define you!