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[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Not a school bully but more of an adult would-be bully/asshole. I saw his resume come across my bpss's desk and I made sure he didnt even get considered for an interview. Feels good man.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

I think they're hot too.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 days 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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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Children can't be held to the standard of adults. Teachers certainly should be paid more but if you can't handle working with kids teaching might not be your gig.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Teachers are understaffed and underpaid. You cannot even afford to be dismissive with your kid’s education.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days 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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (13 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah it's cool to keep letting shity people get away with being shitty right? Along as your not like them right? An qdeye for an eye would leave the whole world blind right. So it makes sense to just only have one guy miss his eye because revenge would be wrong. People change their hobbies, interests, clothes. Not shitty attitudes and behaviors. *

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This would only work if they made the connection between their shitty behaviour and their mortgage application being rejected years later, which they won’t. They won’t even know who rejected it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

But I guess whoever bullied you was another kid doing it over and over? Not a teache that made you cry during a school trip one day.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Probably less of an issue with a person's capability for forgiveness as much as the continuous tormenting of a child in their developmental stages will have a disproportionately heavy impact in their psyche.

The bullying may have also played a large role in building the bullied's sense of justice, and seizing on an opportunity to "do a solid" for that young defenseless and miserable child within you could go a long way to closing the circle on fundamental issues you have with the ability for any form of justice, civil or vigilante, to carry through and provide consequences.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

I suspect the story in the tweet is fake so probably don't need to worry about the wellbeing of this hypothetical teacher.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I had my college plans plans ruined because of "uncooperative" guidance counselors. I recently found out that I actually tested advance proficient for science, but was refused higher then remedial classes. They didn't gain anything by doing that. I would absolutely "pass it forward."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Also this is against a former teacher, maybe he was a terrible kid and the teacher got mad at him for a reason.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

There's a mixing context though. If they're unapologetic (before needing something) about it? Fuck em. If they've made amends and then you just do happen to be in a position of power? _That's_when forgiveness is appropriate.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My cat certainly seems to have forgiven me for all the times I made him move, at least.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Some people deserve forgiveness, some do not.

I think we all cheer because we interject the ones we know that do not deserve forgiveness.

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[–] [email protected] 165 points 3 days ago (13 children)

lol the pettiness of some people

[–] [email protected] 113 points 3 days ago (15 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.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 days ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days 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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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days 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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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (15 children)

How do people even remember names for so long?

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 days 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.'

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

we didn't hear the part about how that teacher lost the farm due to an elaborate revenge plot where they gave the husband colon cancer and seduced the son

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days 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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Life is about the little things

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