Privilege Analogy #1: Entitlement In Action

[bellatrys]

Let's say you're at a shindig of some sort - an office holiday party, a department function, the post-lecture refreshments, a gallery opening, a con, any place where there are a lot of other people, most of whom you don't know personally or well, and a lot of milling around

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[fledgist]

Some people manage to combine a complete lack of sensitivity to others with a general incapacity to be social, but then claim that those who they hurt are the offenders. Sometimes you feel the urge to educate such people with a two-by-four.

On the other hand, when I think of that I also think of my father's proverb 'Yu put a fool inna mortar an poun him, him come out same fool'.

[megpie71]

On the gripping hand, at least you've got rid of a lot of stress and aggressive feeling in the process. So that's *some* good come out of it, anyway. ;-)

(Context: I've spent about 7 years working tech support. My current allocation of the milk of human kindness is somewhat curdled.)

[fledgist]

Perhaps, but then you're the one who gets hauled into court.

Tech support must have some ups as well as downs.

[megpie71]

Oh, the ups are there - I've done it for about six or seven years now, and it's not something I'd get tired of. But sometimes, the temptation to take whichever user is on the other end of the phone and just bang their head against a convenient hard surface until their brain starts working does tend to overwhelm one.

[fledgist]

From the other side of the line, there have been a few tech support people whom I have wanted to throttle, mainly because they insist on procedures I know won't work (Comcast is especially bad at this -- the problem was outside the house, in the ports to which we were connected -- and which only their techs could access -- but they insisted on our turning the modem off, rebooting, disconnecting and reconnecting cables; when you've gone through the same rigmarole on four or five occasions your temper frays).