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[ryuukojin]

Nerd rage. I am so sick of people using the excuse "You don't understand the corporate world" when describing social snafus in non-work-related situations. I do understand the corporate world, I also fucking understand that in an arcade playing BlazBlue with your close friends is not a fucking corporate situation!!! Eat my fucking Tager Driver and

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[ryuukojin]

According to a certain section of my friends who I wont name for the sake of avoiding drama (and yes its more than one person) "normal" people when meeting new people apply themselves to this pattern of etiquette that mirrors the corporate world. This pattern, as far as I see, involves many backhanded statements and attempts to "back down" from an argument by having the last word, and then accusing the second party of being confrontational if they try to continue the discussion past your last word.

Now, I assumed this was a single isolated instance a couple months ago, between me and a specific group of friends wherein i met a new member of said group and was supposedly being over confrontational because I "didn't understand how to act corporate" and this apparently would "get me in trouble down the line in life."

I THOUGHT it was isolated, but now, in my attempt to spread myself to new BlazBlue groups, due to my debilitating addiction to that game, I am encountering it again. I can only respond with a massive WTF!!!

Frankly "I don't understand corporate behavior" is just fucking insulting to me for several reasons.

1. I may have a weird job, but I do fucking understand corporate behavior. I'm not dropping my pants in front of my boss or anything, and I meet with Hollywood directors and producers all the fucking time.

2. Assuming that "corporate behavior" is appropriate in a casual social situation is fucking balls stupid. BALLS STUPID. That assumes that hanging out with friends is "work" and that everyone needs to walk on eggshells just so everyone can be happy.

3. Anyone, ANYONE who expects me to fucking censor myself and hold back my opinions when they expressed an opinion counter to mine is a hypocrite, plain and simple. "Corporate Behavior" does not excuse that.

You know I'm all for being polite and cordial when meeting new people, but there is a limit to this shit. I'm not going to lick someone's boots just because they know the fucking secret doctrine of "corporate behavior". Everyone tells me "this is how the world works" but you know what, this isn't fucking how the world works, this is how a very specific pretentious stuck up holier than thou group of people think the fucking world works, and I'm sick of it.

Here's an example of corporate for anyone out there who may think that "corporate behavior" is how the world works. Do you know how we do things down at 30ninjas where I work? My bosses and co-workers argue along with me and we have a fun time. We come up with awesome creative solutions to problems all over movies and video-games and delicious pizza. If someone from the office challenges me to say, BlazBlue, they step up, get their fucking Iron Taged, and take it (and whatever cross business smack talking there may be) like a champion rather than whining and calling me confrontational. Oh? That doesn't sound like your workplace? Guess my fucking corporation beats the hell out of yours, fuckos.

[pyrobovaphiliac]

I'm still confused as to why anyone would say corporate behavior is appropriate for non-corporate environments. Adjectives mean things!

[fadingembers]

Perhaps they meant, "You don't understand the corporeal world!" since BlazBlue is 2-D.

[ryuukojin]

Apparently, people who live in corporate environments act corporate in non corporate environments and this is acceptable.

[pyrobovaphiliac]

Gotta agree with relee on that one. I remember my days of stuffy corporate behavior, and that was the last thing I'd think is appropriate to bring to your personal relationships. I was always happiest with people at work that I could drop the act with and talk like civilized human beings.

[relee]

For a lot of people, hanging out with friends IS work. They call it networking. You've gotta be careful around people like that. It's like that old sterotype of golfing executives; it's not just a game, it's a delicate business meeting. Modern executives and wanna-be-executives also play video games, and well, there you go?