Thursday, June 19, 2008

Why (do?) people piss me off take 2.

I've recently started taking the train and metro in order to get into work and back home. This will not only save me about 10/15 minutes per day in my commute, but it also should save me about 250$/month. As an added bonus I get to sleep an extra 10 minutes in the morning.

That's like a car payment. Really, you could buy a new Hyundai Accent (9995$) and finance it at around 10% from your bank and wind up with payments around the money I should save.

Now, I have nothing against other people, it's only natural that common transport systems like the train and metro would be at least 90% filled with commuters. However the problem I find is in how rude people are.

Most people are well mannered and behave rather nicely, they're friendly and polite and some even smell good. They'll move out of the way when you need to pass, they'll allow you plenty of room to sit or stand and most will even use the spots available for luggage to place their luggage...

Then you have the odd 1/10th of the populace. Who will not bathe if their life depended on it, and were raised in apparently, a barn.

No manners.

They will bump into you, not just once but continuously, with their backpack which they will of course not remove from their backs, and thereby take two standing spots instead of one.

Others will insist in keeping their huge bags on the seat next to them until you ask them politely to please remove them so you can fucking sit.

Others will take well over their alloted half of the common seats.

But my least favorite are the people with laptops.

You're already crammed in a train, like sardines, there is barely enough room to take your frigging hands out of your pockets, and they're sitting there, more like lounging, with a huge laptop on their laps, watching some movie or working on spreadsheets.

Which brings me to my next point.

I would not apply myself to a work related spreadsheet or power point presentation in a common transport system even if they paid me millions. Which if they did, I'd negotiate an arrangement to work out of my home... but I digress.

If your day isn't long enough to allow you to complete your work in the allotted 8 hour period, or whatever your workday is, you either aren't working efficiently during normal office hours, or you're overworked and your boss needs to hire you an assistant.

Also, for the no-life losers who sit in the train with a Dell on their laps, working on a power point presentation showing how the company you work for is going to sap the life out of existing customers while trying to gain more market shares:

Fuck You.

You don't deserve that sitting spot. In fact, I long for the day when normal 9/5 workers will revolt and spit attack you right where you sit arrogantly with your laptop on your lap.

For the other losers that need to be watching Seinfeld episodes on a fucking laptop;

What the fuck? Did you not notice how you can pick up a portable video player with up to 4Gb memory for like 100$? It would be much more portable and you'll look much less like a loser.

Still wondering why you're single? And living with your mom?

Yep.

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