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.
this post was submitted on 22 May 2025
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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.
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.
I suspect the story in the tweet is fake so probably don't need to worry about the wellbeing of this hypothetical teacher.
Animals forgive
Some people deserve forgiveness, some do not.
I think we all cheer because we interject the ones we know that do not deserve forgiveness.
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.
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.
Life is about the little things
Fuck bankers
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.
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.
For people: be nice to kids because you later need them to pay your "elderly money"
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I'm all for pettyness in most cases.. but uhh. This is a bit much don't ya think?
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I’d like to know more context. Without it, it makes the poster seem like a traitor.
You don't get to choose. The numbers go into a spreadsheet. An answer comes out.
That is definitely not true. But that’s not the context I meant.
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.
agreed and affirmed but since we're here, fuck banks
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Someone was mean to me so i killed them - completely sane reaction.
Aah yes. Because declining someone's mortgage application = literal murder.
/s
have you heard of stylistic devices? this one is called ~~exaggeration~~ hyperbole.
No, it's called hyperbole.
From Merriam-Webster...
(Woops...hit meant to add)...saying exaggeration instead of hyperbole isn't wrong.
Hyperbole is the rhetorical technique.
Exaggeration is just speaking like that.
From context it sounded like he was invoking the rhetorical meaning.
Some people just 'speak like that' using hyperbolic examples. So correcting them on using the word 'exaggeration' when they used a form of exaggeration is being the grammar police when nobody called for you. There's nothing wrong with using the word 'hyperbole', but there's nothing wrong with the word they used either.
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