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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.
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.
Did you ask him to respond to something or is sending thank yous or reaching out for being interviewed expected?
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.
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. *
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.
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.
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."
Also this is against a former teacher, maybe he was a terrible kid and the teacher got mad at him for a reason.
That banker guy should not have a position of authority at all. He still thinks like a child.
How the fuck do you know that regardless of who was looking at the mortgage application they would have been rejected anyways due to not being able to meet the criteria? And op had the privilege of being the one who said no.
Now who thinks like a fucking child, you fucking dork.
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.
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.
No you just have a light taste of revenge in your heart and are trying to justify it any way you can. I was bullied too up until my sophomore year of highschool starting in kindergarten so I'm no stranger to being bullied. All because of a disease I had.
I suspect the story in the tweet is fake so probably don't need to worry about the wellbeing of this hypothetical teacher.
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.
Animals forgive
My cat certainly seems to have forgiven me for all the times I made him move, at least.
He's playing the long game, he'll feast on your corpse after he suffocates you in your sleep.
Some people deserve forgiveness, some do not.
I think we all cheer because we interject the ones we know that do not deserve forgiveness.
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.
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.
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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I'm all for pettyness in most cases.. but uhh. This is a bit much don't ya think?
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Life is about the little things
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.
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.
That is definitely not true. But that’s not the context I meant.
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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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