Shit weasel

galenkp in Reflections • 10 months ago

Some say they're elusive and somewhat rare but I disagree because one can find a shit weasel pretty much anywhere these days. They're not born that way, a shit weasel doesn't have to be a shit weasel, it's a choice they make for one reason or another and it seems more and more are making the choice to embrace the shit weasel life. #shitweasellife

Last week I ran into a shit weasel in the course of performing my job function, quite possibly the king of shit weasels in fact.

I can't go into the details as it's confidential but essentially my company provides services to the shit weasels' company and I was there to determine how best to facilitate the changes at the shit weasels company - my company would need to be flexible to accommodate it...which we were prepared to do. It was actually a simple matter, or should have been, but it turned into a massive fucking fucken fucked up fucken cluster fuck... because of the shit weasel I mention above.

I'm not quite sure when people became so entitled, self-absorbed, rude, needlessly aggressive, intolerant and generally fucked and I don't know why. Sure, we all have our moments but it seems those moments are all joined together these days (with some people) and those behaviours have become the standard operating procedure. I wonder how those people get through life to be honest; re they like that with their partners, children, friends (if they have any), work colleagues and in general social situations life requires? It boggles the mind to think a person behaves in such a way all the time.

Unfortunately we have little choice but to deal with such individuals, especially in a work situation, and I did my best ~~not to fucken kill him~~ to do so in the case above but it left me feeling quite annoyed and feeling like I don't get paid enough to have to deal with such people. (I actually do though.)

I don't know what (possible) extenuating circumstances that ~~fellow~~ shit weasel above has that may cause such behaviour or if he is that way all the time but I could see he made others (his colleagues) who were involved in the process uncomfortable, that they were embarrassed by him and that he made the entire process completely awkward and difficult...His behaviour also caused me to charge a lot more for my company's services than I usually would have because dealing with this shit weasel isn't going to be easy moving forward.

He didn't get his way, he didn't win any respect, he didn't even negotiate better pricing...an all-round loss for the shit weasel and his company and all because he acted like a shit weasel when he didn't have any cause to and there was a better way to proceed.

Have you ever come across such a person, someone who behaves badly or in an unbecoming manner, which has effected you, the process or outcome, or has simply caused you to walk away? This happens in relationships just as often as in general society. I think most people have had an experience or two. I don't know why, but society seems to be a shit weasel factory these days when it doesn't have to be that way at all, it's sad really. If you have a shit weasel story you would like to share, or even if you are a shit weasel yourself and have a comment, please do so below if you are so inclined.

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10 months ago in Reflections by galenkp

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ryivhnn 10 months ago

That looks like a meerkat? XD

entitled, self-absorbed, rude, needlessly aggressive, intolerant and generally fucked

I think most of them most of the time think they're being assertive and setting boundaries.

And if the colleagues genuinely felt that way in the interactions it's entirely possible he won't be in that job for too much longer even if he is absolute childhood besties with the ceo of that company (if not outright fired they'd move him somewhere else).

Have dealt with a client like that before, he was actually more horrible to sibling dearest than he was to me (probably because I kept stonewalling him hard, sometimes just because my brain would glitch out in the moment and I would either not notice til a few seconds later and only from sibling dearest's expression, or not at all til we talked about it later, sometimes intentionally). And the above was pretty much what happened.

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galenkp 10 months ago (edited)

Yep well-spotted, it is a meerkat courtesy of the Adelaide Zoo. I wanted to put a photo of a shit weasel on this post but there wasn't one close to hand to photograph.

People are just people and there's good and bad and bad that are sometimes good and good that are sometimes bad...Always people though. We just have to deal with others as best we can, treat them commensurate to how they act or what they deserve and, of course, our own needs as well.

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boryanamtl 9 months ago

society seems to be a shit weasel factory these days

Spitting facts right there (and all throughout the story)!

I don't have an answer as to why shit weasels are the way they are but I have plenty of stories. The most recent one being with the VP of a company I used to work at. That person was one of the reasons I quit - mostly because of the lack of respect and understanding. I feel like some people need to bring others down to make themselves feel big. And it sucks for the majority of the people around them (because I'm pretty sure shit weasels have some shit weasel friends 🤔).

Anyway, sorry you had to go through this experience. The reaction of their colleagues speaks volumes of the kind of human you were dealing with. The best thing you can do is not to let that person's negativity affect you or your day (which is also the most difficult one - speaking from personal experience lol). Then again, I'm super petty when it comes to a**holes which is why I won't share my other advice on here 😁

P.S. So I'm not proud to say it took me the start of your work story to realize you weren't talking about meerkats 😅 I was starting to wonder why they were called shit weasels around there 🤣

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Shit weasel

Hello galenkp!