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Things you've grown immune to

  • 03-12-2010 11:40am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 419 ✭✭


    Ive been working in a very well known clothing store in town (DUBLIN) for the last year and a half and will more than likely be there until I finish college (hopefully). Anyway, when I started there I was a shy 17 year old, the 1st customer to yell at me ruined my entire week and nearly made me quit the job.

    But, over the last year I've been spat at, shouted at, threatened, pushed and been degraded by all types of abuse. Although initially this always annoyed me and made me very angry now I notice I can be shouted at, threatened ect... and have a day dream while its all going on. Its great, even when i'm not in work and someone is having a pop at me (dublin bus eeh), I seem to be immune to it.

    So is there anything else you've grown immune to?


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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    1: Go to Feedback
    2: Request access to Ranting and Raving
    3: Read "Cries of Retail" thread.
    4: Laugh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Spat at??? :eek:
    Do tell.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,708 ✭✭✭curlzy


    I pretty much the same, got all types of abuse when working in Burger King, don't work there now but still have the thick skin. I love laughing and smiling when someone's being a dick to you, nearly makes their head explode.:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 483 ✭✭baltimore sun


    The news, I'm so apathetic towards it now that I couldn't give two fiddlers about the economy, recessions, banks, politicians, jobs all that jazz.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Used to work in a hospital and grew immune to disgusting stuff like poo and blood. I could be eating lunch and have go to change the dressing on an oozing wound and then go back to lunch again (after washing my hands).


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Really bizzare porn. We used to have a game to see who could find the most degrading, bizzare and shocking video on the web.

    *sits in dark room, staring out the window*

    My God, the things I've seen..............made 2Girls1Cup seem timid when it 1st appeared.............the horror................the horror!

    Now, I find them quite funny, the levels that people will degrade themselves to for pleasure is unbelievable. Those Japs, Brazilians and Germans are quite inventive when it comes to warped minds.


    Both parents were psychiactric nurses and we took care of my granny while alzheimer's ate her away to nothing. It was always me and one of the parents who took care of her at the one time. Strange stuff to adjust to when your growing up seeing a person dwindle away to a vegetable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 419 ✭✭Gary4279


    kfallon wrote: »
    Spat at??? :eek:
    Do tell.....

    Junkie, wouldn't let her have shoes for free. There was blood and all in it. thank god she only got in on my chest.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    I've become immune to the fact that a significant number of Irish people seem at best oblivious to, at worst to revel in, the shíte state of our society.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,235 ✭✭✭✭flahavaj


    Gary4279 wrote: »
    So is there anything else you've grown immune to?

    Measles, mumps and rubella.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,038 ✭✭✭jackiebaron


    Gary4279 wrote: »
    Ive been working in a very well known clothing store in town (DUBLIN) for the last year and a half and will more than likely be there until I finish college (hopefully). Anyway, when I started there I was a shy 17 year old, the 1st customer to yell at me ruined my entire week and nearly made me quit the job.

    But, over the last year I've been spat at, shouted at, threatened, pushed and been degraded by all types of abuse. Although initially this always annoyed me and made me very angry now I notice I can be shouted at, threatened ect... and have a day dream while its all going on. Its great, even when i'm not in work and someone is having a pop at me (dublin bus eeh), I seem to be immune to it.

    So is there anything else you've grown immune to?


    Are you serious? If anyone treated me like that when I was working they'd be dead before their bodies hit the floor.


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  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,763 Mod ✭✭✭✭ToxicPaddy


    Worked in the pub trade for 8 years from my mid teens to early twenties and pretty much grew immune to any type of abuse, everything from little scumbags demanding drink even though they were very clearly underage and then hurling abuse when I refused to drunken dickheads throwing bottles and glasses at me because I refused to serve them drink after closing hours..

    From there I moved into IT.. so naturally you get abuse hurled at you as some idiot turns on you because of course its my fault he didn't back up his PC, stored everything locally and the hard drive fails.. :rolleyes:

    So yes, you could say I am immune to abuse..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 656 ✭✭✭smokie2008


    SNOW!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 419 ✭✭Gary4279


    Are you serious? If anyone treated me like that when I was working they'd be dead before their bodies hit the floor.

    Yeah, its amazing the thing you have to put up with for such a small amount of money, but as I said, I can take it so much now it really can't effect me anymore. Although when they become physical by pushing, poking or invading your personal space it can be hard to hold back.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 779 ✭✭✭papajimsmooth


    The level of stupidity that some people seem to possess.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    ToxicPaddy wrote: »
    From there I moved into IT.. so naturally you get abuse hurled at you as some idiot turns on you because of course its my fault he didn't back up his PC, stored everything locally and the hard drive fails.. :rolleyes:

    Amen to that shìt. It's always our fault when you download dodgy shìt, infect the network and then huff and puff when we're "taking too long" fixing the mess you created.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    Hepatitis


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    The level of stupidity that some people seem to possess.

    Never ceases to amaze me, once you've had a woman screaming at you to delay the first showing of Gladiator on opening night because her husband is running late and "really wants to see it" you learn to just laugh at people stupid requests, working in a cinema was at once the best and worst job ever.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,494 ✭✭✭citizen_p


    so thats why when i give out to an employee over his/her mistake* they seem like their ignoring me.



    *i wouldnt be shouting at somone if it wasnt there fault


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭EverEvolving


    The Aids, that and tickles.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 372 ✭✭SillyMcCarthy


    Patience!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    Dsylexai


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭wild_cat


    The smell of cow ****. See the An Taisce thread.


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