So this morning I read that some kid who just so happens to be born into royalty can speak two languages.

Who cares? Who cares about some kid who just so happened to be born into a family who, at this stage is more famous for being famous than they are important speaking two languages?

What makes this kid so much more important than all the kids who grow up speaking two languages due to their heritage and location?

If this is news, then why is it news? Who cares about this crap?

Well, that is a good way to start this off, as I don’t think what I am going to write next is something that I can drag out.

The other day I was taking a complaint from a customer and to be honest, it was a pretty legitimate complaint. No one should be demeaned by staff.

Everything was fine until they said “I’m not one of those people from Housing Commission; I have an education”.

Not the exact words, but pretty close.

Who the hell do you think you are?

You know what really pisses me off?
These people who think that it is okay to denigrate people who are in Housing Commission.

There are bad people in Housing, but there are a lot of good people.
There’s a lot of people who are trying to get out of housing. Few people want to be there.

It’s not fun to be right next to people having a domestic. No one wants to put up with that.
There’s a lot of educated people in Housing who are trying to make their way in life. They don’t need people putting them down.

There’s probably as many assholes in housing as there are people outside of housing, ratio-wise. Maybe there’s less assholes. Most “uneducated” people generally aren’t going to snub their noses at others due to their living in crappy places.

With that being said, some Housing is actually pretty good.

This whole “people in Housing Commission are shit” attitude that permeates so many people, especially a bunch in the “upper class” is a terribly shit attitude to have.

Look at yourself. You’re the crappy, lowlife human being that you’re targeting. It’s not them. It’s you. Show a bit of respect and pull your head out of your ass. You have a degree. It doesn’t make you better than anyone else. It just means you  studied something and probably work in the field related to that study. It does not make you better than anyone else.

A big thing that worries me about academia is that I will be surrounded by a bunch of people who have no real attachment to reality. There have been too many people who are my superiors who have this weird, lofty attitude and do not seem to want to put themselves in a position where they can be reached.

I think that people forget that no one is better or worse than anyone else.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 10:00:77

Slower. I struggled a little bit.
Maybe this was a little too repetitive, but I think I got my point across.

After that comment I mentioned something about it and the person reversed on their statement by saying something that kind of explained why she made the comment, but it would have been much more respectable if the person just took the responsibility for making their shitty remark.

Written at work.