angry

We live in a culture that at least claims to be sort of merit-based, fair, or at least fair-er than others. That said, we all have to deal with glaring double standards when it comes to work and relationships. Life is unfair, but a lot of this unfairness sure seems like a bunch of BS. Sometimes the unfairness we find ourselves in dips into the absurd, which produces memorable "screw this, I'm out" moments.

The mighty hubris of another horrible customer comes crashing down. For whatever reason, some customers really hold onto that "customer is always right" approach even when they're told that that they're not actually talking to an employee. Irate customers mistake random people for employees all the time, and the results are wonderful.

Selling a lawnmower is hard enough without a total stranger popping in to tell you that you're the devil for not giving it to him for free. There's a small but strong contingent of entitled people with laughable demands who seem to show up grabbling for free stuff. They could be anyone from a mom to a CEO to a guy in a parking lot. You don't want to have to deal with entitled people and their demanding boldness.

Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about those small inconvenience curses that could drive people absolutely insane. It could be the socks that are eternally wet, or maybe that strange itch that can develop on your hand, but you're never able to actually scratch it. Ugh. Just thinking about that makes the blood boil. People get way too devilishly inventive with these small inconvenience curses. At least we have a solid picture of what Heck looks like now. 

Work. We need to do it to not be hungry and cold, but other than that it's missing some benefits. Depending on their job, most people would rather just sit and be bored. And everyone's attitude at work is a strange combination of trying to do as little as possible while blaming everyone around them for doing as little as possible. It can get rough. At least there are work memes to blow off work steams.

You can never know what incredibly specific thing someone might take personal offense to. People get upset over the dumbest things thanks to their own paranoia, assuming malice in people, or extremely non-standard view of how people ought to act. It's when someone makes something out of a mistake or an utter non-issue that has people scratching their heads.

It makes sense that some things are difficult. Like, becoming a doctor or a navy seal are things that are about as difficult as they should be. But why is it so hard to install a printer? It's just a printer! Some of these seem like small problems but we all know that there's extremely petty stuff that people get very passionate about.

In one fell swoop of anger, this boss managed to lose his entire digital marketing department, and had no way to dig himself out. Sometimes bosses forget that their employees are human beings, who actually have the capacity to ruin their day, like this boss who tried to play an employee, or this boss who tried to play Alpha.

Passive aggressiveness is the worst. People just bottle up all that aggression and frustration, instead of letting it out in some healthy conversational discourse, and instead go about "avoiding the conflict" by creating tense and uncomfortable environments. These particular cases of passive aggression might just bring your blood to a boil. The passive aggressive roommate scenarios, especially.