Let???s talk about "Great Guys"
"Great Guys" are critters that pat each other on the back and declare each other to be "Great Guys" doing "Great Jobs." They are nearly always found in a structured setting where they twist the rules of containment and proper behaviour in order to get their snouts into as many of those biscuits being thrown out to them as they possibly can.
Let me tell ya a story about a job I had about a year ago....
My immediate supervisor had the same degree, and the same aspirations as me. His name was Steven Suck-ass and we worked for a medium sized insurance company. He was basically a fat insecure asshole that got along well with the ladies at the office because they knew, and he knew as well, that he had no chance of ever getting any sex from them. I???m sure yoo've seen the type, Mr. No-sexual-tension-therefore-a-pseudo-ladies-man. Well, Mr. Steven Suck-ass was in love with the girl in the next cubicle, the girl he would never have, and I made the mistake one day of making her laugh all afternoon, as a matter of fact it was some rearranged lyrics to a Holy Zoo song that was one of the things I was singing to her that day.....
ELECTRICAL TAPE
ELECTRICAL TAPE
ELECTRICAL TAPE
YA FUCKIN' ELECTRICAL TAPE
WHY DONTCHA GIVE IT A TRY
YOU CAN WRAP IT ROUND UR EYES
YOU WONT FEEL NO PAIN
ITS GONNA INSULATE UR BRAIN!
That made her laugh so hard that a blood clot lodged in her nose (most likely from cocaine usage) from the previous weekend finally dislodged and went flying down to the carpet, it was gross yes... but she didn???t care because she was so grateful for the relief from cottonmouth
Later that day she said to me, as Mr. Steven Suck-ass listened over the wall within his witless world of envy....
"it???s a good thing you???re married"
And then she gave me the fuck-me eyes and walked away shaking her goods, ya let me tell yoo... that-girl-knew-how-to-walk, but im not biting, I wouldnt even consider cheating on my wife, she's the best that I have in my life.
And then Mr. Steven Suck-ass stood up, I looked at him over the wall, and he looked at me over the same wall, the anger and jealousy in his expression was very apparent
And that was the moment, I am sure, that my boss, Mr. Steven Suck-ass, decided to Information Starve me
From then on it was all a game, he gave the appearance of training me while actually hindering my growth in that position, he didn???t give me one fucking byte of information that he didn???t absolutely have to, it was all very sly and undercover.
Mr. Steven Suck-ass would at times say hello to me when passing in the hallway, and a couple of times there was a quick "hey whats up?" when pissing in the john, but i wouldnt give him acknowledgment, I wouldnt even look his way, and why should I?, starving me one minute and feeding me fake pleasantries the next, fuck that shit.
One day I got fed up with his game, I needed a list of numbers and he wasnt forthcoming with it, so I went to the Human Resources guy, I knew it wouldnt do any good but I laid it on the line anyway, Mr. Human Resources said....
"I don???t understand, Steve???s a Great Guy"
There???s those fucking words... "Great Guy", from that moment on I despise that expression
What???s happening here is Mr. Steven Suck-ass is Mr. Human Resources??? fink-boy, that???s how he does it; he is an information pipeline straight to Human Resources. Now enforcement of the company rules is one thing, but selective enforcement is something else, and as soon as Mr. Human Resources unprofessionally informed Steven Suck-ass of my visit to him, the rules were then selectively enforced upon me....
- Its no big deal if someone smokes on the back porch, unless it???s me
- Its no big deal if someone takes an extra few minutes for lunch, unless it???s me
- Its no big deal if someone utilizes the internet at work for a half hour, unless it???s me
- Its no big deal if someone takes 20 minutes to talk on the phone to their spouse, unless its me
Do yoo follow what I'm saying here, do yoo see what was happening?
My options were somewhat limited....
- I couldn???t go to my boss Mr. Steven Suck-ass, he's the problem
- I couldn???t go to Mr. Human Resources; he's another part of the problem
- I couldn???t go to the owner of the company, because that would only compound my problems with both Mr. Steven Suck-ass and Mr. Human Resources
- I could though, just choose to swallow and suck-ass as well
That will not happen; I will throw this job away before I suck Mr. Steven Suck-asses hind end.
About a month later I came in on Monday and noticed that someone had moved the address bar on my taskbar, Mr. Steven Suck-ass wanted to get rid of me so bad he came in on the weekend to make note of all my internet visits and shortcuts.
I'll guarantee that motherfucker at some point was going....
"What the fuck is Holy Zoo?"
My plan was then clear to me, and this is how I spent the remainder of the week
- I listened to Holy Zoo Milk n' Cookies, over and over until I knew it by heart
- I created a picture of a rabbit getting its nose wrapped up in electrical tape
- I cruised the internet most of the day gathering information on all the DOS 6.22 commands
- I practiced those DOS commands with the start-up floppy I brought in with me
- I searched for my next job
But most of all... I waited for that phone call from Human Resources asking me to come downstairs for a talk
It came the following Monday, an hour before quitting time, exactly as I expected
When I walked into the room Mr. Steven Suck-ass was already there, he reminded me in that moment of a puppy at Mr. Human Resources??? feet looking for another scrap from his desk, fucking pathetic
Mr. Human Resources pointed to the spreadsheet on his monitor that outlined my internet activity for the previous week, Mr. Steven Suck-ass had even color-coded everything on the sheet to produce maximum ass-suck effect.
Mr. Human Resources asked me....
"What is this?"
I said....
"The solution to your problem, and mine"
He thought I was being a wise-ass, he was correct
Mr. Human Resources then asked....
"What do you mean by that?"
I said....
"You people are looking to get rid of me because I???m not gonna suck the ass of this boss of mine who is determined to information starve me because of his insecurities, and you don???t care to address my problem because he's your company fink-boy"
I looked at Mr. Steven Suck-ass, he was staring straight ahead expressionless, he was undoubtedly thinking this....
"Yes, Yes, Bury yourself, YaYa.. Woo Hoo!!, Perfect oh I luv it!!"
I was not burying myself though; I was actually unburying myself in those moments
Mr. Human Resources then said to me....
"What is your problem?"
Perfect I thought, let me give these assholes the unbridled truth about my fucking problem, which is actually my advantage in many ways, so I can then watch them reject it because the fucking truth has no use for them in this world of ass-sucks, of "Great Guys", therefore it is meaningless to them, my truthful answer to his inquiry
I said basically this in so many words....
"I was raised in a home that did not allow for social interaction, because the man who raised me had things he needed to hide and feared I would tell others of the abuse that I, and my brother, and my sister, endured. And after we turned my father in for the abuse the system that should have protected us only worked for about 2 months, after that he just moved back in and no one checked up on us, the system failed us, and so I lashed back at the world that failed me and began to destroy the things that other teenagers had, the things that I could not have. Well sir... I thank God for prisons, because it was going to prison that actually set me free. I do not look at the world the way you peeple do, I do not react to the world the way you peeple do, and every year that goes by I thank God more and more for my non-socialization with a world that rewards peeple such as Mr. Steven Suck-ass here, so you may now lead Mr. Steven Suck-ass here to his trough and his reward, you peeple think you???re getting rid of me when the truth is I decided a week ago to get rid of you, now please show me the fucking door"
By the time I got half way through with that Mr. Human Resources was shaking his head at me, and Mr. Steven Suck-ass was still staring straight ahead expressionless. Mr. Human Resources asked an honest question, and I gave him the most honest answer I possibly could have given.
When I drove outta the parking lot that day I felt so fucking high, no drugs necessary, God was proud of me and his presence was so strong that I had to pull over and cry for joy on the way home, I felt so free and hopeful, I knew I was gonna be alright eventually, God knows I stray from time to time but he also welcomes me back every time I come home, and he is not going to let me down, he???s just gonna make me work a little harder before I find my place in his world, and this is... his world, not theirs, and no matter how much success these "Great Guys" may feel they acquire, their success, in Gods world, acquired by climbing over other animals in order to get to those biscuits and trough water, is all an illusion.