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Taking this from another thread - has anyone from your past ever tried or has played the game of OneUpManship with you? Have did you diffuse the situation?
From personal experience, I had a person from college use another person to claim that their significant other was president of a company, when in fact he was not. Instead, he was just a worker at the company. It turned out that the messenger was unhappy with their current work status, so with a smile and some tact, I said why don't you call up "so and so" since he's president of the company, he could hook you up with a more important job. Well, they say a picture is worth a thousand words. I wish I had a camera.
This all came about, because this person had heard I was doing well in life (work, personal, just in general) and wanted to try to one up me. Some people improve as they get older, some become even more insecure. It was clear to me after that incident, which way she went.
No, because I'm not into material things, so I wouldn't be playing. I take more pride in HOW I do my work, rather than the type of work it is, or how much I'm paid. If I was playing "the game", that might happen more often, but I don't play that game. I'm content with where I am, and don't feel a need to brag about it to others.
No, because I'm not into material things, so I wouldn't be playing. I take more pride in HOW I do my work, rather than the type of work it is, or how much I'm paid. If I was playing "the game", that might happen more often, but I don't play that game. I'm content with where I am, and don't feel a need to brag about it to others.
Same here - I don't worship money, I just have passion for my line of work. It happened to translate into success, professionally and personally, but I don't go around throwing it in someone's face. I'm actually a pretty humble guy. Things disappoint you in life - what occurred in that situation was one of them.
I've had that happen, in fact, the strangest thing happened to me once with a friend who is now an ex-friend along a similar vein...
Long story short: During college, we used to cocktail waitress together, went to a company X-mas party, got a little loaded, as a prank/joke I took a Matilda Bay wine cooler mirror that was hanging in the coat room on the way out (do they even still exist??), which was given to the hotel where the party was held for free by the Matilda Bay Company, just a cheesy mirror...
My ex-friend stole a CO-WORKER'S CAMERA off the table!!!! Hardly the same thing, I took a cheap plastic-framed mirror that was not anyone's personal belonging, she took a camera from someone she worked with no less....I was actually very upset about it but didn't want to get involved, didn't know the girl well.
Years later, she had a party at her house. I went, not really knowing the other people. She announced to the whole room in front of a bunch of people I didn't even know that I took the camera from that girl. I denied it but I was defenseless because these people were going to believe her over me, since they didn't know me at all and don't know the real her.
This from the same person that I discovered in college had taken some of my clothes behind my back to wear on her spring break trip (we weren't vacationing together). I found out when I found the pictures she hid from me of her trip, she lied and said that she hadn't developed them yet but our other roommate innocently showed them to me when she wasn't around.....
Needless to say, I left that party immediately I was so pissed and never spoke to her again.
Location: Everybody is going to hurt you, you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for-B Marley
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It happens with adversity, too.
"Oh, your mom died? Well BOTH my parents have passed."
"So you had to short-sell. That's nothing. My brother lost his house, his business AND his retirement."
"You're lucky only one of your kids has special needs. I have three kids with severe autism."
What is it about our culture that we even compete for sympathy/pity? What ever happened to compassion?
That's often the under-educated's lack-of-common-sense way of relating to the person's situation.
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