25 Things I Wish I Could Say To Various People [Rant Post] – Updated

You know, I have several draft posts started of actual, thoughtful content and instead I’m doing a barely coherent rant instead. For privacy, I’m not going to give context or anything – this will just be a list of things I wish I could say to various different people because I can’t say this to their faces:

Current mood. Image by succo from Pixabay

1. The world does not revolve around you. I have a lot of other shit going on and, while I care about you, the things that you are deeply concerned with are not things that are a primary focus for me.
2. I love you, but your internal moral code is deeply fucked up.
3. If your job is screwing up your moral code that much, get a new job. Honestly, you should have gotten a new job years ago.
4. Actually, I am not looking forward to Rosh Hashanah. At all. It’s just that all the other options sucked more.
5. In general, I think Imposter Syndrome is a stupid, useless concept and I am very much not a subscriber to this concept at all (this deserves its own non-rant post). However, in your case, I actually wish you struggled more with Imposter Syndrome. You are really not as good as you think you are.
6. You are so fucking conceited it is unreal.
7. I don’t think your “demanding better customer service story” puts you in a good light. People are only responding positively to it because you’re young, pretty, and liberal. If you were older, you’d be a Karen.
8. Based on what you’ve told me, I’m not surprised you didn’t get promoted. Yes, I think your company is being unfair generally, but also, I think it’s partly your own fault.
9. Your poetry is not as good as you think it is.
10. In general, your writing is not as good as you think it is.
11. People who have not been in the workplace for decades do not give good workplace advice. I have, in fact, actually changed jobs more than once in my career. Don’t pretend like we’re giving equally valid advice.
12. Notice how I was right about your brother. The rest of you were all wrong. I was right the whole time.
13. The position you’re taking now on this issue is exactly the same as the one you berated [insert name] for having years ago. It’s fine to change your mind. But you owe [insert name] an apology.
14. Just because you are bad at something does not mean that as a skill, it is inherently worthless.
15. What you are doing is not helpful. In fact, I do not appreciate it, and I do not want you to do it.
16. I do not believe a single word you say. I don’t think you’re lying; I just think you are wrong.
17. How the hell can you afford that?
18. I disagree with your position, and I think you picked a stupid hill to die on.
19. But setting that aside, even if I agreed with you, I think you shot yourself in the foot because the point you were trying to make was badly argued and badly written. No wonder they disagreed with you.
20. I don’t really want to hang out with you.
21. I just don’t trust you.
22. You do care about that which you claim not to care about. Just fucking admit it already.
23. You are a selfish bastard. But you know what? I can be selfish too. Watch me.
24. You’re right. I don’t want to do this with you. I’m only doing this because I have to.
25. You are the reason I want to move.

I like this image so I’m going to post it again so that this post isn’t just a block of text. Image by succo from Pixabay

I’m not really a “writing as therapy” person. I can’t decide if this made me feel better or worse.

PSA: If you haven’t gathered, there’s a lot going on and I don’t really have the bandwidth for much blogging or other projects right now.

Side note / discussion question: I’m really digging that rant-y face image. Should I make this my new avatar? Should I start posting more profanity, unpopular opinion, and rant-y shit on my blog so that I can justify using this rant-y face as my avatar? Let me know in the comments.

Update

Blogger-friend Roy made me a cool rant-y face graphic!

Thanks Roy! Check out Roy’s blogs on Blogger and WordPress