Anybody else living in the movie Idiocracy?
 

I would describe my self as being "slightly above avarage" intellectually. I'm not tooting my horn, I have no delusions that I'm special, and I'm not spell checking this post. I'm sure there are 150 people who are smarter than me on this board. I've noticed over the last couple of years a sudden dumbing down of the population. Its like people are just going through the motions of some routine and not using their brains. No one will give you a straight answer to a question. Anybody else feel like your aurguing with idiots every where you go?

Past 2-3 Week:

Ford Dealership, Service Manager, In response to scratching two of my rims on their tire machine.
"When you track your car it rolls the tire allowing the rim to bend on to the concrete. Your car is on youtube."

McDonalds, Window Clerk, In response to no change back from my order. It was 3.65 and I handed her 4.00. She hands me a dollar and I say is this the right change?
" I don't know sir, what else do you want me to do?"

Road Hazard Company, Call Center Employee
What is your name? "I won't give that to you" What is your employee id? "I won't give that to you" Let me speak to your manager. "She is not here" Ok, let me speak to whoever is in charge. "Im the only one here sir" Your the the only person in the building? "Yes, I don't know if you've noticed but we have a hurricane here on the east coast and everyone has gone home" That sucks, why are you answering phones then? " Nobody told me to leave." Give me your supervisors name so I can call back after the hurricane. "I have to hang up now sir your getting rude."

Gas Station, Lotto Customer, Buying tickets and scratching them as the employee is punching in her numbers in the pick your number machine. Then trying to cash them in and get more tickets while she stalls the clerk with something else.
Mam, you need to scratch your tickets on your own time not mine. "I was in line first" Yes, your were. Do you think its right to hold everyone else up in line so you don't have to go to the back of the line to redeem your tickets? "your rude, learn some manners."

Enterprise Rent a Car, Customer, Blocked me in the back parking lot by parking in the drive lane on the side of the building.
Who is driving the white Dodge truck? ...20sec...Who is driving the white Dodge truck right here...I point to it. "Um, thats my truck" Can you move it so I can leave? "Um, I am next in line can you give me a minute?" No, I can not. I need to leave now and you shouldn't have parked there in the first place. "There weren't any other parking spaces up front" Sir, move your car now. "Fine, I don't know what the big deal is" The big deal is that your blocking 30 cars in this back parking lot from leaving, and anybody trying to park that is wanting to do business with this company. The problem is you think your time is more valuable than 10 other people combined.

HEB Grocery Store, Customer in front of me, she has a giant cart filled to the brim with cheese, steaks, sausage, junk food, beer, wine, etc. Her total was 39.00. I had a small basket and my total was 55. I then walk outside and see her loading it in a new Caddy on chrome 24's. I said nice rims. "Que" I mumbled wtf under my breathe than found this nice tidbit at home...

The SNAP food benefits (used to be called food stamps) helps people with low incomes and resources buy the food they need for good health.
HHSC gives SNAP benefits through the Lone Star Card. This is a plastic card that is used like a credit card at the cash register to pay for purchases. Each month, the family’s approved monthly SNAP amount is placed in the card’s account.
Emergency SNAP benefits are also known as expedited SNAP because the benefits are given faster to those in an emergency situation, such as:
A family with resources worth $100 or less, and monthly income less than $150.
A family with resources and monthly income that are less than the most recent monthly expenses for rent/mortgage and utilities.
A family that includes a migrant or seasonal farm worker who has $100 or less in resources and very little income.
http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/rules/L...n_Guidance.pdf

I know the feeling.

Over the last year or so, I've felt like I've matured massively, and started to look different at the world and the people in it.
And your example with people wasting other peoples time is one of the things that piss me off the most, although this has been an issue for years.

In general, people aren't really intelligent, and only a few I encounter during my days at work and out in the open would ever qualify as people I would be interested in getting to know. If this is a "first impression" issue, or a general dumbness is unknown, but nevertheless, people seem to lack a few bits of both social- and general intelligence.

My biggest issue with this is my own problem - not being as naive and ignorant as I used to, since life was so much easier when I was a kid.
How nice was it to not know about drugs and crime, people doing dumb stuff in traffic, STD's, smoking hazards and bills piling up in the drawer?

Ignorance is bliss - and nothing is like being able to take a big crap on responsibilities and everything else that grown-up-life throws at you.

I wanna be 14 again!

I need to get a pet illegal for some of that free cash.

If we're living in idiocracy where are the starbucks places that give blowjobs?

I started watering my garden with Gatorade last week.

Seriously I can't go more than an hour without getting angry.

ELECTROLYTES CUZZ:laugh:
Maybe you need to get laid?:giggle:

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This.

I started trying to meditate yesterday, just to attempt to get over it. We can't fix everyone, only try to improve ourselves. Since we can't make others smarter, I figure my only recourse is to find a way to let it go to whatever degree is reasonable, and combat it when necessary/ possible.

Just start shooting. Perhaps it'll evolve into an idiot holocaust and it'll make the world a better place.

I constantly feel like I am the most intelligent person in the room throughout my day. It is very frustrating. I started to notice it sometime after I first started working. And people hate you when youre smarter than they are. When I meet someone smarter than myself, or that knows something I dont, I see it as an opportunity to possibly learn something from them.

And the sense of entitlement/me me me/Im more important than you attitude gets old fast. You can see it every where.

When I'm stuck in a circle of dumbdumbs, I take comfort in one fact, and one fact alone:

If everyone wasn't dumber then me, then I would be the dumbest..

I cant go like 15 minutes.

masturbate

Generally people seems to be ignorant and wanting to be spoon fed, that is common to most countries I've visited (for once, it's not only you guys in the states that has put up with random jackasses) :inout: ;)
That said, I don't really think that being ignorant is the same thing as being stupid. Sweden has got a national iq average of 101, USA 98, and we still see the same behaviour around here. I blame the internet ;)

Wisconsin Democratic State Senator Lena Taylor posted an online plea on Tuesday for a boycott of several consumer products manufactured and distributed within Wisconsin.Taylor’s ire is directed at products produced by Georgia Pacific.

According to the company’s website, Georgia-Pacific (GP) employs about 2,300 people in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Approximately 1,800 employees work at one of four manufacturing facilities and produce and distribute an array of commercial and retail brands of bath tissue, napkins, towels and other paper products.

:facepalm:

Sometimes I'm talking to someone and it takes so much effort trying to make them understand. I have to actually talk stupid to get them to understand. Usually I'll start out talking normal, and it will end with a blank stare and them saying "What?". I have always considered myself average when it comes to intelligence. I've always known I could keep up with smart people if I just try a bit harder. But after I graduated high school and started seeing different parts of the country, I've noticed I was average among very smart people when I was in HS.

Growing up in a middle class area with a good public school system has set me up for a lot of frustration. I fear that more and more we are becoming dumb. I honestly blame technology. It's a double edge sword. Somethings really make our lives easier, safer, more efficient. But other things are slowly killing this world /rant

You talk to Damon too?

What's this thread all about?

Why's my name been brought up?

hahahahaha. because of Alex's post.

This was one thing that really impressed me about the Germans.

In Germany, the majority of restaurants are cash-only. They are a much more cash-reliant society than Canada or the US in general, but restaurants in particular are quite averse to plastic.

Drink orders are handled with impressive efficiency. Almost universally, they are not written down on an order pad. Instead, when your first drink arrives, it is placed on a paper coaster, and the waiter / waitress makes a tic mark on the coaster with a pencil. As each additional beer is brought to you, an additional tic mark is made on the coaster. (Wanna fuck with your friends? Bring a pencil and make five extra marks on their coaster when they get up to use the WC.)

When it comes time to settle out at the end of a meal, the transaction is performed at your table by the same server who took your order and brought you your food / drinks. They have a change purse strapped around their waist. The server tabulates your bill with a pencil, and you hand them cash. They then perform the necessary subtraction in their head to determine the amount of change, and hand you the change directly from the purse.

That's it. No cash registers, no calculators. Ordinary German 20-somethings are sufficiently skilled in basic arithmetic to properly calculate a restaurant bill and the subsequent change without the assistance of a computer.

I can't even begin to convey in words how impressed I was by this, nor how pathetic I feel about being impressed by it.

:vash: Don't put words in my mouth!

Also as a side note. Great example showed up in my inbox today.

An unnamed supervisor sent an email to everyone (his level and lower) with some tasking. In it he talked like he was a 14 year old girl texting...

"I need u all 2 support this with ur full cooperation."

IN A WORK EMAIL!

So can he put other things in your mouth?

:brain::makeout:

I once worked at a beer stop /carryout that was run by a really great, old guy that everyone called "Doc". He wouldn't permit us to punch in the dollar amount given for a transaction because he wanted us to count the change back to the customer. He said "You need to be able to do that in your head, son."

At the time I hated it, but in retrospect it was awesome. It made me think, and it's nice as a customer to have the cashier count back your change. It ensures accuracy and verbal interaction with the customer. So often now you get people that just hand you your item and change, and you have to check if it's right.

it also makes it easier to pocket money that way.

:crx: You and your road rage are killing this nation!

my road rage is like checks and balances on shitty drivers. how will one know there are area of improvment if not?

pero hasta entonces mejor la muerte

I was the night guy and did the drawer and deposit, so that never happened. Still rang in the sales and drawer still had to balance. I'm not particularly devious in that way and fail to see how that makes it easier, educate me in your evil ways, Brain.

If a guy bought $30 worth of stuff, I keyed in the sale, hit sub-total, and then cash/tendered without entering the 50.00 bill amount. That way the register just didn't calculate the change, I still had to give the guy his $20. I'm not seeing the fraud / theft opportunity.

I guess any cash transaction is an opportunity for theft if you don't ring in the sale at all, but that's not what I'm on about.

the key is charging them the correct amount, learning due to repeativeness, and giving the change.

say you know a coffree is always $1.25

he hands you $5, you hand him back $3.75. you didn't record sale, you just opened drawer. then you take 1.25.


btw I used a calculater to get 3.75.

I misinterpreted your original response. Thought you meant that not keying the rendered dollar amount somehow made it easier to pocket $$. You meant knowing totals in your head and not keying the sale at all.

yes sir.

In April we had a skip level review. My boss's boss was reviewing everyone's sales over a conference call. We had a product with a quota of 10 per month that was on the agenda to discuss. I sold 0 in jan and feb but sold 133 of them in March. I was leading the country in sales. These are his exact words.

Ok Jacob, we have 0 for January, we have 0 for February, and a nice sale in March. I'd really like to see consistant selling through the months. What kind of deals do you have in the funnel for this quarter?

Me: I dont have anything in the pipe for April of May. I have another big deal lined up for middle of June. It should be an 80 unit deal. Which when closed will have me at 175% for the years quota.

Umm yeah, thats not how I want our sellers operating. I'd rather you be consistant than zero's for months while your working on a bigger deal.

your boss's boss should be set on fire

isn't the purpose of a skip level so you can rat on YOUR boss without them knowing...

Reminds me of this:

I would have handled it with. Well looks like I have 10 lined up for April and May!

Isn't there a way to make it look like you are doing them consistently? Still the same total sales, just spread it out? But still do them in one big deal. Probably not possible with how you have to record them, but there are somethings I do where I just document them as happening daily, but I do it all on one day.

I was trending to hit 367% for the year, I was the top seller in the nation. This dude needed to suck a nut. WTF was going on in his head. A smart boss would of asked me how I was landing these big deals, then passed it along to the team as a best practice.

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If I'm not mistaken, you said this was your bosses boss, correct? I assume that he has a title like "product line director."

Asking you how you did it and passing that information to others would be your bosses job. Your bosses bosses job is to create quarterly reports and do sales forecasting. That sort of thing is easy when sales and shipments are nice and consistent from one period to the next. What you are doing may be better for the company overall (eg: more profit) however it makes your bosses bosses job harder because his pretty charts and graphs get all messed up.

I'm being completely serious.

The lost opportunity, however, is to teach this method to enough salesman that the aggregate sales even out on a monthly basis. Thus, more profit, as well as consistent monthly totals. Someone over there needs to stop assuming that individual salesman must have consistent monthly totals in order for the company to have consistent monthly totals.

I'm sure your right. He is a complete moron and the Director of Sales for our region. I'm currently looking for other opportunites...

I'm so happy I don't have to deal with stupid co-workers and bosses anymore.

Every job I've worked at I've either had a screaming match or actual fist fight with someone. Sometimes it was even the boss!

Stupid people are hard to work with because when someone starts to excel or "shine", they get jealous. I never worked in an office environment so I'm not sure how its handled there, but for me it always ended with an aggressive confrontation. I'm not the type to keep it down or fight quietly either, so it usually was a good show for whoever else was around.

Working with stupid people is one thing, but living with them is what REALLY sucks. When I say living I really just mean existing together. Simple things like going to the store are completely ruined for me because of stupid people. Between the drive there, then dealing with all the fucks inside the store, I'm pretty much ready to punch someone in the face by the time we get to the register. Every time. lol

Somebody needs a bowl.

I got sick of working for fucktards so I started my own gig. It's been great ever since - if stupid people waste your time you just charge them more.

This.

I have had to deal with this shit at every job I've ever worked at. It's like there's some unwritten code that you can't work harder than everybody else.

FUCK YOU!

I have goals, and I've been given the opportunity to reach them. Every fucking day I pour a cup of coffee, sit down at my desk, look to the guy on my left, and look to the guy on my right, and tell myself I'm going to make them both look like shithead slackers by the end of the day.



They wanna keep getting the same shitty paycheck, then fine, they can keep that communist work ethic of theirs and stick it up their ass. I'm going somewhere you sorry bastards. I won't step on your head to get there and I don't play office politics, but I'll sure as fuck pull ahead when it turns into a footrace.

+1

Thank god we have those peons though, we need them when we rule the world.
I guess that's the only upside of it all..

After looking at them you promptly get on Gmail and chat with me all day. :makeout:

I multitask like a motherfucker. :laugh:

The Murano Story.

About 4 years ago my wife and I decided it was time for a family vehicles, an SUV and something newer. I wanted one of those fancy toyota suvs and she wanted a Murano. We went to toyota, i went to sit in this 4x4 thing made out of plastic and nailed my knee off the dash. I was instantly like "this thing is made for small peepz" (might have said asians instead of peepz, dont recall). She was pleased I was injured and she said lets go look at the Nissan Murano. I lol'd and said "you know what, if its bigger inside you can have it, fuck that toyota!"

We drive over to the dealer and theres an '04 sitting there, like new, slightly used. We pay around $30,000 for it with the help of some bank financing. We get the Murano and have it for about 4 days, she loves it. In the course of the 4 days she sells her old daily with 140,000 km on it for a decent chunk of change so rather than blowing the cash we decide to put the money towards the financing we used. We go to the bank, im driving. I park like an idiot at the side of the mall where no cars can go, its like a court. Its winter, parking is taken up but hey, we on the far side. We run into the bank to put the money on the financing and decided to go to the takeout place on the one side where the Murano is parked. To give you an idea its a court at the one side of the building with a boxed end and cars park on either side of the box. I had the last spot where the snow had been plowed into so I couldnt pull all the way in, the ass of the murano was hanging way out but I was also in the last spot and the far end.

We order food and shes talking about her truck and how awesome it 4x4s as I watch the cars pass on the highway and look at the truck to reference it as we talk. Some kid and his father walk past the window, kid is about 5. They get in their mini van and begin to back out (awww yea, here it comes). The father backs out about 5 car lengths and just keeps going and going and im watching and bam. Im like wtf but not 100% sure he just hit it. So i say to the wife "that guy just hit the truck" and start to walk out. The guy looks at me, eyes meet as im now about 2 cars lengths away from him and he guns it, spins the tires and takes off in the lot. With all the grime, salt, snow and shit on the truck I at first dont see any damage from the distance, i grab only the first 4 letters of his Van. I look at the Murano mirror, its smashed. Closer inspection shows the fender pushed way in, the door pushed in and paint ripped off to the bare metal (we later get a quote of $3000 to repair).

So im like WTF? I mean, dont people see or look when they drive. It was late and on a friday so i stewed over it for the weekend. I went back monday and went to the one place i thought a 5 year old kid might be at, the learning center. I speak to the secretary and show her the truck and describe the father and kid. She was awesome and very helpful in a not helpful way. She was like "I cant tell you if they attend here or when they would be here but if I were you I would come back Friday at 5 pm to see". And I did.

Friday 5 pm, i approach the van owner at the mall, recording our convo on the camera in my pocket. He admitted to hitting it and took out his cheque book. He wrote out a check and then said "you know what man, you cant prove shit" *crumpling the cheque* , told me to leave him alone or he would call the cops. I wanted to smash him but i was under direct orders not to kill an afgan that day from the wife.

I spoke to PC (cop) friend of mine and he said I should have reported it that day but since fail on full license the guy could argue it and most pc's wouldn't care or even file a fail to remain.... But I just wanted vengeance.

A month or two passed and rage was still flowing in my veins and only got worse when we returned to that 1 mall. The wife and I are out shopping and we pull into the parking lot and i see the afgan guys van again. My wife is like "leave it alone" and all nagging me to be nice. I was like "fuck that watch this". I pull in the spot right beside him and stood there. She begged me not to beat his ass and kept asking what i was going to do. Within minutes (seemed like forever) the guy walks out with his kid and wife and sees me there and smiles. I look at him and his wife and I say "bro, wtf, you just hit my truck". He starts to laugh and says go away yadda yadda yadda. I was like "bro, you hit my truck".. people in the lot now looking like "OMG". He starts getting in his Van to leave and I call 911 and explain to the operator this guy just hit my truck and hes trying to take off and there is a child in the vehicle hes driving. 3 regional cops show up in what seemed like less than 5 minutes and surround the shit. The afgan starts verbally attacking whitey cop explaining that YES, hes hit the Murano before but it wasn't today. The cop was totally confused and detained the driver as the driver was acting all crazy and confrontational and resisting. But before the cops arrived the wife or the driver of the van had called their afgan brothers to come handle biz for him. So 2 car loads show up and jump out and get all up in whitey cops face. Now every cop is at attention and telling people to ' go home people!!!!!!" while the wife and i sit back... me loving every moment of it, she praising me for not killing him.

In the end, he was cited, maybe charged we dont know. He sat in handcuffs in a cruiser for 45 minutes. His wife asked us why we cared, insurance would pay for it.

It felt good to fuck him back. The truck is still mashed, we never fixed it but prolly will this year. But fuck him, his kid watched him sit in the back of a police car and so did his wife and everyone else.

The end.

i truly love this line. :giggle:

Awesome story Rick! lol

Props on having self control to not beat his ass cause then you'd be the one in the back of the cruiser.

Karma always comes back around somehow. :bigtu:

*slow clap*


Though I would have still tried to get compensated for the damages.

LOL good stuff.

Seriously who just takes off after an accident... IF YOU GO THERE ALL THE TIME. I mean sure I can see some dumbass taking off after an accident, but the fact that he would be back there day after day seems kinda stupid on his part.

No Fault Insurance at the end of the day.

That is truly one of the best stories ever. Dreams really can come true if you're persistent and ignore everything your wife says. I've watched my miata been hit so many times by mom's in suv's and bros in trucks that I don't get mad anymore. But I'd still love to ruin their month/ year/ marriage like you did. Bravo.

Holy shit! Rick is bad ass. Haha! Very clever.

It's been a couple years since but I've touched on this very subject here previously a few different occasions.

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A fellow forum member sent me an item in this flat rate envelope.. The fucking cocksuckers at the post office tore the package open and lost the item, then claimed they're not responsible for it. "You should have taken out insurance on it."

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I see examples of the decline on society every day. Ever take the time to speak with people under the age of 30? Half of them sound terribly illiterate. "Yeah, uhm, and uhm, uh, uhm, eh, uhm, and, uhm, like, uhm, like, and uh, uhm.."

The first day of employment at my current company the head of HR comes in to speak about policies and procedures. After five minutes of her speaking I decided to count the number of times she said "uhm." 127 times in 13 minutes of speaking. I'd guesstimate her age would be approximately 27 years of age and holds several degrees. Pathetic. Clearly I'm no fucking scholar, but at least I can identify the proper use of common words in our butchered language. People who can't properly use "Their, They're, There, To, Too, Two" make me want to punch their face in. All of it. The whole thing...

Started out working internal helpdesk for my company. People would call in they couldn't get their computers working when the fucking power is out. One jerkoff set their office on fire because they plugged too many things into a UPS. When I told him they could NOT plug anything but the server, monitor, and printer into the UPS he stated, "where the fuck am I supposed to plug in the fridge, coffee maker, and microwave?!" Seriously I'm being asked this after the office fire?? :gun to head: Is your IQ 4? We'll hire you for a field office! Think a simple solution would be to require applicants to identify and circle a computer in a diagram containing a Dell desktop computer and filing cabinet. That'd weed out the idiots a bit...

Don't get me started on how some of these jackass morterforkers drive.. They either have no ability for smooth linear steering inputs, or the mentality of "I signaled therefore I'll do as I wish" and swerve across 96 lanes of traffic.


Standing in line at a QuikTrip few months back some fat ---- piece of white trash ahead of me bought beer, cancer sticks and gasoline with food stamps. Rolled herself to the parking lot into a piece of shit 2005ish malibu with 24" wheels. Fucking LOVE IT!

Shit is really getting out of hand. I wonder if it is different than a long time ago, or if the stupidity is being amplified by technology and handouts. I mean back before women could drive, a lot of the shitty driving did not exist.

I mean are we really getting dumber, or have people always been this dumb, but survival of the fittest took them out, or kept them at home, or there just weren't as many of them?

IDK. But when/if I bring kids into this world they are going to fucking be squared away. I will NOT let this shitty world ruin them. And then will probably grow up to be frustrated and pissed at how dumb everyone else is.

I had an old ass fat white lady with her young black lover try to fight me in a QT. Walked in to buy a can of snuff after work, still in my uniform, and I hear, "Mother fucking *my employers name* in the house." So she starts cussing at me and Im think just get the snuff and dont fight this fool cause your still in uniform. The kid behind the counter says "real classy lady" and she fuckin flips her shit. She continues to yell shit about me and my employer. Ive never met this bitch cause I work 15 miles from this QT and live another 15 miles past it.

So as im walking to my car the kid tries to hit me in his destroyed dodge caliber, so I dont move and the guy chickens out and stops just shy of me, so I approach the window and nicely tell him if he would oblige me by getting out of his car Id be more than happy to beat the daylights out of him. Unfortunately he didnt, but he did try to run me over again.

On the way up to Hallett yesterday, we got stuck behind a Okie train apparently headed to California to pick strawberries. They had no concept of speed limit, or road courtesy, or how to work the pedal under their right foot. They would slow down to 40 on gentle sweepers, then rocket up to 75 just when you thought it was safe to pass. When I finally got my chance on a good downhill run with lots of free room to make up some ground, I hauled ass. I make it past four cars before an oncoming car pops up on the horizon. I politely signal and plan to tuck in behind some slutbag in a 90s Pontiac Grand Prix. Behind Slutbag is a blue-hair in a Toyota Electra 225 (Avalon). Well, as I'm slowing down and trying to tuck in, Slutbag starts bouncing her foot off the left pedal like a complete fucking retard, slowing down in chunks even though nobody else is front of her is braking. Meanwhile, Blue-Hair keeps her speed and is bearing down on me and Slutbag because she hasn't paid attention to the road since 1963 - she's busy reading her bible and spilling hot coffee on her dried out genitalia. And while all this is going on, some redneck is hurtling toward me in his International Scout made of bondo, rust, and no brakes. My asshole takes a big bite out of the seat just as Blue Hair wakes up from her Jesus trance and finally taps the brakes. I slip back in line just as LeRoy Brown flies past me in the opposing lane. At that point I wished I had two things: 1) more power, and 2) a sack of bricks to throw at drivers like that - you know, something to wake 'em up a little. Nothing like a brick to the head through the window on the highway to make you think about what you've done.

I'm seriously ready to move out into the fucking woods and become a hermit to escape the amount of idiocracy I see every day. Of course that would do no good, they would find me... and make me pay my taxes.

Seriously though, I see or hear something at least every hour, from either people or some form of media that makes me either angry as fuck, or makes me hang my head in shame to think I share the same genetic materials as these people.