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corporate monster - Oakland County Elitist? Hardly.
Another instance where the public school system has failed to teach adequate reading comprehension skills, most likely.
That or I missed that semester. I hated skool, most of what they taught was regurgitation of info. Waste my of time and taxpayers money.
I wanted to learn how to deal with people and learn a skill, not be a ass kisser or yes man in a corporate world. How to evaluate a situation and deal with it. When you interact with a person you read the clues of their real intent. I learned that in the streets, not school. I found out that I was a visual learner, funny the educators never figured that out, I might have been a better student, maybe not.
That's why I hate email and postings like this, I could not read the intent.
I pretty much damned the whole SE corner of the state...but I guess your response falls into the abject ignorance / quick to fight type of negative energy that I spoke of in my first post.
Let me make it crystal clear...From Lansing draw one line east, and another south until you hit water and Ohio respectively. Any and all counties contained therein, including Oakland, Wayne, Macomb, Monroe, et al, are hereby collectively understood as the armpit of the state.
So...we agree that you can find good people here, and that 'here' is south east Michigan. What's your beef with me cowboy?
I disagree, I don't think this area or state is an armpit at all. I have spent time in central and northern Michigan. I found some great people and a great deal of nepotism and negativity. More than in this area, I still wouldn't call it an armpit either. Things are tough, the economy sucks but the right leadership will change that. Just my opinion. Yes I'm quick to defend were I live, because I live here. I took your condemnation as negative.
I hypothesize that you have experienced prejudice based upon a perception of socio economic status associated with your mailing address. This is in conrtradiction with your id and perception of self...corporate monster. Ergo, you project onto others...i.e. the ears stop working, the mind hears what it wants, and has already decided to lash out at the first target that even remotely engages anything close to this, one of your sensitive issues.
It seems by your reaction I opened a prevoiusly closed wound. Attacked my lack of edukayshun and my socio economic status. Wow! I almost had enough pop bottles to buy another lottery ticket and a 40 ouncer........
Yes, I heard it my whole life from Qakland County Elitists and others, How superior Oakland county is to everywhere else, why would I live here, blah blah blah.. I have heard it from relatives, friends, fiends and wannabees. I visit their homes and it's just like being in a million other places in Michigan, same houses, yards and neighborhoods. WTF???
So yes, I have experienced prejudice, I just don't understand it. I don't understand prejudice as a whole. In my early years I worked with what people labeled "The lowest class of people." Strange how many of them were funny, intelligent and very moral people, I learned alot from those men and have alot of respect for them. I wouldn't be where I'm at today without some of them pushing me to do more with my life. If that makes me sensitive so be it.
I also hear the Grosse Point thing from my wife as I stated in the other post.(I still shudder when think of that area. House, driveway, house, driveway on and on.) My average size garage was very close in size to the backyard. Not trashing the place, I need space...
Oh, Contradiction with the id and perception of self, you have misunderstood. The Corporate Monster tag is not that I see myself as some corporate T Rex ruling a corporation with an iron fist, quite the contrary. Have you ever seen the original Frankenstein movie? The monster wanders around and interacts with the townspeople so he will be percieved as one of them? Then his true self emerges and it quite apparent he is not one of them. Been there done that. I am a corporate monster, the monster who does not fit in the corporate world.
I used to have a boss who claimed, "Perceptions are everything." I told him he was mistaken, actions are everything. He then informed me how wrong I was. Not long after I was transferred (with his supreme blessing of course) then promoted, he on the other hand was terminated. I still don't trust a perception or a boss I have no need for either.
Had this coversation started face to face, I'm sure it would have taken a different path and tone. We still may have disagreed but we would have read each other differently.
If so, get over it...the nickname for my township ends in -tucky.
That's sad, you can change that, we did.
And collectively, I think we both live in an armpit.
I still disagree, so we'll agree to disagree.....
C.M.
P.S. I won't tell Panch you swiped his call sign...