“problem with authority” is just What authorities say when what they mean is “constantly questions our reasons and doesn’t just immediately do what we SAY exactly as we MEAN it like a good little puppet beloved citizen”
Not always. When I was a restaurant manager, I had a couple employees where I would patiently explain why we need to do something a particular way (usually for health and safety reasons), and they would deliberately do it a different way because they just “want to do it that way.”
No, Chelsea, dumping a half-full soda somebody handed you into the ice you use for putting in customer drinks is not okay, get the fuck out of drive through, grab a bucket, and start emptying that ice out and cleaning/sanitizing the space. I swear to god if you complain about it, when you just put one employee out of action for the next half (let’s be honest, full) hour as well as making drive-thru have to go up front to make drinks in the middle of the dinner rush I will fire you on the spot.
Some people have a “problem with authority” because they are belligerent idiots.
It makes me a more principled person and independent thinker, I’m not sure it’s always made my life better or easier. My problems with authority have definitely gotten me let go. Twice. And I think I did the right thing, calling out unethical behaviour or refusing to mislead people, but I do think I’ve suffered for it to be honest. And the other side? Little to none!
‘The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.’
Having problems with authority as a personality trait has always led me right
Included during covid?
Because being told to vaccinate is not a good thing to rebel against.
Distinctions are maintained between authoritarian and authoritative.
“problem with authority” is just What authorities say when what they mean is “constantly questions our reasons and doesn’t just immediately do what we SAY exactly as we MEAN it like a
good little puppetbeloved citizen”Not always. When I was a restaurant manager, I had a couple employees where I would patiently explain why we need to do something a particular way (usually for health and safety reasons), and they would deliberately do it a different way because they just “want to do it that way.”
No, Chelsea, dumping a half-full soda somebody handed you into the ice you use for putting in customer drinks is not okay, get the fuck out of drive through, grab a bucket, and start emptying that ice out and cleaning/sanitizing the space. I swear to god if you complain about it, when you just put one employee out of action for the next half (let’s be honest, full) hour as well as making drive-thru have to go up front to make drinks in the middle of the dinner rush I will fire you on the spot.
Some people have a “problem with authority” because they are belligerent idiots.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Odd.
It led me to Lemmy, where damn near everyone is willing to get difficult
really? your mom was pretty easy BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
OT: well that’s a username that’s easy to remember…
Aaand now the melody is stuck in my head…
Hahaha!!!
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What country have I called?
Difficult is as difficult does.
No I’m not.
It makes me a more principled person and independent thinker, I’m not sure it’s always made my life better or easier. My problems with authority have definitely gotten me let go. Twice. And I think I did the right thing, calling out unethical behaviour or refusing to mislead people, but I do think I’ve suffered for it to be honest. And the other side? Little to none!
Exactly. I have a fixed and entirely self serving belief that without difficult people, society would collapse.
That’s ridiculous, I refuse to believe it. Some unreasonable people are women and enbies.
Humbling isn’t it, to know that we can all strive to become even more difficult and unreasonable?
George Bernard Shaw, nice. That used to be my favorite quote.