2022-08-28 at 5:05 PM UTC
explain to the folks at home what a crab bucket mentality is
2022-08-28 at 5:12 PM UTC
ok so crab fisherman commonly store crabs in a bucket, now they're made of slippery plastic but before they were made out of wood.
It is incredible easy for a crab to walk up an uneven surface. So one would think that crabs in a bucket would all climb out. However, when placed in a bucket with other crabs as soon as 1 crab starts to climb up, other crabs grab his legs/body and more crabs soon crab onto the crab trying to hold down the first crab, resulting in the first crab losing his grip and them all falling back into the bottom.
All the crabs could escape if they just acted independently to climb up the bucket and go onto live wonderfully crabby lives.
However because of extremely unhappy crabs (RIPTOTSE in this case) no one is able to suceed. My success is seen as detrimental to his greater position in life, so he pulls me down, so that we all remain at the bottom, all unhappy, all soon going to be turned into chowder.
It's necessary in life to escape crab bucket mentality type people, lest they drag you back to your death, where they seem happy to just wallow, refusing to undertake anything that would result in anyone other than them being better off, alive, or successful.
aka a hatin ass bitch nigga
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2022-08-28 at 5:14 PM UTC
aldra
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Originally posted by Bradley
Why not put a 100$ wager on whether or not I fail out this semester? :)
you'll just buy $100 worth of crack at the library on the first day of next semester
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2022-08-28 at 5:17 PM UTC
Other times it's kinda like this;
1 guy works hard for five years and gets promoted to supervisor, I get hired and tell him I want to get promoted to supervisor one day too, he sees I am better qualified for the supervisor position, so by either committing real sabotage (telling the boss i'm stealing, making my job harder, etc) or by manipulating me as an individual (telling me how hard it was for him tow become supervisor, saying how i'll never be promoted) he attempts to ruin my ability to advance in the field.
This is done because like in this example, he's been working hard, in college, doing his best for 10 years but doesn't have a degree or anything to show for it, I took 1 year of college in UW Whitewater (3.5GPA iirc), had 1 year of AP class credits and will have an associate degree with honors in December.
He's hoping that I fail so that it makes what he's barely managed to achieve in over a decade of working at seem more impressive and not an easily reached level of success.
Kinda shitty, but he's a bitch and I learned that this week.
2022-08-28 at 5:19 PM UTC
aldra
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I honestly hope you don't fail but everything about your situation sounds fucked
2022-08-28 at 5:23 PM UTC
personally it's sad for me that sommeone I was e-friends with for 12 years and watched go from a nodding out junkie on tinychat to a successful friend who is dual employeed-college enrolled, and text regularly turn into a massive doucher who wants me to fail.
Like RIPTotse I'm not jealous of you, I'm really proud of you and your life and your explanations of things have made me reconsider the methadone maintence type program, you've been a good friend to me, I wish I could say that I didn't use for the last ten years, but you're unbridled desire to see me fail is kinda sad and makes you a bad friend.
I hope everyone here except Wariat has successful lives, grows and improves their condition. It's just sad that not everyone feels the same.
2022-08-28 at 5:29 PM UTC
riptotse the typa nigga that'll have a life vest in the boat, c u drowning and then say "Nah i don't wanna get my life preserver wet." and take some more methadone to keep sober lol
2022-08-28 at 5:33 PM UTC
That being said, if I fuck up my entire life you all realize I'm paying my bills, saving a little bit of money, making a few friends here and there, gonna go get laid on Grindr tonight to let out some of my high energy frustration, andd if worse comes to worse, I'll be 1 semester more done in college and have enjoyed the five months of miami weather and good fishing at the very least.
2022-08-28 at 5:36 PM UTC
Adventures are adventures man. I did the Florida adventure myself in my mid 20s. Hashtag fucking yolo just experience life highs and the lows it's Saul good.
2022-08-28 at 5:44 PM UTC
i wish there werne't so many people here praying I failed.
LIke when people don't know you and they wish bad on you it's OK but when you get to know someone for a decade or even a year and they still want to see you be miserable and suck at life it kinda hurts.
RIPTOTSE didn't have anything negative to say about me two years ago when I was living in a shitty apartment wasted all day doing tweak playing video games.
2022-08-28 at 6:08 PM UTC
Lol @ someone who has to take methadone every day to not be a piece of shit criticizing someone else about their sobriety...
2022-08-28 at 7:13 PM UTC
live steamrolling here ITT
2022-08-28 at 10:55 PM UTC
Originally posted by Bradley
i wish there werne't so many people here praying I failed.
LIke when people don't know you and they wish bad on you it's OK but when you get to know someone for a decade or even a year and they still want to see you be miserable and suck at life it kinda hurts.
RIPTOTSE didn't have anything negative to say about me two years ago when I was living in a shitty apartment wasted all day doing tweak playing video games.
I want everyone to make the big bucks so we can all be rich assholes that order $100 plates of seafood PER PERSON and $30 cock tails
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