You know what I am talking about...you are in a college class and there is this one person who you can't stand or acts like a complete *******. They seem to be pretty common in undergrad classes, but since starting the MBA program, I haven't run into many at all until last night. I am taking this elective class about unions and one of the people in that class is a dude who has been in 3 other classes with me. The first time I was in class with him was several semesters ago and he sat in the front while I sat in the back. I never spoke to him and vice versa. However, last spring, both of my 2 classes I had with him. So, recognizing him (he is not hard to miss which I will talk about later), I began talking to him. At first, he was nice but in a somewhat aloof way. However, about a month later, he would act like he didn't know who I was. Yet the next week he would be different although hardly outgoing. So, I didn't know what to think about this guy and here I have another class with this guy. Okay, this guy has a B.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering but works at Bell South. He shaves his head, is ex-military, and works out to the point of being a body builder (he told me in one of the few times he thought I was worthy to talk to him that he benched 400 pounds and I would say that he is not BSing me on that, he also has one of those barbed wire tatoos). He made the comment one day to a friend of mine last Spring about how easy the program is (the MBA program) and how the teachers never give anyone a C or D but A's and B's. My friend looked at him and was thinking, "Then why are you here if you feel that you are not being challenged?" Okay, so let me get to last night. My teacher for that class is nutty, but in a good way and he went on and on about the school newspaper using the word "schmuck" in their paper. No one knew what that word meant or at least according to what he thought it meant. Most of us had heard the word before but didn't know the "literal" meaning. He gave us a break and he looked the word up on-line and showed it to me and told me that I could tell the rest of the class. I walked out of the room and the first person I saw was this guy in question, Zack. I said "Hey, Zack, Singer looked up schmuck and wanted me to tell everyone what it means." He looked at me when I said his name and then the ******* kept on walking. I was like thinking "what the f*ck is your problem?" I went on ahead anyway and told some other people as he was standing around but that pissed me off. Later, we were watching these films about unions and after it was over, Zack was asking the teacher and the class what was the deal with the year 1947. I spoke up and told him that was the year that the Union President became shop steward. Felt that it was pretty self-explanatory. He (Zack that is) looked around the class and said "Well, there is OBVIOUSLY some confusion going on in that movie!" Once again, I sat there and thought to myself, "You stupid f*ck! There is no confusion going on. You just hate the fact that I made you look like a dumbass to the rest of the class!" It just baffles me how this guy acts, mainly because he used to be nice to me at one time. The only thing I can figure out is that maybe he thinks I ask too many questions in class or maybe he thinks that I am not as "smart" as he is. At any rate, I am through trying to talk to this guy in a friendly way.
But, he benches 400 pounds so he must be cool and always right in his behavior and actions. My advice...don't talk to him anymore and don't sit next to him. Let him and his ego trip flounder somewhere else. Kind of sounds like that musclehead guy in Paradise Hotel who can do no wrong and admires himself way too much.
Like I tell my daughter..You dont have to be friends with everyone. Life's to short to waste it trying to be friendly towards as*holes..
Manny, I would suggest using the ol "jerk store" line. If that fails, tell him you slept with his wife/girlfriend.
BTW, schmuck is Yiddish for "penis"... hehehe...so Manny, mabye he doesn't talk to you because your schmuck isn't as big as his....
Heh. I dig it when people yell at each other in my classes. Doesn't happen often enough though. I don't worry about making new friends naturally im going to meet someone I get along so I don't have to TRY. nah mean.
Barbed wire tatoo....that's real creative..... It always amazes me that people get random things with no apparent significance in their life permanently branded onto their bodies. I mean is barbed wire the only thing you can come up with? I am thinking about getting a mushroom tattoo on account of how they connect me with the spirit world and all. And the fact that a mushroom tattoo is also what happens when you get slapped with a penis. I am a big fan of irony.
As a veteran, I never acted that way to people in class. There was one time that I did go off on tirade back at Alabama. This really liberal guy who looked like a leftist radical straight from central casting in my defense policy class kept going on and on about how our military is evil and how they are useless and blah, blah, blah, blah. Finally, I could take no more. I raised my hand and verbally reamed him a new one, while also successfully arguing against his position. He had the nerve after class to call me a militarist pig and I just ignored him. Some people just can't help but be a-holes. Ignore them and move on. Just pray for them. They need it, trust me.
Thanks guys. I guess I just wanted to vent. I ALWAYS try to be friendly to every person that are in my classes because I feel a certain camaraderie with them since we are all in the same program. It reminds me of the Seinfeld episode in which George becomes intrigued with Jerry's girlfriend simply because she hates him. Now I wouldn't go as far as saying that this guy hates me, but I think there is some dislike and it intrigues me why there is this dislike. If the dude had never been friendly with me, then I would never care. Does that make sense or am I crazy? Wait, don't answer that question!
Dude, try being a prof for all you nutjobs out there. Seriously, guy in question sounds really insecure (body building, natch). Don't bother with him.
I've only run into one a-hole in my classes so far, and he was from last semester. The guy was practically a cupcake and a loser. He'd often talk about a girl he was with the night before and would insuate they had sex. Was pretty funny since no one gave a damn and just ignored him. Then he'd lie and say he was in the Air Force, but got discharged because of a leg injury and spoke 11 languages. The guy ended up skipping almost every class for the first 8 weeks of the semester and ended up dropping the course. The sad thing is, everytime I'd walk into the campus building, he'd be there sitting in the smokers section outside the building with the rest of the other smokers, and just wouldn't show up to class. I mean if your going to take the time to head to the campus, you might as well actually go to class. The guy was just a dumbass in the biggest sense. As for this semester, everyone I've run into my classes is pretty nice, or atleast doesn't come off as an idiot. One girl who I regret not ditching work for I wanted to talk to and hang out with yesterday. Tuesdays and Thursdays we have the same class together in History. We've sat next to eachother in class for about a month straight since school started. Well we had a test on Tuesday and we're quizzing eachother over potential questions and answers we were unsure about. We talked about other things before the exam before the teacher handed out the test sheets. Finally he did, I finished early and headed to work afterwards. Thursday comes up and I'm greeted by the same cutie from Tuesday and we talk before the class and ask what we think we got on our exams because the professor was about to hand them into us. Again we talk about other things, and she seemed really interested. Class started though and we had stopped talking and when it ended I was hoping maybe she was taking the same elevator floor down to leave the campus, but she ended up going up to the library. I regret not following her up because she was standing next to me and was giving me a big smile and showing off her big brown eyes, while we were waiting for an elevator to stop at our floor. Argh the more I think about it, the more I wish I followed her up. Fecking work and priorities. By the way I got an A on my exam and was top 3 in my class. Was refreshing since I was a consistent C student my first semester. I'd really like to up to a low A or high B. Higher the better though and I'm glad my efforts and change in study habit are helping
Hey! Its me you're talking about!! I'm going to kick your scrawny a$$. Talking about me on a web site!!??!? You'd better not come to class if you know whats good for you! . . . . . . . . . . . . . j/j So where are you doing your MBA anyway??
Not really on the subject of jerks but since ya'll are talking about college let me share my secret to sucess that I learned in my 10 years of undergraduate school. Sit on the front row, right under the professor's nose. You are forced to concentrate on what he is saying, you can't daydream or doodle, you see the body language that indicates what he thinks is important and will be 'on the test', your presence or absence will be noticed so you make yourself attend. Also all the jerks and pretty girls are behind you so you can stay focused. I swear it really works.
Good strategy. Also get slight benefit of doubt from your professors who are duped into thinking you love their classes.
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