people who expect to get screwed over

[corndogggy]

Why do some people have this mentality that the whole world is trying to screw them over? You enter a business deal with them and they automatically expect something to be wrong, so they are actually looking for things to throw a fit about. Then, when they find something, and they will... even if you have no control over it, they get really hateful and personal, fighting as if they're backed in a corner. It really gets old. I don't even know what to call them other than whiners. I see them at work, at my wife's law office, while selling trailers, pretty much everywhere. They expect flawless VIP service at half the price of everybody else and it's sickening. Some people even chew out my wife because of Kentucky's laws, like if there is a 30-60 day waiting period on divorce issues and they don't think that's fast enough, and I guess they think by showing their rear they can get that waived.

[12 pointer]

Why do some people have this mentality that the whole world is trying to screw them over? You enter a business deal with them and they automatically expect something to be wrong, so they are actually looking for things to throw a fit about. Then, when they find something, and they will... even if you have no control over it, they get really hateful and personal, fighting as if they're backed in a corner. It really gets old. I don't even know what to call them other than whiners. I see them at work, at my wife's law office, while selling trailers, pretty much everywhere. They expect flawless VIP service at half the price of everybody else and it's sickening.

Someone is having a bad day. ;) lol. Really hope it gets better for ya.:)

[12 pointer]

If my wife were a lawyer, I'd be hunting right now.:)

[Foam Steak]

If my wife were a lawyer, I'd be hunting right now.:)

That would probably depend on whatever spousal agreement she made you sign before getting married...............Article 3 Subpart 1: In the event afformentioned husband no longer maintains gainfull employment he will use corresponding free time to complete house chores, take care of children and improve his hirability through the taking and completion of courses at the local community college. At no time during the unemployement is the husband to engage in any activity that does not meet these requirements without specific written permision from the wife(herafter refered to as the Queen). Subpart 2: If the husband returns to regular gainful employment at any time he will then abide by the rules setforth in all parts of Article 2 and Addendums 7 through 12 of this document.......

[Turtleky]

If my wife were a lawyer, I'd be hunting right now.:)
Now thats funny, LMAO :D

[corndogggy]

If my wife were a lawyer, I'd be hunting right now.:)

She hasn't gotten the memo that says "lawyers are supposed to make a bunch of money" just yet. :D

[PhilpotHunter]

Why do some people think they have to complain about everything??? I know this one guy, on the web forum I frequent that complains ALL the time about different stuff....

cornhole or something like that is his name:D

[corndogggy]

Why do some people think they have to complain about everything??? I know this one guy, on the web forum I frequent that complains ALL the time about different stuff....

cornhole or something like that is his name:D

Yep, I'm the guy complaining about the economy and how bad everything is and how I can't afford to put gas in my vehicle and everything else along those lines, right? :rolleyes:

If you had accused me of being the resident devil's advocate, that may be a little more accurate. LOL

[Multidigits]

Why do some people have this mentality that the whole world is trying to screw them over?

Probably because they've been screwed over before.....:confused:

[drakeshooter]

Probably because they've been screwed over before.....:confused:

I was thinking the same thing. I manage a tire and auto shop and the owner pretty much lets me run things as I see fit. However, he is pretty steadfast about me not giving new credit or ordering parts without a deposit. This sometimes leads to lost revenues and I asked him once why he was so afraid of somebody leaving him holding the bag. He said, "A bought lesson is better than being told.":D

[corndogggy]

Probably because they've been screwed over before.....:confused:

Yeah, maybe, but consider technical support phone people... most are stressed and depressed from having to put up with verbal abuse all day long without being able to return the favor. Lots of people who call them expect the phone operators to roll out the red carpet and bring out the big guns to cater to them and for some reason believe that the way to make this happen is to be extremely hateful. Why do people have to act like this? It's those kinds of people who I'm talking about. Yeah, maybe they got screwed before, but does that mean they get a free ticket to be a complete ass for the rest of their lives while making everybody else miserable?

As for the earlier comment about having a bad day... yeah. Had to deal with one of those people this morning, ruined my day. Met this dude on Saturday and could immediately tell he was going to be one of those people. That's what is amazing, you can instantly tell, before anything really ever happens, they're already expecting things to go horribly wrong.

Anyway, dude starts nitpicking everything you can possibly think of, I end up giving him a $15 freebie, then he calls me back this morning wanting me to send him another $25, and went off the deep end when I told him I wasn't going to. I'm tired of people like that so I argued back with him. He didn't like that too much apparently. :D

[corndogggy]

ordering parts without a deposit. This sometimes leads to lost revenues

From my experience, I've got to say that soooooo many people will just disappear if you let them order a part with no deposit. They'll put in the request, you make the order, then that's the last you'll hear from them. I've found that revenues are actually higher if you require a deposit, as some of those people who would have disappeared now have to follow through on their initial intentions, plus you don't have to finance their buyer's remorse.

[Multidigits]

Yeah, maybe, but consider technical support phone people... most are stressed and depressed from having to put up with verbal abuse all day long without being able to return the favor. Lots of people who call them expect the phone operators to roll out the red carpet and bring out the big guns to cater to them and for some reason believe that the way to make this happen is to be extremely hateful. Why do people have to act like this? It's those kinds of people who I'm talking about. Yeah, maybe they got screwed before, but does that mean they get a free ticket to be a complete ass for the rest of their lives while making everybody else miserable?

As for the earlier comment about having a bad day... yeah. Had to deal with one of those people this morning, ruined my day. Met this dude on Saturday and could immediately tell he was going to be one of those people. That's what is amazing, you can instantly tell, before anything really ever happens, they're already expecting things to go horribly wrong.

Anyway, dude starts nitpicking everything you can possibly think of, I end up giving him a $15 freebie, then he calls me back this morning wanting me to send him another $25, and went off the deep end when I told him I wasn't going to. I'm tired of people like that so I argued back with him. He didn't like that too much apparently. :D


Yeah, life's a bitch....then you die. Count on one hand how many people you know that like their job. There's millions of stressful jobs, and most of them aren't phone operators. All they have to do is hang up and blame it on something else. Everybody handles adversy different, some people can't handle it at all. I'm pretty used to it....if something doesn't go wrong during the day I wouldn't know how to act.

[corndogggy]

if something doesn't go wrong during the day I wouldn't know how to act.

Oh I agree, it's just that 2% of the population that goes ballistic when the least little thing goes wrong that I have a problem with. Like, one time at work I had the CEO of one of our bank customers tell me he was going to kick my ass, over something stupid. What's that all about? I don't know what these people think they're accomplishing. The even dumber part is that these people won't get crazy to my face, they wait until they're on the phone. I almost wish one of them would get crazy in my face just once.

[corndogggy]

Kind of funny, I ran into another guy like this today on a trailer sale. You could tell he was going to be like that because as he got closer and closer he would call me up and ask about certain specifications, like he was looking for something to be inferior before he even saw the trailer, just seemed to be real nervous. He was expecting to get screwed before he was even in town.

So he gets to the lot and almost immediately says "oh, that's 4" channel on the tongue, I was expecting 5", I can't take that". What an idiot, you just don't need 5" channel on a 3' tongue of a 7,000 pound rated trailer when the back of it is fully welded to the 5" channel frame all the way back to the fenders. Big Tex doesn't even do that, it's 4" channel. Hell, Big Tex doesn't even use channel on the frame of car hauler flatbeds, this one was stronger than a Big Tex, and he's still just making up stuff about the supposedly inferior construction.

Dude drove all the way from Michigan and spent $300 in gas too, and walked away because of this. People like this drive me nuts. At least he didn't go ballistic though, I just walked off.

[tenntucky]

Try putting together specific schematically detailed drawings of your trailers to send to prospective buyers and weed out the majority of these types before you ever meet them. You wont have to hear the opinion of the folks that don't think your product meets their requirements, you will usually never hear from them again. You wont lose good buyers just the ones that don't want your product anyway and you wont have to put up with their bad attitude after being disappointed at driving over to see the product and wasting gas money etc.

[Loomis1228]

If my wife were a lawyer, I'd be hunting right now.:)

My wife is a lawyer and I have to work for a living. It's called LAW SCHOOL and it's VERY expensive.

[F250Stroke]

Getting screwed over is like watching a grill commercial with fake vegetables on the grill with fake grill marks on them:eek: