War on Men
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UPDATED: Sunday, May 3, 2026 22:40
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Maybe it's just a demographic thing Kwick....
I'm no James Bond, but I'm relatively young and I'm a good looking guy. I'm a college dropout, yes, but I learn anything needed nearly immediately on any job and besides a takeover and a boss that went to jail, the only time I've ever left a job in my past was for something making more money. I make eye contact, I give a firm handshake. I speak and write English rather fluently.
In the mean time, I ONLY require 9 bucks an hour full time, and at the very least, health benefits would be a plus. I've plugged myself in so well behind the scenes where I could still bank money at that rate and keep my house I've worked so hard to rehab and upgrade.
Yes.... I'm smarter than you're average bear.....
If you have any truly constructive criticism to my attempts at finding a job, I'm all ears man. Obviously nobody at any jobs I should qualify for are giving me any, or I'd have already fixed that problem.
Go ahead Kwick,
I dare you....
I Triple Dog Dare you to figure out why I can't find a job where I'm at.
Win or lose for you, it's a Win/Win for me.
Maybe you could give me some advice????? Maybe you're an old dog who is relatively plugged in even if he loses a job now???? All I can do is speak from my standpoint.
I own my house free and clear and I have a 795 Trans-Union credit score (Keep in mind that I haven't worked a REAL job for over 2 years when you consider these facts). I have no STDS, no arrests, no DUIs and no illigetimate children. Furthermore, I'm not married, and I don't have kids, so at this immediate juncture, I'm free to work 24/7 at any job, and I've stated so.
I ain't too proud to beg for a little advice from somebody successful though.....
What's your secret Kwicko? I'm sure only half of those things you could claim at 32 and you still have a job. I'm fairly certain you still pay a mortgage on your house as well.
Thanks for the constructive criticism.... 
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Quote Bytemite, "If I'm LUCKY, then no, there won't be. Save your wisdom for someone
who matters and has a future.
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So don't be so ready to pidgeon-hole others, including the women.
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I have no idea what this means, and I suspect I don't want to know. However, what I do
pick up on is that you're accusing me of hypocrisy. If your aim was to make me very angry,
congratulations. Wildly successful endeavor.
OK. You pissed me off.
Apparently, I pissed you off.
Getting mad isn't necessarily bad. And you DO matter.
So . . . Do you wanna fight, discuss the topic, or what?
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Maybe it's just a demographic thing Kwick....
I'm no James Bond, but I'm relatively young and I'm a good looking guy. I'm a college dropout, yes, but I learn anything needed nearly immediately on any job and besides a takeover and a boss that went to jail, the only time I've ever left a job in my past was for something making more money. I make eye contact, I give a firm handshake. I speak and write English rather fluently.
In the mean time, I ONLY require 9 bucks an hour full time, and at the very least, health benefits would be a plus. I've plugged myself in so well behind the scenes where I could still bank money at that rate and keep my house I've worked so hard to rehab and upgrade.
Yes.... I'm smarter than you're average bear.....
If you have any truly constructive criticism to my attempts at finding a job, I'm all ears man. Obviously nobody at any jobs I should qualify for are giving me any, or I'd have already fixed that problem.
Go ahead Kwick,
I dare you....
I Triple Dog Dare you to figure out why I can't find a job where I'm at.
Win or lose for you, it's a Win/Win for me.
Maybe you could give me some advice????? Maybe you're an old dog who is relatively plugged in even if he loses a job now???? All I can do is speak from my standpoint.
I own my house free and clear and I have a 795 Trans-Union credit score (Keep in mind that I haven't worked a REAL job for over 2 years when you consider these facts). I have no STDS, no arrests, no DUIs and no illigetimate children. Furthermore, I'm not married, and I don't have kids, so at this immediate juncture, I'm free to work 24/7 at any job, and I've stated so.
I ain't too proud to beg for a little advice from somebody successful though.....
What's your secret Kwicko? I'm sure only half of those things you could claim at 32 and you still have a job. I'm fairly certain you still pay a mortgage on your house as well.
Thanks for the constructive criticism....
You're still a smoker?
And a drinker?
You don't think it shows. It does. I can smell someone smoking a hundred feet away. I can smell someone who's BEEN smoking hours after their last cigarette. Employers notice these things, because it affects their insurance rates and their bottom line, and YOUR productivity.
If you're drinking ten beers a night, you smell like stale beer. It's in your sweat; you can't wash it off, only sweat it out. You smell that way all the time, but you probably don't notice it.
Those things you say I couldn't claim half of when I was 32? Well, I'm married, and I've been arrested. I do not pay a mortgage, have no kids legitimate or not, and I have never had an STD.
Like I said, maybe it's a you thing. Have you ever considered that maybe you come across too cocky in interviews? How many times during a job interview do you tell the interviewer about your house which you own free and clear? You tell me around three times a day, and we've never met.
How many times do you tell them that you have no bills, no wife, nothing to tie you down, and no reason to come to work? You DO realize that's what you're telling them, don't you? Employers WANT someone who needs a job, who is DESPERATE for a job. Someone who hasn't had a job in two years and isn't desperate is someone I wouldn't hire on a dare. Why? Because he's going to pull a no-show on me at a crucial time, and put my ass in a wringer. I can do that all by myself, and then have nobody but myself to blame.
So what can you DO? What is your field? What are you good at, and how good at it are you? If you want to be cocky, put it into action. I once got a job in a print shop even though the owner swore he wasn't hiring. I knew the equipment he was using, and I challenged him; I told him I'd outprint his best printers if he'd give me a chance, and I'd do it for free for a day, just to show him what I had to offer. He took me up on it, and hired me full-time by lunchtime. I was there for fiv
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I didn't get you mad just now, you were angry when you posted, otherwise you wouldn't have suggested the things you did. I might have escalated this, which i don't really want to do...
Oonj, I think you and I don't really have much in common. I don't want to lash out at you because of it, but I think sometimes I do. So there's kind of this personality conflict, we can't really see eye to eye, it's often the same problem I have with HKCavalier.
I think if we tried to talk about it more, I'd start to sound really pathetic AND you'd only just get more angry, and this thread really isn't about suicide anyway. So, I'd say our best bet is to go about our business.
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Haha.... Print shops.... my best job was managing one that specialized in political campaings when I was 19 for a former house rep of the corrupt state. I gave up college for that job because it paid so well and when George Ryan went down I was left for 5 years on shit's creek without a paddle with no degree... It's not as if I could tell future employers that they could call "Cell Block D" at Crook County for a legit reference....
Since then, I've never needed one.....
I bought this house with cash and made it worth 30k more with only 4k of real dollars and my own work.
I still can't find a job.....
First Real Estate tax is due in 8 days.... no problem paying that....
If I wasn't to work a day in my life for real cash until mid November, I'd be putting everything on my credit card....
I WANT TO WORK!!!!!!
Nobody in this econonmy will even have me for an interview unless it's a job that doesn't require drug testing. The only exception was the security job part time.... Even though the number of females and minorities for the job dwarfed me 10-fold, I was just happy to be working....
So....
you're saying that I should pretend like I'm any other loser out there that can't live without the paycheck and they'd hire me??????
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
So....
you're saying that I should pretend like I'm any other loser out there that can't live without the paycheck and they'd hire me??????
Sad to say, likely so - LET them think they got you by the balls, that they got their hooks in deep, and you can damn near walk all over em, see, you're thinking about how-to-go-about-it all wrong.
On a quasi-related note, some months ago the the owner of the realty company actually looked over the original application-on-file from way back when... mind you, he hired me cause of proven ability and didn't pay no mind to it, one of those hired-right-now and fill in the app when you can since I am kind of a subcontractor in this anyhows...
And he about blew his cappucino out his nostrils.
Sex: Occasionally.
Race: Only for pinks.
Age: Not if I can help it.
The whole app is like that, I was WONDERING when they'd notice - the irony here is cause of the whole "pet ninja" thing he kinda half-suspects I must have sneakily swapped in the joke application after the fact, and imma let him believe it though it's just not true.
He sure as HELL ain't gonna admit he never even read it in the first place, is he ?
-Frem
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Haha.... Print shops.... my best job was managing one that specialized in political campaings when I was 19 for a former house rep of the corrupt state. I gave up college for that job because it paid so well and when George Ryan went down I was left for 5 years on shit's creek without a paddle with no degree... It's not as if I could tell future employers that they could call "Cell Block D" at Crook County for a legit reference....
Since then, I've never needed one.....
I bought this house with cash and made it worth 30k more with only 4k of real dollars and my own work.
You keep saying that. You've told me at least six times in the last week that you own a house.
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I still can't find a job.....
First Real Estate tax is due in 8 days.... no problem paying that....
Then you have no worries at all, do you?
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If I wasn't to work a day in my life for real cash until mid November, I'd be putting everything on my credit card....
I WANT TO WORK!!!!!!
Nobody in this econonmy will even have me for an interview unless it's a job that doesn't require drug testing. The only exception was the security job part time.... Even though the number of females and minorities for the job dwarfed me 10-fold, I was just happy to be working....
So do something part-time. Do SOMETHING! Get your foot in somewhere, THEN work your way in and up.
Make yourself fire-proof - make sure you know more than just your particular area.
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So....
you're saying that I should pretend like I'm any other loser out there that can't live without the paycheck and they'd hire me??????
Well, YEAH.
Seriously, man - do you ever think about how you come across to other people? Would YOU hire someone who talks down to you? You have to come across as confident, but not cocky, self-assured, but not TOO self-assured, and knowledgable but still respectful and not arrogant.
Before you can convince anyone that they want to hire you, you need to make them LIKE you.
"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero
"I've not watched the video either, or am incapable of intellectually dealing with the substance of this thread, so I'll instead act like a juvenile and claim victory..." - Rappy
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Quote Kwicko: "Well, YEAH .
Seriously, man - do you ever think about how you come across to other people? Would YOU
hire someone who talks down to you? You have to come across as confident, but not cocky,
self-assured, but not TOO self-assured, and knowledgable but still respectful and not arrogant.
Before you can convince anyone that they want to hire you, you need to make them LIKE you."
First off, he's gonna dump egomaniacally about his house.
May think others avoid him out of jealousy at his grandeur & accomplishments.
Unrealistic, totally self-centered. The type ends up lonely and bewildered.
No ego-control. Can't see the need for it.
ETA: See Narcissism.
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For Byte (who matters and has a future?)
Quote Bytemite, "if they want to be a PRETTY corpse," &
"influence of the media on women about how they should ALWAYS look attractive"
Less than a year ago, a young man blew his brains out barely 40 yards from my door.
He came up here from his apartment some 50 miles away, and offed himself in his
mother's backyard.
I've read that hanging is the most common method [Wiki:] "accounting for 53% of the
male suicides and 39% of the female suicides."
It surprises me that women would choose hanging 39% of the time, since it seems far
too violent and frightening to me. I figure a woman in a suicidal crisis would shy away
from that, taking an easier, softer way to end her pain.
Do suicidal women spend time in front of a mirror, thinking about how they'll look dead?
Do they put on their make-up perfectly and wear their best clothes?
I never thought about that. I do know that some suicidal people think about the effect
their act would have on friends and family; they often want revenge. But looking good?
Sounds ludicrous to me.
The young man who killed himself here looked pretty damn gross, I'm told. If he'd been
a woman, should she have shot herself in the heart . . . and out on the lawn instead of
in the alley?
When you said "PRETTY corpse," I felt you were being dismissive of women who aren't
willing to blow their brains out, as if their claim to pain is phoney. That's when you pissed
me off!
Byte, I find you a thin-skinned, insensitive brat.
But I can understand your confusion about the male-female expectations.
. . . . .The worst and most frequent consequence of paranoia is that it's self-fulfilling.
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Do suicidal women spend time in front of a mirror, thinking about how they'll look dead?
Do they put on their make-up perfectly and wear their best clothes?
Hello,
This would not surprise me in the least. So if this is kool-aid, I've drunk enough of it to believe that it is true.
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When you said "PRETTY corpse," I felt you were being dismissive of women who aren't
willing to blow their brains out, as if their claim to pain is phoney. That's when you pissed
me off!
I didn't get this vibe myself. Merely that concerns outside of the pain, perhaps even unconscious concerns, drive women to seek other means of self-destruction more often than men.
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Byte, I find you a thin-skinned, insensitive brat.
I have always found her to be thin-skinned but very sensitive. I've never thought of her as a brat. More like a raw nerve.
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He came up here from his apartment some 50 miles away, and offed himself in his
mother's backyard.
This reminds me of something I read about once, where in Asian cultures a maligned individual might commit suicide on the doorstep of someone who wronged them. I wonder if the reasoning was similar for this fellow?
--Anthony
Note to Self:
Raptor - women who want to control their reproductive processes are sluts.
Wulf - Niki is a stupid fucking bitch who should hurry up and die.
Never forget what these men are.
“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.” -Thomas Szasz
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