Rant time....
This should probably go in the pissed off thread, but this one is at the top.
You know what annoys me? People's lack of perspective and sense of entitlement. The human race is getting more selfish, arrogant and far less grateful.
We run swimming lessons and we have a pretty big, well branded program that's cheaper than most around with better and more flexible conditions. That's run in an indoor heated pool, but we also have a leisure pool and 50m pool outside. We have the perk that kids after their lesson can go and have a swim for free outside. Any parent or sibling that wants to swim though, pays entry and also coming on a non lesson day is entry for everyone. The centre is so big that people go from inside, downstairs and use the pool and it's hard to police. As it's getting warmer, people don't give a fuck, they will bring one child in for lessons but the other that doesn't swim will still use the pool. Parents will jump in and swim too without paying while their kid is there. Yesterday my receptionist asked one notorious family for taking the piss if any of the kids not in lessons were swimming. The answer was no. I go down and find her putting 3 kids in the pool.
It's at a point where we almost give up. We pull people up and tell them and they always respond with 'we pay this amount for lessons, we should be able to use the pools also!' Well, no motherfucker, you pay for LESSONS to teach your kids how to swim so when they come down we're not watching their asses so closely because your too fucking stupid to make sure they don't die while your head is buried in social fucking media on your phone! You are paying for the service to teach your children and I pay the teachers, that doesn't entitle you to have free reign of the joint and get everything else for nothing.
Anyway, I'm not trying to make more money out of these people, I work for a government sector so the money isn't going in my pocket, but fuck peoples attitude and ability to be completely dishonest is fucking terrible. Coronavirus has done nothing over here to change peoples perspective. We got out of it lightly and it's given no one perspective on life at all.
I was in the city last weekend and there was this homeless guy outside the cd store. His face was the face of defeat. He didn't look all that troubled from drugs alcohol etc. I'm sure he was, but he genuinely looked like a guy that has had a bad run and it's all gone wrong for him. His face almost haunts me. I went in and as I was browsing I told myself I was going to give him $20 on the way out. This 40 something year old guy sitting on the street with his hat out defeated and battling begging for money while people walk past like he's not even there and then on the other side I'm dealing with asshole, lying people that think they can take, use and abuse whatever they want because they feel they are entitled. What the fuck is wrong with us?! Unfortunately, the homeless guy had moved on when I came out of the store. I looked around but he had moved on. I wish he waited a little longer.