Fail At Home Depot Today (Not Me -- The Employee)

[Troy I]

David L...has no idea what he is talking about...do not make judgments about other people until you have walked in their shoes. I am a retired Deputy Sheriff...and have a 4 year degree in Administration of Justice with a Masters in Psychology. Law enforcement agencies what people who are free thinkers. I know I worked my way up from the ground floor and retired very high up in the food chain.

[Hi Im Joe]

David L...has no idea what he is talking about...do not make judgments about other people until you have walked in their shoes. I am a retired Deputy Sheriff...and have a 4 year degree in Administration of Justice with a Masters in Psychology. Law enforcement agencies what people who are free thinkers. I know I worked my way up from the ground floor and retired very high up in the food chain.

Good for you man. Enjoy your retirement. I'm sure you earned it!

[Troy I]

Thanks Joe...Retirement is great...LOL.

[Hi Im Joe]

Thanks Joe...Retirement is great...LOL.

I got about 25 more years...

[LTC]

you are digging the hole deeper now.

unless you want to risk alienating a lot of potentially helpful folks on here, i would stop digging if i were you.

Edited May 7, 2014 by LTC

[DavidL]

some bridges have to be burned. Its a sake of integrity. I find it disrespectful for people to imply that I'm dumb and dismiss me like I'm a child. If I didn't say anything I don't think id be able to sleep at night.

You are right I will write no more and just call it a difference of opinion as I don't hate people personally for things they say, rather the words themselves.

[Hi Im Joe]

some bridges have to be burned. Its a sake of integrity. I find it disrespectful for people to imply that I'm dumb and dismiss me like I'm a child. If I didn't say anything I don't think id be able to sleep at night.

You are right I will write no more and just call it a difference of opinion as I don't hate people personally for things they say, rather the words themselves.

LOL...integrity is saying something wrong...then backpedaling when you get some shit without actually apologizing or admitting the things you said were patently wrong.

Yeah that's integrity.

[DavidL]

Please read till the end.

You are doing it as we speak dismissing me again. You are tempting me to get mad and then when I get upset and try to defend myself you dismiss me again. This happened to me when I was a young child when another student would put her hands on my desk purposefully after pickering her nose because she knew I would get upset and did it every day and got a kick out of it. After a few days I couldn't take it and swore and got in trouble and guess what I was the bad guy.

Being passive aggressive is the same as being straight out aggressive except it makes me seem like the bad person even though you are verbally abusing me. I can read between the lines don't try to take a stab at me and think I won't defend myself. Integrity is not letting people stomp on you because they think they can get away with it. Its happened to me before and I've lost sleep at times because I knew I should of defended myself instead of letting people get away with it. Thats integrity of my morals. I know now to not fight passive aggression with full out aggression its what the other person wants.

I quote you said: You are crazy as well as having no clue as to what you are talking about - thats the same as giving me go away sign with the back of your hand except in verbal form.

(what were my options - I had to defend myself or it would be another sleepless night) - That statement is leaning towards full on aggressive. I had a neutral stance saying that there is a conspiracy theory that police do not want to hire people with a masters. I think that people with masters should be hired and have nothing against college educated police. My best friend is in police academy in a college course.

If you would have just said well thats interesting but I don't agree with you. I wouldn't have said anything and said ok thats fine. But if someone on the street just says to you "your crazy you don't know what your talking about" after I make a point. Thats dismissive in MY opinion. Whether you believe it or not it only pisses people of if you dismiss them like a child.

Just for sake of discussion so this won't happen in the future what would you like me to apologize for? All I said was my opinion. Am I not entitled to have freedom of speech. I never personally said anything bad about cops w/ college degrees or to you , but just have MY opinion that people should have a University degree in sociology so that less problems would occur. Nobody is perfect.

I don't want to take this further, and wish to not to fight and leave it at this. To be introspective and understand why I felt disrespected go back w/ neutral eyes and take your self out of the situation and read back the comments.

Edited May 7, 2014 by DavidL

[Hi Im Joe]

I am dismissive of your opinion because none of it is based off of fact and it is generally pretty ridiculous.

Apology was the wrong word to use. Just admit you are wrong and we can move on.

You have flip flopped your opinion a couple times in this thread and then tried to wheedle your way out of it by citing "integrity." That's not integrity.

Integrity is admitting you've made a mistake and owning up to it. You know...like taking responsibility for what you actually said instead of trying to change your position?

I'm done with you. Also, I will not lose any sleep over this conversation and neither should you.

[Art]

This topic has gone off the tracks. Please start a new topic or whatever.

Art

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