On a more serious note I'd like to talk about something that happened tonight at work and justify my distaste for one of my managers, whom I have mentioned in posts before, with something a little more than "he's not progressive and doesn't realize he's oppressive" which really is all most people need to not like someone but whatever.
So recently one of my good friends went vegetarian and our other good friend has been vegetarian for nine years I believe and then there's me. Well our manager was talking to us tonight (yes, we all work at the same restaurant. Bros 4 life) and tried to engage us in a conversation and moral argument about vegetarianism and veganism(which surprisingly he likened to be the same.) He posed several (cliche) moral scenarios and topped off his actually somewhat compelling argument with more of the same and a "you realize you're not saving any animals by doing this. You're not helping anyone." (he started his argument with this also)
Let me start by saying that I already don't like this guy and since he's my coworker and manger I'm fairly civil with him and I don't really want to go full on debate with this dude because it'd probably get me fired and also stuff like that makes me uncomfortable because I don't like hostility really and I really only like engaging debates with my friends because I know that we're all friends. Bottom line is that I don't feel like I should have to justify my decisions to him. When he asked me I just said "I'm doing this for moral and ethical implications." It was a Monday night, our busiest night, and I really didn't want to talk about it. He responded with "Fuck that, no, that's a cop out" so I half assedly tried to explain myself citing shit that honestly sounded like bullshit but he was an ass about it so I don't give a fuck. He was posing some sort of moral scenario and was asking if I thought that natives were bad people for hunting and using animal products. I told him it wasn't my place to judge native cultures but in this day and age it's time for us to progress as humans and realize that it's wrong. He kind of blew me off and talked to Zach. I wasn't doing a very good job anyway. I mentioned something about the link to certain cancers and he was like "Yeah because Colon cancer is running rampant" whatever you asshole. and then he proceeded to actually form a really well thought out argument both for and against vegetarianism/veganism and this is the reason I really really don't like my manager.
I don't like him because he's a fairly intelligent, moderately well read individual who's somewhat world aware but instead of using this to help people or do positive things he's generally a bully and very oppressive and on top of that he's totally self aware of his prejudices and how shitty he can be YET MAKES NO EFFORT TO CHANGE. I guess that's it.
