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Originally Posted by recycled sixtie
The offending kids will get whacked in the outside world once they leave home if they ever do.
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I am continually amazed at how rotten children are able to avoid any real responsibility as adults. I've seen several approaches "work" for the rotten child:
-Go to work for their parent/grandfather/uncle etc. and everyone kowtows to their wants while the other workers get to shoulder the burden.
-Get "hurt" at work and live a life of disability payments, painkillers, and video games.
-Have a mental breakdown because the real world is hard and uncaring. (Then go back and live with their parents, or go on disability.)
-Be a bully at work and make their lack of results everyone else's fault. (I've seen this one used successfully.)
-Go into a profession where performance doesn't matter. (There are lots of them out there.)
-Float through life with no real direction.
I assume one of my college roommates was a rotten child because he was a rotten roommate. He is the middle of 7 children and the only boy. He was used to getting whatever he wanted without question at home. In college, he was downright confused that we didn't leap to his beck and call. For example, if I was standing by the fridge, he might say something like: "Hey, I need a beer." After getting myself a beer, I might reply with something like: "That's too bad, you don't have any beer." He'd eat our food, drink our beer, never contribute anything himself to it, and kept a small fridge in his locked room so that no one else could eat his stuff. Anyway, 18 years out of college and he's never been able to keep a job, is married, and still lives with his mother.