That's how it is when you work at a low end job like I do. No one respects anyone else's stuff. The only reason I could afford the keyboard stuff I splurged on so far is that I'm obsessive compulsive about whatever I dig, and my wife makes more than I do. Really I had a nice mech keyboard at home but I type most on my keyboard at work, which is a cheap dome keyboard, so I tried to find a less expensive alternative to having a good keyboard at work so I didn't feel like I wish I were at home all the time. Now it's back to square one for the time being till I get this resolved.
It's my upbringing. I grew up in the most unsavory part of Perth southern suburbs. In Kelmscott (aka Hell-hole) only people living here in Perth would know that area. I had to grow up fast including how to defend myself. Kelmscott High School had brought out that behaviour. First day at school you get picked on by the bullies, you either let that happen or you stand up. I chose to stand up, by using a pair of Steel-caps. From that day onward (Year-8) I was left alone, no one ever spoke or harassed me because I was then crowned unofficially as the "school psycho".
In that period of my life there was no help from authorities other than to get caned by adults as you grow older. My Dad once came to school and confronted the Principal about those canings but I never saw it. Needless to say I got no more canings. My Dad is about 6.5ft tall and he can be quite intimidating when he's angry, he already served in the armed forces and he knows how to handle himself in any given situation.
From that day forward, he told me I had to stand up for myself, because he won't be around forever. I hate the bull-sh*t pushed by schools nowadays saying that only a refusal to fight will stop any Bully, .......it never works.
And in the workforce it's much the same, some a**hole thinks he has complete control over everyone else and starts applying his version of entertainment over the weaker colleagues. That is when you need to set the ground rules to them. Usually Bully's never are confronted because they are usually much larger, more powerful and having anyone resisting them only helps to insight further bad behaviour from that individual.
That is until you get them in a small space where no one can see or hear. That is when you truly see the coward he is. Once I saw him (it's always a Male) piss himself as I held his throat for a minute or two. After that you never see him again.
The full enactment of that type of behaviour is the old fashion type, it's a pure fight for survival. What would you do if someone tries to kill you, you either let him or you resist.
Maybe because I am not that small in stature hence my size and weight usually forces a bully to go elsewhere, but you will get Moron's who think that they can try something. That is when it needs to be settled, before it gets out of hand.
Like I said I always hate to be violent, but there is always a time when you need to be more vicious than your opponent, especially when it comes to outright survival.
