Schadenfreude At Work

[st_files]

Am I wrong to secretly enjoy someone else majorly fking up at work? Even if they're someone I like....

Edited by st_files on Tuesday 13th April 15:55

[soad]

Only sick and twisted individuals enjoy that, don't they?

[VEA]

I'd say that was fine,

If we cannot laugh at other peoples misfortune then what's the point?

[Sisyphus]

Generally OK unless he's a surgeon.

[Mobile Chicane]

I couldn't feel that way about someone I liked, however I'll admit to rolling on my back and kicking my heels in the air with glee at the misfortune of someone I didn't.

[Arese]

st_files said:

Am I wrong to secretly enjoy someone else majorly fking up at work? Even if they're someone I like....

Yes. Why would you be pleased?

Is it a major eff-up as in putting two sugars in your tea rather than one? Or a real eff-up?

[madbadger]

st_files said:

Am I wrong to secretly enjoy someone else majorly fking up at work? Even if they're someone I like....

Are you an Air Traffic Controller?

[VEA]

[quote=Arese]

Yes. Why would you be pleased?

quote]

because it's not you!

[Arese]

VEA said:

Arese said:

Yes. Why would you be pleased?

because it's not you!

Researchers have found that people with low self-esteem are more likely to feel schadenfreude than are people who have high self-esteem, and brain-scanning studies show that schadenfreude is correlated with envy.

Edited by Arese on Tuesday 13th April 16:31

[st_files]

madbadger said:

st_files said:

Am I wrong to secretly enjoy someone else majorly fking up at work? Even if they're someone I like....

Are you an Air Traffic Controller?

No....my job is about as far removed from genuine responsibility as its possible to be....advertising.

[VEA]

Arese said:

VEA said:

Arese said:

Yes. Why would you be pleased?

because it's not you!

Researchers have found that people with low self-esteem are more likely to feel schadenfreude than are people who have high self-esteem, and brain-scanning studies show that schadenfreude is correlated with envy.

Edited by Arese on Tuesday 13th April 16:31

There is always one who reads too much into something... could it not be just simply because it is funny, rather than my (his) underlying depression or anxieties?

[st_files]

dibbers006 said:

But you all work for the same company.

What costs them money... costs YOU money.

Be smug maybe but to take pleasure from anothers misfortune...

I wont cost me a penny.

[Cock Womble 7]

Mobile Chicane said:

I'll admit to rolling on my back and kicking my heels in the air

Well I, for one, will have pleasant dreams tonight.

[st_files]

Cock Womble 7 said:

Mobile Chicane said:

I'll admit to rolling on my back and kicking my heels in the air

Well I, for one, will have pleasant dreams tonight.

Whats all this 7 business?

[Cock Womble 7]

st_files said:

Cock Womble 7 said:

Mobile Chicane said:

I'll admit to rolling on my back and kicking my heels in the air

Well I, for one, will have pleasant dreams tonight.

Whats all this 7 business?

I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.

[Arese]

VEA said:

Arese said:

VEA said:

Arese said:

Yes. Why would you be pleased?

because it's not you!

Researchers have found that people with low self-esteem are more likely to feel schadenfreude than are people who have high self-esteem, and brain-scanning studies show that schadenfreude is correlated with envy.

Edited by Arese on Tuesday 13th April 16:31

There is always one who reads too much into something... could it not be just simply because it is funny, rather than my (his) underlying depression or anxieties?

I didn't read too much into anything, hundreds of scientific researchers did.

I just know that if someone in my work place massively screwed something up, the last thing I'd do would be to laugh or take pleasure from it.

OP did ask!

[E21_Ross]

i laugh at peoples fk ups when i don't like them, but if i do like them. the accountant at my part time work place (old guy, miserable as fk all the time) got 2 invoices for something like £43 and £60 from the same company, instead of paying £103, he paid something like £10,300. he got a rather big bking and was told if the money had not been received back within 6 weeks it was coming out of his wages.

the money did eventually come back.

oh how just about everyone laughed. even the MD, because he thinks the guy is a total .

which he is.

Edited by E21_Ross on Tuesday 13th April 16:58

[Rocksteadyeddie]

st_files said:

Cock Womble 7 said:

Mobile Chicane said:

I'll admit to rolling on my back and kicking my heels in the air

Well I, for one, will have pleasant dreams tonight.

Whats all this 7 business?

He's mutating back

[Cock Womble 7]

Rocksteadyeddie said:

st_files said:

Cock Womble 7 said:

Mobile Chicane said:

I'll admit to rolling on my back and kicking my heels in the air

Well I, for one, will have pleasant dreams tonight.

Whats all this 7 business?

He's mutating back

Yep. Next week it'll be "Cock Palmas 7".

[E21_Ross]

anonymous said:

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