@Fernie6491
I don't know Sarah Everard's family, I don't know any of the people missing from the mud -slide in Japan, nor the people who were lost in the Florida building collapse, but I'm human and absolutely have empathy for them, and wouldn't wish it on anyone. It must be dreadful for all those families. Some people have hard hearts and cannot resist commenting in an unkind way.
This in spades
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I even got upset when my friend's dog had to be put to sleep a few weeks ago, because she's my friend, I care a lot about her, and her dog was adorable. Plus, I could see how upset she was, and what kind of person would I have been to have said 'it's only a bloody dog?!' Like a work colleague of hers said when she had 2 days off work as she was so upset.
Probably the same kind of person who comes on here and says 'why on EARTH are you upset about someone dying, who doesn't even know you exist?' I have met several people like this (it's usually work colleagues,) and they are the coldest, most obnoxious of people, who like to mock and deride when someone is upset about something they deem trivial or not worthy of being upset about.
One lady (at a place I used to work,) was so upset when her cat died, that she couldn't come in work the next day, and she tried to book it as holiday leave. The manager said if she didn't come in she'd get a written warning. She didn't come in the day after her cat died. One written warning. Not a scrap of empathy from the manager.
The same thing happened in 1997, someone had the Monday off work, after the weekend Princess Diana died, as he was devastated.. YES he really was. He got a written warning too.. The manager refused to let him take it as holiday leave too - or a sick day.
Yet HE (the manager) regularly swanned off here, there, and everywhere, doing clothes shopping, having his hair done, picking up groceries from Asda, and playing golf - all in works time. #asshole
I always think 'what has happened to you in your life, that has made you so cruel, and cold, and heartless, and lacking in empathy so much?'