So many angry people around

[RainCloud]

Has anyone else noticed this? I've seen arguments over parking, people arguing in shops, mumsnet threads turning into fights (more so than usual 😂). I generally keep myself to myself when I'm out and about and ignore most people but I've had people tutting and foot stamping behind me in queues. There just seem to be so many people getting angry at the moment.

Is is the heat? Finances / cost of living? Post covid lock down trauma?

Always DO this

I am now an angry person, I never. Used to be. I tolerated a lot of nonsense from people. But, I'm a single parent, my ex is useless, my neighbours are awful, I have two sons with complex needs that I'm constantly fighting for. I find I really have no more energy to tolerate shit from people. I'm just too tired

Me too.

prerty much any anger encounter is from reading threads on mumsnet, especially ones about grocery bills!

What a depressing and bleak view and one I and thankfully my family and friends don’t share.

do you have children?

I think people are sick of being screwed over and mugged off.

Interesting article!

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/aug/04/britain-angry-abusive-behaviour-staff?CMP=ShareiOSAppp_Other

Ha! That was me today! Will shortly be doing some other work in another hospital as well as working at the one I am working at now. I have to get onto stuff like Skype and Teams and something else as well as trying to sort out my 'smart card' which still needs stuff on it.

I had to phone IT 3 x for 3 different things and each time it was for a different thing. Just the annoyance of it all. Nothing is simple.

Another receptionist was asking what it was all about - I am not sure yet what the new job involves and was in the middle of a mini tantrum so she got the brunt of it. Top be fair she has a number of things going on and has been quite fractious so it is catching! I did apologise.

Hopped on having read 1/2 responses- which I would never have done , 5 years ago. Been on here about 20 years, ftr.

Me? Brexit. Revealed a nasty underbelly that I didn't really know existed; but apparently did, and had now been allowed full reign.

I remain (😂not a direct pun) 'nice', but, you cross me? Fuck off. My patience is spent.

I'm about to be attacked for saying this ('not fit for your job!' etc- but, if I leave, you'll get a semi -English speaking 'overseas trained' person in my place... that 'hasn't gone well' where I work...) but I'm front line NHS. If I phone you to say 'sorry, your diagnostic scan has to be postponed due to no staff/20 year old broken equipment; and you verbally attack me about how ill you've been for how long; I WILL remind you what your news headlines/ DM headlines tell you about how broken the NHS is, and here, my friend, is the reality.

(Did you vote for this? Brexit? Tory? Both?Then it's on you. So fuck off).

SO want to say that last one!

@Fordian you have spread the love over here. ❤

@Dajeeling I agree completely. Everywhere feels overcrowded, too many people fighting for too few resources. It wears people down. But if this gets raised as a topic for discussion it's shouted down with yet more venom and intolerance. Social media is the equivalent of a child putting their fingers in their ears and taunting 'can't hear you!'
Too many parents trying to be their kid's best mate instead of teaching them to have respect for others, usually resulting in yet more anger in the form of a family and friends pile on of anyone who dares challenge their kid's behaviour.

I live in London and it is full on busy but respectful. No one pulls a fast one here unless you are very unlucky, most of the time you have no idea who you are dealing with/ if they are armed. So move to a genteel country village or the city of London if you are searching for tolerance.
No one attended a GP app or to the hospital unless it was a dire emergency for the best part of eighteen months, so of course there is going to be a huge backlog fordian I am not sure what you were expecting…. the patients were still there all along with a growing number of health problems. Screaming at patients about brexit or the tories is going to sound deranged as neither caused the pandemic but go ahead if you want to.

I love that you went back and apologised and gave her a kitkat! I’m happy she was appreciative. I don’t think you were awful the day before, it sounds very annoying, but you showed her that you did in fact care, and know she’s a person too.

hamstersarse
At a deeper level I think we are actually suffering from the decline of religion. Bear with me.

I’m not religious like pretty much everyone I know, but I’m starting to think that when Nietzsche said “God is dead” and then went on to describe what happens when there is no unifying ‘God’, we are literally living it.

People have nothing to unite them, no code of conduct, no agreed rules, no higher purpose than themselves. Throw into the pot the cesspit of social media / general media fighting for clicks and viewers, we are all all over the place.

I sometimes get urges to go to church for some level of order. I don’t go because of the known issues but there is something in me craving a higher purpose and some unifying direction”

ah yes, religion. That unifying human construct that has brought so much peace and harmony to the world.