I Hate John

今天這篇純粹是抱怨文，我們公司那位韓國大叔John，Potluck派對那天說他忘記帶菜，但是卻記得帶了盤子和筷子來大吃大喝，大家出錢幫經理買的禮物是自願的，算好人數和金額後同事就去買了，大叔說要貢獻$10卻遲遲不肯交，因為我是派對負責人，和大叔討錢時他居然和我吵起來，當我開始數落他potluck也沒帶菜還吃最多時，他居然睜眼說瞎話的說辦公室裡沒人告訴他那天有potluck party，明明前一天我還特別提醒他，他自己還說要帶雞翅，還和別的同事討論了一番，這個謊言讓所有同事一整個傻眼，唉！世界上怎麼有這樣厚臉皮不知羞恥的人啊？

WARNING: This is a long complaining post.  I just need to vent!

I wrote about my co-worker John Park and complaining about how selfish and inconsiderate he is.  But this time he pushed me over the limit.  I was so angry at him that we had a yelling match at work.

John Park is a 50 something old divorced Korean guy.  Everybody at work already knows that he is selfish and obnoxious.  We had a few confrontations before.  But this time was the worst of them all.

As I mentioned in the last post, we had a potluck party at work for our manager.  Everybody was supposed to bring a dish.  We had a sign up sheet for people to write down the dishes they were going to bring so we wouldn't have people brining the same dish.  On the same sheet, we also asked people to write down if they were willing to contribute $10 to get a wedding gift.


I was in charge of the party.  So the night before, I went around the office to remind everyone and to confirm the dishes people were bringing.  John Park wrote on the sheet that he would bring salad.  But Mayumi was also bringing salad.  I told both of them to talk to each other and one of them need to change the dish.  So John Park announced that he would change his dish to chicken wings.  He even had a discussion with a few other coworkers about where to get the chicken wings.  At last he said he would go buy the wings from KFC.  I also told everyone to bring their own plate and utensil since I am big on the "Go Green" thing lately.

On the day of the potluck party, John Park didn't bring anything.  When I asked him where was his dish, he just replied "I forgot".  Another coworker asked him how come he didn't bring anything, he changed his answer to "I was busy.  I didn't have time."  Ok, whatever.  Let's just assume that he forgot to bring the dish.  But the funny thing was, he still remembered to bring a big plate and fork.

I was not happy.  I was even thinking about telling him not to join the party.  But I didn't really need to think long.  Before I could say anything, he already ran to the food and started grabbing stuffs to his plate.  So not only he didn't bring food, he went back numerous times and ate the most.

Fine.  It was a party.  I didn't want to ruin it.  So I held it in and didn't say anything.  So we just complained about him secretly. 

Next day at work, I checked the list and noticed that John Park did not pay the $10 that he said he would pay.  But Claire already bought the gift counting his part in.  Again, since I was in charge of everything, I need to get the money for Claire.  Otherwise it wasn't fair for her to spend the extra money.

(I went to John Park's desk and asked him quietly.)
Me:  John, did you pay the $10?
John:  No.
Me:  You need to pay Claire because she already bought the gift with the total amount.
John:  Then tell Claire to come and talk to me. (Raising his voice.)
Me:  I am in charge so I am collecting the money for Claire.
John:  Don't talk to me.  If Claire wants the money, tell her to come talk to me.  (Talk even louder.)
Me:  I won't talk to you if you just pay the money.
John:  Shut up and go sit down.  (Really loud now.)
Me:  Why can't you just do things like you are supposed to?  Not only you're not paying, you didn't even bring food yesterday for the potluck party but ate the most?
(Now this was the answer that surprised me the most.)
John:  NOBODY TOLD ME THERE WAS A POTLUCK.  I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT A POTLUCK PARTY.
(OMG!  I totally lost it at that point.  So I started yelling at him, too.)
Me:  What?  I reminded you the night before.  You told the whole office you are going to bring chicken wings.  You even signed up on this sheet yourself.  How can you even say that nobody told you about it and you didn't know anything????
John:  What's your problem?  I was probably tired and didn't hear you.  Shut up and go sit down.

At this point, our manager stood up and asked what was going on.  John Park ran over to the manager with $10 in his hand and said that he was going to pay, but the way I talk to him was not respectable.  "Did you pay $10?  You need to pay Claire."  What part in these two sentences was not respectable?  He was the one who started yelling at me and tried to cause a scene.  So both the manager and Claire just told him, "If you're unwilling to pay, we don't need your $10 and we don't want it."  I was so mad but really thought there was no point talking to this person.  I just said "Next time we have a potluck party, you are not invited."

Since I'm complaining about John Park, here's another incident that just happened two days ago.  Kai was talking about how expensive it is to have kids.

Kai:  I spend so much money on my kids.  Lots of things need to buy.  Books, clothes, even socks all cost money.
John:  Just go to 99 cent store to buy socks.  You can get 10 socks for 99 cents.
Kai:  No.  I want to buy my kids nice stuffs.  Not cheap socks like that.
John:  Kids don't need good shit.
Kai:  That's why you don't have any kid.
(Apparently, John got offended by this comment and started yelling.)
John:  Don't talk about your stupid ass kids then.
Kai:  Please don't call my kids stupid ass.  That is not nice.
John:  (Yelling big time now.)  What you said was really rude.  So shut up, you fucking bitch!
(Kai walked out the office.)
John:  (continued yelling.)  Fucking bitch.  #$%^#*$(@&$%^ bitch.

At that point, I really wanted to stand up and told him not to use that kind of language in the office.  But at the same time, I was telling myself not to get into other people business.  Too bad it was on a Sunday so our manager wasn't in the office to hear this.  Then when I thought I really should say something, the "golden moment" already passed.  So later I just told Kai that she has to report this to our manager on Monday.

She did report to the manager.  The manager had a talk with John Park.  But that was it because Kai didn't want to report the incident to HR.  So I was thinking, I really wish John Park had call me name like that when we had our fight.  Then I would report it to manager, HR, boss, and the whole company.  I want him to be fired!

How can people like that exist?  Selfish, cheap, no shame, and have no respect for women?  Oh yeah, he only talks to women this way.  When he talks to guys, he's totally different.  I hate him so much and I don't usually hate people.  I want nothing to do with him and hope he will get fired soon.

Phewwww....  Complaining is soothing.  Thanks for reading.  Hopefully I won't have to write a long complaining post like this ever again.

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