Spoiled kids cringe aka First World problems - from age 3 to 30

Getting your inheritance young is also a surefire way to fuck a kid up.

One of my colleagues at work told me that her half brother got his inheritance while he was still at university after his mum died. He used the money to buy a flat mortgage free and still has enough left to live on for the rest of his life. As a result, he's doing absolutely nothing with himself - no job, no friends, nothing.

Another work colleague said a similar thing happened with his half sister. When his dad died, he left her a little more than her half siblings since she was younger than them and he figured she'd need it more as she's old enough to look after herself but doesn't have an established career. Well, less than a year's passed and she's already blown £25,000 on boob implants and other frivolities.

The inheritance act. Not even once.
 
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My other half works for a pretty big multinational company, doing computer shit. Usually when jobs are advertised for the company there's way more applicants than there are jobs, so the company have the luxury of choosing the best applicant they can get.

One year they decided they could do better. That they should give back to the community and help young people along. So they took on a youth trainee - 16 years old - for a basic computer shit job that offered a tonne of training, certifications out of your ears, pretty much guaranteed job and promotion at the end of it, and an employees wage (not a shitty youth training scheme £35 a week). We're talking a wage enough to get your own place and maybe even a small car if you were careful. At the age of 16. The guy who got the job should've been screaming joy from the rooftops about his luck.

Except he was a sullen little shit who looked like he'd been dragged through a hedge backwards, often came in late, regularly missed Mondays (hangover from the weekend), and did exactly none of his tasks on time, mostly because he spent most of his time fucking about on his mobile phone. At his 3-month review, his manager told him he needed to start coming in on time and meeting deadlines or he faced losing his job - but they gave him another 3 months to sort himself out. After all, work is a big change from school, right?

Same again, for the next three months. Refused to wear a shirt and tie. Came in in trainers, and acted surprised when this was a problem as the trainers were new and some expensive brand. Complained about 'boring' work but never seemed to do any. Same talk again with the manager at the review meeting about missing work deadlines, only this time the kid received a written warning, and was told if he missed another deadline he would lose his job.

He didn't turn up the next day. Instead he called in saying he couldn't be arsed with all the hassle of deadlines and getting in at 8:30am, and bragged that he'd spent most of his time playing computer games instead of working. So he was fired, and the company have never taken on another trainee again.

That wasn't just looking a gift horse in the mouth, it was shitting in it and taking a selfie. Utter idiot.
 
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UselessRubberKeyboard said:
My other half works for a pretty big multinational company, doing computer shit. Usually when jobs are advertised for the company there's way more applicants than there are jobs, so the company have the luxury of choosing the best applicant they can get.

One year they decided they could do better. That they should give back to the community and help young people along. So they took on a youth trainee - 16 years old - for a basic computer shit job that offered a tonne of training, certifications out of your ears, pretty much guaranteed job and promotion at the end of it, and an employees wage (not a shitty youth training scheme £35 a week). We're talking a wage enough to get your own place and maybe even a small car if you were careful. At the age of 16. The guy who got the job should've been screaming joy from the rooftops about his luck.

Except he was a sullen little shit who looked like he'd been dragged through a hedge backwards, often came in late, regularly missed Mondays (hangover from the weekend), and did exactly none of his tasks on time, mostly because he spent most of his time fucking about on his mobile phone. At his 3-month review, his manager told him he needed to start coming in on time and meeting deadlines or he faced losing his job - but they gave him another 3 months to sort himself out. After all, work is a big change from school, right?

Same again, for the next three months. Refused to wear a shirt and tie. Came in in trainers, and acted surprised when this was a problem as the trainers were new and some expensive brand. Complained about 'boring' work but never seemed to do any. Same talk again with the manager at the review meeting about missing work deadlines, only this time the kid received a written warning, and was told if he missed another deadline he would lose his job.

He didn't turn up the next day. Instead he called in saying he couldn't be arsed with all the hassle of deadlines and getting in at 8:30am, and bragged that he'd spent most of his time playing computer games instead of working. So he was fired, and the company have never taken on another trainee again.

That wasn't just looking a gift horse in the mouth, it was shitting in it and taking a selfie. Utter idiot.
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Yikes! Most teens would be happy to have that type of job, but this guy really shot himself in the foot.

Not only did he lose a chance to make bank for a good chunk of his life, but he also burned bridges with the company for future employment.

Now he's going to really regret it when he's in his 20s and cant make anywhere near the amount he made in his teens.

Oh well.
 
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Fandom Trash said:
Yikes! Most teens would be happy to have that type of job, but this guy really shot himself in the foot.

Not only did he lose a chance to make bank for a good chunk of his life, but he also burned bridges with the company for future employment.

Now he's going to really regret it when he's in his 20s and cant make anywhere near the amount he made in his teens.

Oh well.
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He also fucked it up for other kids too. The company got burned once and decided not to take on trainees like that again. :mad:
 
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Sword Fighter Super said:
Also the parent's steady diet of Soylent.

Seriously, it's like these people are actually afraid of their children.
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They ARE, but not in a "don't beat me!" kind of way (OK, sometimes they are). Most of those children are the sons of successful people that were once poor.
For example, a rich businessman could have been selling candy on the streets to help with his family's income 30 years ago. That makes the parents very overprotective, because they think that spoiling their brats is the best way to avoid seeing them in the same situation they were once in. In other words, the parents generally do the wrong thing for the right reasons.
 
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UselessRubberKeyboard said:
My other half works for a pretty big multinational company, doing computer shit. Usually when jobs are advertised for the company there's way more applicants than there are jobs, so the company have the luxury of choosing the best applicant they can get.

One year they decided they could do better. That they should give back to the community and help young people along. So they took on a youth trainee - 16 years old - for a basic computer shit job that offered a tonne of training, certifications out of your ears, pretty much guaranteed job and promotion at the end of it, and an employees wage (not a shitty youth training scheme £35 a week). We're talking a wage enough to get your own place and maybe even a small car if you were careful. At the age of 16. The guy who got the job should've been screaming joy from the rooftops about his luck.

Except he was a sullen little shit who looked like he'd been dragged through a hedge backwards, often came in late, regularly missed Mondays (hangover from the weekend), and did exactly none of his tasks on time, mostly because he spent most of his time fucking about on his mobile phone. At his 3-month review, his manager told him he needed to start coming in on time and meeting deadlines or he faced losing his job - but they gave him another 3 months to sort himself out. After all, work is a big change from school, right?

Same again, for the next three months. Refused to wear a shirt and tie. Came in in trainers, and acted surprised when this was a problem as the trainers were new and some expensive brand. Complained about 'boring' work but never seemed to do any. Same talk again with the manager at the review meeting about missing work deadlines, only this time the kid received a written warning, and was told if he missed another deadline he would lose his job.

He didn't turn up the next day. Instead he called in saying he couldn't be arsed with all the hassle of deadlines and getting in at 8:30am, and bragged that he'd spent most of his time playing computer games instead of working. So he was fired, and the company have never taken on another trainee again.

That wasn't just looking a gift horse in the mouth, it was shitting in it and taking a selfie. Utter idiot.
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Something similar happened to my SO when she did her internship in a government-sponsored program. She was alongside three other internees. Two of them were serious and dedicated like hers, and one even became a friend with whom she keeps contact today. But the third internee, the only male; was cocky, slacked off, always complained about the work and continually tried to hit up on the other internees, full knowing they were all engaged (we were already dating at that time). He eventually stopped showing up and taking calls from his supervisor. He simply disappeared, his degree and certification be damned.
 
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FeverGlitch said:
Dont forget this hit piece that everybody on Youtube milked dry the last month until this day.

If the Parents are careless, so are their children.
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Hey @Martys_not_smarty I was going to say I found your first target, but from the sound of it, I'm not sure her mom would pay to get her back. She might pay you to keep her.

EDIT: I am amused that basically everything in that closet other than the heels is made out of cow skin with a label stamped on it.
 
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This is why I'm sending my offspring to Somalia to fight for warlords as soon as they can talk. They'll be thrilled with the meager lifestyle I can provide them after that.

And probably also hate me for the whole war is hell thing, but you gotta look at the bigger picture.
 
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The Shadow said:
This is why I'm sending my offspring to Somalia to fight for warlords as soon as they can talk. They'll be thrilled with the meager lifestyle I can provide them after that.

And probably also hate me for the whole war is hell thing, but you gotta look at the bigger picture.
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Send them to Mexico to fight for the cartels. Same result, you'll end up murdered in your sleep but getting them there will be cheaper!
 
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ah, yes... there's nothing quite like living a childhood where you could get beaten for the slightest of errors, only to grow up and see that kids are actively being rewarded for their bad behavior

spoiled children are there to remind you of one thing and one thing only:

life just isn't fair
 
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Those younger people who ceaselessly bitch and moan about not being able to read and write in cursive script. Holy hell is that grating. They always complain that since penmanship is no longer taught in school, it's not their fault, when really, it more often than not stems from an overreliance on typewritten documents on the computer. It only required 2 semesters of half-assedly copying letters and words for maybe 2-3 hours a week in a cursive composition workbook to teach my age cohort how to read and write cursive. Imagine being unable to read at least half the handwritten documentation produced in the history of the world. Might as well be illiterate if you need a transcription of almost every handwritten document from before the 1990s-2000s. Now I know how all those old 19th century German scholars felt when the academic standard changed from Fraktur script to Latin script.

I used to have a very fine and fluid conventional cursive script as my handwriting default since I suffered hand cramps when printing disjointed letters as a child, but as I got older, I noticed most of my peers and younger people simply did not recognize the cursive equivalent of many print letters (especially z, s r, f, J,G,k), so I have had to make my cursive script for those troublesome letters more closely resemble the print form so it is recognizable to the cursive-illiterates.
 
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I remember when I got my first bicycle, a used screamer 1 bicycle with ape hangers on it, that my grandpa use to have as a kid and gave to me. I thought I was the coolest kid on the block and even though that was my only Christmas present since at the time we couldn't afford much I was more than happy because aside from the bike looking awesome as hell It was the thought that counted. It kinda makes me sad seeing these kids get so spoiled (Jesus H. I sound like such a fucking boomer right now) and cry when their parents don't get them the newest fucking tech on a silver platter. I mean its very easy to blame the kid for being a spoiled brat but the problem runs so much deeper. One, the parents that put their kids up on this grand pedestal and act like their child can do no wrong in this world. As a result the parents just throw money and gifts at the child without making them work for it in any capacity and unfortunately the child becomes accustomed to such behavior and it sticks with them. Second the culture of touchy feels crap. What I mean by that is the gold star, giving out participation awards for doing nothing or poorly. Kids again become accustom to doing nothing/very below average receiving praise despite them not deserving it. People, parents, and schools are to scared of hurting their feelings and not reprimand the behavior when it needs to be corrected. Just saying half of these spoiled brats problems could be solved by some corporal punishment, like a light rap on the knuckles with a ruler or spanking with a flipflop. So yeah its a multitude of problems and I feel like the onus of their shitty behavior is not 100% on them, but they can easily break this chain of behavior if they would just sit back, relax, and do some self reflection
 
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Here's something I remember from lurking Facepunch's DeviantArt horrors thread a while back. Some DA brat throws a tantrum via journal because his dad won't take him to some stupid movie:

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