Tefal, I don't understand how you'd think I was sucking up to them. I know that they don't think anything of me. I don't think anything of them. However, how many people do you know who would intentionally kick somebody in the head?
With regards to the incident with the junior. when I was his age, I would never go into the room of somebody 4 years older and start messing around. I had asked him politely to go, I had raised my voice, then threatened him. He kept leaving then coming back to annoy the other guy even more. I hit him and he leaves and doesn't return. Then I find out it's not the first time he's done this. Yet since then he hasn't come back. I took care of the problem yes? Admittedly, it was not in a manner that I would have liked to. I wasn't picking on him, I wasn't preying on the weak or anything like that.
When he was telling me that I'd hurt him, please believe me when I say that if I thought I had actually genuinely hurt him, I would have apologised sincerely. Not only was it not my intention, but as I'm trying to tell you, I'm not a bully. He was saying it to annoy me, not because I had hurt him.
Also, it was the first time I've ever been vaguely violent to a junior. Previously I would have told him to get out, then tickle him or something. But this method yielded very little success.
I never beat him up, attacked him, or bullied him. I hit him as he was harrassing somebody after being told to stop.
How you can say that I have turned into that which I hate? I can't blame you, as you don't know me personally, but I loathe bullying. If I ever thought it was getting to the point where I was entering the territory of bullying, I'd back out immediately. Not to mention that I haven't consistently mocked said junior, I haven't been racist to him, I haven't done things like stick his face against a radiator. So I don't understand how I've turned into these people.
I'll admit that I'm a piece of ****, but not for anything related to this thread.
A lot of keyboard warriors have come in this thread saying "hit people, it's the only way they'll stop doing whatever they are doing". To the OP, be careful that you don't turn into the people that made you ****ed off in the first place.
Simply ignoring idiots does work in most cases.
I've ignored it for about 5 years. I decided that I didn't want to put up with it any longer.