[ SECRET POST #2176 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2176 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Sorry for late, busy day.

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 075 secrets from Secret Submission Post #311.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I agree, but people still brag all the time on 4chan etc, so it's clearly something that people do, if they just want recognition or w/e.

And people are going to accuse them of being stuck-up, if they're being stuck-up, which OP of the secret totally is. They're not complaining about their responsibilities, they're listing all these things about how awesome they are - they got promoted really fast in their chosen profession! they have a ton of responsibility! people talk about them and they have a reputation! - and then kind of vaguely seguing into worrying about responsibility versus fandom.

If the secret had been, you know, "I have a real life, I do serious things, and fandom seems frivolous. Sometimes it seems like I'm wasting my time" I don't think people would have reacted this way - but instead it's "I HOLD THE POWER OF LIFE AND DEATH IN MY HANDS" - I mean, there's just this really overblown rhetoric about how awesome OP's job is combined with staggering condescension towards everyone else. If OP was open about it and said "I have this job and IRL responsibilities" no one would give a shit, it's them being an arrogant braggart that is leading people to rag on them. F'real.

[diet_poison]

See you are really, really exaggerating and dramatizing what OP said which leads me to believe you are not completely unbiased here, and have experience with people bragging in a way you don't like, which you may be (fairly or not) applying to OP.

Also, I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt...

[(Anonymous)]

Giving people the benefit of the doubt? That's not what the Internet is for.

sorry but there's just no way I can't read OP's secret as not bragging, and I don't know how you can.

[diet_poison]

There's no way I can read your comment as anything but extreme over-exaggeration.

Let's agree to disagree.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't see much exaggeration there, TBH. The message I took was basically the same: "I'm so good at my job that the mayor of my city approached me and asked me to be on his team. Now I work for the state governor. I'm well-known enough that people squee about meeting me at last. I'm so important, I don't see why I'm wasting my time in fandom with the rest of you Wal-Mart lifers."

[diet_poison]

The message I took was "I feel like I don't belong here because if people found out what I do they'd judge me." And they very well might. It would be almost impossible for them to mention their line of work without certain anons accusing them of being smug or bragging. You sound a little bit bitter, honestly.