Tag: apology

Temper Fail

I was just reading posts from one year ago today, like you do. Just trying to see how the beginning of the covid clusterfuck was comparing to the current covid clusterfuck. There was a post where I was talking about how everything was different but how it hadn’t sunk in yet. Mostly I was talking about work, but I also got personal a bit. I challenged myself to do something and reading it today I realized that I have failed in that personal challenge many times. This is what I wrote:

I can’t lose my temper… ever.  The stress level world wide right now is insanely high and am nervous that my temper’s fuse is now really short.  I cannot cannot cannot lose it.  I have to pay close attention not only to what I say to people, but how I say it.  I can’t snap.  I can’t sound pissy.  I can’t be anything other than cool and supportive. 

Okay… well… I think I’ve lived up to that more often than not, but there have been many times… many times where I have let something get under my skin that under normal world circumstances wouldn’t have bothered me at all and I’ve turned into a snapping prick and just lost my cool completely.

So allow me to take a moment to apologize to any and all people who have seen me lose my temper. I should have been a better person than I was and I am sorry.

Maybe as things start getting back to a more 2019 flavor of normal I might be able to be less of a dick when things get stressy. Here’s hoping.

The NHL Apology

The NHL has apologized to newspapers across the continent.  Or something like that.

Leave it to the league that followed record profits, disgustingly high profits, with an insulting, idiotic, moronic, douche bag of a lockout to tell its fans how sorry they are for taking their favorite league away from them via a dead medium.

Newspapers.  You know, those things from ancient history that in the modern day are dying left and right because no on buys them anymore and therefore they cannot sell any advertisements and therefore go out of business?

The NHL took out full page adds in at least one paper in every NHL city, assuming the NHL city still has a newspaper because, as stated above, newspapers are going out of business left and right.  Those papers that actually exist were probably overcome with bliss at the idea of actually selling an advertisement that takes up a full page.  That means the papers published today will be at least one page long!  The wonder of it all, eh?

Here is the add itself.  Be amazed at the sincerity of the apology made by the billionaires who took our game away from us.  It just brings a tear to the eye, doesn’t it?  Of course no one is going to see the actual apology because no one in North America actually reads newspapers anymore.  They may as well have broadcast this text via telegraph.

So there you have it.  Shared on the internet (I got the image from this article, published in a medium that people in North America actually use, on a web page) because it’s the 21st century and all.

I guess now that the NHL has apologized to the people who pay their bills all must be forgiven, right?  We’re all happy friends again, right?

Wrong.