30 Times People Were Surprised By How Much Of A Jerk They Encountered

We bring you a lot of uplifting stories here at Bored Panda. From feelgood happenings that restore your faith in humanity to inspirational people and happy facts, we love sharing examples of humans being kind, thoughtful, altruistic, and only downright awesome to one another.

But there’s always the flip side. The hours when people were thoughtless, disrespectful, selfish and mean, the times when people were just, well … dorks. Because that’s part of being human too.

Compiled into an infuriating list by Bored Panda, these snapshots of appalling behavior will leave you frustrated with your fellow human beings; but at the same time, you might realize that in comparison to these jerks, you aren’t that bad a person, after all. Scroll down below to check them out for yourself, and don’t forget to vote for the ones that angered you the most!

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Even Though I Don’t Work Here, The Parents With Their Children In The Photo Made A Mess In The Toy Aisle At A Store. I Feel Sorry For Whoever Would Have To Clean That Up

According to the website PsychMechanics, there are some basics about the psychology of selfishness that we all is well aware 😛 TAGEND

A selfish person is the one who puts his own needs first. He’s primarily concerned with himself and seeks out only those activities that fulfill his own desires and wants. Anything wrong with that? I don’t think so.

Going by that definition, we’re all selfish in one route or the other. All of us are intended to do things that are ultimately for our own good and well-being. This type of selfishness is good and desirable.

So far so good. The problem arises when we do things for ourselves and at the same time dismis the needs of those around us or when we fulfill our needs at the expense of others. When you stimulate life difficult for others to meet your own objectives, then that kind of selfishness is the selfishness that you’d like to avoid.

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Our Dorm Building Only Has One Facilities Person To Clean, She Works So Hard Yet The People On My Floor Are Still Disgusting. I Can’t Blame Her For Leaving This Note

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This Lady Kneeling On Bread While She Looks At Other Bread

There are several reasons that could attain someone selfish…

A person who holds on to his resources and doesn’t give it to the needy can be considered a selfish person and this is the type of selfishness that we usually refer to when we say that someone is selfish.

When we say that someone is selfish, we usually mean that he doesn’t share his resources( money, hour, etc .). Now, why won’t a person share his resources, even if it’s the best thing to do in a given situation?

The biggest reason is that he thinks he doesn’t have enough. A selfish person, hence, is also likely to be stingy. This insecurity of not having enough motivates a person to hold on to his resources and not share them.

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If You Or Your Kids Think That It’s A Good Idea To Leave The Cinema Like This, Damn You

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He/ She Saw Nothing Wrong With Parking There

Another reason is a fear of losing control. If someone has many needs and objectives, then he overvalues his resources because he thinks that these resources are going to help him reach his aims. If he loses his resources, he loses his aims and if he loses his goals he feels he has lost control over his life.

For example, a student who doesn’t share his study notes with others is the one who has high academic goals and sharing notes could mean losing an important resource that could help him reach his objective. And not being able to reach your goals is a perfect recipe for a feeling of loss of control over your life.

In other examples, the way a person was raised can also attain him act in selfish ways. The only child or the child whose every demand was met by his parents( spoil child) learns to take as much as he can and devote very little back.

Such children learn to care only for their needs with little empathy or its further consideration of others. As children, we were all like that to some extent but gradually we began to learn that other people have feelings too and so developed empathy.

Some people never learn empathy and therefore remain selfish, just like when they were kids.

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Urgh…

# 7

Letting Your Kid Watch A Movie On Full Volume In A Restaurant

The most important thing to do when dealing with a selfish reason is to figure out the above reasons for his selfishness and then work on eliminating that reason.

All other methods and efforts of dealing with him are going to be in vain. Ask yourselves questions like…Why is he being selfish? What is he feeling so insecure about? Are you inducing unrealistic demands of him? Is he genuinely in a position to meet your demands?

We are often too quick to label person’ selfish’ instead of admitting that we failed to persuade them or that our demands are unreasonable.

But what if they are really being selfish and you’re not just falsely labeling them?

Well then, help them get rid of their insecurity. Show them that they’re not going to lose anything by giving you what you want. Or better yet, is demonstrating how they may benefit by helping you if there’s a possibility of a win-win situation.

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