VA: Volunteering for an Animal Rescue Organization
Feb 1st, 2008
(24 votes, average: 2.92 out of 5)
Loading ...A typical email exchange:
hi…i am interesting in adopting ricardo. he is so cute. is he good with other dogs? how much would it be to adopt him?
Hello:
If you […]
Original post: Volunteering for an Animal Rescue Organization
The guy is just a waste of time (and now you are going to waste a perfectly good shotgun shell on him too.) I wouldn’t go around offering information like “Ricardo still has a few litter mates” to people like him, it just isn’t worth the typing. If he wasn’t going to fill out an application for Ricardo, he won’t do it for Ricardo’s brother either, and so why does he need to know that Ricardo even has a brother?
lol god, people are sooooo stupid! I’m surprised V was that patient. Actually I’m more surprised that she didn’t lead him on and somehow torture him. It would have been so easy and so much fun for us. heehee
It’s probably a kid. But if it isn’t… yeah, I vote for the shooting of the face.
I’m going to guess it’s an adult, from the way the questions were phrased. People like that are clearly not appropriate owners for any sort of animal.
The parrot commentators are calling for the killing of this fictional character based on an exaggerated story that was created to give some sort of substance to the blog author’s character. The parrots connected with the hard-working volunteer who suffers through the negligence of others in order to give cute little puppies a nice, warm and inviting family to love.
It’s understandable though. A lot of people got hooked into Harry Potter so why not get hooked into ViolentAcres? To each their own, and the fictional basis aside, it’s interesting to see people direct hatred toward someone who at the very core is just an innocently confused person with apparent limited ability to use a computer. You want to kill an older person who’d rather deal with a live person with a name through email rather than through a web-based form? Maybe if you took the time to understand where someone like that is coming from, you wouldn’t be stuck in the position where you believe ‘dealing’ with people like this is a “waste of time”.
Given that he was able to browse the website and send the email, I don’t think his ability to use a computer factored into it. It was more his complete fucking stupidity that was problematic.
No, kph.. it’s more like your stupidity is causing a problem that’s forcing you to make biased comments in subjects you don’t seem to know much about.
Did you know that almost every community college offers basic computing classes which teach the fundamentals of sending and receiving email, but no classes on how to navigate through a web form? Did you know most web forms don’t follow UI guidelines at all and are actually counter-intuitive? Do you even know what the form looked like, or how this person perceived it?
Again, truthiness of this post aside it sounds like all this person did was indirectly state that they were more comfortable using email with a live person (presumably expecting a quicker or even absolute response) rather than a web-page form.
Good point Hoodmonkey. In this case a lot of people were also voting for shooting that person. Although, that’s funny thing to say over the net. Oh, if it only were that easy. People give death sentences over the net. Western world would be so much quieter. I vote for this: If you deal out death over the net, stand by your words. Don’t be a tuff guy behind a keyboard and the mouth is running half way around the world, while the money stays in the wallet.
But better not forget few points. 99% of all web users are idiots with web. (When I finish installing all these free programs I found on the net, I’m going to buy a penis enlargement p1llz and a prestige r3plic4 as soon as my African contact brings me my 10 000 000, since I sent him 20 000 to help to move the money, right after I post a comment to a blog writing.) Even more people lose about 2/3 of their IQ in the presence of a puppy.
There are also these weird people who actually appreciate humans. Not only fill in an application or a form, but to actually communicate with a living, breathing person. Even if it’s over the e-mail. (Although, as the mails indicated, the form could’ve lead to a living person, too.) - But to be honest, yes, these people have annoyed me in my jobs.
Enough futile attempts to back Hoodmonkey up, I’d go even further with these speculative questions, though.
How do we know that was an animal shelter and not, say, a real estate website? (Or a combination of websites of her and her friends’ jobs?) And the “adoption” of a puppy was buying a house? Or anything else. And the whole correspondance was a caricature of n+1 customers you just have to smile at? And you feel like they are idiots who act even more like idiots when they see a puppy (or the first own home)? And the end bit was what she really did want to say, but just couldn’t because of the official face she has to put on?
(Besides, I thought it said “A typical email exchange” which is an example, and not necessarily mean an exact quote.)
Someone that stupid is clearly incapable of taking care of themselves, never mind taking care of a pet.
yes, V, is getting tedious with her meanness. Some people are right-brained and adore animals and sometimes don’t notice the stupid goddamn left-brained application bullshit on the side of the web page. Oh, boo hoo for poor beleagured, college-educated left-brained, computer hacker, web blogger V! She’s so holy since she’s a VOLUNTEER at an animal shelter, she’s so holy because she’s smarter than everyone, she’s so holy because she’s married, she’s so holy because she’s a slumlord, she’s so holy because she’s more “together” than her stepkids’ mom, she’s so holy because she can BLOG. I’m unsubscribing from her blog, she’s ranting and bitching about these animal lovers like she’s an EMPLOYEE of the shelter or something, you’re a volunter, take your dog treats bag full of booze and pills and GO HOME. Probably no one likes you there anyway. Sadly, you can’t be fired.
@ Hoodmonkey
A black sheep is still sheep. The issue in the story is not based on technological understanding, rather general comprehension. I would assume he knows how to read, as he’s typing in a coherent fashion.
That either means he never read the responses (in which case, he shouldn’t have bothered trying to communicate, as he wasn’t “listening” in the first place), or read and didn’t understand that he was to fill out an application first. If it was the former, then yes he was “stupid”. If it was the latter, he should have asked for elaboration. Which he clearly did not.
Not once did he reference the application, if he did, then I would be more inclined to agree with you. (You can attribute it to his “pride” that he didn’t ask about it, but in that case, it is still “stupid”.)
So, yes, he was “stupid”. Ability to use a computer had nothing to do with it.
What I find most amusing though, is your attempt at calling everyone else stupid, for pretty much the same reasons they’re calling the original subject stupid. Except they have more of a basis for their opinion than yours.
Bias is everywhere, its in every choice that is ever made. You yourself have just demonstrated it.
Stop trying to be a martyr or black sheep. A martyr is just as dead as the next man, and a black sheep is still a sheep. Either that or you’re trying to bestow your wisdom, in which case, is not very thought out.
@ Sami
He does have good points, if he had actually applied them properly. But in this case, he’s mistaken. At the original subject, and possibly the bloodlusted ones as well. People “deal out death” on the net all the time. Doesn’t really mean anything. But hey, if you gave me the resources to actually do it, I’m up for it, heh.
Another thing that could be considered is that they’re “prank” communications, just to annoy the person who has to respond to it.
(On a side note: I don’t agree with the lynching in this scenario, but there *are* people out there who I believe shouldn’t exist. Sure, they can be “taught” or changed, but would require an enormous amount of energy that is better spent improving life for the rest of the population.)
“Did you know that almost every community college offers basic computing classes which teach the fundamentals of sending and receiving email, but no classes on how to navigate through a web form? Did you know most web forms don’t follow UI guidelines at all and are actually counter-intuitive? Do you even know what the form looked like, or how this person perceived it?”
You are missing the point. As Olb says, the trouble was that he clearly did not read the responses. And as he was able to type and send said emails, the problem lay with his lack of reading comprehension with regard to V’s responses. You may be able to relate.
Jesus Christ, people. Get a sense of humor.
“Did you know that almost every community college offers basic computing classes which teach the fundamentals of sending and receiving email, but no classes on how to navigate through a web form?”
If you need a class to use an online form, you’re a moron.
Olb, my intention wasn’t to label kph as they labeled the person in the post but merely to expose their harmful bias and misjudgment that they expressed in their comment.
I’m also aware that the post was wrote in a way that tries to connect with the majority of the readers by insulting someone’s intelligence. In fact, almost every post is a formulaic scripted exchange between two or three stereotypes and ends with a predictable message that explains how you should feel about it. And most of the comments are just leftover splooges of nonsense that replace subjection with a reiteration of what the author wrote. And they’re always angry.. you people must live shitty lives but that’s another comment.
Kph, if the point was that we’re supposed to want to shoot some stranger in the face because they’d rather use a direct form of communication rather than this mysterious web-form that nobody has even seen, then yeah, I guess I missed it. Thanks for spood-feeding me somebody else’s conclusion!
Thank you, Hoodmonkey, for your delightful essay, ‘Why VATalk Posters are Big Huge Stupid Meaniebutts’.
I’m sure we’ll all take to heart what you say, and never ever jokingly suggest shooting someone we find frustrating. After all, that’s just WRONG.
#11 Olb: “People “deal out death” on the net all the time. Doesn’t really mean anything.”
Which is so friggin’ annoying. Don’t just say that. Do it, or shut the f up.
Adding “No, I am not kidding.” at the end doesn’t make it more eligible.
There’s a difference between “I’d like to kick him in the groin.” and “I’d shoot him in the face.” - I call you a liar and a pussy if you say the latter and don’t do it.
Now behave or I’ll throw a gigaton nuclear bomb and billion gazillion neutron hand-grenades on you! Really, I would. Seriously. I’m not kidding. That being said, you can all now marvel my supreme and enormous unmentionable. Me silverback. Graa! ME know the power of fire! Me know how make fire. Me fire stoooooopid men. Graaaah!
For animal lovers, please read and help this shelter. Thanks.
http://poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080207/NEWS/802070328
no, the point is not the dumb dog wanter, the point is that the dumb dog wanter BUMS V’S DAY! wah wah, V, go home if it all torments you so much. YOU don’t HAVE to work without pay there, take your angst and your pills and leave the scene of the stress. End of story.
Awesome!
I too volunteer with a local animal shelter and people like above are ill equipped to wipe their own ass never mind be a good guardian to an animal.
It’s also the reason I have never but never had a customer service oriented job, my urge to tell morons off can only be controlled so long…
And being ‘right brained’ whatever that means is no excuse for being an ignorant tard who CAN’T READ! The appropriate response would be ‘could you help me find it/fill it out/fax it in’ not asking the same questions over and over like it’s someone else’s job to read your friggin’ mind.