| ▲ | justonceokay 11 hours ago |
| Learning where you fit in the social hierarchy and attempting to navigate that hierarchy is more important than anything you’ll learn in math class. Even if it is embarrassing. It’s not like you graduate high school and then the bullies go away. |
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| ▲ | throwaway150 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| That's quite a claim. I'm not sure I buy it. We never had all this lunchroom social drama growing up, and my old mates and I seem to be doing just fine. Maybe you feel that navigating social hierarchy is more important than anything in math is because that's the kind of culture you happened to grow up in, not because it's truly more important? |
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| ▲ | squigz 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Generally, once you leave high school, you have a lot more choice in when/where you are forced to interact with bullies. |
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| ▲ | ryandrake 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The exception being work, where a lot of people seem like they never left high school. Everywhere I've worked had the social totem pole, the cliques, the politics, the in-crowd and out-crowds. One place I worked was almost exactly like the movie Mean Girls. Lots of people just don't grow out of it. | | |
| ▲ | lmm 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | Worst case you can switch jobs. It's not easy, but it's a lot easier than switching schools. |
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| ▲ | LtWorf 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Also, bullying in school has no consequences, but outside it might have some. | | |
| ▲ | squigz 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | Bullying in school absolutely has consequences, and they're mostly going to be much farther-reaching than those suffered as an adult - getting messed up psychologically is more impactful as a kid, not to mention any physical toll it takes, or the impact of it on one's education. | | |
| ▲ | ironSkillet 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I think the user means that bullies in school face little consequences, but a bully at work may get called by HR and potentially disciplined. | | |
| ▲ | squigz 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | Oh fair enough. My apologies Mr Worf. I don't fully agree - plenty of shitty behavior gets ignored (or even encouraged) even in a workplace - but there's definitely some truth here. |
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| ▲ | LtWorf 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | No consequence for the bully I mean. |
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