People that Don't Click

There are just some people I can get along with. Esp if it's people who've insulted me before.

I was asked to work with this manager (let's call him Xxx) on a particular assignment. Upon deciding that I was probably too nooby for his taste, Xxx quietly asked my senior in the department to join in the meeting. Thanks for the great vote of no confidence... I was about 6 mths++ into the job at that point and I certainly did not enjoy the snub.

A while back, he also told his department that he doesn't celebrate Valentine's day coz the restaurants/ florists etc jacks up their prices. Or as he puts it "I don't play that game". It was all fine up till there until he added that celebrates it one week before (or is it after). Any sliver of respect for him that I might have accumulated was out of the window.

Let's put it this way. If a guy is just too absent minded or just plainly not the romantic sort (aka my darling), I don't really care if we don't do V-day. (I don't really care either way actually. Never put much stock on V-days. I'm perfectly happy buying and eating post V-day chocolates at half price >_<). But if a guy buys me post/pre v-day on the pretext of saving money, I'd be quite annoyed. If you are too cheap to get me the real thing, please don't give cheap substitutes insulting my ability to differentiate between the two and worse of all try to justify it by decrying the commercialism of the whole event. Thanks bud, you're not fooling anyone... at least not me.
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