someday I'll be big enough so you can't hit me and all you're ever gonna be is mean. Why you gotta be so mean?

I was sitting with a new hire at my work. I was to observe him and make sure he had been trained in areas he needed to be trained in and fix anything I saw that wasn't right. We had been sharing meaningless small talk when he asked me, "So are you in school?" I answered yes and told him that I was a social work major and that I'd be graduating in the spring. He then decided to share his opinion on people who have just barely graduated college and go into social work fields saying, "No offense or anything but...I think people who are 21, 22, 23 and have just barely graduated are too ignorant to work in this field. They need experience first before we should allow them to work." I looked at him with what I thought was my, did you really just say that? face but he must of thought it was my keep talking face because he kept going. "I just think these kids try to use theories to fix everything and you don't use theories, you go off of your experience." I then said, "Theories have their place and I think they're needed in social work fields and how do you expect us to get experience if you don't allow us to work?" He then said, "Theories don't have place when you're in the middle of a crisis though. And kids can get experience by working in other places where they get use to being around people."

I had to physically remove myself from the room and give myself a breather because he really hit a nerve with me.

I was one hundred percent shocked that someone could be so blatantly rude and ignorant. Just because you've been in a field for ten plus years doesn't mean you necessarily have the talent to be there and just because someone just graduated it doesn't mean they are incapable of being able to work in the field they graduated in.

Sir, please.

"I can see you years from now in a bar. Talking over a football game with that same big loud opinion but nobodies listening. Washed up and ranting about the same old bitter things...All you are is mean."