I Hate Seattle

I visited Seattle last year and had a horrible experience all around. There is no need to get into detail, but let's just say after a three day visit the first thing I did after I got home was Google I Hate Seattle and stumble onto this awesome website. I'd say I experienced 90% of the nightmares I've read about in a 72 hour period.
As amused as I am by the site, it just leaves me with one question? Why don't you move if you hate it so much? Most people's excuses for not moving are lame, so don't try that route. Get out of that rainy hellhole and find somewhere else to live. If you don't, you're just accepting being miserable, and that's a pathetic way to live.
Sorry to be so honest, I'm from New Jersey, it's in my blood. Another place I hated. So I left. Pretty simple. Hit the road all you miserable Seattlites, reading these posts will be a lot funnier once you do.

I'm guilty.. I felt so good knowing this site existed.

I read on someone's other post about someone telling them about this OH-SO-COOL thing they found in some obscure book they borrowed. I can totally relate ... I am pretty sure I am stereotyping but there is this hipster kid I know:

Last year, he was one of my many room mates in the dorms, I went in his room to randomly talk to him and he started telling me about this strange fly that used to exist solely in Washington. Or something to that extent.

At first, I was just like, "why are you telling me this?" in my head. It seemed so trivial and ... unworthy of hearing. I mean maybe I asked him about the book he was holding but the moment he started talking about it, Dear God.

Another thing that confuses me is this fine evening we're having today. It's actually nice outside... I'm fucking confused. I have this feeling that God is just playing a trick on me or going to make it snow tomorrow.

I must say i'm very pleased I stumbled across this gem of a webpage. It's about time the truth got out about this nasty and demonic city. (Nothing religious, but come on, even an Atheist has to feel a bad aura about this joint).

Well I am a native of Brooklyn, NY. I was raised back and forth from Brooklyn and Seattle. Now my attiude is Simple. I tell the truth and say things upfront. Not exactly the Seattle way of telling the truth, and that is tell the truth with a lie. I won't go into my whole life stoty but here I would like to relate a story to you that happened in the summer of 2008. March of that year I had been laid off from a certain apartment building down the street from Pike Place Market. I was a security guard in the building. Great crew, good pay for a young twenty one year old and the supervisor was pretty chill with his employees. Yet due to some budget issues five people from the crew were cut. Myself being one of them.

For a month and a half after looking for a job and doing temp concert security gigs, I got a call back from the Pike Place Market PDA(Preservation and development authority) requesting me for an interview for an in-house Security Guard position. In the back of my mind I was excited due to the fact that it was much better paying than my previous employment with great benifitis plus a Union. Wasn't so keen about dues and not the type of guy to strike all the time(Hey gotta pay bills) but at least it would help me keep my job. I go to the interview, pass with flying colrs and get the job a week later along with another woman. Now here is where the fun begins. My first or two of work was really cool. Getting to know some of the security crew and all of the new guy things you do when you get a job, but after that point it grew worse. Much worse.

I worked on the night shift which is my favorite shift. On my shift we had Reeves the supervisor, John the supervisors friend and Roger a shift lead(Not real names). Now all three of these guys were very protective of themselves and very hostile towards new people. Especially Reeves. Now Reeves was from South Africa and a former bodyguard in the ANC for Nelson Mandela. All the time he would drone on and on about Apartheid and how much of a struggle it was for freedom and this and that, also he would say this country is highly racist and almost worse than S.A. because we Americans hide our racism. My head would spin from these conversations he had for numerous reasons.

One, this country even in the height of KKK membership and racism would never be on par to South Africa during the apartheid era. I'm sorry but it's true. Now the U.S. had lynchings and it's share of race riots but the were never condoned by the U.S. Government at least out loud. Sure the U.S. was extremely racist for a long time but South Africa was 200 years behind America on race and that's even by 1940's standards. South Africa much more racist than America, because their racism was state sponsored. I always thought to myself that if you hate this country why are you here? Please go back to South Africa. How dare you complain when you're not even a citizen. Any other country had Reeves said this and he would be under investigation. Not to mention Reeves drove a brand new Suburban and a tricked out honda, live in a nice house and had plenty of money. Not something very prevelent in South Africa now a days. While on my end I take care of a very sick Mother, took the bus to work and lived in an apartment.

Also Reeves must have been a radical Islamist. He would preach to us that "this country should be destroyed" and "we will be punished for what we do to Muslims" and for his Magnum Opus of all comments, "I wan't to shoot Israeli and US soldiers" and "Jews control the world". Just great, this guy is a security supervisor at the Market and he wants to "SHOOT SOLDIERS!" Wow, very comforting to know he controls a major tourist trap for eight hours. Now, I love all people and know great Muslim people. They're are good in bad in every race and religion, but if most heard what he was saying their opions would turn. Plus being Jewish this was uncomfortable to me. I'm suprised Reeves was never deported or jailed for saying these things, i'm all for freedom of speech but that was going to far.

As for the other two, they were just Reeves ass kissers. Both of them were mean spirited people. As my work prgressed their All of them, especially Reeves would knit pick at things I did to put me down, such as not setting up the parking spots right, to lock ups, to how I dealt with people. He was a classic workplace bully. He would always stab you in the back and then when he was nice to you he would incorperate something bad to say. As for myself I worked damn hard to hang on their but I caved. Totally my fault, but why put myself through the stress. I wanted this job to make good money, have health for my Mother and I and hve a decent living. Unfortunately it was all ruined by this guy and his chronies. A few months later I quit and left a message for the security manager about Reeves actions and behavior towards me. A few days later Reeves called me back and cursed me out, saying that I am not a man. Last I heard or saw from him. Well, I am a man, it's you Reeves who are not a man but an arrogant prick who prides himself on being mean, hateful, soulless and nasty and karma will catch up to you my friend. As for the other two dudes they just went along with him like sheep.

Now that I look back at this, i'm happy I left PPM. For one they now have problems with the union and demand higher pay for doing nothing. I understand your concern but come on, look at these times we're in, be glad you are employed with a union to protect you so don't abuse it, and yes most direct PPM workers are lazy. I met some good people there but for the most part most are. If workers at Pike place keep abusing their employer i'm sure the U.S. Parks Service would love to get their hands on the market and replace the PPM inhouse security with Law enforcement park rangers. On top of that then replace the people who work directly for the market and replace them with Government employees. The U.S. Government would love to have it as a national park
and frankly i'm surprised it's not.

As for me I landed a good gig doing customer service and have great co-workers. In the near future I want to go into the Army as medic or the Coast Guard and get my BA in something. Sorry for the long story but my writing goes on forever once I start and if it seems one sided I apoliogize. Hopefully I have demonstrated some of the mentallity that Seattle has to offer. By the time i'm 25 i want to go back to Brooklyn with my Mother and settle there again. Miss the Deli's. I can't stand it here. Only a few things such as my job, friends and education are holding me back here. I'm sure the future is bright for me.

Cheers and God Bless.

I haven't posted for awhile before this because there was a person on here who was criticizing me constantly. Isn't that fucked up that the one place you can go to let off steam, there he was? He had my email, so I assumed he was part of the staff here. He continued to email me, telling me that this site was a joke on all of us, made up by seattlites who are laughing their heads off. He said I was the punchline to the joke.

We'll see if this gets taken down now.

takers? :P

Ok, so, have you ever noticed that when you ask for information anywhere, it's all about obfuscating, denying, saying no, beating around the bush, defending whatever or whoever has caused you grief or adding some more insult to your situation? And if there's someone else standing there with them, staring, they pile in on you, too, and laugh like a machine gun?

How they ignore you in public even if you ask them a question, but laugh in a split second if you trip or drop something or get hurt? They even open their big mouth and have a "serves you right" type comment. I've got another example of what a woman did the night before Christmas, but it makes me so sick I can't go into it right now. It was a very stupid thing for her to do in a darkened area with no one else around, wearing high heels. I'll tell you that.

Something funny is: I've started asking operators on customer service lines where they're located. If they're a little asshole, they will RELUCTANTLY say Seattle. How amazing. The fuckers are reluctant to tell you where they live, just like in real life (If that's what you want to call this). If they are nice and normal, it's never from Seattle. NEVER. I've been doing it for a year. I've started having a helpless laughter reaction.

OK, one more thing before I walk back into the mouth of Hell: The food handling here: whaa? They don't get refrigeration. I was at QFC and I wanted some cole slaw out of the deli case, but I wanted to ask first (Which never helps right, because they either lie or won't give you a straight answer) because I have seen them just throw some saran wrap over everything and leave it overnight WTF? I saw a woman throw plastic over the gelato (some flavors contain raw egg yolks)one night and I said "You leave that in the case?" I wanted to know because I had just had some. "YEAH! This stuff's expensive" she said.) I was just hoping; I love slaw and it's a pain to make. So I said "Hi". No response except staring openmouthed. "I was wondering, is the slaw freshly made today?" He says "Yeah, it's fresh, I think it was made yesterday". I said "Oh. Well, never mind then." He says "Wait, let me ask". So he asks this older lady and she says "WHAT? YEAH SHE CAN HAVE WHATEVER SHE WANTS IN THERE!!" (How is that an answer to the question?) He says "Well, the lady wants to know when the cole slaw was made". The woman says "EVERYTHING IN THERE WAS MADE 2 DAYS AGO. IT'S FRESH!!!!" I couldn't help laughing, I was trying to choke it back. I looked at the case full of food and I blurted out "Those ribs? They're 2 days old?" She says "YEAH!!!! THEY'RE GOOD FOR 2 WEEKS!!!" I couldn't help it then, I collapsed in helpless laughter. I had to leave the store. I was crying. I guess because I never get the opportunity to laugh here, it's backed up. 2 weeks for a side of ribs. You know, as Margaret Cho says, food poisoning on bbq ribs is the kind of food poisoning that gets everybody involved, including an ambulance.

seattleites must have such a tolerance for spoiled food that it doesn't bother them anymore. I have never had the sheer number of food poisoning incidents from food from the grocery store. The other night in another QFC I saw where somebody had left some raw chicken patties in the magazine rack next to the check out. It was warm. I knew they would just put it back in the freezer case, and someone would die, so I just tore the plastic off of it and put it back. The checkout girl saw me do it and smiled. MAYBE they won't put it back, because I knew I couldn't go through telling anyone about it and their passive-agressive reaction. Or maybe they'll be all GREEN, put some new plastic over it, and save it.

The people here suck.

I remember walking from the parking lot to the entrance of the Fred Meyer (Ballar/Fremont) with my fiancee one day. We were crossing almost there when we heard a honk and looked up to see a beat up old van with a driver and a passenger. The driver looked away and the passenger started to look uncomfortable. Seeing as neither paid any attention to us we continued onward. As the van started to pass behind us, the woman driver yelled out the passenger window "It's not a cross walk!!!" and then sped off.

SERIOUSLY?!?

Passive Aggressive? yes. Brave? Hell no!

Every time I pass closely by someone or otherwise I excuse myself. Do I hear a similar remark? Hell no! As they bump into me they give a stare as if to say "I can't believe you would be in my way?"

All my strength not to punch them. But I do say "Excuse You" and the nasty look I get. But luckily, I have the ability to give a nasty look too, and they always look away first. Losers.

Likewise, I've never encountered so much racism in all my 27 years in Texas. (I am Asian-American and my fiancee is white)

I've been nastily talked at/to on the buses by crazy homeless men, as well as the bus stop. I even had the lady at the DMV try to make trouble for me when I told her I did not know the city in which I was born, just the country. I had my American Passport and everything to prove that I am a citizen. She told me that my driver's license would still have to be looked into before it was approve. My coworker told me that that is a common thing at the DMV. They are racist and try to keep foreign people from getting a license, especially if the person's English isn't very good.

I can't even begin to talk about the driving in this city. It brings up my blood pressure.

The only thing that keeps me laughing is that other people who come here see it too. I've had friends, family, even a stranger on the bus say how rude people are here.

Southern hospitality is real and Seattle snobs could learn a lot from it.

Has anyone had experience with the Trip Planner on Seattle Metro's website.....I mean, a "positive" experience? I've tried several times to use it and each time, it keeps telling me that either the addresses I'm entering are incorrect or simply that "Trip not possible."

Seriously, I am usually not so impatient.but they are making me crazy. I have recently moved here from the east coast.
The lights take so fucking long to turn green.. does anyone else notice this or have I completely lost my mind!