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3-13-12 After you are
done laughing at this page...PLEASE SEE THE NEW PAGE THAT I JUST ADDED TITLED "NEW STORIES AND UPDATES FOR 2012." ENJOY!!!
Update: 8-5-09 The LA Fitness Massacre: Could it have been prevented?
By now, all of you have seen the
reports of the horrible massacre that took place at the LA Fitness in Collier Township last night. The
sad story of the troubled gunman, George Sodini, who documented his plan for months in an online journal, hit even closer
to home for me. You see, I worked in the same office with this man at my previous job. Although I did not know the
man personally, my co-workers & I always felt there was something deeply disturbing about him. His anti-social
behavior was only the tip of the iceberg. As the details of his story began to emerge, it became apparent that
George Sodini suffered from the same affliction that many of the men in this city face on a daily basis:
Rejection and isolation by the average Pittsburgh woman. A condition that has been chronicled here at
A. City for many years, and a condition that has been completely ignored by the largely politically-correct
media. How sad that a tragedy such as this had to take place. A tragedy that could have easily been prevented if
the women of this city would start treating average men like human beings instead of monsters.
The women of Pittsburgh have
a way of completely isolating the average male. If you don't have the "Tom Cruise Factor," (see our definition
on this site) going for you, then the average Pittsburgh woman simply wants nothing to do with you. These
women make us here at A. City feel like the Toxic Avenger. We notice that most of the time when we attempt
to make eye contact with an attractive Pittsburgh woman, they usually go out of their way not to make eye contact with
us. And when we corner them and force them into a conversation, in most cases they try to escape our presence as soon
as possible. This can be very isolating. Imagine how this can affect a healthy person, let alone one who was obviously
as mentally ill as George was.
Let's take a look at the 1931
movie "Frankenstein". Frankenstein's monster was not initially a monster, as was made clear to us in "Bride of
Frankenstein". There is a part in the movie where Frankenstein meets a blind man in his cabin in the middle of
the woods. Due to the man being blind he cannot see Frankenstein, is not scared of him, and therefore does not treat
him like a monster. In return, Frankenstein becomes his friend. The point is, there is something I like
to call the "Frankenstein Effect" in society. In short, if a person is treated so poorly over a long enough period of
time by society, that person can turn into a monster. That being said, Pittsburgh women are experts at isolating the
average Pittsburgh man - a man who should not have trouble attracting a girlfriend at all. They hold
men to ridiculously high standards, not to mention a double standard. For example, it's ok for her to not have a
car, and live at home with her parents, etc. But if you are a Pgh. man with no car, living at home with your
parents, you can forget it. You're sleeping alone every night.
When you approach an
attractive woman you can sense their stuck up attitude immediately. It's a tough city. Pittsburgh women
are so stuck up and picky that I have actually started to focus my dating efforts on women who live in more rural
areas outside of Allegheny County. There is definitely a difference.
In conclusion, we feel that
what George Sodini did was a terrible act of violence. George obviously came from a dysfunctional family and as
a result, grew up with many psychological issues that should have been addressed a long time ago. He was mentally ill.
So ill that by isolating himself from his friends, co-workers, and acquaintances, he prevented himself from making the
necessary changes that could have helped him live a normal life. George had not had a girlfriend in 20
years (he did not even get laid once during this 20 year period). That would be enough to drive any heterosexual man insane.
To not know a woman's touch in 20 years...how horrible. If he would have made himself approachable he may have made a
few friends. Friends that could have added to his life, perhaps even helped him find a girlfriend. This may have prevented
him from committing such a terrible act.
We feel the way that George isolated himself, combined
with the poor attitudes of the average Pittsburgh woman created a recipe for disaster. This should serve as a wake up
call to all the women of this city who take pride in treating average looking men as if they are sub human monsters.
And hopefully this tragic event will motivate the George Sodini's of the world to seek some help for their
problems and attempt to make some friends so they dont end their life in such a senseless way as he did.
3-29-09 College
Graduation Congratulation Abomination...here's your tent!
We here at Abomination
City would like to congratulate all of the recent college graduates. Enjoy your new tent! We says this because
these colleges are such a scam, that we here at ACity feel that these conartist institutions a.k.a. colleges and universities should
give their students a free tent at graduation. Because that is what a college degree gets you these days. A damn TENT!
Just listen to the college grads in tent city in California. It's a shame that there are so many con-artists in the
world.
3-18-09 The Bermuda Triangle Abomination
You've all heard of the Bermuda Triangle, where planes and ships go missing every year with no explanation. We
have a similar phenomenon in Pittsburgh, where all of the careers for anyone who has graduated from college post 1990 have
disappeared, and all the women who actually had decent attitudes toward average men have dissapeared as well.
3-8-09 You know you might be an abomination when...you buy a six pack of eggs as I did at the grocery store the other
day.
NEW TERM: "Abomination six pack egg carton". defined n. A six pack of
eggs. A product created by the grocery for an old person living alone due to the death of a spouse, or for thirty-something
year old lonely losers who have no family, wife or girlfriend. This is due largely in part to a lack of a career,
lack of good looks and being stuck in this dead end city. The grocery store accomplishes this by taking a chainsaw
just like the one Bruce Campbell used in the Evil Dead Trilogy, and cutting a standard 12 pack egg carton in half.
This works out for losers like myself because if you buy 12 eggs at a time they will spoil. This happens because you
are an "Isolated man" (see isolated man defined below) and have no woman to help you eat them. I used
to buy the 18 pack when I had a woman.
The "Pittsburgh Isolated Man" defined n: A man living in modern day Pittsburgh,
who is faced with a dating scene that is so pathetic that any half ass woman who has nothing going for her (I'm talking tons
of baggage, and not even that good looking) has 10 or more guys competing to get a date with her even though she doesn't
deserve it. This in turn makes it impossible for an average guy in this town to find a woman thus making him live
a very lonely and isolated life.
3-8-09 Bruce Campbell rejection abomination story. News flash Brent and Jim both
met attractive women who were Bruce Campbell and Evil Dead fans this week. What are the chances of that happening? We're
not sure but probably pretty slim. So you would think that these women would be like wow, a couple of guys who have
some stuff in common with us. NOT A CHANCE!!! Jim's girl did not even remember him even though he had been
in that bar 3 times. As soon as she mentioned that she was a Bruce Campbell fan, Jim chimed into the conversation
thinking that she might have been impressed that he too, is down with Bruce Campbell and Evil Dead. TO make a long story
short because Jim does not look like Tom Cruise she did not give a shit. In fact Jim would have been better off to have
looked like Tom Cruise and known nothing about Bruce Campbell or Evil Dead. Because let's face it. All these women care
about is superficial bullshit.
Later that day, I met a girl who started talked to me about Evil Dead, right after she complimented my MISFITS shirt.
I thought wow we really hit it off! She was a total babe too. But soon after I began to notice that she was
attempting to tip toe her way out of the conversation and out of my life. Despite the fact that we were
having a great conversation about Evil Dead, and were laying the proper foundation for a life long successful relationship
together...she said that she had to go home and make dinner. We are guessing that she probably had
to go home and cook for some boyfriend or husband who has no clue who Bruce Campbell is, hates horror, and
beats her on top of that while telling her how dumb her love for horror movies is. Thus leaving us isolate men
on our own once again.
Added 5-10-08 In
honor of the 250th Anniversary of Pittsburgh, I'd like to present a tribute to what this city really means to me...
Poverty is a way of life
in this town.
In most other
cities you'd have a career…....but in this town you're screwed!
Trying to find a decent job here is like trying to win the lottery.
To employers, the job experience listed on your resume is worthless.
Salary
range is around $25,000.00……..if you're lucky.
Best chance at employment here is a retail job.
Unless
you love dead-end jobs, move the hell out!
Right now, you're probably on unemployment!
Going on interviews is
a total waste of time. Go to the
bar instead!
Having your dreams come true in Pittsburgh is a real possibility……in
your dreams! -Jim
Added 5-8-08 The Pittsburgh Formula of Disillusion:
Education + Experience = Unemployment and/or Dead-End Meaningless
Low Paying Job
We here at AbominationCity have
devised this very important formula (a formula rivaled only by Einstein's E=MC2) from over a decade spent spinning our wheels
working for unintelligent assholes, in dissapointing and unfulfilling dead-end jobs here in Pittsburgh. We hope
this formula will help others to understand that even though we call this place a city, it has the job market of some forgotten
backwoods place in West Virginia.
Added 4-15-08 One Hundred Twenty-One Job Applications Abomination!!!
Well here I sit in this wonderful city with so much opportunity and such a great job market.
I have a business degree (B.S.B.A.), over 8 years of professional work experience and I can't find a decent job (for those
that don't know, I was laid off last November, when I fell victim to the sub-prime lending industry collapse). I have
now sent my resume to 121 jobs on sites such as, You'llneverworkpittsburgh.com, YourresumewaseatenbyaMonster.com,
Careerdestroyer.com and Icecoldjobs.com, and still NO JOB!
What does a guy have to do? You mean to tell me that unemployment compensation is the best
job this town has to offer? How sad. It must be nice to be in Human Resources for a company. For every job you
are trying to fill you have 1000 candidates to choose from. And you have the power to make almost all of them waste
their gas money and time, by inviting them to your interview when you know damn well that they have a 1 in 1000 shot at landing
the job.
And why do they call us candidates? I mean, are we going to get elected and make big money and run
the country or something??? Oh no we're not. If we get lucky and win the Pittsburgh job lottery we will have the
privlege of working a dead end job for about 12 bucks an hour if we are lucky. Awesome!
Another thing...I am so sick of these recruiters wasting everyone's time. Dear recruiters don't ask me to meet with you when you know damn well that you don't have a decent job to offer
me!!! Are you going to give me gas money??? Are you going to pay me for my time??? Also quit posting sales jobs
on job search websites that claim to pay over 35k per year when they only pay 25-35k per year, YOU LIARS!!! (I know
this because I went on the interview and the first thing the company told me was that they only pay 25k-35k to start). If
you do this to me again I will show up at your house and take a nasty dump on your head!!!
Also, to the pyramid scam assholes that are hiring for some piece of shit all commission door to
door sales job...quit posting 20 ads per day on the job search sites. Quite frankly I am sick of seeing your bullshit
ads while trying to find a real job. You are not fooling anyone!!! We don't want to work for free you SPINLESS ASSHOLE
PHONIES!!! Matter of fact, why don't you losers get a real job? I can't believe the job boards actually allow these
frauds to post their bullshit door to door sales jobs on the site. I had a friend that fell for one of them. They drove
him out to Washington, PA., left him there stranded and forced him to sell for 8 hours (or more) before they would give
him a ride home. That was his first and last day at that job. (Of course if the law would put con artists
like these people in jail where they belong it would save us all alot of time and money.) It was during that day when
they finally admitted there was no salary. When he asked about the salary they got an attitude with him and accused
him of wanting to get paid for not working. They said, "Maybe we should just go bowling
all day, or go to a movie and collect a salary for not working. Is that what you would like?" WHAT??? Are these
people out of their minds? And the fact that they keep getting away with this crap tells us how awful the job market
really is here.
Added 4-2-08
The Phonies in Corporate America Are Missing the Boat of Life.
I have a real problem with these people in corporate america that treat others poorly, and
stab other in the back. You know the greedy people that think that all there is too life is their job. The phony
types that will screw anyone over in a heartbeat to get ahead in their job. I think those people need to wake up. They are
missing the whole point of life. Please read below and you will see what I mean...
I was reading the "Purpose Driven Life" by Rick Warren. It says "Relationships, not achievements
or the aquisition of things are what matters most in life. So why do we allow our relationships to get the short end
of the stick? When our schedules become overloaded we start skimming relationally cutting back on giving the time, energy
and attention that loving relationships require. What's most important to God is displaced by what is urgent."
"Busyness in a great enemy of relationships. We become preoccupied with making a living,
doing our work, paying bills, and accomplishing goals, as if these tasks are the point of life. The point is learning to love
God and people. Life minus love equals zero."
"I have been at the bedside of many people at thier final moments, when they stand on the
edge of eternity, and I have never heard anyone say, "Bring me my diplomas! I want to look at them one more time. Show me
my awards, my medals, that gold watch I was given." When life on earth is ending, people don't surround themselves with
objects. What we want around us is people-people we love and have relationships with. In our final moments we all realize
that relationships are what life is all about. Wisdom is learning that truth sooner rather than later.
One way God measures spiritual maturity is by the quality of your relationships. In Heaven
God won't say "Tell me about your career, your bank account, and your hobbies." Instead he will review how you treated
other people, particularly those in need.
Added 2-5-08 ALUMNI
SURVEY
Here is an alumni survey that I was sent from the university where I earned a B.S.B.A.
Please keep in mind my business degree has not helped me at all in my work life over the last 9 years since graduation.
I am currently unemployed, once again. Yes that's right! I was laid off from my dead end job due to the sub prime lending
crisis. By the way, my old job had no career path or room for advancement and I worked there for two years without being given
even 1 raise.
Check out my responses to the survey...
How did the college of business assist you in your career? Not at all. I have
no career. It wasted four years of my life.
Career path after attending? Worked dead-end jobs for the last 9 years.
When you think of the College of Business who do you identify with? Failure and the
homeless.
What contact do you have with the college currently?
None. I wish I never had contact in the first place.
How would you prefer to hear about alumni events? Leave me alone! Haven't you cost me
enough already?
Are there other types of events that would interest you? Yes. An event where you refund
my money because college is a scam.
Please indicate the ways you have invested in the College? Why would I give you con artists
anymore of my money??
If you do not contribute please indicate your reasons? My degree was a scam. It did not get
me anywhere in life. Pure failure!
Please let us know if there are ways we could serve you better? Quit lying to people or future
students about the usefullness of a college degree.
Added 01-29-08 Most Pittsburgh Head Hunters are a Joke.
Has anyone besides myself noticed that the staffing agencies and head hunters in Pittsburgh
love to waste your time by demanding that you come all the way downtown to meet with them? Even though 9 times out of 10 they
don't help at all in your job search?
Below is my latest run-in with a staffing agency...
Me: To save both of us time, I want to wait to meet with
you until your client has expressed interest in my resume and we have an interview lined up. If your client is interested
and they want to interview me for the Office Coordinator position, I would be willing to meet with you before the interview.
Also, if you have another company that wants to interview me for a position that is a fit for me, please let me know.
Good morning
Brent,
Because
we are providing a consultation service for our clients, I do not present candidates for positions that I have not personally met
with. This is a benefit to both you and our clients as we want to ensure the best matches are being made for employment longevity.
As I mentioned
during our conversation last week, our staffing agency provides high-level staffing for administrative and management professionals.
When I speak with my candidates during a preliminary interview it is an opportunity for me to ascertain their interviewing
skills and qualifications, but also to determine their career objectives and employment preferences. Only once I've met with
you will I really be able to seek out opportunities best suited to you and your goals.
Please
feel free to contact me via email or phone should you be interested in meeting with me. Best of luck in your job search.
Here is what I would like to write back to the recruiter...
Dear Ms. Waste My Time,
I am just tired of meeting with recruiters and ending up with nothing to show for it. Nine
times out of 10, it is a waste of time and gas money.
You always post some amazing job to lure potential placements in. A job that you basically have no
chance of getting anyone because you don't have a strong enough relationship with the end client or the hiring manager.
There are head hunters out there that just want to get paid for placing a qualified candidates and do not require a meeting
when there is no opportunity on the table. If you don't have a job that is a fit, coming all the way down town to meet
with you is a waste of my time and money.
If you look at my resume you will know that I have interview skills.
I don't see why we couldn't just do our meeting via phone? You would think that with my education and qualifications
you would work with me to get an easy placement for yourself.
Also, you mention that meeting with potential candidates
helps you learn about their career objectives and helps you to seek out opportunities best suited to them. That being
said...#1 The administrative jobs that we are talking about are dead-ends, not careers. #2. If I had career objectives I would
not be screwed and pigeon-holed into the dead-ends of the administrative field, sales field, or customer service field.
#3. Please refrain from using the word opportunity, because this is Pittsburgh and there are no opportunities here. I am living
proof of that.
Added 12-9-07 LAID OFF
Well it finally happened (please see my reverse
career forecast below). I was finally laid off from my dead end cubical zombie data entry job. They basically put
me out of my misery. Wonderful. So here I am the typical Pittsburgher. 32 years old, college educated, no
job, and no prospects. Awesome! Almost 9 years of professional work experience plus a bachelor's degree and I'm
worth nothing in the Burgh's job market. NOTHING (well maybe not nothing, maybe 20-25k per year YIPPY). I just can't
wait, I wonder how big of a dead end piece of shit my next job will be??? Will it be a whopping 25k per year or
even less? What hell will I have to put up with, just to earn a measley buck to feed myself? Let's see...so many
great opportunities here in Pittsburgh for a college grad with over 8 years of experience...I could work retail, I could work
sales and make cold calls all day, I could do data entry, no wait I could even do customer service. Wow how exciting!
What a mess!
Added 11-23-07- "College Trap" defined:
A term used to define a
person who was conned into wasting 4 years of his or her life in college, when they could have been using that
time instead to work their way up in retail or some other type of position. They would have, therefore, become
a manager and had a successful career due to the fact that no time was wasted earning a useless degree.
One who avoids the "College Trap"
will have a better attitude, expect less out of a job but ultimately get more. The fact that this person does NOT
harbor any anger or bitterness like the person who fell for the "College Trap" will enable him or her to rise
to the top and have a successful career.
The problem the "College Trap" victims face
is that upon graduation, they quickly discover that their degree is worthless.
To make matters worse, they feel
they deserve a better job because they believed the lie that society told them. The lie being that if you get a college degree you will be rewarded with a bright future and
you will earn more than people with only a high school diploma.
NOTE: Most college trappers
are still waiting for that reward. A reward which will probably never come. So they sit in their cubes at their dead
end jobs wondering where all of the reward and promise of having a degree went. WARNING: The "College
Trap" is very devastating. It can and will ruin your life.
They should have written, "You have the right to Life, Liberty, Misery (in the form of an extremely boring, dead end
job) and the Pursuit of Hapiness"...which, by the way, will never happen unless you are in the upper .01 percent of the population.
The rest of you are screwed - so have fun!
Added 10-28-07 - College Education:
The Modern-Day Snake Oil!
Snake oil is a traditional Chinese medicine used to treat joint pain. However, the most common usage of the words is as a derogatory term for compounds offered as medicines which implies
that they are fake, fraudulent , or ineffective. The expression is also applied metaphorically to any product with exaggerated marketing but questionable or unverifiable quality.
Added 4-15-08- Finally an answer to the question...
Why are we really forced to work jobs that we hate in Corporate America Hell?
"You're right there is NO justice whatsoever - especially in Corporate America.
Assholes and incompetents are always promoted, while honest, hard working people like you and me are pushed further and further
down."
"You know what happened? We died and were sent to Corporate Hell for our sins. Our
sins were going to college, being intelligent, hard-working, and refusing to be phony and kiss everyone's ass to climb the
corporate ladder. Now we are suffering in Corporate Hell as cubicle zombies. Our punishment is dead end, repetitious work
that never ends. Our brains are slowly rotting and our souls are already lost. They were taken by the lord of the corporate
underworld - Satan. " -Jim
This says it all about the Job Market here in Pittsburgh...
"What
really makes me angry is that I've never even experienced what it's like to have money or earn a good living. I've been
living like a kid straight out of college on his first job for my entire working life now, and I'm really sick of it. We both
deserve to have good careers, nice houses and to just live like normal people do. But even the possibility
of having a normal life is out of the question. What a terrible way to live." -Jim (37 years of age).
Brent's 2007-2008 Career Forecast
I work in the financial industry which is currently in SERIOUS trouble. With that
being said, I am proud to announce that I am predicting to make even less money in my current job from this point
forward. You will be happy to know that my "Reverse career" is right on track. Without bonuses, overtime pay,
and possibly without a job at all, my reverse career could not be going more smoothly. You are supposed to make
more and more money each year and move up and up capping out in your 40's at a very impressive salary and living
well. But not for 2 "Reverse career-ers" named Brent and Jim.
Job defined: The act of spending an inhumane amount of hours per week doing inhumane,
mundane and uninteresting work for money to feed yourself. Selling your life away in 40 hour per week increments
for a very undervalued amount. Devoting an inhumane amount of your time to make someone else rich. LOL!!!
On a side note they were showing Malibu Beach celebrity homes today on VH1. Must be nice to be super
rich and live on the beach all day, in one of the most beautiful parts of the world. Getting paid millions to do basically
nothing while most of us Pittsburgh people bust our asses to make 25k per year and barley make it. -Brent
September 2007 Quote of the Month:
My place of work is like the "Temple of Doom". It is tucked away in an obscure location,
hidden from plain view, and when you finally find your way inside, you see the horrifying sight of slaves working
on the assembly line. -Brent
March 2007 Quotes of the Month:
"You know you're a loser when you have to remove the elevated toilet seat to go to the
bathroom, because you're in your 30's and living at home with your parents! Nothing says success like
an elevated toilet seat." -Jim
February 2007 Quote of the Month:
"And how can you suceed if you hate what your doing? It just doesn't work." -Jim
December 2006 Quote of the Month:
"I have no desire to be a success in Corporate America, because I have no desire to be a phony." -Jim
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Achieving goals is impossible.
Believing
the lie that going to college will help you with your career.
Only women you'll get are the
ones you have to pay for!
Most people think you're a failure because you just don't apply yourself.
Interviewing for jobs in which the average salary is $10.00/hr.
Never get ahead in life, no matter how hard you try.
All the people in your family are successful…except
for you.
Talking to women is one of your greatest skills………at the nudie bar!
In the high school yearbook, your picture appears with the caption "Most Likely to
go Postal."
On the bright side of things, at least you have a roof over your head……in
your parent's house!
Never give up on your dreams…….unless all of the above apply to you!
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So What's this Website
all About Anyway?
This is a website about two struggling young men in their
30s from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Meet Brent and Jim. Two very ambitious
young men who went to college, got degrees, and did everything society says you’re supposed to do, in order to succeed. Yet, for some reason, they still ended up failing. Ever since they graduated
from college, every attempt at success has been a complete disaster….a complete abomination if you will! It's
like they’re both stuck in quicksand…the more they struggle to try to get out…..the deeper and deeper
they get!
We invite all of you to follow us on our journey as abominations through
the city of Pittsburgh. I think you will be amused with our chronicles - ranging from dating
stories, to stories of rejection, to stories of the frustrations we encounter while trying to climb the
corporate ladder. Warning: most of these stories are abominations! (There's that
word again.)
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We're Here For You!
Do you live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania?
Are you struggling to become the success you always wanted to be? Is the job market and the horrible dating
scene getting to you? If so, then this is your site!
My
name is Brent and I have lived in this city for 31 years. My name is
Jim and I have lived in this city for 38 years. What we have discovered is that 17 years combined work experience, and two Bachelor's degrees
gets you about $25k/year each in this town!
We will frequently update this site with
personal stories of dating and careers in our hometown....Pittsburgh. Now don't get us wrong - We
love this city - it's where we grew up. But you have to admit - the job market here.....well......just
plain blows.
12/11/05 I just created this site. Check it out!
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