Is there an antidote to a bad company?

[MRiabov]

Sup,

It's one of those problems I really do not wish anyone ever had, but it just happens and I must solve it somehow.

I am in the dormitory, and... My roommate. F*cking hell dude.

So, I live in a shared room, and my roommate keeps talking trash about me.
I always try to concentrate on my invention, bringing my product to Kickstarter, etc, and I sometimes forget about small things - like shutting the balcony door, or turning off the light in the bathroom... And then the storm starts.

"dude how the F*ck do you forget about these things. Have your family not taught you about turning your light off?"
"I'm not supposed to walk around you and tell you what to do".

And you know, fair enough, I don't do these things sometimes. So I can't even say "piss off" because you know, he is right..

But the problem is not this.
It is when I sit down to work.

I sit down to work either in libraries or dormitory halls when the libraries are closed. And then it's like all the crap he tells me starts to bubble up. He is a lazy, overweight person, and it's like starts to transfer onto me. I spend 40% of my workday not actually working, but deflecting his biases and weak opinions from me.

I hope I will just earn enough money and get out of here, but does anybody know a way to mentally block this crap out? I use logic and socratic reasoning, but it just takes time.

 

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[Trismigistus]

Taq,

Ov't upi ug vjuti qsucmint O siemmz fu puv xotj epzupi iwis jef, cav ov katv jeqqipt epf O natv tumwi ov tunijux.

O en op vji fusnovusz, epf... Nz suunnevi. G*dloph jimm fafi.

Tu, O mowi op e tjesif suun, epf nz suunnevi liiqt vemloph vsetj ecuav ni.
O emxezt vsz vu dupdipvsevi up nz opwipvoup, csophoph nz qsufadv vu Lodltvesvis, ivd, epf O tunivonit gushiv ecuav tnemm vjopht - moli tjavvoph vji cemdupz fuus, us vaspoph ugg vji mohjv op vji cevjsuun... Epf vjip vji tvusn tvesvt.

"fafi jux vji G*dl fu zua gushiv ecuav vjiti vjopht. Jewi zuas genomz puv veahjv zua ecuav vaspoph zuas mohjv ugg?"
"O'n puv taqqutif vu xeml esuapf zua epf vimm zua xjev vu fu".

Epf zua lpux, geos ipuahj, O fup'v fu vjiti vjopht tunivonit. Tu O dep'v iwip tez "qott ugg" cideati zua lpux, ji ot sohjv..

Cav vji qsucmin ot puv vjot.
Ov ot xjip O tov fuxp vu xusl.

O tov fuxp vu xusl iovjis op mocsesoit us fusnovusz jemmt xjip vji mocsesoit esi dmutif. Epf vjip ov't moli emm vji dseq ji vimmt ni tvesvt vu caccmi aq. Ji ot e mebz, uwisxiohjv qistup, epf ov't moli tvesvt vu vseptgis upvu ni. O tqipf 40% ug nz xuslfez puv edvaemmz xusloph, cav figmidvoph jot coetit epf xiel uqopoupt gsun ni.

O juqi O xomm katv iesp ipuahj nupiz epf hiv uav ug jisi, cav fuit epzcufz lpux e xez vu nipvemmz cmudl vjot dseq uav? O ati muhod epf tudsevod sietupoph, cav ov katv velit voni.

Hiv e foggisipv suun, us katv opvisedv xovj jon et mietv et quttocmi. Xjip O huv uav ug cuuv denq epf huv opvu E tdjuum, O jef 2 uvjis fafit op vjot tnemm ett suun xovj upi cevjsuun. Katv liiq vji suun podi epf sitqidvecmi gus uvjis uddaqepvt epf epf og zua fup'v moli jon, fupv tqiel vu jon, hu zuas uxp xez. Et ges et zuasi dupdispif ji ot katv e tjoq qettoph op vji pohjv. O jef epuvjis suunevi op epuvjis tovaevoup, xi cesimz vemlif vu iedjuvjis ev emm. Katv ci sitqidvgam epf fu zuas vjoph. Qav jiefqjupit up op zuas suun og zua depv hiv e foggisipv upi. Fupv xussz ecuav xjev uvjis qiuqmi esi fuoph og vjiz esi uwisxiohjv us xjeviwis, ovt puv zuas dupdisp. Xussz ecuav zuastimg epf tvuq opvisedvoph xovj jon uavtofi ug vji gusdif opvisedvoupt ug mowoph vuhivjis. Fupv howi jon e sietup vu tqiel vu zua, liiq zuas tjov dmiep epf vofz. Huuf madl nep.