Have You Ever Been Forced To Do Something You Didn't Want To Do?

not really, except when i was young of course :p I;ve learned to stop impressing people and just do whatever i want. It does have its drawbacks of course but it makes me comfortable at the end of the day.

I am always forced to do something I didn't want in the office. Most of my colleagues would tell me to say that they are not around when someone they don't like are looking for them. They are actually telling me to lie. It is not easy since not all their callers would believe. One of those callers even called me as my colleague's 'dog' and said that I was being payed to hide him. That was really annoying thinking that I have nothing to do with their transactions. I was just told to say he wasn't around so I don't think I deserve to be scolded and humiliated for it. It really ruins my day. I was so irritated that when that caller called again, I just made a sound of a barking dog over the phone. When she asked if my colleague was around, I just bark and bark and bark. She said that I am a dog so I am just being one.

this rings a real bell with me, i have been married for nearly 45 years and most of the functions i had to attend which i didnt want to go to, involved being with the in laws. but now i am in my 60's i have said quite firmly, that because i am old, i can do what i d*** well please. and if i dont want to go, then quite simply i dont. the in laws are a pain, they keep asking me when i am going to retire, once again, quite simply, when i am ready, i am 65 next year so that will do me fine. but the money in the meantime, is very helpful! plus also, talking of loud music, my adjoining neigh bours are a couple of lads in their 30's goin on 17! they get drunk and play loud music at the weekends, but they don't mean any harm. I must admit one christmas we had friends round for christmas and my neighbours did the loud music, drinking and singing loudly thing. our friends were horrified and said they wouldnt put up with that, but as my husband said, we have a surround sound on our tv and can quite easily blast them out of the street. we dont, but if my husband is away , i have played the music of michael jackson, elbow, beatles, whitney, tina turner etc., extremely loud, haha old people power rule!

I have been debating whether I should or not respond to this discussion and another one that you started. For one, it is a painful reminder, and now that I am out of my hell so to speak, I dont want to spend another moment of my life recalling those moments. So yes, awful lot and for nuts papa would not understand why I didnt want his family, no amount of reasoning would do - by default family is family, so if there are pedophiles, that was long ago, if they beat me for monies, it was just once, they never ever bothered to be around when I was young, happens..get what I mean? I was forced to take help of one family friend and an advocate to drill sense into my pa..its been almost 40 odd years of doing what I never wanted to do. :)

Sometimes It is hard for one to avoid doing something against his will.Take you attended your MIL's leaving do for example,no matter how reluctant you were then,you had to consider John's feelings.However ,over here only colleagues and leader attend such sort of leaving do.

Ahh.. I'm not the one who has a good defense mechanism . lol I always do whay they asked me to do. Even I have given them the most logical reason why I should not do that, they seemed couldn't understand what I said and just ignored it . I felt like I was talking to an announcement board.

When I was attending prep school I was force to do a lot of things I never really agree with , I was new and wanted to made friends. When I went to high school , some of those people attend my high school and that's when I had to say No more . Going to school at most time I had to force myself lol

Although I have a lofty title at my place of work, since we are a small company, I actually do a lot of things more than my title calls for. And a lot of things I do, I don't really like (or really hate). I just think to myself, it's part of the job. Or that it shows how hands-on I am, or how a hardworker I am. Uggh!

If I don't want to do something I won't. I never have. Of course when I was a kid (teenager, actually) it infuriated my mother. But I have a niece (can I use her instead of me?) and she'll do stuff she doesn't want to and then complain to me afterwards. The latest incident was a Jack & Jill baby shower. For friend's of her husband from his job. She didn't want to go and he said he wasn't going alone and he really wanted to go, so she had to. I don't even understand that logic. Anyway, she went, bought a nice present, a baby's first photo album, you know with the special pages for first picture, first smile, first poop, whatever. My niece loves taking pictures and thought it was a nice present. And it was, considering she doesn't really know these people. Who doesn't take pictures of their baby? And her husband was going to be downstairs with the guys playing pool.When the mother-to-be opened the present the girl who was giving the shower said to my niece "You know Jackie, not everybody takes pictures like you do." I couldn't believe it. How rude. And it wasn't even her present. My niece said she thinks they were hoping she would get them a stroller or a car seat. Nervy or what? And, these morons met me once months before and sent me an invitation to the shower. I guess they thought they'd make a good haul. Do I have to tell ya -- I didn't go.

if i was forced to do something that i'm not used to do...i will try to learn how to make sure that the thing is done.Being forced is not a great thing but sometimes,to lead people towards something,we must force that people to do the things that we a want to.Example,a boss who wants his/her subordinates to work hard on a project,he/she must force his/her subordinates to do lots of work in order motivate them to be good employees..This is my opinion:)