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The golden rule

Filed under: Daily Life, Ranting on October 17, 2008 — 633 words

Treat others the way that you want to be treated. This rule has been plaguing my mind for a few weeks now because I don’t fully understand how a person can fully advocate this and yet they don’t practice it in their own lives. Someone I work for had a meeting with us and basically went on and on about the golden rule the entire time but constantly nitpicks at us, makes some of the other girls cry and likes to play “jokes” on us frequently.

For example, I got a new pair of shoes recently. I couldn’t afford to buy a new pair previously so I wore some wedge heels to work (which we’re allowed to under the dress code). I know they weren’t the prettiest shoes in the world but my pants covered them and they were in presentable condition. It’s not like I work at some big designer store either, which I don’t. So I finally bought a new pair a week ago after shoe shopping for days. I thought they were really cute and it gave me something to look forward to at work the next day: comfortable shoes that didn’t kill my feet. The first thing that my boss commented on when she saw me? My “grandma shoes.” I got defensive, as any person would when your boss likes to tell you things like “you need a makeover!” and other digs. I told her that I choose comfort over beauty, and she rolled her eyes at me and said, “You work in a high-end fashion store (which really isn’t high fashion, trust me) but yet you don’t want to DRESS UP?” I chose to take the high road in that conversation and ignore her, but every time I interact with her (which is 5 days a week), she loves to make comments about my shoes.

She doesn’t just do it to me either, all the other girls have had it up to HERE with her. She takes out her anger on everyone, she’s jealous, she doesn’t treat anyone with respect and I’m pretty sure that what she’s doing isn’t legal. For instance, a friend of mine brought her notebook to work to study for a test. She was studying during her break, and later on my boss TOOK her notebook and hid it in her desk. My friend went home and realized that she didn’t have her notebook so she called my work. Another associate told her that our boss had it and that she did it to play a “nasty” little joke on her. She constantly puts down her management staff and makes them cry. A friend on mine is in the running to be a supervisor and when I came to work the other day she said, “THANK GOD YOU’RE HERE SHE’S BEEN PICKING ON ME ALL DAY.”

As soon as I can get a new job, I’ll be putting in my two weeks notice. Mostly for my own health and sanity because I don’t know how much longer I can work there with her. Pretty much everyone else is doing the same thing but some people are thinkers while others are doers. When I say I’m going to be leaving my job, I sincerely mean it. It bothers me to think about the others but if she’s affecting them as much as they say she is too, they’ll leave for their own sake.

The golden rule is so simple. If she’s the kind of person who is happy when she makes others miserable, I feel sorry for her. She doesn’t think about how her actions affect others or how she makes them feel. Yeah life can suck sometimes but does that person always have to make sure that it sucks for everyone else too?

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