Retail Weirdness vol.5: Spongebob Syndrome
Why do women always try to keep each other down? We need powerful women in the workplace, especially powerful Black women. So why can't we get past our ignorance and hated to see the greater good? Why do we keep women in power down, only to turn and complain to corporate about there not being enough people that look like us in management.
We had a meeting at my job Sunday. I did not attend. So in my absence there were many side remarks about me playing manager, as they call it. When I first heard this, it didn't bother me because to the naive eye that's what it may seem to be, but when I heard the gossip from multiple people it started to upset me because why would you hate on someone trying to better themselves? I am in a position of authority at my job and just because I have been there one year and is already more important than you, who has been there for seven years standing on a worn down floor mat, angrily pounding on a cash register.
It just ruins me how we can't help each other make it to the top. I have always been a teacher, I hate to know something that the next person should know but doesn't. So I am always teaching at work, at home, in the grocery store... so to that effect, co workers hating-ly refer to me as "manager" because I know how to make tickets for clothes for instance. I attempt to teach them how to do so and they refuse to learn because they don't want to know more than needed for fear that someone may ask them to do more than what their job description requires. I mean wouldn't a normal person want to be knowledgeable? I do, I want to know how to do everything in the building, for when it is time for layoffs I will the last name on the consideration list because I am worthy, I know how to be flexible, I know how to do my job and theirs.
It just saddens me how ignorant people can be. How hateful people can be. The crab in the barrel syndrome is oh so prevalent but since they are so preschool with it I'd like to think they have been eating hella crabby patties, i.e. the Spongebob syndrome.
We had a meeting at my job Sunday. I did not attend. So in my absence there were many side remarks about me playing manager, as they call it. When I first heard this, it didn't bother me because to the naive eye that's what it may seem to be, but when I heard the gossip from multiple people it started to upset me because why would you hate on someone trying to better themselves? I am in a position of authority at my job and just because I have been there one year and is already more important than you, who has been there for seven years standing on a worn down floor mat, angrily pounding on a cash register.
It just ruins me how we can't help each other make it to the top. I have always been a teacher, I hate to know something that the next person should know but doesn't. So I am always teaching at work, at home, in the grocery store... so to that effect, co workers hating-ly refer to me as "manager" because I know how to make tickets for clothes for instance. I attempt to teach them how to do so and they refuse to learn because they don't want to know more than needed for fear that someone may ask them to do more than what their job description requires. I mean wouldn't a normal person want to be knowledgeable? I do, I want to know how to do everything in the building, for when it is time for layoffs I will the last name on the consideration list because I am worthy, I know how to be flexible, I know how to do my job and theirs.
It just saddens me how ignorant people can be. How hateful people can be. The crab in the barrel syndrome is oh so prevalent but since they are so preschool with it I'd like to think they have been eating hella crabby patties, i.e. the Spongebob syndrome.
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I wouldn't even call your instance crabs in a barrel - they all pull each other down trying to get to the top. You are not pulling anyone down, only teaching. And the person in the post doesn't appear to be trying to get to the top. It's f*cked up, ain't it....
Hell yeah @ I mean wouldn't a normal person want to be knowledgeable?