Just for curiosity’s sake, what is it that compels people when they feel their time has been wasted to inform me just how much more they make per hour than I do? Yes, I understand your time is worth a lot, but who cares that it’s worth “a whole hell of a lot” more than mine? Is that really supposed to make me want to go out of my way to help you? It doesn’t.
Instead it makes me want to say, “Well good, then I’m sure you can afford it.” It makes me want to slap them and yell, “Yes, thank you for pointing out that, aside from being completely pointless, boring, pissy, and completely NOT what I want to be doing, my job also pays me crap wages. It is a fine point.”
When someone looks at a young woman in her twenties working a job where she or one of her coworkers is yelled at on a daily basis by doctors, bosses, or customers does he automatically assume that the best way to appeal to her sympathies to use her power to change his situation is to insult her and remind her how much her life sucks compared to his own?
Okay, if you understood that last sentence, more power to you. I guess it’s a fairly good example of why I don’t currently have a better job.
Um, for the record: I was REALLY good at being an Executive Assistant.
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1 Chris // Jan 28, 2004 at 9:36 am
I wouldn’t ever doubt your skills as an EA and I completely understood (after reading it twice) that sentence. Are you looking for a better job at which you’re not yelled at? Not that you should be…just asking.
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