My google reader has recently been flooded with reposting of a particular blog post concerning the following topic:
To all the managers in the world: You suck.
Yes, dear william… this is true. However, your very being is a constant reminder of what they will never be- young, talented, and actually going places. They realize, by looking at you, that they will never be any of those things- that for you this is just a part time job on the road to full time success… so feel bad for them as I do… pity them if you will. After all, it must be a REALLY pathetic existence.
Yes you may have spent 9 years of what you call a life after high school working at the same job, but that doesn’t mean you are any better at life then me. Yes you are a full time employee, but that doesn’t mean you can be a full time asshole. I don’t know if you missed that memo. Thanks.I would like to speak up for the voices of managers that lay silent, and defend their position. If given opportunity for occupational advancement, wouldn’t many of us in retail/food service industry take it? Does this course of action mean the be-all end-all of our vocational search? I, for one, am looking forward to moving from hostess to waitress someday yet still pursuing alternative interests simultaneously. I guess what I’m saying is, my super-hott boyfriend is a manager and he is one of the most intelligent and self-motivated individuals I know, with multiple degrees and accomplishments and an array of hobbies and interests and personality characteristics that culminate in a person that continuously fascinates me. To associate a stigma with managers as a group and apply notions to them of being undereducated and pathetic is presumptuous.
Isms seem to get the best of us sometimes, especially when we have a bad day. Generalisms are easy to get upset over, and can get out of hand. Assumptions can get the better of us too. For example assuming that I was focusing on anyone’s “super-hott boyfriend” makes an ass out of u and me. So in this day and age we should all be careful about what we fill the internet’s tubes with, and realize who we are targeting.
