Today a customer said "you bought that house? I wanted that house!" She's going to be a neighbor further down the road, I guess her husband decided he wanted to build instead of buy a pre-made home. We did have a discussion (with a 3rd woman) about how it might be necessary to repaint the bruised grape wall mid winter...just too dark.
Opening shift yesterday was tough. I didn't understand the grocery v.s. deli relationship and was feeling sorry for my Cinderella self. See...grocery (where I work) is expected to help deli/coffee at all times, but the reverse isn't true. Today when the same feeling of 'what did I do to YOU' came up, I asked one of the grocery managers and was suddenly enlightened to my status as a "them". Now that I know, I'll proudly wear my 'not in the clique' badge, but ignorance was not bliss!
Today I was at my register, doing some side work bagging bulk flour when the deli manager plopped a price gun down and said it needs to be filled. Uh...where's the tape? "that's a grocery thing, here it is, I don't know how to fill it". Mmm ok. Then behind me to the new deli helper "and how are you holding up, are you doing ok?" Huh?
Last night on weird radio, a discussion of Rankism, like racism, or sexism it's a person of a different rank (higher) putting down a person of a lower rank. Very timely discussion.
4 comments:
I love the grape wall. My craft room is yellow, I wish I could be bold and do a color like that.
Hey, I have a bucket of grape paint I could send you, lol! The grape wall might be too dark mid-winter, but we'll see, I'm not too worried about painting for now. I also have a bucket of REALLY yellow paint I got for 5 dollars...hmmm.
you could paint stripes of yellow on the purple wall, just for the fun of it!
Rankism. Hmmm. Isn't that like classism? What were you listening to? It sounds interesting.
Why can't we just all get along eh?
Cheers, Denise
It is just like class-ism. It was some program that came on after the volunteer dj was done. The sort of thing you'd hear on CBC late at night, probably. (a half hour later in Newfoundland, lol)
maybe yellow circles on the purple wall!
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