[Boomer]

Originally Posted by tony

I have heard this about people needing their jobs, too. Like the people who used to call us ever few seconds to buy something before the Do Not Call List, and I used to buy it, too.

Doing something because you need the job is not so simple, really. I know we all have to work, but I hold it against people who are nasty because some employer requires it. It is not an excuse that you need your job. They do it because they do it.

If we are to believe it is O.K. to act that way for an employer, because you need your job, because you are only following orders, then it must be O.K. for a mob hitman to ply his trade innocently, also. Just doing his job. He needs his job.

Whoooooaaaaa!!! Mr. Tony, Mr. Admin, Sir! Hold your horses!

First of all, you lifted me out of context. At a closer look, you will see that the young woman I was talking about did not take the job when she found out that she would have to attend Snarl Face School.

Second, I know women who, for one reason or another, are not equipped to start over when their bank is taken over by a monster bank. Because of their age or insurance or for whatever reason, they may be grateful that they get to keep their jobs. That does not mean that they will be nasty mean. These women do not do that. But it does mean that they may look nervous about not being allowed to be friendly like they used to be. And it means that they will need to follow the new rules -- even having to push for those annuity sales reps. (And I have actually seen one who looked embarrassed about doing so. But you know what. She was just trying to keep her job for those few years until Medicare.)

Attitude is on a continuum. There will always be those who are glad not to have to bother to be nice and there are those who may enjoy snarling, but for the most part, there are those who just have no choice but to do the best they can while following instruction from the boss.

Philosophy does not enter into it. It's the real world out there and sometimes that world is not an easy one for women in low paying jobs, especially for older women in those jobs. And it's really rough when the rules change for them, late in the game.

So I don't know what it looked like I was saying this morning. Maybe I had not had enough coffee yet. But let me clarify here that I would never say that a sell-out was OK. And if it sounded that way, then I guess I had better get a grip on proofreading for content.

btw, There is a happy ending to my little story about the young woman who refused to go to Snarl School. She was just offered a job in a small bank in the town where she now lives. She moved there over a year ago and had taken a different kind of job after turning down the big bank. But now she is back in the kind of bank where she feels like she belongs. (Now, this part is strange. -- I left the house between the two posts I have written here today, and I actually saw and talked to the woman's mother. I had not seen her for more than a year. -- Weird, huh?)

So anyway, Mr. Tony, Mr Admin, Sir, that was not what I meant. A sell-out is not OK. But there are many, many shades of gray in this one. And I guess that last part I wrote, the one you grabbed in the quote, could have been made a little clearer. I did not mean they should be nasty. But I did mean that they may not be allowed to be truly friendly and they may have to do sales pitches. Of course, they should not be snarly. Oh, well. That part of my post sure looks bad hanging there all by itself. I better be more careful with my early morning writing.

But, even so, I also think there is a really big difference between somebody who may not have a lot of job options, trying to keep a job, even though there may be things required that go against the grain, and a HITMAN!!!!

Boomer (Hey, now maybe I will go see if I can get into a big fight about commas.)