This quote really helped me out a few years ago. Turns out I was the asshole. I don't work in kitchens but this sub pops up on my page and I saw this quote. Thanks for the reminder.
This kinda thinking is also how I found out my personality is more of an "acquired taste"
Behavior tends to be very odd and different from most people so some find it extremely offputting till they get to know me, current coworker even told me "when you started i hated you, youre so weird and dont take things seriously! I wanted to know what your problem was. But now I love you! Youre so silly!" Which was a lot less heartwarming than I think she intended it
Late one night, laying awake in bed, oooo a realization came. Are there really assholes every where I look, or am I the one to blame? Maybe I just do not say the things I should say, and do not do the things i ought.
So I took a long hard look at my self in the mirror, and this is what I thought:
“The guy who sold me this mirror's an asshole
He's an asshole, son of a bitch said it was antique.
He was lying, he was lying.
Made me want to punch him in his salesman cheek”
Or there might be 10 assholes out there, who all have the same issues.
If you put in the effort to correct shitty behavior and do what you can but they still persist on being shitty. Are you really the asshole for holding them accountable while they play the victim/no you card.
Easy to blame the MGMT. If every employee comes in and says I left my job because the mgmt was shitty before, and you can't hold down a job. Maybe its not just the MGMT.
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u/zephyrtr Jul 12 '25
If you meet 10 new assholes every day, you might be the asshole.