I'm Pissed Off and Irritable...Again

Here's why...

I sort mail as a part of my boring job- in the morning and in the afternoon. I find the morning mail awaiting at my desk to be sorted when I arrive at 8:00 a.m. The afternoon mail, however, is taken out of the mail box by our swingperson (we'll call him J) and given to my supervisor, who later gives it to me. Mind you that J walks right past my desk to get to my supervisor's office.

So... are you asking yourself why J doesn't just drop it off at my desk since I am going to sort and deliver it anyway? So am I!

Today, my supervisor was out for the afternoon, and therefore, was not there when J went to drop the mail off to her. He came to my desk to start a conversation about what he had planned to do with the mail, saying "I bet I could just hand it out." I replied, "Well, you could give the mail to me since I sort it anyway." At this point, you would expect him to give me the mail- but he didn't. He argued with me a good five minutes before saying, "I guess you're not sorting the mail today," and locked it away in my supervisor's office.

Naturallly I was offended and thought to myself, "He knows that I am an elementary school teacher; why wouldn't he trust me? Why would he think that I would lie to him about sorting the mail?" I came up with this answer at Subway...

He just wanted to make me feel that he has authority over me. Knowing that I have a bachelor's degree and a good full-time job in the fall, he has to make me feel inferior somehow. I have seen it before when I waitressed and the dishwasher would scream at me for putting something in the wrong spot in his dishwashing area, even though I had no idea what sort of system the dishwashers have, and he could've moved it himself.

I'm frustrated because I do treat everyone at my workplace the same- no matter how much they get paid or how much authority I have over them. I tell ya...some people!!

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