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Originally Posted by Aurelius710
I really really hope my good deed for today doesn't come back to bite me. I had a customer who required $1.07 to get his phone back up and running. He was very much stressing out about not being able to cover it. So, I agreed to help cover the amount and got him set up with some money on his card. I told him very clearly "I'm not supposed to be doing this and keep it on the down low." What does he do? Immediately tells those manning the money center counter what a swell guy I am for helping him with his phone. No sense of discretion at all! In order to avoid him blabbing to everyone in my immediate circle, I'm going to try and arrange a private phone number setup outside of the store. He might blab about that, but at least there I could go, "I dunno."
No good deed right?   |
Ok, I'm going to try and work through this, because it is REALLY bugging me!
When I was hired for this job, I described myself as a facilitator. I get people from A to B. I get stuff done, make stuff happen. I very much backed away from being an arbiter, a judge, because in every job I have had, the laws were always changing. There were always exceptions to the rule, conveniently positioned in contrast to what I had just told people. It served to undermine me and my work!
Eventually, I just started bringing in superiors to make the final call and bear the verbal brunt of their decision. They resented being made to answer for their decisions (at least from the customers) and decided to undermine me personally. They accused me of theft more than once, of time theft and when neither one of those worked, they told me I smelled. Yep, rather than give me some solid footing, these people would rather tell me to use deodorant.
With what happened a few hours ago, I feel constricted again. My customer's ill advised outburst could serve to undermine me (Though not intentionally, I'll admit.) with superiors and those I liaise with. I've already had decisions made that undermined my credibility. I told them something couldn't be done. Policy. And then it was done.
Apparently, even with an independent job such as this, I'm still subject to the ever changing whims of others and sometimes worse, have to speak for their blatantly contrarian actions.
Can you blame me for being a little paranoid?
