Chips in the Workplace
I will edit this later... but had to get it off my chest.
There are only a few types of people around in life and the workplace. Today I wanted to talk about the workplace and the types of people that you want to avoid there.
In the workplace there are Main Course/Worker Bees and Toss Green Salad/Day Dreamers and of course Potato Chip/Hater.
The Main Course/Worker Bee actually really and for true have no dreams, they make it through life each day working diligently at the task assigned. They often measure their worth by their work ethics. Never late, no vacations and despite working past their assigned time card they never cry for over time. They have few or no friends and often seek their escapes though TV, READING, MUSIC, they find pleasure and a secret decadence in reading steamy novels by ZANE or Erica Jong or watching shows like SEX IN THE CITY or HBO specials, and listening to music that fills their soul with emotion. Take a buffet table. The main course knows its place and never tries to be anything more than the main course, the purpose for the meal. The Main Course/Worker Bee does not envy the Toss Greens/ Day Dreamer nor do they belittle him for his or her light and airy way of creativity. The Main Course/Worker Bee understands how good for you a leafy green can be. Actually, they count on it for their survival in the workplace and in the case of a buffet table for the completion of the meal as the Toss Greens are often used to cleanse the palette. Main Course/The Worker Bee considers their lives outside the office private and personal and engages in very little gossip, despite how they are often praised for their good work. Just like the main course at a dinner party is often made from someones secret recipe, yet everyone raves about the good taste.
The Toss Green Salad/Day Dreamer on the other hand appears to be quite flamboyant and talkative, often accused of wasting time when in fact they are always working, to the point of exhaustion. They are sometimes late or extremely early as they are often manic, and seem to always have a ton of things on their mind. They arent gossipy so much as they always have some kind of fantastic story to tell about their life and things they managed to accomplish on the weekend. Its not that they are an undependable worker so much as they work harder and liking their jobs than just the perfunctory act of doing their job. Also they are consider a distraction and or troublemaker because often the Worker Bee will find themselves caught up, if pared with a Day Dreamer, taking time from their busy and productive day to listen to a tale every now and then as the Day Dreamers stories just seem larger than life. Just like at the dinner, often people load up on the salad taking up much of their plate room when in fact they arent even big salad eaters and the salad is seldom eaten. Despite how much they get they merely nibble before during or after their meal. Mixed with many different types of greens the salad is exciting and often for the regular diner who never buys salad at home, looks like something they might want to try. Thats what is good about a salad, it knows its worth and feels no need to pretend to be anything more than a salad
Then you get the Hater/Potato Chip. A Potato Chip in the workplace is often the loudest, flamboyanist, seemingly friendliest, overachiever kiss butt brown nosiest person on earth. It is nothing but a pretender. Here is why. Lets analyze the potato chip. The potato chip is one the deadliest foods you can eat. Although, void of all substance and nutritional value, they often are the most eaten food, craved and well liked food around. Often it will pretend to be things people like the mostbarbeque, sour cream and chives, salt and vinegar, evenfat free, when in fact if you read the back, they are all the same calorie, sodium, and carb count and nutritional value (or lack of). People miss the point where nutrition is concerned, calories dont mean near as much as nutritional value.
Lets pretend for a moment that the potato chip has special powers, the ability to persuade. When the buffet table is set, it would definitely explain why the potato chip bowl ends up at the front of the food chain. They are large and pretty and often placed in glass bowls and such, to make them very appealing. They are even sometimes sat around the room for easy access and temptation to try to eat just one. And we all know you cant do that.
The potato chips purpose in being there on the table at all is to entice the diner to fill up with empty carbs and useless calories so that salad is skipped all together and the main course is not enjoyed as much. In the end the diner, who after an hour or so, of dinner is often hit with indigestion and blames the main course for the discomfort. They often think, boy I wish I had only eaten the salad. The main course which, if it had powers of reasoning too, would be confused and disillusioned at this point and inwardly guilt ridden with plans to be nothing but better the next time, when in fact there was nothing wrong with it the first time. Now lets jump back to the office, the Worker Bee has done all they can on the presentation, hours of hard labor to make the presentation work. The Day Dreamer was the Worker Bees first chose to present the work because of the cleansing fresh, exciting way they have about them, however, The Hater/Potato Chip comes in with its constant bragging of I once was, or did, are have the ability to do, and as with the buffet table analogy, presented themselves as more worthy since they were served in a prettier bowl and appeared more appetizing than the salad who often is just green lettuce standing on its own merit, jumps up and will take the credit of being able to do the job, as with the buffet table its often the chip that tries to fill up the diner. The Hater/Potato Chip is often jealous of the salad because the salad knows its worth and is not afraid to sayIm a piece of a lettuce and Im good for you. The Hater/Potato chip will often move close to the salad in hopes of over shadowing it, since it can often (because of the huge bowl needed to contain it) can say its better, bigger and more important than anything else around yet because of their empty calorie affect, they leave a bad taste in the mouth of those that matter.
So the next time Im made to feel bad for being whom I am (Me? Im a Tossed Green Salad), and a hater tries to make me feel as if you should not be sitting on the buffet table because they dont understand my purpose, and or they try to make me feel as if I have nothing to offer or whatever, I just remember your worth and that Im a Salad and nothing more or less, Im fresh and exciting whether you like it or not. I dont have to pretend at being anything other than who I am whether I have a bean sprout added for extra ummph or a baby corn cob, either way, Im good for you. © Michelle McGriff
There are only a few types of people around in life and the workplace. Today I wanted to talk about the workplace and the types of people that you want to avoid there.
In the workplace there are Main Course/Worker Bees and Toss Green Salad/Day Dreamers and of course Potato Chip/Hater.
The Main Course/Worker Bee actually really and for true have no dreams, they make it through life each day working diligently at the task assigned. They often measure their worth by their work ethics. Never late, no vacations and despite working past their assigned time card they never cry for over time. They have few or no friends and often seek their escapes though TV, READING, MUSIC, they find pleasure and a secret decadence in reading steamy novels by ZANE or Erica Jong or watching shows like SEX IN THE CITY or HBO specials, and listening to music that fills their soul with emotion. Take a buffet table. The main course knows its place and never tries to be anything more than the main course, the purpose for the meal. The Main Course/Worker Bee does not envy the Toss Greens/ Day Dreamer nor do they belittle him for his or her light and airy way of creativity. The Main Course/Worker Bee understands how good for you a leafy green can be. Actually, they count on it for their survival in the workplace and in the case of a buffet table for the completion of the meal as the Toss Greens are often used to cleanse the palette. Main Course/The Worker Bee considers their lives outside the office private and personal and engages in very little gossip, despite how they are often praised for their good work. Just like the main course at a dinner party is often made from someones secret recipe, yet everyone raves about the good taste.
The Toss Green Salad/Day Dreamer on the other hand appears to be quite flamboyant and talkative, often accused of wasting time when in fact they are always working, to the point of exhaustion. They are sometimes late or extremely early as they are often manic, and seem to always have a ton of things on their mind. They arent gossipy so much as they always have some kind of fantastic story to tell about their life and things they managed to accomplish on the weekend. Its not that they are an undependable worker so much as they work harder and liking their jobs than just the perfunctory act of doing their job. Also they are consider a distraction and or troublemaker because often the Worker Bee will find themselves caught up, if pared with a Day Dreamer, taking time from their busy and productive day to listen to a tale every now and then as the Day Dreamers stories just seem larger than life. Just like at the dinner, often people load up on the salad taking up much of their plate room when in fact they arent even big salad eaters and the salad is seldom eaten. Despite how much they get they merely nibble before during or after their meal. Mixed with many different types of greens the salad is exciting and often for the regular diner who never buys salad at home, looks like something they might want to try. Thats what is good about a salad, it knows its worth and feels no need to pretend to be anything more than a salad
Then you get the Hater/Potato Chip. A Potato Chip in the workplace is often the loudest, flamboyanist, seemingly friendliest, overachiever kiss butt brown nosiest person on earth. It is nothing but a pretender. Here is why. Lets analyze the potato chip. The potato chip is one the deadliest foods you can eat. Although, void of all substance and nutritional value, they often are the most eaten food, craved and well liked food around. Often it will pretend to be things people like the mostbarbeque, sour cream and chives, salt and vinegar, evenfat free, when in fact if you read the back, they are all the same calorie, sodium, and carb count and nutritional value (or lack of). People miss the point where nutrition is concerned, calories dont mean near as much as nutritional value.
Lets pretend for a moment that the potato chip has special powers, the ability to persuade. When the buffet table is set, it would definitely explain why the potato chip bowl ends up at the front of the food chain. They are large and pretty and often placed in glass bowls and such, to make them very appealing. They are even sometimes sat around the room for easy access and temptation to try to eat just one. And we all know you cant do that.
The potato chips purpose in being there on the table at all is to entice the diner to fill up with empty carbs and useless calories so that salad is skipped all together and the main course is not enjoyed as much. In the end the diner, who after an hour or so, of dinner is often hit with indigestion and blames the main course for the discomfort. They often think, boy I wish I had only eaten the salad. The main course which, if it had powers of reasoning too, would be confused and disillusioned at this point and inwardly guilt ridden with plans to be nothing but better the next time, when in fact there was nothing wrong with it the first time. Now lets jump back to the office, the Worker Bee has done all they can on the presentation, hours of hard labor to make the presentation work. The Day Dreamer was the Worker Bees first chose to present the work because of the cleansing fresh, exciting way they have about them, however, The Hater/Potato Chip comes in with its constant bragging of I once was, or did, are have the ability to do, and as with the buffet table analogy, presented themselves as more worthy since they were served in a prettier bowl and appeared more appetizing than the salad who often is just green lettuce standing on its own merit, jumps up and will take the credit of being able to do the job, as with the buffet table its often the chip that tries to fill up the diner. The Hater/Potato Chip is often jealous of the salad because the salad knows its worth and is not afraid to sayIm a piece of a lettuce and Im good for you. The Hater/Potato chip will often move close to the salad in hopes of over shadowing it, since it can often (because of the huge bowl needed to contain it) can say its better, bigger and more important than anything else around yet because of their empty calorie affect, they leave a bad taste in the mouth of those that matter.
So the next time Im made to feel bad for being whom I am (Me? Im a Tossed Green Salad), and a hater tries to make me feel as if you should not be sitting on the buffet table because they dont understand my purpose, and or they try to make me feel as if I have nothing to offer or whatever, I just remember your worth and that Im a Salad and nothing more or less, Im fresh and exciting whether you like it or not. I dont have to pretend at being anything other than who I am whether I have a bean sprout added for extra ummph or a baby corn cob, either way, Im good for you. © Michelle McGriff
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