17 - Up the steps..
Last night we had a 2 and a half hour store meeting at my work. The whole thing was run my my District Manager who proceeded to talk almost the whole time and as she spoke I came to a couple of conclusions, one that she has the slightest hint of a Southern accent that you really have to listen to hard to pick up which makes me think that she probably was either born their or spent some time their in her youth, no matter tho... the other realization I came to as she spoke was that I think the more you go up in retail or business in general you start to lose your soul. Now this may seem like a very harsh accusation but sitting their listening while she proceeded about the best way to take the average persons money and keep them coming back to the store on a weekly basis for so long made me think about how long she has been doing this and how out of touch she has become from the normal wholesome people like its a step worse than my manager (who just got fired) and I can only imagine that as you go up the ladder to my district manager's bosses and the heads of the company you can really get a picture of how lost these people really are. And the scary thing is I'm sure almost all big business' have people who think like this and its really not to hard to lend the comparison to a big government... as you climb the steps you get further away from the real people, and you start to see them as dollar signs plus or negative... it's really quite scary actually. And the only thing I can do with this realization is make a point NOT to ever become this way personally and always stay in touch with those around me and try to hold on to my soul.