I find the majority of people who preach "everything happens for a reason" are at some highpoint in their lives and realize that through certain intricasies(sp) they wouldn't be in the current good stuff if it wasn't for certain events in the bad stuff.
I think you should drop the karma thing entirely... because while you're waiting for it to pay off you'll grow old and be well into your next life before it can kick in. From what I know about karma, it's in the same pot with living multiple lives-- reincarnation etc-- not that I believe in either. You're not going to get repaid in some form for what happened in highschool college, or being fired from the bay, or asking out crappy girls... Which is another thing... if your personality or morals severely clash with someone right off the bat -- then just imagine if they did enter into a relationship with you. How shitty would it be to be with the wrong person... especially if they treat you like shit.
You're not as unique as you think in being unwilling to give up your morals and being unwilling to compromise to someone else's expectations. But I think in that case you willingly took the hard road... you know you're on the hard road, so it's going to be hard. The bay can go fuck themselves for not giving you any warning about how to change as an employee, but had they told you over and over again to not use any jokes with the customers -- then you shouldn't have. From what I learned with my friends who actually worked in customer service, there's pretty strict guidlines as far as what you're allowed to say to customers and in what order. And to be honest if you became a corporate drone (just while you were working) and did exactly as they told you... nobody is going to accuse you of losing integrity of self because you did what the shitty boss told you. And you shouldn't consider it like that either. Just go to a macdonalds and watch the people behind the counter.... look at how unhappy and unfullfilled they they appear (when they're not socializing behind the burger machine)
Nobody is themselves at work outside the break room. I don't think there is a person who exists that is boring enough to fit into the employee expectations of blockbuster or the bay without taking it down a few notches.
I think you should drop the karma thing entirely... because while you're waiting for it to pay off you'll grow old and be well into your next life before it can kick in. From what I know about karma, it's in the same pot with living multiple lives-- reincarnation etc-- not that I believe in either.
You're not going to get repaid in some form for what happened in highschool college, or being fired from the bay, or asking out crappy girls... Which is another thing... if your personality or morals severely clash with someone right off the bat -- then just imagine if they did enter into a relationship with you. How shitty would it be to be with the wrong person... especially if they treat you like shit.
You're not as unique as you think in being unwilling to give up your morals and being unwilling to compromise to someone else's expectations. But I think in that case you willingly took the hard road... you know you're on the hard road, so it's going to be hard.
The bay can go fuck themselves for not giving you any warning about how to change as an employee, but had they told you over and over again to not use any jokes with the customers -- then you shouldn't have. From what I learned with my friends who actually worked in customer service, there's pretty strict guidlines as far as what you're allowed to say to customers and in what order. And to be honest if you became a corporate drone (just while you were working) and did exactly as they told you... nobody is going to accuse you of losing integrity of self because you did what the shitty boss told you. And you shouldn't consider it like that either. Just go to a macdonalds and watch the people behind the counter.... look at how unhappy and unfullfilled they they appear (when they're not socializing behind the burger machine)
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As for karma, maybe this life IS my next life? Who knows.
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