Helping others who need it is very satisfying, but less so if the person you’re helping doesn’t deserve it.
Maybe you’d decide to be the bigger person and do something for them that they wouldn’t do for you.
Then there are others like this person…
Keep reading to see what she did — or didn’t do — to her horrible former boss.
Running into a horrible old boss
It was already starting to rain as I was about to leave a department store, so I began running towards my car in the almost deserted parking lot.
I noticed a woman walking only a few feet right in front of me carrying two huge packed plastic bags.
This sounds like quite a mess.
Suddenly one of the bags she was carrying burst open.
All of her groceries, canned food, fruits, and whatnot spilled onto the ground.
I quickly approached her and said “Oh let me help you” as I tried to help her pick everything up from the ground and then we looked at each other.
Surprise surprise! It was my old boss from a previous job that I had left a few years earlier.
She was a horrible human being. Her anger erupted over the most mundane things.
She would berate, tell you off, and call you names in front of everybody.
We were clearly overworked because she gave some of us more workloads than what we signed up for.
Last I heard she got suspended for a series of act of gross misconduct after employees had started filing some complaints against her to human resources.
She should have known this would come back to haunt her…
Glad I left that toxic place.
As soon as I saw that it was her, I immediately let go of whatever I had in my hands and started walking towards my car instead.
I saw recognition in her eyes as she begged me to help her pick up her groceries. She then started cussing me out.
I just laughed in her face and said ‘Good Luck!’
Here’s what people are saying.
Reminds me of a terrible sales clerk at a shoe store. She was only nice to me after I got her a commission.
This probably would have worked. People like this don’t want to be nice.
I laughed so hard at this. I don’t support it, but it’s a funny image.
I do, too. Nothing contrived. Just a person making their own bed and lying in it.
At least she didn’t steal any of her groceries…
So it could have been worse.
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