Ah, you gotta stand back sometimes and wonder just what the fuck is up with some folks.
Case-in-point: At work, within the department there is a recurring voluntary participation of bringing breakfast fare on Friday mornings.
At the beginning of the year I chose to volunteer for the first round of bringing breakfast.
The people orchestrating this decided to pair up those that volunteered as a way of making any expenses incurred easier for them.
I was paired with another person – in the course of deciding what to bring I reached out to this person and said I would be happy to cook up a batch of Mexican breakfast tacos, make some home-made salsas and bring it all in on our Friday. Did I mention that the aforementioned Friday is this coming May 18th?
I ran an estimated cost for providing enough food for about forty to fifty people and conveyed that to the person with whom I was paired: About $50.00 to $60.00 I said, back in, oh, February I think.
I reminded him of this last Friday so that he could provide me his half of the money. He came by and left $30.00 with me.
Imagine my surprise to arrive to work this morning and find an email from him.
I quote:
“Someone picked at me on Friday about $60 for breakfast, their objection was you could just buy them from taco cabana at that price, and it will feed them all.
Sorry to be a dick, but someone from work told me it’s BS and I should ask for a receipt, then didn’t stop till I said OK.”
So, here it is. I replied to him at first that I’d get a receipt and return any change that was left over. Then after a minute of thinking on this I sent him another email. Here is what I replied.
My first reply:
“No worries, I’ll be happy to provide you a receipt and any change that happens to remain. I’d hate for you to continue being accosted for this by your workmates, etc.”
Then my second reply:
“On further reflection, perhaps it will be best if I return your money to you – you may then purchase whatever you deem worthy fare on Friday, and I will bring what I originally intended, according to the expense guidelines.
Feel free to come by and collect your money at any time.”
Now here is what I think; it’s a shitty way to say “I don’t want to expend that much money”, or something along those lines. Had there been a sincere hesitation voiced earlier on I would not have thought anything more of it.
But the thing about all this is he chose to be a suspicious and doubting idiot. And then went about it like some back-stabbing little bitch.
He assumed I was, what, not going to return any unused money? or that I was going to somehow cheat him out of something?
It only goes to show you that people will regard you based on how they regard themselves. In other words, he’s probably an untrustworthy shit so he presumes anyone else is also the same. And to top it off, he didn’t have the balls to be upfront about things.
And here I garnered the impression he was a stand-up person.
Fuck. Him.
I intend to return his money. I won’t confront him about it unless he decides he wants to “explain his remarks”, at which time I will stop him, tell him I have no tolerance for presumptions regarding my trustworthiness, or honesty. And that I won’t stand for any high school level dramatics.
I’ll interact with him as my position requires it, and only on a professional level. But you only get to fuck up once with me – and he was still earning my trust when he went and screwed that up.
Some people – can’t avoid them, but I can certainly ignore them.
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