Snotty Employees: A Case Study

I have to take a minute to remind myself that I am very lucky to have the job I have. A teacher came in a while ago and proceeded to insult my abilities, put me down, condescend to me and then ask me to send a recommendation to her superior about how much better she is at my job than I am. Ummm...riiiight. I haven't yet decided if she's really gutsy or just plain insane. What I feel like sending her superior is a verification that she is, in fact, losing her mind, but I don't think that's what she was asking for. I need to keep telling myself that even though I encounter some odd behavior from time to time here, it would be way worse in retail. Yes, I remember the day I was working at the cookware store and a woman came in yelling at me to tell her the name of "that stuff you put on corn" and I said "You mean butter?" like she was the dumbest person in the world. Those were good times.

And, just as an addendum, I'm even worse at sales. When I was working the phones for a catalog clothing company, my boss was giving me a review one day and told me to try to sell more. I replied "Look, I have a master's degree, so I really don't care." I'm still amazed they didn't fire me after that. Heh.