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In reply to the discussion: My co-worker got an Outstanding evaluation at the grocery store where she works. Want to guess what [View all]wickerwoman
(5,662 posts)Do you also make "helpful suggestions" to end-stage cancer patients that if they ate a little healthier they would have a better outcome? It may actually be true for some of them but the reason nobody with any sense would say it is because they don't actually know that it's a fact and where it isn't true saying it makes them the worst kind of asshole.
I didn't say you didn't work your ass off. I said you have a skill set that is in demand and not everyone can acquire that skill set no matter how hard they work. Is that such a difficult concept to grasp? Really?
I also worked my ass off and am finally, after four years of unemployment, doing OK again but I have the humility to recognise that a lot of that is luck and that there are people who work even harder than me who have gotten jack shit for all their efforts. And I put myself through college working minimum wage jobs and actually took the time to get to know some of my coworkers and learn about what their lives were like (something, for all the time you spent slumming it decades ago you managed not to do). Their lives are not "yeah, buts" to an argument on the Internet. Every one of those things except single parenthood (which is hardly an imaginative stretch) I experienced myself.
Rather than making "helpful suggestions" to people who's lives and challenges you know absolutely nothing about, why don't you spend some time actually listening to them?