Prestigious
This week someone at work mentioned how the busier periods tend to make people blame us for their mistakes and make unreasonable, illogical, and sometimes downright impossible demands. Sure enough not days before I had received a call from a prior irritant insisting their team receive superior quality supplies than the other groups because they were more prestigious than the rest.
I muttered something about looking into it just to be polite and avoid a pointless confrontation but afterwards I got to thinking about the exchange. If you really are prestigious, should you ever have to say it out loud? I mean, if you have prestige it means you’re known and respected. To have to explain it inherently acknowledges you’re not widely known. And last I checked respect was earned, not claimed.
So doesn’t having to say you’re prestigious automatically make it not so?
Either way I’m a firm believer in equality and first-come-first-serve and I rather dislike inflated self importance so I daresay the rules of polite society will overrule this request as far as I’m concerned. Now let’s all hope t is doesn’t become one of those issues alluded to earlier.
