I can’t say for everyone, but wherever some of these people came from and how they grew up was not like other parts of the country. Many of them watched the lifestyles of other people growing up in metropolis on TV. It looked like many of them in the place was trying to live and fund their high life off of the corporation and Wall Street’s backs.They were not really creative and had no aspiration and talent for the most part. And let’s not forget about their work ethics. So I guess that was the only way to fund their ways of life. Essentially, the Wall Street was funding these guys to be Puff Daddy and The Family to go on their No Way Out tour. That was one of many reasons why the chemistry was not going to work out with me and other employees in that place. This corporation should be in the second place in its market space if they just had more valuable employees in right places. The founders built the business and gave them the blueprint. Though it’s not an easy task by all means, people like Fat Prince, Fat Princess, space cadet, nut job and many others didn’t help with the maximum growth of this company.

It was much easier to work with Nica for me personally because she was from the west coast on top of her experiences at a higher volume store. I have no idea what her life was about growing up, but I could tell she had a cool social life. I never really talked business with her, but I already knew that she knew what time it was. That goes the same with that Polish kid from NJ. Though he was from the east coast, I could tell he was not a part of losers club while growing up. I’m pretty sure many managers and others who came from bigger markets had some challenges trying to co-exist or fit in to make it all work.

Everyone should respect each other’s different beliefs and walks of life. At the same time, you don’t want to be dragged into somebody else’s dramas and BS they got going on. If you are coming from a big city to a small town, you really have to watch out for scandalous people at your work. Those who don’t have special or unique talents and also happen to be lazy employees with poor work ethics along a lack of brain power, only thing they could do in order to survive is creating or fabricating dramas or scandals.

The Nut Job had all the warning signs, but I was naive to a certain degree and I didn’t catch all the clues in time. There were many employees who talked to this Nut Job at work. Out of them all, I was the one who talked to her the least. In those conversations, I found out a whole lot more than what I bargained for from her and I didn’t even ask. Let’s go down the list of things I’ve found out through her yapping. She had a thing for Korean males and she married a Korean guy who grew up in a small town and was 30 to 40 years older than her. She had 9 or 10 kids. She loved this one particular Korean singer and actor. She loved watching K drama shows. Her mother-in-law didn’t really like her that much and she had issues with her husband.

I hated working with her, but I was stuck and I was just trying to be nice as usual. If I had a choice, I would’ve been gone from that place way before the Nut Job incident. I guess when she lived her whole life in a small town fantasizing about celebrities while watching korean soap opera shows, she needed that drama to sort her life out with her husband and secure her job. Whatever the case was, it made no sense that this Nut Job had no issue or problem walking past in front of me like nothing has happened after accusing me. I was dumbfounded at the fact this Nut Job didn’t even care what she did while I was trying to get out of there. It felt like this Nut Job was trying to find a way keep me in that place for some reasons I didn’t know.

I came to the fork in the road. There were two ways to go about how I wanted to live my life. As I watched others as I got older in the workplace, it was only natural for people to behave or act like grown ups while trying to provide and raise their families. Unfortunately for some, they just couldn’t forget and move on from their unhealthy high school and college social lives. They just couldn’t focus on the business and making money at work. They wanted to live the life of popularity contest that they never had in high school or college days, and they had to use their job titles or positions to feel like they were somebody. Did I want to be around these losers, be like them and live that life for the sake of money? Or should I just tap back into the days of 1999 to stay true to myself when almost everyone was faking and acting like grown ups by wearing cheap button up shirts?

What am I about to say might shock some of the people I used to work with. When I was growing up, I was that kid who used to play a wall in the clubs. I never really danced or talked to anybody while others are making moves on girls on the floor and doing their things. Even with any house party, I hardly ever talked to anyone other than people in my crew or social circle. I was a shy person when it came to talking to complete strangers. So what has happend to me that my personality flipped upside down? It was the unexpected death of my close friend who I used to think about riding a low rider or a convertible together one day out in the west coast with palm trees in the background.