Continuing on from my ‘rich and powerful people relying too much on others’ theme, I will now delve into the knock on effects that this has.
As I described yesterday, some people, not all may I add, that have a lot of power and a lot of money, have someone to do everything for them from wiping their arses to sending an email for them. Yes it is a bit of jealousy on my part but who the hell isn’t jealous of people that can do what the hell they want.
This though then gets passed on. There is nothing worse than a spoilt child. I worked at a summer camp in America. It was a residential camp, and it wasn’t cheap. It was about $4k per child to go to the first session which was 4 weeks. It was another $3k per child for the second session of 3 weeks. It doesn’t take a genius to work out that is $1k per child per week.
The camp did have decent facilities. The children were always entertained until they went to bed, but for a grand you would expect luxury if you were an adult, and this was far from luxury. The children are very used to getting what they want. If they wanted to get some food, they would scream and stomp until they got it, if they didn’t want to do an activity, they would go off and sit down and refuse to participate.
No problems you say, one less for you to worry about. Oh no. you have to get them to enjoy themselves or the parents are on the phone demanding why their little bundle of joy has called saying that they are not having the best time ever! the sun shines out of their arses. They can do no wrong in their parents eyes. They have seen how demanding their parents are of their staff and are so used to getting their own way for 2 reasons1) their parents can afford it and 2) it is just easier for them to give the little shit what they want.
Put them now in real life situations, when they don’t have everything they need and want at their beck and call and the shit hits the fan. Tantrums of gargantuan size are witnessed and some have to be seen to be believed. I wish I could say that they grow out of it, but clearly judging by some of the stories you see in the papers and some of the TV shows you know see, they clearly don’t, and the worst part of it all is that they get away with it!
It is not just the children that are affected. This example is from the work place and I can talk from 1st hand experience having witnessed it. Some P.A’s get on their bosses bandwagon. Yes their bosses are high powered and important enough to have P.A’s but my god they think they own the world.
One came down and started an argument with a department that a request she put through 15 minutes ago had not been dealt with. Due to the fact it is a rather large company I work for, on average a request gets dealt with within a couple of hours depending on what it is and the department it goes to. This happened to be to accounts payable – the most busy department in the company. She was screaming her head off how it wasn’t acceptable that it wasn’t done and she will get her boss out of a very important meeting if she had to.
She continuously dropped his name in there, as if trying to impress us. We all knew who she worked for and would be more impressed if she told us she had actually eaten something more substantial than a stick of celery for lunch. After much shouting and threatening, the woman who was taking the brunt of it decided to call the boss in question. His exact words were ‘no worries whenever it gets done.’ I have never seen anyone look so sheepish.
There are some people that have enough weight behind them to be able to throw it around, they just need to be careful how they do it and who sees them do it. the people that think they have enough weight to throw around never do. That is the thought for today, tune in tomorrow for something else.
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