I've gotta get some stuff off of my chest, so for those of you who come to these pages to read technical/game related info, please wait for the next update. The article is purely personal, and 100% rant.

I'm a nice guy. Stop laughing now. I'm not a rude person, or at least I try not to be. If I have a problem with something that someone else is doing or not doing, I will tell them directly. I don't believe in reporting them to a supervisor behind their back, or making secret reports to establish history. That's rude. However, as the saying goes, "nice guys finish last". This is very true. There's somebody I work with, let's call him 'Fred' (ha!). We all work in a call center and he changes his status so that he doesn't have to take calls. He does this alot. Maybe not all of the time he's here, but coincidentally, everytime I check everyone's status, he's not available for calls. And everytime I see this, I tell him. I don't believe in going to a supervisor to have them berate him or discipline him. He's a nice guy, and so am I, so I bring all of my problems to him directly. But today when I had a chance to talk to a supervisor and brought that up, it turns out that 'Fred' has been going to the supervisor daily making excuses for his lack of availability.

Bah! I give up on trying to explain this through words on a webpage. Suffice to say, because I've never reported this to a supervisor before, I now look like the bad guy, or the sneak for mentioning this. Today, another worker completely went off on me verbally today, and there was nothing I could do about it because of the same situation: I express my problems to them directly, they make excuses the next day to a supervisor, and I end up looking the bad employee.

Fine.

I have no choice but become a recluse at work now. Apparently, telling other employees what they're doing wrong and trying to get the situation resolved on the spot is not the way Corporate America works. Everything is done behind everyone's back in secret messages to supervisors and disciplinary actions. I'm not going to bend my back completely, mind you. At the core of it all, I'm still a nice guy and can't bring myself to being responsible for getting others in trouble. I'm just going to close my eyes.

To everyone who works with me on nights, I'm sorry. Really, it used to be fun working here. It's just that there's no room in Corporate America for a nice guy.