Rant: Getting Hired

So, you work at a job for a little bit and you either are already really good at it, or you become really good at it. Either way, someone approaches you and offers you an application to be hired at another level. You've only been there for a few months. People get mad - well, the people who have been working there way longer than you get mad. This is where it bothers me.

It's not MY fault that I work harder, do better, or get along with people better than you. I didn't go behind your back saying bad things about you in order to get this job. I didn't do anything other than work hard and do a good job, show up on time everyday, and try to grin and bear working with people I dislike. A lot. It's not MY fault that, for however many years, you didn't work hard, or show up every day/on time, or that you don't get along with people. I just met you - I'm sorry you have to deal with being a bitch all the time, but it's not my fault. 

Maybe if you worked a little harder and showed a little extra effort, maybe people would want to hire you. Maybe if you got along with people who you have no choice in working with, maybe they'd want to hire you. Maybe if you shut up long enough to do your job EFFICIENTLY, maybe they'd want to hire you.

I'm sorry, but it seems like you think that you're better than me, better than the other employees, and better than the management the way you talk yourself up. You're not hot shit, you must have embellished a LOTtle bit. You look like everyone else here - no better. I get that if you can't show up to work for a family thing, it's not your fault. But maybe don't have such an attitude about it when you get back to work. Maybe try NOT talking about the bosses behind their backs when they will hear about it from that same person, and you know they will.

It's like some people just assume they're entitled to certain things because of [insert reason here]. Unless you are a prince/princess, you are entitled to nothing unless you work for it on your own. People have to work, you have to work, you are the same as other people in this situation.

Ugh.