The vast majority of my co-workers are Eastern European. I've always had trouble with removing the whole Soviet Union imagary from my mind in relation to that whole side of the continent. So that's caused some problems with my imagination whenever I think of them.
I had just read 1984 when I started working there(which only made the stereotypes far more exaggerated in my head). Incapable of learning names and viewing them all as robot-like.
I finally shook this off after many months hard work... only to make it ten times worse by reading Brave New World!
So I'll introduce you to some of my co-workers as I see them in my imagination:
Male Co-Worker:
- Mid 20s
- 6 foot, 5 inches
- Due to the tight awkward spaces of the tightly-compressed supermarket, it is impossible to have a forklift to do all the carrying and such. As a result "Male Co-Worker" has became the store's forklift substitute
- In the shed 24 hours a day for use whenever needed
- Unavailable for two fortnight long trips to his manufacturing place for repairs
Standard Female Co-Worker:
- Mid 30s-Mid 50s
- 2 foot.
- These are high speed shelf stacking machines, their small size means they can climb into the back of any shelf to tidy it up if they so wish
- Occasionally used to repair machinery due to small size
- Regularly break down and need replacement models
Other Female Co-Worker #1:
- Early 20s-Mid 30s
- Average height
- Ridiculously(!) attractive
- Much more expensive to manufacture than other models
- Much harder to replace
- Excellent at calculations
- Incapable of doing almost anything else
- Placed at Checkout
Other Female Co-Worker #2:
- Varying ages
- Varying heights
- Minimum Human Contact
- Vast knowledge of business and laws
- Placed Upstairs in Office to manage paperwork
Other Female Co-Worker #3:
- 20 or younger
- 5 foot-5 foot 5 inches
- Mixture between Standard Female Co-Worker and Other Female Co-Worker #1
- Placed at Deli Counter as it is very suited to the balance between checkout work and shelf-stacking work which is required at the Deli Counter.
- "Complete Headfuck"(thanks to Andrew)
5 comments:
stop categorizing your poor colleagues like if they were tagged animals lol.
focus more on your self rather than others.
the post was moreso an attack on my personality than anything to do with them though.
Which is proof that I focus solely on myself! HAH!
Jesus christ i went out with other female co-worker #3 during my shelf-stacking days. She was ridiculously attractive and worked in the deli. the only bit you got wrong was her height cos she was pretty tall. What the instructions that came with her didn't mention is that she was also a complete headfuck.
God, she was great.
completely forgot the "complete headfuck" part... I always see her fighting with someone.
Don't suppose you tried returning her?
Stereotypes - you hardly ever lose them, despite knowing better.
I have one too from reading too much reading and movies, and was proved so wrong when i went to Prague. Still scared of the East European profs in my Dept. Silly!
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