Looks can be deceiving. As the old adage goes, you should never judge a book by its cover. Just because someone looks unkempt doesn’t mean that they’re lazy or sloppy. It could be that they’re doing the best they can and struggling to even make it through the day. You never know what someone’s circumstances are. Likewise, just because someone is a scary looking person due to things they can’t control (like being a big person or super tall), that doesn’t mean that they’re going to harm you. How much easier life would be for everyone if we could go through life not judging someone by their outward appearance. In the story below, you can see the perfect depiction of that at work. Both of the people involved were easily misunderstood but it didn’t turn out that way. Enjoy this fictional story.
So let me first off explaining about how my store manager looks to most people. He is 6’3″ so he is tall, and seems very intimidating, but different from his looks. He is actually a very nice guy, and this was how I learned what kind of guy he was.
I had only been working for about 7 months at the store, and this woman walked in with two little kids. One was about 2 years, and the other was 5 years old. Their mother looked scared, her hair was a mess, and looked like she had no sleep in days she looked rough. Well, she walks up to me and asked to see the store manager so I call for him.
He said he wanted me to help take things to her car, and to give her a paper he was writing on. So he handed me the paper, and I walked her to her car. Then handed her the paper he had given me to hand her. She started crying, and I asked her if she was ok. She handed me the paper. It basically was a note telling her he was sorry for her position, and if she needed a job to help her to get by that she could show up in a couple of days and told her if she needed child care he had his number on there to call him, and he would help set it up for her.
Needless to say, she showed up, and she is a very nice person who still works at our store. This is one of the many reasons why I love the store I work at, and I believe I have the best store manager in the world.
