Post by Juan Castrocafe on Aug 19, 2007 1:05:41 GMT -6
I currently work as an assistant manager in a pizzaria. I make very "perfect" looking pies even in the middle of a rush...it is not a job of great aspiration, but in a pinch, it pays the bills with massive overtime. However, I took great note of what one person said...he said I should stop making accurate symmetrical pies because I was setting customers up for dissappointment. I asked how and he said no one else bothered to make a pizza that just about burst out of the box, round and balanced...most pizzas look they were "flopped" onto the screen and then hacked into a box and however toppings or sauce was applied, well, that was that. For a moment though, I had some issue with the fact that we are selling pizzas for up to $22 for just one pizza, in my opinion, it should "wow" the receiver of that in its construction. Funny though, no one really complained about the quality of the pizza, nor have many but a handful requested pizzas if I made them (I have a small group of about 47 people who won't order unless I am there..it pisses off the bosses though and I still will not relent doing the best I can...it is not for the money, it is not for a raise---it is for me that no matter where I go I havw no regrets).
Then, wait. I used to be a manager, I played by all the rules and I never got too far. Other people in the past were literally high, stoned and drunk and cussed on the phone to customers but they partied with the supervisors and yeah, they became regional managers, area managers and even district managers..while I got passed by...while I raised sales...while I hired and trained most of the staff and managers for my district. I was proud of my own sobriety and I did not think it right to drink, be drunk, high or do things others would do, even if they were in a position of authority and influence above me..hard work would be enough.
I agreed to work for what I got and I decided to work hard, to do the extra effort..it is not that I do or do not feel entitled for more, however, there are many things I feel that held a great inequity in my life because of the added value I brought...then again..I believe I have been working under wrong ideologies.
My friend in the pizzaria led me to reconsider that whole "dogma". We were laughing as I stated, "you know, people get something perfect, something right--maybe that is not what they expect..suppose they really expected it late, they knew it was going to be rather crappy..but this alone would give the people something to talk about, to join in together and they could spend a great deal of time sharing their views on dissappointment. Now, if it had all been perfect, the most conversation could be would be 9 minutes and 12 seconds, whereas, the entire evening and the next week, you could share in a conversation about the "sucky pizzaria" that failed to deliver "once again"....I went back to my days as a copywriter believing I could change the ad world and with all the research that I undertook was also tainted with the ideology that "perfect satisfaction" would provide the greatest top of mind and return service...but perhaps the name goes to the deflation, the cause of unfulfillment because people do not want fulfillment, they want a reason to bitch, moan and complain collectively.
They guys who I have seen get the promotions literally fuck it up for everyone, they use people, lie, mess up and try to cover their mistakes up or pass it off on someone else, they do not stand up to their responsibility and yet, THEY RISE. In the days I used to sell paintings, the ones I worked on that I loved and felt I had made to completion were not interesting to anyone...however the paintings I wanted to literally throw out, people bought those..most of the time, the work I was least comfortable with had the most appeal to other people...now I wonder, was there something connective in the emotive force there that my discomfort actually gave the work its appeal?
We were working at our ad agency on subtle art that caused a viewer to "complete" the uncomplete scene by intentionally omitting key parts of a visual ad..the research back then was based on a small modeling like the elements in a picture would have shadows except the central object...and over 82% of test observers noted something about the picture where the shadow was missing, but it was the one that they remembered the most about...having recall of eight or more elemental traits in that picture when the others only had an average of 2 and a half. No pupils in the eyes or leaving the color out of the irises of eyes by "greying" them got a recall of an average of 11 and nearly a half of elements against others which also ranged at 2 or so elements in competing pictures.
So then, an imperfect pizza would be something to "adjust to" to find what good you can with it and in some way, creating a moment out of using some sort of coping method that gives you ownership of the pizza itself like you have consumed and owned the company...by accepting its imperfection, you are better than the company that makes it...you can pity the people who have to make a living doing this and know you are better too....
Funny, a great deal of psychological research that deals with sickness and disease still comes from the premise that someone should be happy, content and at peace with themselves...yet oddly, a great deal of people actually seem to be more happy with life when there are more elements of discontent than being content..again, it has to be because they are "creating" the fillin, the completion of a bad thing and this thing is theirs.
That is why a person saving a baby is a short life to the person who throws a baby in the river..it is because people are just supposed to take care of babies, so it is not a big deal to talk up, but you can throw so much drama into the cruelty and the gratitude that "we are not like that" and so forth and so on..so then, it appears people are naturally attracted to the negative channel because it allows them to personally display more of themselves that is right against a screen of so many people who are just so wrong....
Perhaps then, the greatest way to control sheeple, the population in whole, would be to work on this matter where people have the most powerful attraction to...then again, that is what is working in so many arenas now anyways..take the obvious race and religion cards for example...politics and the whole "drama" of "spoiled, pampered Hollywood babies".....yeah, people chew disdain the longest..
When I have to laugh hard though, is hearing people ask "how did things get so bad?"..well, isn't what they really wanted in the first place?
Also, with these drives in place and so well engrained in the collective history of being human...is there any wonder why all the complaints of today is the dis-ease of the festering bitching of our whiny whiny forefathers all the way down to the present...just how has all this brought what is our "modern world" to be..how odd freedom really is having nothing left to loose..could that also be something to bitch and moan about as well?
Then, wait. I used to be a manager, I played by all the rules and I never got too far. Other people in the past were literally high, stoned and drunk and cussed on the phone to customers but they partied with the supervisors and yeah, they became regional managers, area managers and even district managers..while I got passed by...while I raised sales...while I hired and trained most of the staff and managers for my district. I was proud of my own sobriety and I did not think it right to drink, be drunk, high or do things others would do, even if they were in a position of authority and influence above me..hard work would be enough.
I agreed to work for what I got and I decided to work hard, to do the extra effort..it is not that I do or do not feel entitled for more, however, there are many things I feel that held a great inequity in my life because of the added value I brought...then again..I believe I have been working under wrong ideologies.
My friend in the pizzaria led me to reconsider that whole "dogma". We were laughing as I stated, "you know, people get something perfect, something right--maybe that is not what they expect..suppose they really expected it late, they knew it was going to be rather crappy..but this alone would give the people something to talk about, to join in together and they could spend a great deal of time sharing their views on dissappointment. Now, if it had all been perfect, the most conversation could be would be 9 minutes and 12 seconds, whereas, the entire evening and the next week, you could share in a conversation about the "sucky pizzaria" that failed to deliver "once again"....I went back to my days as a copywriter believing I could change the ad world and with all the research that I undertook was also tainted with the ideology that "perfect satisfaction" would provide the greatest top of mind and return service...but perhaps the name goes to the deflation, the cause of unfulfillment because people do not want fulfillment, they want a reason to bitch, moan and complain collectively.
They guys who I have seen get the promotions literally fuck it up for everyone, they use people, lie, mess up and try to cover their mistakes up or pass it off on someone else, they do not stand up to their responsibility and yet, THEY RISE. In the days I used to sell paintings, the ones I worked on that I loved and felt I had made to completion were not interesting to anyone...however the paintings I wanted to literally throw out, people bought those..most of the time, the work I was least comfortable with had the most appeal to other people...now I wonder, was there something connective in the emotive force there that my discomfort actually gave the work its appeal?
We were working at our ad agency on subtle art that caused a viewer to "complete" the uncomplete scene by intentionally omitting key parts of a visual ad..the research back then was based on a small modeling like the elements in a picture would have shadows except the central object...and over 82% of test observers noted something about the picture where the shadow was missing, but it was the one that they remembered the most about...having recall of eight or more elemental traits in that picture when the others only had an average of 2 and a half. No pupils in the eyes or leaving the color out of the irises of eyes by "greying" them got a recall of an average of 11 and nearly a half of elements against others which also ranged at 2 or so elements in competing pictures.
So then, an imperfect pizza would be something to "adjust to" to find what good you can with it and in some way, creating a moment out of using some sort of coping method that gives you ownership of the pizza itself like you have consumed and owned the company...by accepting its imperfection, you are better than the company that makes it...you can pity the people who have to make a living doing this and know you are better too....
Funny, a great deal of psychological research that deals with sickness and disease still comes from the premise that someone should be happy, content and at peace with themselves...yet oddly, a great deal of people actually seem to be more happy with life when there are more elements of discontent than being content..again, it has to be because they are "creating" the fillin, the completion of a bad thing and this thing is theirs.
That is why a person saving a baby is a short life to the person who throws a baby in the river..it is because people are just supposed to take care of babies, so it is not a big deal to talk up, but you can throw so much drama into the cruelty and the gratitude that "we are not like that" and so forth and so on..so then, it appears people are naturally attracted to the negative channel because it allows them to personally display more of themselves that is right against a screen of so many people who are just so wrong....
Perhaps then, the greatest way to control sheeple, the population in whole, would be to work on this matter where people have the most powerful attraction to...then again, that is what is working in so many arenas now anyways..take the obvious race and religion cards for example...politics and the whole "drama" of "spoiled, pampered Hollywood babies".....yeah, people chew disdain the longest..
When I have to laugh hard though, is hearing people ask "how did things get so bad?"..well, isn't what they really wanted in the first place?
Also, with these drives in place and so well engrained in the collective history of being human...is there any wonder why all the complaints of today is the dis-ease of the festering bitching of our whiny whiny forefathers all the way down to the present...just how has all this brought what is our "modern world" to be..how odd freedom really is having nothing left to loose..could that also be something to bitch and moan about as well?
