'I’m in touch with somebody else': Guy too good for event worker's credential help, gets to wait for ages instead

It's important not to succumb to the sweet nectar of hubris. When we begin to think too much of ourselves, we invite the certainty that we will be made fool of.

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Posted by Brad Dickson

We've all probably had this happen, you head into the office feeling super swag in your new threads. You're feeling good in the way that only a bold new fashion choice can make you feel… But when you head to the bathroom a few hours later, you look into the mirror while washing your hands and realize that your shirt was inside out the entire time.

Hubris, that sweet, alluring feeling of basking in one's pride and self-importance, is a pitfall for our ego, we're taught so often in our society that displaying a manner of self-importance will cause others to see us in that way and this perception will help us to in turn become more successful. In fact, this is pretty much the backbone of all of those “how to be an alpha” self-help courses and YouTube videos -which are usually served with an extra helping of toxic masculinity.

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We can wish it wasn't the case as much as we'd like, but appearance is important, and it shapes every passing interaction we have with the world around us. A trendy outfit in a trendy neighborhood will go by without a glance, but a guy in business attire might get treated with a stiff lip from the locals. Flip the tables and that same trendy outfit wearer will draw sideways glances and raise eyebrows in the financial district should they stray too far from their trendy home turf. It's all about appearances, none of these stiff lip-ers or sideways glancers will even bother to strike up a conversation with you once they've ‘othered’ you because of your appearance, and you'll then have to fight extra hard to get the chance at a real first impression.

This premise is the reason why nailing the appropriate attire is so important for an interview process. Your appearance, and that silent first impression, is going to change the framing of everything that happens subsequently.

Digressing back to the point here. This doofus would have done well to manage their self-importance, as it would have saved them a lot of their own time if they had accepted help from someone that they saw as inferior to them.

To offer the other side of this, perhaps the guy suffers from extreme social anxiety. If this was me, I'd be so anxious about attending a large event like this that I would probably be hyper-focused on talking to the one person I had been communicating with. I'd be practicing that first introduction over and over in my head preparing for how I was going to get in contact with that person to get admitted. So when that person I had been preparing to ask for wasn't available my brain would probably short circuit, and I'd be stuck standing there looking (and feeling) like a fool but too embarrassed to ask for help again from the person I had dismissed.

It's fun to think that the guy was an entitled tool-bag, but if he had been a tool-bag, he'd probably not take kindly to waiting for his original contact to show up and would be forcing the author to attend to him. I know the author mentions him being “frustrated” but just offering another perspective.

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For more customer service nightmares, check out this story from a delivery driver who had to fend off an assault from a frustrated recipient who claimed they were late.