Today I had to go to a meeting at work with all the others who do what I do in my district; all the managers were there also. There was one other person there also, it was a young man who used to work under me at another store. He was dressed as a manager. I asked him why he was all dressed up and he told me that he was in the manager training program. I smiled and said something small and went on my way to where I had to be.
I couldn't and can't stop thinking about it. When I left the store that we worked together at, he was a part timer who at best, was mediocre and now he's in a program that will make him potentially my boss. I asked the district manager about getting in the program a while ago and he told me that I would have to become a department manager before climbing the ladder to assistant manager. So you can only imagine the shock that hit me when I heard the news of the young mans quick climb to full time, then lead, and then department manager; all in a years time.
My mind keeps on thinking things like "If his dad wasn't a store manager of thirty plus years he wouldn't have been chosen for this position." Whether I'm right or wrong I shouldn't be thinking things like that. Satan is working overtime on me to try and make me angry, jealous, and even a little hurt about this. Regardless of the circumstances I should be happy for, or at least indifferent to the young man for his new found success but I can't seem to stop thinking that he doesn't deserve this.
I'm ashamed of the way I'm thinking. A Christian shouldn't be like this.....
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