[quote=Prince]At work, I don't generally like to consider myself the guy with a fancy golden name tag and a spiffy button-down shirt whose sole purpose in the building is to make every else work harder and faster to accomplish the same goal they would normally all for the purpose of making them look busy on one of our thirty-six cameras. I don't like to enforce the "if you have time to lean, you have time to clean" policy. I can try and be gentle about it. I can try and be polite. I can explain or assist in every possible way I can to make the work experience better while also doing my job. And, you're right. Normally, being positive and gentle in those situation reaps better results.That doesn't change the fact I'm still management. Likewise, that doesn't change the fact that, by definition, that scenario still has elitist aspects in it. It's not a bad thing. You did what most good GM's would have done or said.[/quote]

Exactly. You get it. Sounds like you're a pleasant manager, by the way.

You're not a bad person for seeing yourself as an elitist either by the way. I just try to avoid that term, it has a lot of negative baggage with it, and the point I was making was one you understood with your pleasant sounding management tactics, so...

I have no idea what I'm saying now.

I wish there were more ferrets and other animals of the like that were truly useless but adorable. They're great for subtle character exposition. For instance: How X treats their pet says a lot about who they are as a person, regardless of whether they're introverted or extroverted.