Cliques and Favoritism: Turning a Blind Eye to Those Who Actually Work Hard

[Anonymous]

FAVORITISM..This begins at a very young age, it starts in grade school, and continues into your education, career, and you may even have it within your family. And now, it's prevalent in the workplace.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/favoritism

Full Definition of favoritism
1 : the showing of special favor : partiality
2 : the state or fact of being a favorite

As the graph above shows, PREjudice and PREference. We are all conditioned with this. But is this a deeper issue?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clique

A narrow exclusive circle or group of persons; especially: one held together by common interests, views, or purposes

Or.. how 90% of the world is: A small group of people who spend time together and who are not friendly to other people

Example 1:. Anthony Michael Hall was probably the odd man out in this movie (from my personal observation) Why? What did he do which got him into detention?

Example 2: This is what most schools are and have been.

Example 3: Cliques in the workplace. Generalization on how a person looks and they act, maybe there is a reason why they do?

People in all walks of life work to get ahead. and some people take other unorthodox way of doing it.

Example: John Doe is with company xyz. Many people in this company are getting ahead but not him, he is takes the required material but seems to can't get ahead. He throws a temper tantrum and someone gets wind of it, and decides to give him what he wants. The higher position goes to his head and bullies those under him. Complaints about his actions fall on deaf ears, and he still continues to throw another temper tantrum to go up the ladder again. within one year he has another tempter tantrum to be elevated higher.

For this he is required to take a proficiency exam. At this time two people are required to take this exam. But the second person has to take the exam, not John Doe. So he gets up the ladder yet again. And, yes again, he complains about going up another level and, once again, he is given that opportunity without doing any hard work, just by complaining and throwing temper tantrums, among other means.

On the other side of the coin. there are two other individuals. J. Smith and J.Public. J Smith came to the company but J.Public was there longer. J.Public is a hard worker, sacrificed his family and job to get to where he had to, while J.Smith is getting by. J.Smith is offered a higher position since he has been with the company longer but didn't produce. While J.Public surpassed J.Smith ten to fifteen times over.

J.Public also gets a lot of grief on his beliefs and ideals because he refuses to join the others in their beliefs and ideas. This is also stems to the favoritism.

J. Public takes on what J.Smith and J.Doe don't do. and When J. Public asks to go up the ladder, he gets turned down because he gets excuses he don't work hard enough or long enough (when J. Doe and J. Smith call out of work, J. Public does the work for them)

J. Public tries to juggle things as well as other issues..

Conclusion: Will things every change in cliques and will favoritism ever go away? No..

Just keep on pushing and try and ignore the crap... and eventually...one day...some day... may not be tomorrow..next month..next year..10 years from now.. you will eventually get the recognition you deserve.....