The entire point of my reply was to show that there is Rachel's side to the story, and then the manager's. You can spend your entire life thinking other people

The entire point of my reply was to show that there is Rachel's side to the story, and then the manager's. You can spend your entire life thinking other people should act a certain way and say things like 'the time was then'. I understand the smug satisfaction of thinking you know better than somebody else. I also know the loneliness and frustration of living in a world of perceiving other people as being wrong, less, or better etc. It's exhausting for you, it's at best exhausting for others to deal with you, so who is winning? I know the ego-trip side of thinking you're right is feeling like it's a winner. Go see if your heart and gut agree - the gut will communicate by clenching or being relaxed, the heart by being closed or open. I know there are plenty of people walking around with a clenched gut, a closed heart and a very busy mind that's gleefully judging everything in sight and gossiping about it with other minds, posting on HackerNews etc. I just don't know anyone who's happy, engaged in that lifestyle :)