mynameisbob84 said:
UncleThursday said:
A good analogy that affects me, personally, is two guys at work. One of them got in good with another guy who happens to be in good with someone high up in the company. They both got some MAJOR raises in the past few weeks. The guy in good with the higher up got something like a $6/hour raise (making him the highest paid employee on the floor), and the guy who is in good with him got almost a $3/hour raise. Meanwhile, the guy I work with and myself have gotten nothing, even though for the past few weeks we've been not only doing our jobs, but the jobs of other people, as well; and we consistently outperform our normal job requirements every day. So, needless to say, there is some bitterness there, just like how Brina or Oliva would have some major bitterness if Jenna just jumps to #1 in the next week or so and stays there the rest of the month.
I'm not sure I see the parallels. The example from your workplace is nepotism, pure and simple. I can see why that would irk someone. But the thing with Jenna (at least as I understand it) is completely different.
If Jenna can make more money in 30 hours than the next highest tipped model can make in 200 hours, she deserves to be Miss MFC. It seems really reductive to say "she's only being tipped because she's famous". It completely ignores the fact that she's spent the last 20 years working hard to make a name for herself. Why shouldn't she use the celebrity that she's worked hard to attain, to make money for herself?
I can't quite put my finger on why I find it distasteful. I see how hard all these other models work, and it seems unfair, that's all. It sets off bells and whistles on my Injustice Alarm.
Clearly, it's just something to do for her--she's a dilettante, it seems. To me, it's sort of like if Wal-Mart decided to move into a small town, put a bunch of mom and pop stores out of business just because it could, and then close their store and move on. Sure, they can do it, and if the public wants to spend their money there at the expense of their neighbors, they will. But that doesn't make it any less of a douchebag thing to do. She's on MFC fucking around with other people's livelihoods just because she can, or because she's bored, as she clearly either a.) doesn't need the money or b.) could make money/get publicity in a hundred other ways that don't stomp on "little guys" (or gals) who are trying to earn a living. Maybe I'm jumping to conclusions/making unfair assumptions, but I can't deny that it sticks in my gut a little. At least taking "Miss MFC" off the table would, to my mind, even the scales a bit.
It seems nobody else thinks of it this way, and I realize it's not even necessarily a rational conclusion to arrive at. But I've seen this kind of thing happen in other jobs SO many times that it bugs me on an emotional level. Obviously, the models aren't bothered by it, so I guess my misgivings are irrelevant.