INJUSTICE

An abuse of power leads to disenfranchisement of people. In justice results in a loss of trust in people. An abuse of power in injustice!

I was working for a company as a new employee under a manager who was training me for the job as a deli worker working towards a supervisor position. During our time spent together, we began talking about about all kinds of things. She was very easy to talk to and we both ended up opening more in our conversation together, and I began to open up with her about some of my past with drug addiction, and how I had been in trouble with the law when I was younger. At this point I had been totally clean from everything for 4 years and made drastic changes in my life. At the time, she seemed very empathetic and compassionate towards my stories and even impressed by my achievements. Yet, I was unaware of how she would then turn around and try to use something like this for her benefit in the company.

During one of the closing shifts at work, she was working alone. I worked the same day, but she sent me home early. Her, being the closing manager, proceeded to count of the register, and decided that this was a good time to steal the deposit. This is not something that went unnoticed by the higher bosses, and was quickly found out. She was questioned about what had happened to the deposit, and during the questioning I was later told by my boss that she explained that because of my past addiction with drugs and run ins with the law that the only reasonable suspect here was me. This was a direct attack on both my integrity and my character. Injustice at its finest at the expense of someone else’s attempt at a “come-up”. Her story of course did not line up and she was fired. Although no one seemed to believed the nonsense that came from her, I still felt personally affected by the carelessness of someone who shared my story for their selfish advantage. She told people a story that wasn’t hers to share, void of the victory that took place, and made me a victim of injustice. I didn’t choose this. Someone else chose for me, and I think that’s what distorts justice and makes it unjust.