Being helpful and vital at your job should be a great feeling. Truly, who doesn’t want to feel valuable, to know that what you do every day is worthwhile?
However, even being valuable at work has its conditions. If your job is to do one thing, and suddenly you find yourself vital doing something else entirely, it might not feel as great as you thought. No one wants to find themselves doing someone else’s work, as good as they may be at it. It’s not their job, it’s not their responsibility to be helpful or vital.
That is what the employee in the story below is currently feeling. Instead of being valuable by doing their own job, they were found helpful simply because they continually go over a coworker’s own work and find mistakes in it. It got to a point that even the coworker got tired of being helped all the time, and demanded that the employee stop correcting them.
When the employee complied, things started to go downhill for the coworker. However, the employee has no intention to go back to being their coworker’s helpful elf…
