Today I learned that people try to make you the scapegoat. I was at work today and some customer had an issue with the way things were going with her prescription. She didn’t like all the bureaucracy and felt she was being treated unfairly. Later in the day she called the pharmacy to ask for the corporate office. I just so happened to pick up the phone and did my best to assist in a detached manner. I felt that was the best approach because I didn’t handle her prescription and frankly didn’t want to ramp up the situation by being elusive with her. But complying with her questions annoyed my coworkers. They saw that as me being a tattletail or a snitch. Though the answers to her questions were public knowledge. If somebody asks me questions that they can get from 5 other sources I don’t objectively see that as being a tattletail. But my supervisor took that opportunity to make me the bad guy. And sternly told me to not give out his name. When his name was on the wall🤔. After thinking about the situation it became obvious that I was made a scapegoat. After consistently challenging my supervisor about how giving out his name was something I did before and how I offered him the opportunity to speak with the customer he backed down. I lost some morale because had I not challenged him then my identity as a scapegoat would confine. When the shit hits the fan people need somebody to be the bad guy. People need somebody who is going to take the blame. Just the mere fact of consistently having the finger pointed at you and being made the blame increases my chances of becoming s bad guy. Today at work I didn’t something I shouldn’t of done out of bitter frustration. My reasoning was that since I was wronged I’ll wrong the whole thing quietly. But that isn’t somebody who never stops trying. Somebody who never stops trying detaches themselve from the wrong doing in order to keep himself unpoisoined. That’s why it’s so important for me to tell myself who I am and not let the world tell me first. People want me to be foolish, irresponsible, and underdeveloped. But by having a standard for myself I can avoid playing right into their hands. Today I learned that people will try to make me the scapegoat. I have to be prepared for that. I have to be willing to fight for myself. I have to be honestly somebody who want to live his life as a person who Never Stops Trying. That’s how I’ll keep myself unpoisoined by bitterness and frustration. That is also how I’ll keep myself stronger than cowards.