Today I'm choosing ✨️violence✨️ 🤩
Maybe some of you think I'm just 🥺pouting🥺 when I say that a lot of the people around me are 😡😡mean old silly-billies😡😡 grrr
You wanna know something really silly😅
I worked 👩⚕️at this one job in the silly state of Texas where all of the paperwork that could be pre-filled was already pre-filled. It was so cool!
I kept that job for 6 years 😇 wasn't planning on leaving it either because the paperwork for an engineering maintenance job is often the worst part of the job, and they helped make it easier!
So when I came to Norway, I had ideas 💡
I've interviewed at a few places here and I worked for one place for 2 years 😎
When I was there I tried and tried and tried to tell them that their paperwork was torturous 🥲
But they seemed almost hardwired to not listen!
Why? 🤔 if there's a way for tons of people to save tons of time, wouldn't that be good for the whole company? The whole country?
Well yes it would but you see they COULDN'T listen to me because that would break the law of Jante! 🤯
What's that? It's just a silly little law that a lot of people live by that basically CREATES white supremacists! 😵
Here's what it looks like on paper (in Norwegian FIRST and then in English so that all the context that you need is there) it says:
You see? By coming into a company as a fresh-faced new employee, telling them I could help them improve their paperwork, I was breaking a LOT of rules! 🙀
Rule 1 thinking I'm special because I came from ✨️America✨️
Rule 3 thinking I'm smarter because I know how to fix their paperwork?? Can't be doing that!
Rule 4 thinking I'm better than them because I have some magic paperwork solution when they've been doing this for YEARS, and everyone gets the same paperwork and it works
Rule 5 thinking I know more than them about how efficiently paperwork can be done 📝
Rule 6 thinking I'm important enough for them to listen to!
Rule 7 thinking I'm good at anything!
Rule 9 thinking they should care what I think or feel!
AND Rule 10 being so arrogant as to think I can teach NORWEGIAN people ANYTHING EVER
You see when I came here, I must have forgotten that I'm not Norwegian
But ✨️don't worry✨️ they LOVE to remind me of that fact!
So when the law of jante activates in their minds, I'm the "you" and they're the "us"
They don't NEED to listen to me 🎉
I should be thanking the 🌌stars🌌 they even let me stay or hired me at all!
All my experience counts for nothing in a place where people are literally trained to despise and reject anything Different
I've been different my whole life! 😋 it's not something I can turn off or change. It's LITERALLY written into my skin color!
Just by existing, every single thing in the law of Jante tells people here not to listen to me, or even to scorn and belittle me
And of course I HAVE to tell you "it's not everybody"
Because that's the FIRST thing they'll come and say 🤭 so no, it's not everybody! Just the people in charge! 🥰✨️
If you wonder why I'm trying to make my livelihood with a WORLDWIDE audience and multiple platforms? That's why 🩷