Friday, April 26, 2013

my old mentor

ok, so I missed school on wednesday to see my mentor from the t-shirt printing company...
straight from the beginning he was telling me that life was about hard work and that it wasn't free.
I understand that what he said was true however, my father left the building and thats when everything began.
Please keep in mind that i ASKED him to be my mentor and he agreed with "pleasure".
I was there from 10am to 3pm.
I began to learn from photoshop with a coworker. He was very nice and helpful; I could see that he had sympathy for me because none of the workers not even my mentor was paying attention to me. He taught me as much as he could from embroidery to photoshop and some other computer programs. The moment came at around 2:30pm when my mentor, the boss of a "professional" company called me to his office.
I entered his office and he immediately said "I'm going to talk to you candidly now that your dad is not here to protect you." Things went just as bad as that sounds. Let me just quote what he said to me...
"Why did you leave this last minute! In life you have to do the f****** work!!"
(Lets not forget that he would not admit to his multiple absences to Guatemala)
"your dad can't protect you forever"
"Just because you are pretty doesn't mean you will get everything in life"
"Be a woman and do the work"
"F****** F******"
(i swear the F*** popped up in every sentence)
"your dad works his a** off for you to have food on the dinner table"
(he barely even knows my dad to know his struggles or about his life.)
"oh you know how to design? you know, its not only about making it look like your sketch. its also about function."
"oh your going to FIDM? Are you paying for it? oh i thought so. In life you cant always fake it."
(I already feel bad enough about going to such an expensive school and i am going to get a job to pay for it. however he has no position to scold me. the funny part is that i ASKED him if i could spend 25hrs there that same day and he agreed, then he decided he wanted to completely lie about my hours and kick me out of the building. Who is the one not doing the work here?)
he said so many things to me that i choose not to remember because they cut so deep into my personal life that i would rather forget then relive it. I just wanted to leave that horrible place with my fake mentor evaluation signed.  I did not talk back to him and he knew i couldn't because i was in desperate need of his signature. he told advantage of it. when i finally was free from the abuse and made it to the car, my mother saw the hurt in my face and asked me why i had left early and why i looked down. I couldn't help but tell her and my whole family because it was just too horrible for me too hide. Is that how he treats his workers? who knows. I told them all the truth except my dad who was already heart broken about the way his "friend" treated me. I told him everything except the cussing part. My whole family was in flames and they wanted to do all sorts of bad stuff to him. However, i did not cry once. I stayed strong for my self and for my family. I despise violence and  find no need to waste my time on someone so insignificant. I tried to calm down my family and i asked my dad to not go looking for him or call him. I also decided that same day that his signature didn't mean anything to me. I burn the papers and his business card and i immediately got myself an amazing mentor at CustomMe t-shirts at Tanforan mall.

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