Crab mentality

Last week, I was helping my eldest daughter review her notes in one of their subjects which is about the negative traits of people (particularly here in the Philippines) that hinders progress.  Those negative traits listed were Ningas Kugon attitude, Bahala Na attitude, Hiya, Manana Habit, Colonial mentality and Crab mentality.  Today, when hubby called me and told me about something he found out regarding one of his office mates, I was reminded of one of those negative traits which is crab mentality.

Crab mentality is the attitude of being envious of other people's success.  An envious person is likened to a crab because when crabs are in a container and they try to climb out of it, they were observed to be stepping on the other crabs, thus pulling them down.  This is what usually happens with people who are doing well - they are  pulled down by the negative comments made by other people.

One of hubby's office mates is being that crab in his life, because he has been telling false statements to their boss about my husband.  And hubby found that out this morning when one of his site engineers told him what they observed about that person.  Of course, it really made me angry.  My husband has been working his butt off and there are times that we fight about him giving more attention and time to his work than to us, and it's really frustrating that some four-eyed looser is ruining everything that he worked hard for.  It's really obvious that he's jealous of my husband because he's the one trusted by their boss, plus he's really a good engineer.  He can't beat my husband when it comes to quality work performance that's why he's bringing my husband down the dirty way.  But it's just disappointing that their boss believes those lies and it's not a very good example for a leader, I mean, to easily believe something that he has no proof of. *sigh*

I am just trying to cheer my husband up, because he's really been feeling down these past few days because of certain changes at work.  I'm keeping his hopes up that everything will be okay and that that office mate of his will eventually get what he deserves, and that his boss will be so ashamed of himself that he believed that liar.  After all, what goes around, comes around.

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