I am a manager at work. First time experience for me, and while I'm good at my job, I really suck at one part of it...being somebody else's boss. I always second guess myself, and it's almost IMPOSSIBLE for me to chastise someone without some serious internal pep talking. So anyways, today my shirking of conflict led me to (not) do something I'm pretty ashamed of:

One of my employees treated a child, a ten (ish) year old autistic child, like he was a piece of shit. She was mean, outrageously so, and really had no reason to be so...she just didn't want to give the child a free movie ticket (provided by someone other than herself, and she just grabbed a shitload of them so there weren't enough for the kids...but the ghetto-ass shittiness of my employees is another story entirely). She yelled, she bitched, she degraded the child in under three words. And I...*sigh* I stood there and let her.

Sucks.

So there's the rub...because I let her treat a child unfairly and I said nothing, am I a bad person? Is my lack of managerial balls (so to speak) backsliding me into this sucky place where I let people do the wrong thing in front of me, and I just let it slide?

I feel like a bad person.