Pride

While pride has many definitions the type of pride I want to focus on is the feeling of pride people have. Having pride can be good but it could also have some negative outcomes if a person has too much pride. People tend to let pride decide for them if someone is trying to help them whether it be something to be finished or just lending a helping hand.

A time when I witnessed someone picking pride over accepting help was at my job where a coworker was overwhelmed with what they were doing and would not accept help. I work at Starbucks and it tends to get very busy and because of that sometimes we need to have somebody come and help the people make drinks which is what I was doing that day. The cafe was completely full and this person was struggling to make all the drinks so I came to help make the drinks and try to support them in the process and they chose to let pride take over and refused my help. With my help refused the person continued to struggle and eventually I had to have a conversation with them to explain that they cannot choose to not accept help when it is given to them because pride or not, the customers should be put first and we need to worry about getting their order out as fast as we can. A lesson I learned from this occasion was that we need to accept help no matter how much our pride chooses to try to take over because at the end of the day we are just human and we can’t do everything ourselves.