If You Follow Every Rule, There is Something Wrong with you

By Cameron Cameron on January 26, 2013

Any of you guys know those Goody-Two-Shoes types?  You’ve probably met them at school, at work, or maybe even in your social life.  I know I have met far too many of these people.  Now some of you might be thinking “What could possibly be wrong with a person trying to be as good as possible?”  Well, my response to that would be “Calm down:  I’m obviously going to let you know the answer to that right now.”  There are a slew of reasons that goody goodies aren’t so…good.  They aren’t good in the classroom, they aren’t good in the workplace, and they sure as hell have no place in your social life.

Lets be honest:  nobody likes a teacher’s pet (with the exception of maybe the teacher.)  Those kids that raise their hands every time the teacher asks a question:  Sure, that’s fine if no one else has anything to say.  But if you’re trying to dominate a class discussion because you think that your “wealth of knowledge” needs to be shared, you’re trying way too hard.  A student doesn’t need to try and constantly educate the class: that’s the teacher’s job.  I’m going to go out on a limb and say almost 90% of the time that these students are not admired by their peers (or even their teachers for that matter)  IT’s just obnoxious.

Even more annoying is the goody-two-shoes co-worker.  The one person that is constantly brown-nosing the boss:  following every single regulation of the company.  Being a good employee is not just about rules and regulations, it’s about doing what’s best for the workplace.  One example that comes to mind is a certain woman in my workplace.  Every person in the restaurant has a designated duty:  The person serving the food cleans up the line, the person on the grill cleans the grill, the person on prep cleans the back of the house, and the person on the cash register cleans the dining room.  We have it set up so that when one person finishes their position, we help our crewmates that still aren’t done.  Now, I know this is a lot of exposition, but hear me out.  What is more important in this situation:  fulfilling your duties and moving on to help others, or detail cleaning every inch of the restaurant.  I know a few people that would argue the latter is more important.  This is simply not true.  It’s not good for the company when we stay three extra hours on the clock.  It’s not good for morale when we are all forced to stay at work until 2:00 AM because someone was taking an hour to clean a toilet.  I don’t care if every inch of that toilet is covered in feces; it should take you 15 minutes max to clean it.  There is not a lot of surface area on a toilet for god sakes!  I’m digressing because I’m getting a little bothered by the entire situation.  Which proves my point even further:  my aversion to certain goody goodie workers is distracting.  That can’t be good for the workplace either.  Bottom line; no one likes that person at work who tries to be perfect.  And no one likes a person that is all self righteous.

This is why people try and stay away from goody goodies in their social life.  Goody-two-shoes types are almost always extremely judgmental.  They might not show it, as they are trying to maintain a façade.  Think about it, these people adhere to such a strict code of conduct; so when people don’t follow that code, of course they’re going to judge you.  There is just something disingenuous about these people.  They usually adhere to this code because they are trying to impress someone, make themselves feel better than you, or some bizarre combination of the two.

My advice to those of you with goody goodies in your life:  minimize contact.  My advice to the goody goodies themselves: stop…just please stop, we can see right through you.

 

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