YosefHayim
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This might be a little long. Scroll town to TLDR for a summary.
So I work with someone at work. He is an elderly man (Joel), and I believe it was PKU he told me he had. He tends to take the little jokes too serious. People tend to joke with him because of his gullibility. A few do it to try and laugh with him. However there are quite the amount that do it to make the joke out of him.
Today was the worst I, and another co-worker, had to witness. Earlier in the day he must have been talking to a few people. I wasn't there. But the day goes on.
We just came off break, and something starts playing on the intercom. I don't know what it is. It sounded like maybe the audio of a movie, or YouTube clip, or something. It was inaudible or unintelligible, and the sudden randomness made me smirk. Then I heard someone say to Joel, "Is that you?".
I stopped with a fading smirk, and listed to the voice. I couldn't make out the words, but I ended up making out the voice was him. I didn't know if they were playing it over the school intercom, or just the cafeteria one. However, I look over to Joel to see that he looked like he didn't know what he wanted to do. Just frozen as if in disbelief. And the thing that hurt was that I was smirking (not at the situation with him, rather from the initial randomness of not even knowing what it was), and looked over at him. My smirk faded at the realization of everything. He clearly was far from happy.
I walked over to the little door on the wall where the mic was. The door goes into the other side of the wall also, into the supply room. I pointed. He walked over it and shut it off. Everyone was laughing at his reaction and frustration. He looked like he was going to lose his mind, but was trying to hold himself from flipping tables.
I was with my co-worker, Mike. Mike is two months new. He was whispering with anger in his voice to me. He told me wanted to call the boss. Then we were talking and he said, "Let's go find the leader, and talk to him about this."
The leader was in the room when it went down, but left. The leader was encouraging the harassment and laughing at it. And Mike and I didn't appreciate that too much. We walked out of the Cafeteria to go talk to the leader. However, I walked into the supply room, as he walked forward on. The (delivery guy?) for the district had just walked through the back door of the receiving room to grab his phone that was leaning up against the Mic. Suspect found. Yet the leader and the guy who did it acted as if they were clueless as to who was guilty in front of Joel.
Meanwhile, Joel was sitting at the Cafe table. He was very very pissed off. He was totally embarrassed. Joel said he needed to get out of the cafeteria. I told him to come with me to the janitor office. We sat down, and I talked to him. I asked him if he would like to go to the boss about it. I told him that Mike and I were witnesses for him. Yet with all the years he worked here he said he found it pointless to do so. When he was sitting down in the chair, and when I was talking to him trying to calm him down, and showing him that I was there for his defense, I could see that he wanted to cry --- A harmless, elderly man with a mental handicap is sitting in an office chair trying to hold back his tears and frustration. Throbs of sadness are evident in his throat, and a red glisten covers the rims and whites of his eyes, showing that the pressure of tears were being restrained.
Eventually Joel and I walked back to the cafe to work on the lights.
I tend to keep quiet in situations, that way I can just be the witness and have no fault found in me. I was on the lift to go up high on the lights. The delivery guy and the leader were across the cafeteria stripping a portion of the wax.
The delivery guy threatens Mike, the new guy, sneering "You wanna call the boss? I heard that's what you said. Go ahead and call the boss. I'll tell the boss it takes 3 guys to change the lights [exaggerating the situation, seeing that it was the Leader that placed us there to do that job. He could have put us in any jobs that we were capable of doing], I'll tell them that you guys weren't doing any work. But seeing that Joel's contracted, nothing will happen to him. And Yosef, nothing will happen to Yosef, because he's doing his Job. Well who does that leave us with?" And of course the Leader finishes with a smirk in his voice, "Mikey mike!" Of course there are other stuff that went on that was said, and worse, that I can't quite recall at the moment.
Frustration is dumped on Mike now. I told him to hold off talking about stuff till 2:00pm, when they went home, and the next leaders came in to talk about stuff. That way no one would hear mouths running. Hanging out later and talking it out is what I suggested to Mike. And that's what we did.
Later Mike went home, and asked his parents the situation on the whole thing. His mother explained to him that given the whole situation (with other things not included to shorten up the post), she basically said that Joel has to go to the boss first. She said if we went and got involved, we could risk getting fired. I think both of us don't care about getting fired. But his mother had him promise that he wouldn't get involved.
We concluded that the best we can do right now is bite are tongues and just try and be there for Joel, and to be his friend. We also want to tell two other people come next week to try and put out some extra care for Joel because he's had some tough situations at work.
TLDR: So basically, Joel is 60 year old man with a mental handicapped. He faces harassment, and today was a terrible situation at work. Someone recorded his conversation, and played it later on the cafeteria intercom to his humiliation. Mike, a new co-worker, was overheard by the guilty party saying to me that he wanted to tell the boss. The guilty guy threatened to blackmail him if Mike said anything about harassing and exploiting mentally handicapped 60 year old. Exploitation, humiliation, harassment, bullying, and cruelty just for some sickening laughs.
So I guess that my prayer is that, first, people will lighten up on Joel. His blood pressure was up, he's old, he doesn't feel accepted, and he doesn't need that frustration. Also pray that God will lift him up (blessed are the poor in spirit, and those who are based, and lowly in heart), and that his Agape love, and his Shalom Shalom; Perfect peace, will come upon him. Also pray that Mike and I can be real good friends to Joel, and that he will feel acceptance. Mike invited him to go bowling with us today, but he didn't go with us today. I pray that Christ will come upon us all. It's tough thinking about Joel. He was brought up a Catholic, and seems that with his mental disabilities, he has trouble with concepts. So I just talk about faith in Christ with him. Mike also told me he goes to Church. I'm asking that you'd pray that he is made genuine in the faith if he is not, and if he genuine that maturity in Christ is made manifest him and made manifest in all of us. Pray that we abide in the perfect doctrine, peace, and love of God the Father and his only begotten son, Jesus Christ.
Forgiveness of Christ upon the adversaries.
So I work with someone at work. He is an elderly man (Joel), and I believe it was PKU he told me he had. He tends to take the little jokes too serious. People tend to joke with him because of his gullibility. A few do it to try and laugh with him. However there are quite the amount that do it to make the joke out of him.
Today was the worst I, and another co-worker, had to witness. Earlier in the day he must have been talking to a few people. I wasn't there. But the day goes on.
We just came off break, and something starts playing on the intercom. I don't know what it is. It sounded like maybe the audio of a movie, or YouTube clip, or something. It was inaudible or unintelligible, and the sudden randomness made me smirk. Then I heard someone say to Joel, "Is that you?".
I stopped with a fading smirk, and listed to the voice. I couldn't make out the words, but I ended up making out the voice was him. I didn't know if they were playing it over the school intercom, or just the cafeteria one. However, I look over to Joel to see that he looked like he didn't know what he wanted to do. Just frozen as if in disbelief. And the thing that hurt was that I was smirking (not at the situation with him, rather from the initial randomness of not even knowing what it was), and looked over at him. My smirk faded at the realization of everything. He clearly was far from happy.
I walked over to the little door on the wall where the mic was. The door goes into the other side of the wall also, into the supply room. I pointed. He walked over it and shut it off. Everyone was laughing at his reaction and frustration. He looked like he was going to lose his mind, but was trying to hold himself from flipping tables.
I was with my co-worker, Mike. Mike is two months new. He was whispering with anger in his voice to me. He told me wanted to call the boss. Then we were talking and he said, "Let's go find the leader, and talk to him about this."
The leader was in the room when it went down, but left. The leader was encouraging the harassment and laughing at it. And Mike and I didn't appreciate that too much. We walked out of the Cafeteria to go talk to the leader. However, I walked into the supply room, as he walked forward on. The (delivery guy?) for the district had just walked through the back door of the receiving room to grab his phone that was leaning up against the Mic. Suspect found. Yet the leader and the guy who did it acted as if they were clueless as to who was guilty in front of Joel.
Meanwhile, Joel was sitting at the Cafe table. He was very very pissed off. He was totally embarrassed. Joel said he needed to get out of the cafeteria. I told him to come with me to the janitor office. We sat down, and I talked to him. I asked him if he would like to go to the boss about it. I told him that Mike and I were witnesses for him. Yet with all the years he worked here he said he found it pointless to do so. When he was sitting down in the chair, and when I was talking to him trying to calm him down, and showing him that I was there for his defense, I could see that he wanted to cry --- A harmless, elderly man with a mental handicap is sitting in an office chair trying to hold back his tears and frustration. Throbs of sadness are evident in his throat, and a red glisten covers the rims and whites of his eyes, showing that the pressure of tears were being restrained.
Eventually Joel and I walked back to the cafe to work on the lights.
I tend to keep quiet in situations, that way I can just be the witness and have no fault found in me. I was on the lift to go up high on the lights. The delivery guy and the leader were across the cafeteria stripping a portion of the wax.
The delivery guy threatens Mike, the new guy, sneering "You wanna call the boss? I heard that's what you said. Go ahead and call the boss. I'll tell the boss it takes 3 guys to change the lights [exaggerating the situation, seeing that it was the Leader that placed us there to do that job. He could have put us in any jobs that we were capable of doing], I'll tell them that you guys weren't doing any work. But seeing that Joel's contracted, nothing will happen to him. And Yosef, nothing will happen to Yosef, because he's doing his Job. Well who does that leave us with?" And of course the Leader finishes with a smirk in his voice, "Mikey mike!" Of course there are other stuff that went on that was said, and worse, that I can't quite recall at the moment.
Frustration is dumped on Mike now. I told him to hold off talking about stuff till 2:00pm, when they went home, and the next leaders came in to talk about stuff. That way no one would hear mouths running. Hanging out later and talking it out is what I suggested to Mike. And that's what we did.
Later Mike went home, and asked his parents the situation on the whole thing. His mother explained to him that given the whole situation (with other things not included to shorten up the post), she basically said that Joel has to go to the boss first. She said if we went and got involved, we could risk getting fired. I think both of us don't care about getting fired. But his mother had him promise that he wouldn't get involved.
We concluded that the best we can do right now is bite are tongues and just try and be there for Joel, and to be his friend. We also want to tell two other people come next week to try and put out some extra care for Joel because he's had some tough situations at work.
TLDR: So basically, Joel is 60 year old man with a mental handicapped. He faces harassment, and today was a terrible situation at work. Someone recorded his conversation, and played it later on the cafeteria intercom to his humiliation. Mike, a new co-worker, was overheard by the guilty party saying to me that he wanted to tell the boss. The guilty guy threatened to blackmail him if Mike said anything about harassing and exploiting mentally handicapped 60 year old. Exploitation, humiliation, harassment, bullying, and cruelty just for some sickening laughs.
So I guess that my prayer is that, first, people will lighten up on Joel. His blood pressure was up, he's old, he doesn't feel accepted, and he doesn't need that frustration. Also pray that God will lift him up (blessed are the poor in spirit, and those who are based, and lowly in heart), and that his Agape love, and his Shalom Shalom; Perfect peace, will come upon him. Also pray that Mike and I can be real good friends to Joel, and that he will feel acceptance. Mike invited him to go bowling with us today, but he didn't go with us today. I pray that Christ will come upon us all. It's tough thinking about Joel. He was brought up a Catholic, and seems that with his mental disabilities, he has trouble with concepts. So I just talk about faith in Christ with him. Mike also told me he goes to Church. I'm asking that you'd pray that he is made genuine in the faith if he is not, and if he genuine that maturity in Christ is made manifest him and made manifest in all of us. Pray that we abide in the perfect doctrine, peace, and love of God the Father and his only begotten son, Jesus Christ.
Forgiveness of Christ upon the adversaries.
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