I've been reading TRP for about 5 months now and i have seen the difference in how people treat me and approach me ever since.

I recently took up a part time job as a waiter to earn gas money for school. In hindsight that was a bad idea, i felt there was more money to be made, but that's another post for another sub, . Anyways i learned from my co-workers that my boss, the owner, was a complete dick to anyone who screwed up the slightest thing. Having worked a couple jobs with ass-hole bosses my typical (beta) reaction to them was to just agree and take the abuse. But last week i messed up an order and my boss started going off on me. Instead of going into beta mode and telling him that i was sorry and it won't happen again, I waited until he was done and told him how it was. I explained to him that i get scheduled 2 days a week and after only working for three weeks I've barley had time to learn everything and that I'm going to make mistakes. Basically I let him know that he was being an irrational prick without saying those words exactly. After i finished i walked away and nothing was said about it afterwards. Today HE messed by making an order wrong after i told him what the customer wanted. One of the girls i was working with basically told me that he was pissed about it and to be ready for it. I walked up to the window to talk to him and even though he still blamed it on me, he didn't go off. He told me to be more clear next time and left it at that. Although that still irritated me that he didn't take responsibility i feel that is a step up from what he usually does. He respected me as a man and took partial responsibility for what went wrong. If I hadn't discovered TRP he would have went off on me today and i would have just taken it like a little bitch. But instead i held frame and stood my ground. Thank you RP and all its contributors, you have turned me from a boy into a man.