Victims of the influential

The truth is that in life, we all can't be on the same level. Some have to have the upper hand, while some will be average, and some will have no power. But then it seems like most people with powerful influence don't deserve it because of the rate at which they overuse their power on people just because they know there is nothing the person would do to them.

I have so many experiences with people who had more influence than me and so many bad encounters with them, and I will be sharing one of them here for the prompt.

Sometimes I wonder why God gave some people power and influence because they don't use it well. All they know how to do is manipulate people's lives, but then why am I to question God?

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This happened some years ago when I was working as a salesgirl. I told my sister, who I was living with, that I was tired of staying at home doing nothing. I love working and earning for myself because that was how I was raised by my mom.

My sister agreed that I should look for work because she is also a hardworking single girl. I got a salesgirl job in a boutique; it was a couple that owned the big boutique, so I thought I was in the right place until the month ended and I didn't get my salary.

I couldn't ask her because she looked scary and her husband didn't always come; even if he did, his wife wouldn't allow us to see him.

A month passes. I didn't get paid, and we were two that worked there. The first week of the new month was about to end, and the money my sister gave me as a transportation fee had finished, so I didn't have a choice but to ask my boss for my salary.

She shouted at me and said, "How many customers have you brought into this boutique ever since you started working? All you two know how to do is read novels and gist in my shop. There are no sales for now, so you girls have to give me some time to gather the money,".

I stood there speechless because for you to have put a vacancy outside, it meant you needed a sales girl, and now you want your sales girl to go outside and bring people to buy something before they get paid. A lot of things were running through my mind, but she and her husband were so rich, powerful, and influential to the extent that if I said too much, they could turn the table and tell people in the complex that I stole from them, which people would believe because of their influence.

I stepped out of the shop and went outside to look for customers. Like she said, I didn't get any all through the day. I thought I was going to get paid after asking, so I didn't have a choice but to trek from work back home, which was quite a distance.

I got home and explained to my sister; she said I should give her some time, so she gave me another amount of money to cover my transportation fee.

I always manage the money, so sometimes I will trek to work and take my bike home, while sometimes I will take my bike to work and trek back home. That was exhausting, but I didn't have a choice.

After two months, I asked again why she didn't pay our salary. Now her excuse was that she always bought food for us, and I told her I hadn't eaten part of the food before, so I had to get my salary. The other girl regrets ever collecting food from her because that was the excuse.

She didn't pay us, so I had to go back home after three months of working without getting paid. All my sister could say was that God would collect it from her because she has the power to do anything to us if we raised the matter.

Ever since then, I still wonder why God blesses some people with so much power, influence, and money, and all they do is make some other people miserable because they know nothing will happen. That affected me a lot for some time before I got another job because I got sick after trekking a long distance for months.

Well, life goes on, and what I learned from the experience is that some people are just like that, and the best thing to do is to avoid them immediately. You see the red light because I should have quit the first month, but I thought she wouldn't dare to owe me that much, which she eventually did.