She Snapped At Her Coworker For Constantly Teasing Her Over The College She Attended, Even Though It’s A Prestigious Ivy League
Have you ever been teased or judged for the college you went to?
It can be incredibly insulting, especially because attending and graduating college, no matter which one, is a very impressive achievement.
One young woman recently snapped at her coworker, who was constantly teasing her over the school she went to.
She’s 22-years-old and recently graduated from Cornell University. If you didn’t already know, aside from being a prestigious Ivy League school, Cornell was made very famous on the hit sitcom “The Office” through the character of Andy Bernard, who would constantly brag about his alma mater.
“I’m used to being teased about it, but anything related to Andy Bernard just gets on my last nerve,” she explained.
“After four years of the same joke, I just see it as so uncreative and irritating that people perceive all of us like that, but it’s largely been a non-issue.”
After graduation, she began working as a legal assistant at a law firm along with other recent college graduates.
One of them is a girl named Ally, who graduated from Harvard and will find every excuse she can to show off her university. Ally often brings Harvard merchandise to the office and loves to tell her coworkers stories of her time there.
When Ally first saw the little Cornell graduation pendant she kept at her desk, she immediately began teasing her. Ally told her she went to the “worst Ivy League” and quickly started calling her Andy.
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She’s repeatedly asked Ally to stop calling her Andy and get off her case about where she went to school, but she wouldn’t.
Finally, during one of the firm’s monthly lunches, where everyone had to go around the room and introduce themselves, she snapped.
While she was introducing herself, she gave her basic elevator pitch and mentioned that she had recently graduated from Cornell. After she said that, she saw Ally lean over to some of their coworkers and whisper in a catty way, “Ever heard of it?”
“After this, I got up and excused myself from the room because I was getting upset, and she was getting on my last nerve,” she recalled.
“When Ally asked me later why I had left, I said that her ‘Harvard superiority complex’ was showing, and I didn’t want to be around her elitist nastiness. Ever since then, she hasn’t spoken to me and hasn’t made any more jokes.”
After the incident with Ally, one of her coworkers approached her and told her she should’ve been the bigger person since Ally wasn’t trying to be mean and was just proud of where she went to school. Now, she’s wondering if she went too far.
Should she feel bad for what she said to Ally, or did Ally need to be put in her place?
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