Life can be so unfer

if you're a probie in a company you just started working for,
and you've got more than a decade of work experience,
and you know words like "mediocre" and "clock-watcher"
don't describe you at all,
and you believe in the responsibilities that come along
with the teaching profession,
and you value personal integrity and professional excellence
and your behavior and manner of dressing reflect those values

and then another probie finished college
only around the turn of the millenium
sometimes leaves work a few minutes before 5pm
to attend to her private tutees
says things like "My roommate have a copy of that movie"
and "What did she said?"
sometimes reprimands her teenage Korean student
with a playful tap on the nape
basks in naughty double-meaning remarks and off-color jokes
dresses and poses like Mariah Carey
though hers resembles Janice de Belen's physique

It makes you feel like asking
if starting you both off on the same pay is fair at all.
"Prove yourself first" doesn't sound like a fair rationale.
Don't the years of experience and fruits of hard work
matter at all?
Her ceiling is my floor, in terms of training alone.
So why put us on the same level?

There's no use comparing yourself to others--even I believe in that. But till the thrill of this ranting wears off, I'll probably get a sardonic sense of satisfaction from finally being able to rant about this comparison on account of one of us no longer being a part of the company. Hehe.