Kevin's Watch

Sorus wrote:Came into work to find my workspace covered in broken glass. All I could get from my boss was 'they broke it on Saturday'. Who broke what? It's safety glass - the sort that breaks into neat little squares, so it's not like someone just dropped a bottle or something.

I didn't ask why no one cleaned it up, because I am learning to not ask stupid questions.

<sigh>

sorus wrote: See, bird and tree. I tell you, I'm onto something here.

Thank you for this handy visual pattern-matching technique, sorus!
I might not live as close to Napa as you do, but hey... knowing this could come in handy, sometime!

I should probably post a disclaimer about not being responsible for any disappointment resulting from following my methods.

Sorus wrote:I didn't ask why no one cleaned it up, because I am learning to not ask stupid questions.

Welcome to my world!

Hiatus's in restaurants! In Dubrovnik the waiter took our dessert dishes and then dissapeared. Half an hour later I was still waiting for someone to come and ask if we wanted any cheese, coffe, the bill, more wine, anything! The guys next to me were having one of those six course 'degustation' menues and were waiting 20 minutes between each course!

They should be shot.

--A

My opinion to the letter Av - the bounders

Whistling............

..........and the ridiculous term 'man-flu'.

What the heck is man-flu? Is it different from woman-flu? Or child-flu?

It's a term widely used in the UK with a slightly perjorative implication that when a man has a cold or flu he always makes more fuss about it than a woman. I'm especially sensetive to it at the moment because I've had a rotton cold and have been dragging myself to work feeling like **** and have had to endure the condecending term repeatedly from customers and work-mates alike.

Ahh, condescending coworkers. Especially when you're sick. That's on my list too.

Well, yesterday was supposed to be the first day of my vacation. I was forced to cancel my vacation because my boss isn't capable of making people do their jobs. No, there's no punchline.

That is a shameful situation S. Hope you get away and have some quality time off: sounds like you both need and deserve it!

Man-flu does sound like an obnoxious expression.

Sorry you had to cancel your vacation, Sorus. That sucks.

Pet peeve: A co-worker who I trained telling me that I'm doing my job wrong.

Yeah, I'm pretty devastated. I thought the worst they could do when I asked for a week off was to say no. Saying yes and changing their minds a few days later was far worse. And that was my last chance for the year, so going into the holiday season already depressed... This year can't be over soon enough.

Amen. I'm not going to get much leave before next year.

(Some though, taking off 2 days in Dec to make a long weekend with a public holiday, then we close between Christmas and New Year.)

But next year I'm planning a week off every 3 months.

--A

DVD's that 'go sticky' and fizzle ten minutes before the end of the film. [Jurrasic World last night and if the film hadn't been such crap I'd have been really pissed].

Oncoming drivers that beckon you to cross at a turning you are waiting to make a turn at - and then don't slow down to let you go past in front of them. If you're not going to slow down, then at least have the decency to let me judge if I want to cross or not - Idiots!

People who come into the shop and are so diverted by the call they are making that they grind to a halt in the isles and stand there talking for five minutes oblivious to the other shoppers who can't navigate around them to continue their own shopping.

People who don't know me from Adam who peer at my name tag and then adress me by name as though I'm some kind of flunky or they've known me for years.

People who ask "can I get" an item that is behind me on the shelves at the checkout. It's me that has to get it, not you! You can "have" it after I "get" it. How hard can it be?

People who hold out their hand with a filthy fistfull of old coins when making a purchase and expect you to sort through the disease-ridden shrapnel to find the right coinage for their purchase.

People who 'wear their nails long' [ughhh!] and then scrape the palm of your hand with their beastly talons as they pay you [shudder].

People who treat you like a best friend but who you know will turn like a viper on you at the slightest mistake or error on your part.

People who walk into the shop with their boots caked in thick clarts of mud and then bescatter them all over the shop before apologising to you as smugly as a dog with two dicks.

People who insist on putting their face too close to yours when they speak to you making you want to shy away and flap your arms at them.

Maybe it's time for a change..........

Most of that, especially the third and fourth, and a thousand times for the last.

Pete, sounds like you need a vacation, he said with cloying American informality.

I think you're right Don.

I know I need a vacation.

I put another request on the calendar, but it's not until next year. (And my boss is ignoring the request so far, and I'm not getting my hopes up too high even if he does approve it.)

Actually, I can shorten that whole list down to: People who treat you as less than human, and people with no concept of personal space. I've been doing this kind of work for a long time, and it takes quite a bit to bother me - I had a methed-out nutjob threaten to stab me with a box cutter a couple of weeks ago, and 99% of the time I spent thinking about it afterwards revolved around wondering how much damage he would have needed to do to in order for me to get a couple of days off.

What bothers me the most right now is coworkers who fall into the first category.

I need a new job.

Sorus, what field are you in?