Ok, the title is just a joke. Not all the posts are me ranting, but you can't say I didn't warn you about this one. ;) Lately, I'm not sure why, but people have seemed stupider. Is it the weather? Can we blame it on the super moon not that long ago? I can't quite put my finger on it, but it really seems like the past week or so, people have been stupider.
Example #1: Ok, I know on the totem pole at my work, I'm at the bottom. Not as close to the bottom as a newbie (been there, done that), but still toward the bottom. But it surprised me the other day that when nail polish had been spilled on the floor, my managers should call me to the scene of the crime and expect me to clean it up. Clearly, it's dried. It's not going anywhere. Why not wait until the maintenance person DOES get here so he could, I don't know, do his job so I can get back to mine...? Right? I don't want to sound like a spoiled brat, but at work, the associates are kind of spoiled when it comes to janitorial duties. I've never even been asked to bring kleenex to customer service, the registers or the fitting rooms. Not once. At my old job, we did everything (even more than I feel like I do now); we were register people, floor associates (to equate it to the present), janitors, even launderers. So carrying a box of kleenex, check. I could probably do a lot of the janitorial duties based on the expectations of my last job. But seriously, clean nail polish off the floor because it's dry and the janitor isn't here yet...? Does that make sense to anyone, and if so can you explain it to me, please?
Example #2: Also at work... Mother's Day is tomorrow and of course every man in the city is going to wait until the last possible second to get a gift. Today was like a typical day in December. It. Was. Awful. Yesterday, there were back-up calls like crazy to jewelry, today was no different, and of course, just like in December everyone is going to turn into blood sucking heathens saying they were next all at once. I noticed a man at the very end had been standing there a while and I could just tell I was going to be stuck helping him. Don't get me wrong, most customer service situations I have no problem with, it was this man's posture and demeanor that said it all. So I grab jewelry keys and go down to where he's standing and the first thing he says to me is "Finally" in a really snarky tone. And I just wanted to say, "I'm sorry, Mother's Day has been on the calendar all year long and you pick today to get your gift, like everyone else, and you're irritated at me for not helping you soon enough, even though I don't even work in this department... Ok, you're right, that totally makes sense." But I bit my tongue, got him the necklace and earrings out of the case and rang him up... only to be getting ready to print the receipt and he pulls a 30% off coupon out of his breast pocket. Of course he's like, "oh, yeah and uh I got this"...a lot of good it does you now that I'm handing you your bag and receipt. So I calmly explain there's nothing I can do, but he can take the coupon and his receipt to customer service and they'll take care of it for him... Jeez, really people?!
Example #3 Every Saturday morning I get up a little earlier than I would normally like, drive up to Colfax and Williams and go to my piano lesson. Surprisingly, it's something I look forward to since it's something I've always wanted to do and it's something I do just for me. Today, as I was making the long drive home, I was on Santa Fe between Bowles and Mineral and there's a blue pickup truck ahead of me who I eventually passed to be greeted with a middle finger. I might've been following a little to closely, but it's Santa Fe and I wasn't more than a cars length behind her. And as I passed I noticed she was practically riding the bumper of the car ahead of her. Can I just say, I laughed and laughed and laughed all the way home. There is nothing stupider than a hypocrite, ever. My biggest pet peeve in the world is hypocrisy. But I learned, give a hypocrite (or any stupid person) a car that matches their ego: you've got endless entertainment.
