Wrong Side of the Bed.
- Filed under: work
- Date: Jan 31,2008
I start work in less than an hour.
I don’t want to be here today.
I can feel that it’s going to be one of those days… and as I sit here waiting for the time to tick tick tick by so we can open the door and let the loonies in, I feel a real sense of dread. Like, today is the day that I am going to go off that one special customer who rolls her eyes at me one too many times, or sighs for the 10th time because the machine isn’t going fast enough to accommodate her very busy schedule.
I know it doesn’t sound like it, but I really love my job. The people I work with are awesome, but even they risk getting the wrath of Unstable Mo.
There should be some kind of employment code or rule that says if the employee doesn’t get a good nights sleep, they don’t have to come into work until they feel they are able to handle their work duties. Ok, maybe that won’t work. No one would show up for work.
What I need is one of those jobs where you make your own schedule. Where you can show up at 11 am and then put in your full 8 hours. Places like that do exist right? But if I changed jobs, I might not like my co-workers as much as the ones I currently have.
So, I guess I will have to just stick it out on my grumpy day. It will be very hard because someone is bound to piss me off.
I hope everyone else has a good day at work though!
3 Responses for "Wrong Side of the Bed."
If you ever find that kinda job, lemme know. I’m gonna switch too!!
If you run for president, I’ll vote for you on this idea alone:
There should be some kind of employment code or rule that says if the employee doesn’t get a good nights sleep, they don’t have to come into work until they feel they are able to handle their work duties.
You know, my son & I were watching “Parking Wars” yesterday, about the people who get their cars booted or towed. One of the towees was yelling at the employee because she couldn’t get her car back.
Evan said “I bet you’d get fired if you worked there. For yelling back at somebody when they yelled at you.”
I said “I remember once when I worked at BCBST and some woman called complaining about the fact that we had denied one of her claims. I tried to explain to her that she had reached the wrong department, so I was going to transfer her. She went OFF! Screaming at me. The more I listened, the more funny she was to me so I started laughing, which pissed her off more. The angrier she got, the funnier it was to me. It would really depend on the day & my hormone level if I’d get fired for yelling at a customer or laughing at a customer.”
I’m sorry you had one of “those days”. But maybe one day, you might find some humor in the customers who might ordinarily tick you off?
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