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Topic: General Diatribes
Ok, so I go to work this morning with all intentions of staying through the day, I'm not good at this, especially since we started the new computer program, I hate it, it makes me look stupid because it takes so long to load every page that I have to keep apologizing to customers because everything is taking so long & then on top of that the customers that I've had to deal with have been HORRIBLE, really impatient, hateful & actually mean to me, personally, (which is unusual, I've talked to plenty of angry customers over the years who have made it a point to say to me that they're not mad at me, just the company I work for & while, over the years I've rolled my eyes at what I've always taken to be trite aphorisms I've now seen enough of the people who are stupid enough, or rude enough to take their anger out on the person on the phone in juvenile unpleasant ways that I'll take the other kind any day.) I'm not the only one experiencing this, it seems discussing this with other people that at least 3 out of 5 customers have an attitude from the moment you answer the phone. I've left before due to this but I was determined that because this was my last day before vacation that I was going to be as nice as possible & let everything just 'roll off me like water off a ducks ass' which is a saying I was taught my first solo day on the phone there & one I have tried to keep in mind for the 5 years (On July 16) that I've been there!
I offered when we were available first thing this morning to go home though, my boss told me since I won't be back to work for 16 days that I'd be the last person he'd send home if the option was given (it never is... that's one drawback to working 10 hour days, we're there late enough that even if there's no calls coming in they won't send us home because at 6,7,8 that night there will be calls coming in & they'll need us then)Then at lunch Lois was weeping on the phone, I spent 1/2 an hour of my 1 hour lunch trying to calm her down, get them all to pick up their messes & keep people from punching each other. I seriously considered asking to go home then because I couldn't stand the idea that everyone was fighting & I was pissed because Lois was so upset because the little kids don't listen to her at all anymore. (& that the kids aren't listening) I threatened that if the house wasn't clean when I got home we'd all stay home for my vacation & I'd run the house like boot camp. Lois relayed this threat & we got off the phone & I went back to lunch & read my book.
About an hour & a half later I needed to pee so after the call I was taking I logged out & went to the bathroom, as I was walking there I remembered that before lunch my dress had felt funny in the back so when I got in the bathroom I turned around & looked at the back of the dress, this is a dress I bought back at tax time in another year, as in January 2004, & have never been able to wear, I've been too fat for it all of the time. The not eating sugar (Much) thing has helped a lot, it's been almost effortless weight loss(except for the effort expended in not eating sugar which, I assure you, is a LOT of effort - I am totally addicted to it!) so this was the second time I've worn the dress It's a black dress with big green roses all over it, it may not sound nice in description but it is actually surprisingly nice looking on. it has a thin crepey top part which has a nice flare to it & is see thru & a solid black sheath underneath which is more body fitting. (you can see the picture above, of me in it just now that miss 10 took for illustrative purposes!)The black piece underneath had split up the back seam & my butt & back were hanging out of the dress! I nearly died! Mind you, I felt the under piece shifting in an odd way BEFORE my hour lunch & then promptly forgot about it during my lunch when I was pacing around the break room yelling at kids on the phone & then eating & then going back from the breakroom to my desk to read until my hour was over! I slunk back to my desk & got the pullover shirt I keep in the drawer for when it's too cold in the building & tied that around my waist & went to find my boss. When I found him I couldn't get a word in edgewise at first, he told me we're moving from the desks we're in to other desks a couple of areas away & to pack up my stuff & take it home & he'd pick me a good desk so when I came back I'd have a good one (they're moving Thursday & I will be in Weymouth MA on that day) so then I explained my predicament. He laughed right out loud & put his head on the desk for a few minutes laughing, then he said 'you know, when I agreed to a supervisory position on one ever told me that I'd have to deal with things like this! So what do you need to do? go home?' I said 'well, I COULD wear this shirt around my waist all day but...' & he jumped right in with 'uh, I think I'd be too uncomfortable for that' I agreed & off I went! & here I am, about to go to sleep & rest up for my upcoming 750 mile drive!
Posted by Becky
at 7:22 PM EDT
