Filed under: Doses of Cynicism, Triumphs & Heartbreaks, Work Life | Tags: boss, co-workers, confrontation, manager, retail, selfishness, work
What a day.
This morning I received a card from the FFL group, and attached with it the postcard I designed for them, thanking me for the work I’ve done for them.
I thought that was really nice of them, and it made my day.
Work was a different story though.
We were extremely understaffed, and the people I worked with were complete slackers. (Ie. hour long breaks, mysterious absences, etc.)
So about 45 mins after my scheduled break, and I was still the only person manning the floor, I page my co-worker. Twice.
No reply.
I page my manager. And normally I don’t page them unless it was absolutely necessary because I assume they have more important things to do. But I figure, I don’t get paid nearly enough to be worrying about my managers feelings.
So my manager calls back and tells me to page for co-worker B in this duh-you-should’ve-thought-of-doing-this-yourself tone. And I sort of just brushed it off because this particular manager is known for being a pseudo-bitch.
I page co-worker B. Twice.
No reply.
So I page my manager again because it is now 40mins before closing.
She calls back and tells me that I’m just going to have to wait. She doesn’t know where anybody is. She’s helping a customer, and I’m just going to have to be more patient.
And that really ticked me off in a bad way.
I’m about the only employee here doing my job, letting people know when I go on breaks, being responsible, and you’re telling me to be patient?
Patient was 8:30pm when I noticed that I’m the only person on the floor and thought that half an hour later I would go on my break.
It is now an hour later, and no one’s come back. And I know for a fact that this person has gone on another extended break earlier.
And don’t tell me you’re helping a customer because I help customers and I’ve had to manage multiple tasks while helping them, and I don’t lose it.
I hate confrontations, but I will not avoid them.
So I went up to my manager after I finally had my break, and just as I was about to give her a piece of my mind, she starts to apologize.
And it really threw me off, because I was expecting her to be an ultra-bitch about it.
She said that she was really overwhelmed earlier, and she was looking for my co-workers as soon as she was done with the customer. And within that exchange, she said “sorry” at least 5 times.
I was quite grateful that she understood where I was coming from. And if she wasn’t genuine, she was really good at pretending she was. And that’s good enough for me.
I thanked her, and told her I really appreciated her talking to me about it.
And I realized maybe underneath the ultra-bitch facade, is just a slightly insensitive but kind person. And it made me a little bit happier.
Filed under: Doses of Cynicism, Graphic Design, My Friends, My Weekend Pillows, Photography, School Life | Tags: DTE, Photography, selfishness, summer, Vancouver
It is made even more apparent that people are selfish and they mostly just look out for themselves when a large group of people congregate.
On Saturday, Pillz, his friends, and I went to the Jazz Festival. It got more crowded as it got later in the afternoon.
I sat on the edge of a narrow pathway that kept getting narrower with more and more people standing in front of it. And I was forced to witness the ugliness of human inconsideration.
People whizzing by clearing the way with their strollers. People stopping abruptly in the middle of the pathway to chat with their friends and effectively blocking anyone else from passing through.
I gritted my teeth the whole way through.
On Sunday, Pillz and I went on a nice stroll down the DTE. And I thought I’d haul out my camera from the very back of my closet and make some use of it.
The sunny weather yesterday prompted Joann and I to head out to the beach. However, the slight breeze felt more like the arctic freeze when we got to the beach. We wrapped ourselves in our beach blankets, ate our sandwiches from the Safeway Deli and left.
We then went to Calhouns and further discussed our summer project – the G DM A agenda. It is going to be an agenda tailor designed to the G DM A program. It is becoming more apparent to us that it is going to be a lot of work, but I think we’re up for the challenge.
Filed under: Glitter & Sparkles, My Friends, School Life | Tags: bubble tea, compromise, relationships, selfishness
An impromptu bbt sesh was called upon in the late evening last night. Attendees included Fatz, Mondo, Jeanne, and me. As usual, lively discussions about classroom politics and life plans were had.
It was nice to have a chance to sort of catch up with Fatz after almost four months of not seeing each other. It seems like all is well. And to be honest and completely selfish, I was disappointed because I expected his relationship with WHN to be in shambles by now.
Sometimes I think the problem is not with WHN, but with me. I notice that I almost never get along with my good friends’ boy/girlfriends. It has something to do with my slightly cynical nature, I’m sure. It doesn’t help that I’m usually the person they come to when they complain about their b/gf’s, and I get to hear all the horrible things that their b/gf’s do to them that they don’t deserve.
I always feel that my friends are compromising themselves to be with whomever they’re being with. And for some reason I look down upon that, even though most human relationships are about compromise.
Jeanne and Mondo seem to be doing well. It is disconcerting to not be around those two four times a week. We had a long and in-depth discussion about the photo incident that occurred several days ago. I sincerely hope Fatz was not utterly bored out of his mind during our conversation since he has no idea who all the colourful characters are.
