Monday, July 03, 2006

It's funny how things tend to all pile up and then slam down on you all at once. Today that happened to me. Not even the fact that all the Managers either left or were fired today really effected me. No my issues were all to do with stupid people.

I've mentioned before that it's very hard to get away from these people. They always want something or want me to check something. Usually I find it funny. There are times when I don't. I truly thought I'd seen it all when people started asking me questions while I was in my pj's brushing my teeth but alas I haven't. In the past few days I've been asked work related questions while I:

a. Walked down the hallway in my housecoat after having had my morning shower.

b. Was on the stairmaster in the gym (that was rather funny actually cause I glared at the person with distain and said "sure let me check that for you" and pounded away on the stairmaster's display screen).

c. Walked all the way down the hall from my office to my dorm (a really long way, I kept walking faster and faster and the short guy trying to keep up was running by the time I finally got to the dorm).

d. In the lunchroom while I got my lunch.

These irritants I can somewhat put up with but today after I'd finished my workout and showered and was lounging in my room my phone rang. Somewhat surprised that anyone would be calling me mid-morning I answered and hear... by this time I'm sure you've got a good idea as to what the caller wanted. When I did finally get back to the office I kicked open the door and yelled "WHO GAVE OUT MY FUCKING PHONE NUMBER?!" Once the culprit had identified herself I let loose with a tongue lashing that I'm sure will ensure I don't get called in my room by any of the staff again. So help me God it had BETTER not happen again. They've invaded every other sanctuary but my room is off limits.

To top that off I had the airline call me today and tell me that anyone who had been on one of the Friday planes had been completely banned from flying on any of the company planes. It seems that some of the more enlightened fellows had smuggled beer and chewing tobacco onto the flight and spilled it all over the seats and carpeting which ment the seats and carpeting had to be completely replaced! As I had 8 staff members on board I had to call all of them today and tell them that they needed to make alternate arrangements to get back to camp. As you can imagine none of them were pleased at all. I for one was not pleased either because all 8 of them were actually decent people. Although I 100% back the airline in their decision it won't make my life easier.

The final thing I'm going to rant about tonight is the fact that certain members of the staff are complete morons and can't seem to fill out a form correctly. Twice today I've had to deal with people who didn't fill out their forms properly and now want to evade the consequences (monetary penalties). How is it that people can be so incredibly stupid and still survive. I swear it's incredible to me that none of them have wandered out into traffic and been killed because they didn't understand a don't walk sign.

The End.

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