Reading Salvial_Ten's journal

Now, I knwo the title of this is a little emo sounding but that isn't the intent. This is a fact, I sometimes suck harder than a Tahitian Crack Whore.

I was at work night before last and we were busy as fuck. I was stuck on register seven. The shitty thing about this register is that it's the first one on the grocery side of our Wal-Mart that isn't a twenty items or less line. This means that every unobservant dumb fuck lines up at it like there isn't another open register in the whole damn store.

I was stuck on the thing for over an hour past the time I was schedualed to go on my break and was feeling a little pissed off. My friend Dj who was sent up at the start of a code three (this means that there are too many people lined up at the checkouts and other associates in the store that know how to use a register are hauled in from their departments to come help) and well, I didn't know it but her lunch was workin' on being fairly late too.

She came up behind me and I thought she was about to start whining about being forced into responding to a code three by Manager Mike (nevermind that her department manager said she didn't want her responding to them because she's the only fucking associate in the toy department). So I turned to her and like a cunt told her, "Whatever you're about to bitch about, I don't want to hear about it. I've been on this register for three hours so whatever it is, it's not as bad."

Turns out all she wanted to mention was that she saw some teenaged girl dressed in Naruto gear and that it was utterly adorible. So, there you have it. I was being a total and utter cunt, and I deserved the talkin' too she doled out when I got back from that break.

I really fucking suck sometimes.

--Jami

You fail it.

What can I say, we all have a bad day every now and then. Don't kill yourself over it, especially not since you're generally a nice person.

But I have to say, that comparison in the first paragraph is... interesting.

"*sigh* Some men are really hard to manipulate!" - Orchid

I'm not gonna off myself for it. :p I'm too much of a self preservationist for suicide. And thank you. I had to go back and read the comparison to see which one I used.

You fail it.

You seem to be far from sucking as much as you think. A real BIG suckass would not care as much what that girl's real intentions were and the fact that you felt bad for blowing her off shows you have a heart. I used to be a hair dresser... and I know how absolutly HORRIBLE the public can be. The kinder souls on the job site must protect themselves by setting up defence systems to ward off by the enemy:) The simple fact that your co-worker even aproached you to say something civil shows that you have the capacity to not suck. I'm sure you are over that one by now, but I just wanted to share an idea with you!

Thanks.

You fail it.

Truth be told, sucking ass isn't as bad as most people think. It's been maligned as a leisure-time activity for quite some time, and I'd like to set the record straight...
hehe
as far as your problem, it seems to me that at soime point the tables will be turned, and she'll have cause to apologize to you.
I work in retail too; have been for over 3 years. It can really suck, but it's also the customers that keep me coming back every day.
The difference is that I'm a salesperson, not an ordertaker. I can adjust the prices of the things that I sell, so that has the ability to soothe people's feelings.

As to your friend, I'm inclined to think that you didn't act too cunty, considering the circumstances. If I was there, I prolly would've said the same thing. Sure you snapped.
Maybe this is a lesson on how to present things. The best thing to do in tense situations is to try to make a joke, or funny comment.
You could've said "I'm busy as hell...you have my attention as long as you're going to say something I want to hear."
Then, if it was bad, you could've made a joke out of it by saying "I'm not hearing that.....Go back and try it again with something I want to hear."
...or something similar.

I think the whole point is to learn from the past. That's the only way I've been able to like, much less tolerate, the Public.
I have fun with them where I can. Where I can't I, too, will get pissy. It happens. If not to the cust., then the coworker. Or boss.
It happens. Move on.

I'll bet that just took 5 years off my life--but GODDAMM if it wasn't worth every second

This post was edited by zen on Oct 31, 2006.