#work frustrations

I know if a kid is especially good and you can trust them then it’s easier (and quieter with less complaints) to just go get something/get food/go to the bathroom really quick. But for gods sake. Just bring the kid if you have no one else to watch them.

THEYRE KIDS.

And if you start getting frustrated with a mentally disabled kid for getting lost (I had the same kid lost TWICE today) consider who is the able & adult person here. Of course your feelings are valid but YOU ARE THE ADULT. If your kid isn’t able to notice and take care of their own runny nose they likely are not going to be able to remember where you are and will REASONABLY get scared.

Got this *LOVELY* little email in my work email today.

From the email:  “The schedule will be 60 minutes of our regular programming followed by 15 minutes of Holiday music. This pattern will repeat throughout the day.” 

The question that started running through my head when I saw would get me fired if I asked it, namely: “What the fucking HELL is wrong with these corporate assholes that they have to start playing this now, and can’t wait at least another bloody fucking month?!?!” It was bad enough selling holiday yard decorations starting the last week of August, not even waiting for Sept 1st like in the past.

This is something I have been told time and time again by people in management and I COMPLETELY disagree. I think you have a responsibility when talking to anyone, to take their feelings into consideration. How you tell things greatly impacts how they are received.

You can’t control how people react but you can damn well do your best to treat them with kindness and respect. 

This line and others like, don’t care too much - I’M SO DONE. I am me. I care too much or I wouldn’t be here in the first place. I know most of my colleagues care about doing a good job therefore I will ask them to do things, not demand.

Right now, I work in a highly toxic department - it’s starts at the top. But I am trying my best to stay me...I will not be part of their problem, even if that’s the only thing I can hold onto for the moment. 

Get a call from someone for a password issue. They’ve got either their son or husband on the phone with them as well. Walk them through doing the “forgot password” option, which they claim they did already.

They get a new password emailed to them, which they login with. It then prompts them to change the password, and asks for the current password. They tell me they don’t know what the current password is.

It took every bit of willpower not to call them an idiot, while explaining that the current password is the one they literally used about 30 seconds ago to login to the website.