See icon. Apply to world. Repeat
Oct. 31st, 2008 11:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mythicalgirlI guess I'm just having one of those days. Unfortunately it is day 2 of this shit. Bad traffic on the drives to and from work. Bad attitudes at work. Angry people at the grocery store. Rude people at the book store. Basically everywhere I've gone the last couple of days I've attracted the rudest people to me like moths to a flame. Instead of a freak magnet I've turned into an asshole magnet. Fabulous.
One of my co-workers isn't talking to me right now either. I lost my temper with her the other day and she hasn't forgiven me. And I haven't apologized. I probably should but I'm sick to death of always being the go-to answer person, even for shit that I didn't work on. I'd finally had it. There may or may not be a problem with a job that I had nothing to do with, don't know the name of, and don't know how, where or when it runs. The person in question worked on this project and should know all this or at least remember who she worked with to go ask. Instead she asks me. And keeps asking me after I make it clear that I DON"T KNOW! So I lost it. I didn't exactly yell but I was snarky. It was clear in my tone that I found the situation stupid and that she should figure it out herself, dammit.
I am aware that my brain manages to remember shit from months and years ago. I am also aware that I can sometimes pull a good answer out of thin air just by using common sense. That doesn't mean that you should interrupt me a dozen times a day to ask questions that you should damn well know the answers to yourself. Just because I'm here doesn't mean that I am your own personal free answer machine. Do your own damn work!
If I'm nice and helpful people take advantage of me. If I say no I'm not being a team player. And if I get snarky or snappish I'm being a btich. There is no win in this situation. Just a big steaming pile of fail.
On the plus side I've been able to get a shitload done the last couple of days.
Hopefully the weekend will be better. Other than getting a haircut, going to the grocery, and cleaning the house I have nothing that has to be done. The grass pretty much no longer needs to be cut and not enough leaves have fallen yet to be worth raking so yard work is off the schedule. Yay! This weekend will likely be reading and watching the first two discs of The Tudors. If I feel industrious I might make some black bean chili. Whatever I do there will likely be a bottle of wine involved. After this week I think I deserve it.
One of my co-workers isn't talking to me right now either. I lost my temper with her the other day and she hasn't forgiven me. And I haven't apologized. I probably should but I'm sick to death of always being the go-to answer person, even for shit that I didn't work on. I'd finally had it. There may or may not be a problem with a job that I had nothing to do with, don't know the name of, and don't know how, where or when it runs. The person in question worked on this project and should know all this or at least remember who she worked with to go ask. Instead she asks me. And keeps asking me after I make it clear that I DON"T KNOW! So I lost it. I didn't exactly yell but I was snarky. It was clear in my tone that I found the situation stupid and that she should figure it out herself, dammit.
I am aware that my brain manages to remember shit from months and years ago. I am also aware that I can sometimes pull a good answer out of thin air just by using common sense. That doesn't mean that you should interrupt me a dozen times a day to ask questions that you should damn well know the answers to yourself. Just because I'm here doesn't mean that I am your own personal free answer machine. Do your own damn work!
If I'm nice and helpful people take advantage of me. If I say no I'm not being a team player. And if I get snarky or snappish I'm being a btich. There is no win in this situation. Just a big steaming pile of fail.
On the plus side I've been able to get a shitload done the last couple of days.
Hopefully the weekend will be better. Other than getting a haircut, going to the grocery, and cleaning the house I have nothing that has to be done. The grass pretty much no longer needs to be cut and not enough leaves have fallen yet to be worth raking so yard work is off the schedule. Yay! This weekend will likely be reading and watching the first two discs of The Tudors. If I feel industrious I might make some black bean chili. Whatever I do there will likely be a bottle of wine involved. After this week I think I deserve it.