Saturday, November 20, 2010
Well Duh
Co-worker: Can I talk to you for a minute?
Me: Sure.
We go out back at work.
Me: What’s up?
Co-worker: Do you ever get annoyed with the stupid conversations around here? I understand a little silliness every now and then but my God, man, not every single day. I’m sick of the stupid conversations around here.
Me: ::chuckle:: It’s finally getting to you is it? Especially around the tourists.
Co-worker: We are all wearing the same uniform and these tourists hear these stupid conversations and then they think we’re all like that. My God, man, it’s every day all day long. Are these people really that stupid? I am dying for an intelligent conversation. The only person around here that I can have an intelligent conversation with is you.
Me: Now you know how I’ve been feeling for the past 3 years.
Co-worker: Can we talk about something intelligent? I can’t deal with this anymore.
Me: What? You mean you don’t find random shouts of “Piss!!!!!” to be intelligent?
At long last, finally, someone else is seeing what I’m seeing, live, where I work. When I have said that these people are idiots, I meant, they are idiots. This particular co-worker may not be the brightest person but he sees the asinine, juvenile, bullshit that I’ve been seeing since I started. It didn’t take me as long to get disgusted with it. He’s been here 20 years. Now he’s finally over it.
Yes, co-worker, it would be nice to have an intelligent conversation at work, wouldn’t it? It would be nice if we worked with actual grown ups instead of grown men who act like they are still in jr. high and whine, piss, moan and back stab worse than most girls I’ve ever encountered. It would be nice if we could all be on the same side instead of sucking up, kissing ass and shoving our heads straight up the boss’ ass, talking shit about everyone else, wouldn’t it?
We don’t get advancements, we don’t get raises, we don’t get promoted....we are all treated like, “dead bodies” (as Russian bitch referred to all of us at one time), shit on, talked about, trashed and frankly, abused, by our boss. So what is the purpose of any one of us sucking up to that? The only thing this accomplishes is animosity. The boss takes part in the trash mouthing and then gets upset because there is whining and animosity.
Wonder the fuck why, asshole!
See, if everyone would be on the same side, we might actually be able to have intelligent conversations with an occasional bout of silliness. But, we can’t and we won’t and the main reason is because the boss is as unprofessional as any boss I’ve ever seen and he’s a big part of the problem.
So, you’re going to have to find an outlet, co-worker. Find a positive outlet, find something constructive to do with your time, find intelligent people outside of work who you can communicate with on a regular basis because it’s never going to change at work.
We work with children...boss included.
Most importantly, make a goal, stick to it, save your money, get to that goal and get the FUCK out of here as soon as you can.
