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Tuesday, December 02, 2003 Gloomy day today at work. Got here to find out a security guard was found dead, shot in the head, an apparent suicide. I haven't seen a photo of the guy yet but I think I know who it is. I read he had two children. If it was a suicide it's a lousy thing to do to your children, and just a few days from Christmas. Pilar does not agree with this, she thinks when you're desperate you're desperate and you do not think about these things. I think maybe you are desperate in part because you do not think about these things. God, that came out pretty awful. I did not mean to point a finger at this poor guy. I have no idea what drove him to kill himself, assuming that he did, and whatever it was it's just a huge tragedy that should only deserve compassion and not my soap-box judgment. Cecilia and company arrived early this morning. I am therefore functioning on less than 3 hours of sleep that combined with what might well be an early PMS (the sorry state of my skin and a certain low grade lower back pain are certainly pointing in that direction) has not done much to keep me perky and cheerful today. A little e-mail I got from a coworker this morning did not help either. For those who think substance is more important than manners, I need to clarify that BOTH are important to me and that I think manners are usually pretty indicative of what sort of substance lies behind. I mean, eating with your mouth close is not an unnecessary frill, it's really about showing some respect for the people eating with you. I believe that, in general terms, there's always a good reason behind some etiquette rule. In any case, the background 411 is as follows: about a month ago or so this coworker asked me to take over his work for a couple of nights. I did not hesitate, I did not ask questions and when he offered to pay me back by taking a couple of my night shifts I declined and assured him it was not necessary. But then I realized I wasn't going to be here for Cecilia's first day at work so I thought of asking him to help me out. I sent this guy a very polite e-mail asking if he could possibly take my night shift tomorrow night, and explaining why. Well, this morning I got my answer. No hi no bye just a brief "Sorry! I have plans for Tuesday". Now, it's not that people have to be at my beck and call if I do something for them. I can perfectly understand him not being able to work tomorrow and I would have had no problem with that. I can take a no in a civilized manner, but the way he phrased it sounds more like an "Up yours" to me. What about some nice wording along the lines of "Sorry, I can't really trade places with you on Tuesday but I will be happy to do it any other time". I don't care if you never do it! I care about wasting acts of kindness on undeserving jerks with an attitude. I still very much want to be with Cecilia tomorrow and this asshole is not going to prevent me from doing what I want. I'll just have an extremely long day at work tomorrow. It won't kill me. It's past 2 AM and I am still at work. I hope to sleep some. Enough with shop talk. 2:03 AM
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