Today was a hell of a day.
Every day I start my day checking my phone for my daily Dave Devotional. Dave posts it every morning on FB at 4 or 5AM and I get it on my phone via text. Today was the following:
A gentle answer deflects anger, but harsh words make tempers flare. --Proverbs 15:1, NLT
I wish I could say "I should have listened." but I DID listen and a gentle answer does not always deflect anger. Sometimes you meet idiots in life and well, you get to go on the stupid ride. I've been dealing with an idiot or two at work. Today was "YOU are being UNREASONABLE!" "YOU are difficult to deal with!" "You better dot your i's and cross your t's cause WE are watching you!" "You can do this the hard way or you can do this the easy way."
Here is a clue: WORK SAFE, make it look right and we are copistatic! *idiot*
Years of dealing with union workers, crochety old men, wiry aggressive men and it never fails that something will go wrong on the job I am on. I have accepted this, I'm okay with this, I have a pocket full of horror stories of Jobs Gone Bad. It is okay. Today, though, the job attacked me, it went personal and I didn't know how to deal.
So even though I was right about the incident that sparked the two men yelling at me, it turned into a "Sara is creating a hostile environment for me and my men." Sara didn't do jack shit to create a hostile environment. Who is the idiot yelling? Yes, you, that is who. What was Sara doing? Watching you. Did she engage you? No, she let you vent your spleen and went on her merry way.
Yesterday was some similar shit. All I can say is Thank Goodness for Friday.
Oh and you know what I was doing when all the shit started? Knitting. While waiting for them to start the job, I was sitting there knitting. That is when they claimed I copped an attitude. Honey, bless your little heart, but no. I was happy to sit there and knit while ya'll stuck your thumbs up your ass and did nothing.
Men at work. Humph.
Sorry for the ranting! I wish I could take ya'll on a happy Sara ride, but life is life and this is my life. Crazy kids, crazy job, and a whole lotta going going going.
Happily, handily, hooking my crochet and occasionally knit projects.
7 comments:
Sounds like a crappy week. Here's to a nice weekend and the start of a new week!
Here's your daily devotional from Amy's Anecdotes - 2 Peter 2:16 KJV . . . and the dumbass began speaking with a man's voice . . .
I hope you have a better week next week!
Men have strange ways of interpreting things from time to time. Especially men in "construction" fields...
My sympathies lie with you!
Yes, it was quite genius of them to start a fight with you, oh sorry, engage in the fight you 'started' while you were holding two very sharp weapon-like objects in your hands. Bravo, morons, bravo!
Crap! You get a woman on the job who knows what the hell she is doing and suddenly its a hostile work environment? ARgh!! We are on a similar wavelength - but I can't blame men, I work with 2 women in this office. Oh and did I mention that my boss found my blog? Yeah, turns out she was googling potty training and I guess since I am so local my post about the GoGirl came up and she clicked on it - then was amazed to find out it was me. She was amused until she got her feelings hurt over those stupid VDay dolls. She stalked me for a week, I suspected her thanks to blog stats, but waited for a confrontation before getting too paranoid. When it finally went down she said she loves my blog for the most part cause "she had no idea" but worried that she had done something to me to make me spiteful. SPITEFUL? Hmmm, I was going for humorous. I was asked not to write about the office or my coworkers. WTF? So needless to say my mojo has more to do with being censored than being tired from the move. Contemplating a blog move...but that means a new name, everything.
SMJ, spiteful?! Sheesh! I understand feeling censored. I get that weird feeling sometimes when I find out who reads my blog.
I worry that my work or people I work with on jobs will find my blog, but I'm pretty open on the job, so I'm not too worried. I talk like that in real life at work. :S ;)
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