I just hope they like me as much as I like them. Having a job I like means that I have a job I don’t want to get fired from. So I seemed to have developed an irrational fear about getting fired. Or maybe it isn’t irrational and that is what worries me. Rob always says it is harder than you think to fire someone. But Rob has never been my boss. I thought I did a bad job because I didn't like my job, now I know I do a bad job because I am just bad at things. But enough about me.
The new job is great but there are still some things that manage to piss me off. Here they are:
Couriers that ask me for directions. What the fuck? This happens more than you would think. The conversation goes something like this “going to Myrtle Ave?” “yeah that’s where it’s going”. “do you know how to get there?” No I don’t know how to get there. It isn’t my job to know HOW to get there. It is my job to look up the address and write it on a label. It is YOUR job to know how to get there. I have map quested more directions to random places in Brooklyn in the last six weeks than I care to admit. Do I know how to get there? Clearly these people don’t know who they are talking to. I can barely find my way to and from work everyday. Can I give you directions to Brooklyn? Please.
People who write their address on a form and leave off their zip code. Ok sure we all live in the same city and you would think a NY, NY would be enough. Well Some people actually use the information on the forms you fill out to mail you things. Duh! Just because we all live in the same big city doesn’t mean we share the same zip code. There is 10006, 10036, 10018, 10022 I could go on and on. I might know these numbers but I don’t know which address matches with each number unless I look it up on the internet. Since I have the slowest computer known to man, that takes about ten minutes. So why don’t you do me a favor and write down your fucking zip code so I don’t have to look it up.
Oh and this doesn’t have anything to do with work but it still pisses me off. I am convinced that men design products specifically so they are harder for women to use just so we have a reason to keep them around. Do air conditioners really need to be that heavy? I don’t think so. And how come smoke detectors and light bulbs always have to be so high? And those fucking Poland Spring water cooler things. Like there is no better way to get cold water to come out of that thing then by being forced to pick up a 5 ton bottle of water. And like they can’t come up with mousetraps that completely vaporize the mouse upon contact so you don’t have to see it squirming around. And why does everything have to be so heavy. It is 2006!!! My god. I think men are just afraid that if they don’t have manly jobs to do then we will get rid of them. Well you all shouldn’t be so insecure, we might decide to keep you around on your own merit completely independent of the fact that you are good for manual labor.
Well that’s all for now. I will try to keep this up but it might take a while to get back into the swing of things. Working all day leaves little time for playing on the internet and writing on my blog. Oh well!