rough week part deux
so art has this way of dropping everything and helping middle aged women. some better looking than others but none of them you know, lookers. heh
so this high maintenance broad comes strolling through the back of the barn and i say hi that's an employee entrance only the store is around front. and she says, well can i come in? and i look at her like, hmm i must not have been speaking english, (perhaps i was speaking that random dreamspeak i speak when someone calls me at 4 in the morning...lol) so she comes tromping on through and she gets the spiel on how the deal works and she heads out in her nice clothes and sandals with the loaner hat and a bucket and comes back in about 15 minutes with "oh my god it's too hard!. k and i just
ROLL
OUR
EYES
because we immediately know what's going to happen. he jumps to her "rescue" and she starts pointing at things in the store, all things that people could normally help themselves to and do and bring them to the register themselves...and she points and art picks up and carries and puts on the counter and he's sympathizing with her oh yes well we'll take care of you
VOMIT!
especially since he had just sent me out to the field to mulch and CLEAN the LEAVES of these tiny plants, about 4 1/2 rows in the heat. ass...lol
so he's rounding all this stuff up for her and fussing over this broad when she finally pays for everything and then he carries half the shit to her car. it just kills me because it is sooooo OBVIOUS! that he does this and k and i can totally pick up when he's going to do it. but see originally, i was supposed to mulch and k was supposed to clean the leaves. but then he decides that he just wants me to do it. and he even says "do you mind?" and i cheerfully say "oh no" and i can tell it kills him. and i've mentioned it to k that the day that i got yelled at in front of customers, she had said the same EXACT thing to him three times earlier. it's just when i said it he got pissed. and i think it's because he knows i can do the job, i can run the store without him and it kills him. he can't stand to have competent employees believe it or not. he has such compulsions and such control issues that he LOVES to bitch about crappy help and he likes us but there's a part of him that despises us (me) because we can do lots without him and it's HIS farm.
anyway, i just like to think about this experience because it really shows me how much better i am at dealing with people. i'm not perfect by any means, but looking back over my life i can definitely see an improvement in how i deal with situations and people. i don't have my entire self esteem locked up in how people view me and my work. i know my work is good and he can't rile me. and for that i'm actually proud of myself.
so this high maintenance broad comes strolling through the back of the barn and i say hi that's an employee entrance only the store is around front. and she says, well can i come in? and i look at her like, hmm i must not have been speaking english, (perhaps i was speaking that random dreamspeak i speak when someone calls me at 4 in the morning...lol) so she comes tromping on through and she gets the spiel on how the deal works and she heads out in her nice clothes and sandals with the loaner hat and a bucket and comes back in about 15 minutes with "oh my god it's too hard!. k and i just
ROLL
OUR
EYES
because we immediately know what's going to happen. he jumps to her "rescue" and she starts pointing at things in the store, all things that people could normally help themselves to and do and bring them to the register themselves...and she points and art picks up and carries and puts on the counter and he's sympathizing with her oh yes well we'll take care of you
VOMIT!
especially since he had just sent me out to the field to mulch and CLEAN the LEAVES of these tiny plants, about 4 1/2 rows in the heat. ass...lol
so he's rounding all this stuff up for her and fussing over this broad when she finally pays for everything and then he carries half the shit to her car. it just kills me because it is sooooo OBVIOUS! that he does this and k and i can totally pick up when he's going to do it. but see originally, i was supposed to mulch and k was supposed to clean the leaves. but then he decides that he just wants me to do it. and he even says "do you mind?" and i cheerfully say "oh no" and i can tell it kills him. and i've mentioned it to k that the day that i got yelled at in front of customers, she had said the same EXACT thing to him three times earlier. it's just when i said it he got pissed. and i think it's because he knows i can do the job, i can run the store without him and it kills him. he can't stand to have competent employees believe it or not. he has such compulsions and such control issues that he LOVES to bitch about crappy help and he likes us but there's a part of him that despises us (me) because we can do lots without him and it's HIS farm.
anyway, i just like to think about this experience because it really shows me how much better i am at dealing with people. i'm not perfect by any means, but looking back over my life i can definitely see an improvement in how i deal with situations and people. i don't have my entire self esteem locked up in how people view me and my work. i know my work is good and he can't rile me. and for that i'm actually proud of myself.
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