grump-o
ever have one of those days when the universe conspires to annoy the hell out of you? i always believe that happiness is a daily decision we make, and today i'll honestly say that i decided against it. tomorrow i'll hoist myself out of this drudge, but today i'm down in the pits wallowing in it.
first day back to work since thursday and so the first report was expected be a little bumpy. but by the third call or so when someone asked me if i needed a dead body to take a report, i'd had about enough. the man called and said, "my 13 year old daughter called me crying from school this morning and wants me to come pick her up." pause.....pause.....pause (that's me waiting for the part about abuse or neglect). so this man had NO information about his child being abused and got pissed at ME about it. puh-lease. normally i'll take a lot of crap off of a lot of people, but not today. do not expect me to come in and fix your custody arrangement with your ex-wife just because you hate her. what makes me so mad about it is that there are other people with valid reports on hold for 30 minutes because of people like him. %$#$#@$!
but the ultimate annoyance came from my coworkers this afternoon. somebody made the mistake of accidentally sending an email to the entire agency. we're talking all of the department of family and protective services for texas. thousands of people. obviously, we did not all need the chart outlining the employees for APS in sector 12 of region 3 or whatever. but what inevitably begins? oh none other than the never-ending chain of reply emails TO THE ENTIRE AGENCY letting us all know that they weren't supposed to be on that list. one woman sent 5 emails asking who originally sent the email and why we were getting all of the responses. answer: because people are technologically retarded in the most fundamental sense of the word. you would think after years of email systems, people would understand the difference between "reply" and "reply to the whole freakin world." but apparently not. so that lovely distraction plagued the majority of my afternoon.
finally, there was the awesome video on CNN about that teenage uncle that showed his 5 and 3 year old nephews how to smoke weed. "he was gonna do it someday anyway. but i'm really sorry for what happened. you guys are just blowing this out of proportion." can someone please tell me what is wrong with people in this world????? some days i'm so worried about our future.
it's days like today that i can sympathize with good ole britney shaving her head.
first day back to work since thursday and so the first report was expected be a little bumpy. but by the third call or so when someone asked me if i needed a dead body to take a report, i'd had about enough. the man called and said, "my 13 year old daughter called me crying from school this morning and wants me to come pick her up." pause.....pause.....pause (that's me waiting for the part about abuse or neglect). so this man had NO information about his child being abused and got pissed at ME about it. puh-lease. normally i'll take a lot of crap off of a lot of people, but not today. do not expect me to come in and fix your custody arrangement with your ex-wife just because you hate her. what makes me so mad about it is that there are other people with valid reports on hold for 30 minutes because of people like him. %$#$#@$!
but the ultimate annoyance came from my coworkers this afternoon. somebody made the mistake of accidentally sending an email to the entire agency. we're talking all of the department of family and protective services for texas. thousands of people. obviously, we did not all need the chart outlining the employees for APS in sector 12 of region 3 or whatever. but what inevitably begins? oh none other than the never-ending chain of reply emails TO THE ENTIRE AGENCY letting us all know that they weren't supposed to be on that list. one woman sent 5 emails asking who originally sent the email and why we were getting all of the responses. answer: because people are technologically retarded in the most fundamental sense of the word. you would think after years of email systems, people would understand the difference between "reply" and "reply to the whole freakin world." but apparently not. so that lovely distraction plagued the majority of my afternoon.
finally, there was the awesome video on CNN about that teenage uncle that showed his 5 and 3 year old nephews how to smoke weed. "he was gonna do it someday anyway. but i'm really sorry for what happened. you guys are just blowing this out of proportion." can someone please tell me what is wrong with people in this world????? some days i'm so worried about our future.
it's days like today that i can sympathize with good ole britney shaving her head.
1 Comments:
you are wonderful. and what makes you more wondreful to me is that you too experience extremely grumpy days such as these.
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Diane, at 1:23 PM
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