Wednes and the terrible horrible no good very bad day.

[wednes]

I woke up this morning after having nightmares all night. Pretty much set the tone for my day.

Had to be into work at 9am on a Saturday, which I'm not supposed to be in that early but did as a special favor to my bosses. Within 2 hours I get told I'm ruining someone's Christmas, I don't care about customer service, and that [insert company name here] will "never get [their] business again". Then I got a really rude guy who kept repeating the same snide shit to me over and over for a whole twenty minutes.

I can't imagine waiting until the Saturday before Christmas to mail order something and then take it out on the sales rep when you can't get it by Christmas. I mean, did they not know Xmas was coming or what? They have it on the same day every year, after all...

On the way into work, the strap on my brand new backpack purse snapped off. I Emailed the company but of course did not get an answer. Now, I wait. I spent $40 freaking dollars on that purse.

Then one of my coworkers was sick and had to leave early, which meant I had to stay late. I suppose I could've left anyway, but I'd have been knowingly leaving them in a lurch which I didn't feel cool about doing. Then I got some guy that needs his shit sent to Paris, France and some lady that needs me to measure a Viola and a shoulder rest for her and THEN run all this stuff over to the warehouse for her next week. THAT call ended up keeping me at my desk until almost ten after five.

On the plus side, I didn't have to cab it home, I got a ride.

Now I have three whole days off for the holiday.
Tonight, I shall drink mead and be merry, but not too merry since I have to be up at 8:30 to go grocery shopping with H. He likes to go right when he gets home from work, so I have to get up at the ass crack of dawn on a Sunday. Nice, no?

Anyway, I feel much better having gotten that off my chest.

I still have to bake almond cookies and one more kind of bread.

For the NYE party:

Hot hors d'ouvres
Pineapple Cake (even though trifle technically won the voting, the people who are actually attending wanted pineapple cake)
Pajamas
Trivia

Comments

[irismoon.livejournal.com]

Sorry you had such a bad day! I hope its quickly forgotten once your holiday festivities get underway.....

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Already forgotten.

[boblovesdot.livejournal.com]

sorry about the idiot customers. but happy solstice!

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Thanks, man.

[lickingtoad.livejournal.com]

Pineapple cake for the win! Although now I feel on the spot to come up with some hilarious pajaminations of some sort ...

X-Mas in retail guarantees a bath in the worst of human nature, because it's a stress-laden commercial juggernaut and not a relaxed-yet-festive-time-with-loved-ones. Goddamned capitalist pigs! :D

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that is so true. And I dont' even care if people want to turn Jesus's fake birthday into an excuse for mindless commercialism...I just wish they wouldn't do it at the last minute.

[groovesinorbit]

Sorry about the crappy day. People do become idiots around Xmas. Yay for pajamas and pineapple cake, though! That's going to be a fun party. : )

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it is.

[cmdavi-70.livejournal.com]

Few things irritate me more than people who have entitlement written all over them. I think the kind of people you're dealing with are used to planning poorly, not owning up to it being their fault, and becoming bossy and irrational to anyone they consider beneath them and can therefore pin the blame on. Fuck 'em.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know all that.
But why do they have to be so MEAN about it?

Oh well, it kind of inspires me to be a better customer when I go shopping.

[cmdavi-70.livejournal.com]

I wish I had a good answer. I suppose if someone is used to yelling to get their way at work, home, etc. and they're further frustrated by their own stupid mistake, they'll turn into raging tyrants in the eleventh hour. Whatever the case, it's obnoxious as hell.

That's a good inspiration to have. It reminds me that I can sometimes be irritated with a company's policies and am occasionally short with someone on the phone who is probably making pennies and has next to no control over said policies.

[everythingtold.livejournal.com]

You mean we're not supposed to be able to magic things out of our asses for customers? Man, that makes me feel better.

Ug - yeah. They're crawling all over Wal*Mart too. It's ugly in there, real ugly.

Actually, I think one thing I hated about A2 was the fact that I encountered some of the rudest, presumptuous, most ungrateful customers I've ever met. Seriously.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

We deal with people from all over the US and Canada, so apparently there's entitled people everywhere.

I know what you mean about A2 though, working at Whole Foods was hellish in that way.