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Jul. 6th, 2004 04:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
clayhornikI've now titled my LJ. "Horrible, with a smile."
Yesterday one of my co-workers had a minor melt down, after a customer described us as horrible because we wouldn't let her little child use our washroom. Co-worker felt it necessary to defend her decision to the customer, who really didn't care. CW slammed her coffee on the counter so I sent her outside to grab a smoke. You see, abuse from customers is something I've learned how to deal with pretty well, seven years at the Indy store and customers demanding a kowtow, and the ever popular "I'm a personal friend of the owner." I know how to toady.
CW does not; I hope she never learns, actually.
When she returned from a smoke, I pointed out how odd it was, me, telling her to relax. My philosophy at work is: "If you can't treat everything as if it's life or death, why bother?"
Later that afternoon, someone was looking for a book, CW was helping her- we were out of said book and CW described us as being horrible. "You may be horrible," I told her, "but I'm horrible with a smile."
I'm the guy who asks little kids "Barney: T-Rex or Velociraptor?"*
When people ask about Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, I grin when I tell them that the next installment won't be out til October of 2005.
If asked where the humour section is, I say there is none. Deadpan. I smile and say "I'm joking. This way." Thrown their little world askew for a second.
Horrible.
*Note Barney's arms. Much too long for T-Rex. My Theory? Well fed raptor. Explains the heavy turnover of cast on his show as well.
Yesterday one of my co-workers had a minor melt down, after a customer described us as horrible because we wouldn't let her little child use our washroom. Co-worker felt it necessary to defend her decision to the customer, who really didn't care. CW slammed her coffee on the counter so I sent her outside to grab a smoke. You see, abuse from customers is something I've learned how to deal with pretty well, seven years at the Indy store and customers demanding a kowtow, and the ever popular "I'm a personal friend of the owner." I know how to toady.
CW does not; I hope she never learns, actually.
When she returned from a smoke, I pointed out how odd it was, me, telling her to relax. My philosophy at work is: "If you can't treat everything as if it's life or death, why bother?"
Later that afternoon, someone was looking for a book, CW was helping her- we were out of said book and CW described us as being horrible. "You may be horrible," I told her, "but I'm horrible with a smile."
I'm the guy who asks little kids "Barney: T-Rex or Velociraptor?"*
When people ask about Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, I grin when I tell them that the next installment won't be out til October of 2005.
If asked where the humour section is, I say there is none. Deadpan. I smile and say "I'm joking. This way." Thrown their little world askew for a second.
Horrible.
*Note Barney's arms. Much too long for T-Rex. My Theory? Well fed raptor. Explains the heavy turnover of cast on his show as well.
