The Not Happy Thread

A friend of mine in another forum is depressed. From what I understand, something personal, close to him has occured and it has crushed him. He won't say what it is, yet he mentions how he's drinking a lot more, wishes he were born elsewhere and is trying to surpress his feelings.

It's been going like this for at least two weeks. It makes me sad that there is nothing I can do for him. He's one of my favorite UKers in that forum, has a knowlege in all things relating to British history (it's at a history forum).

So, yeah, it just bums me out.

 

Had an absolutely horrible day at work today. And it was only a three-hour shift, yet it managed to be absolutely horrible.

It always astounds me how rude people can be to other people. I've been in the store I work in with my uniform on and without, and people are so much nicer to you when you are dressed normally as opposed to dressed when you're working there. Just because I work here, it doesn't set me on a lower level than you, and you don't need to treat me like I'm so far below you.

And the customers.... I swear, there are so many inconsiderate people who walk through those doors every day. Today I was bagging groceries for this family -- a man, his wife and their kid. As soon as I finished, I started to load the bags into their cart, but the guy practically snarls at me, "I can do it!" So he grabs the bags from me and starts loading them in. I try to help him a bit, handing him bags to put in the cart as he likes (and trying to be as polite as possible while doing it), but he says, "I SAID I can do it. Did I stutter? Now are you gonna MOVE?" I just backed away from all his stuff after that. And his wife just stood by and didn't say anything. I kept expecting her to tell him to lay off or stop or something, but she just looked away like nothing was happening. I know it's just one person, and not everyone is like that, but it hurt.

And then don't even get me started on my coworkers. Most of them are lovely people, seriously really nice and awesome, and I love working around them. But there's this one woman -- Ashley -- who seems to have a vendetta against me for god-knows-what. I've never been anything but nice to her, and yet she seems to hate me for no reason that I can understand. Like what happened today.... the store is divided into two sections of aisles. There's the first 9 aisles, then the self-checkout, then the last 6 aisles. The last 6 were all open, and I was bagging down there, but some of the cashiers opened up on the first 9 aisles and asked for a bagger or two up there. So when I finished bagging my order where I was at, I walked up there to see if they needed any help. They didn't, because another bagger had gotten there first. So I turned around and started walking back, when I hear "ALEX!" snapped at me from the last 6 aisles. I see Ashley glaring at me, shoving things into bags herself because she doesn't have a bagger, and when I get down there and offer to help, she snaps, "I got the rest of this. You need to be down here, not up there talking to other people." EXCUSE ME? I wasn't talking, I was trying to fulfill a request to help.

And whenever I do something even slightly wrong, her catchphrase seems to be a snappy, angry "ALEX!" directed at me with a glare. I know I'm new, and I know that I'll make mistakes, but for f/ck's sake, cut me some slack and show me what I'm doing wrong rather than snapping at me and acting so high-and-mighty! Is that so much to ask? And whenever I bagged for her today, she told EACH and EVERY customer that I was "a new one", with a snarky comment or two and a glare at me. I have no idea what her issue is with me, but I seriously dread being around her.


So yeah. After today, I have little to no hope for humanity, that's all.

 

^ Customer service is always rough. I know that doesn't help with your day, but there will be people that will make the whole experience fun. I know this from first hand experience. I worked in grocery while I was in high school and right after graduation. People can be down right rude, and obnoxious. As for the co-worker situation... I have issues with my current co-worker too. Sometimes you just gotta ignore people. Eventually she'll find someone else to fixate on. Maybe she's just upset because she's going to be stuck doing this kind of work for a while and you wont?

 

^Oh, Gigi. I'm so sorry I know what it's like being on the receiving end of stuff. *hug* But things will get better. And that lady Ashley better lay off you. Grr...I'd give her a piece of my mind if I could.

I just wonder why people have to act soo rude. And rude is a polite word for it. They're freaking impossible!!

 

Thanks guys. It just baffles me how rude people can be sometimes. Whatever happened to "treat people as you want to be treated"?

 

I used to work in a large well-know store here in the UK and while most customers and staff were polite, there were the odd-balls that could ruin a perfect day.

Take it as useful character study and use it when it suits you.

Best of luck.

 

Start a 1 week trial for my new job tomorrow. Very nervous!

 

It probably won't come to anything serious, but Guido and his cronies have been looking for something to cause a "Tea Party" moment for a long time, so it may be that this sticks around for a while.

I'm sure there are labourites who support capital punishment, but my comments were merely reflecting that it's started in the right wing blogs, and several far right Tories have declared themselves for it. Not all of the party, mind: Louise Mensch (nee Bagshawe), my opinion of whom oscillates between disgust and grudging admiration, came out fighting against it yesterday.

And I campaigned for AV. Between that and standing in the local by-election I seem to have an a tendency for doomed causes.

 

^ Not that it's a 'doomed cause' really. I didn't, and still don't want AV, but I can see the logic behind it.

 

I think that's part of the problem. No one really wanted AV, but that's not to say they wanted FPTP, which is what the results were spun as.

I myself favour AV+.

 

Just feeling a bit down for various reasons. It was good being on holiday, and it sometimes distracted me from all my unhappy stuff, but now I'm back it's really obvious and I'm basically back to where I was before I went on holiday. I know, or so I'm told, in time I'll feel better about stuff but still. Time, time, time, why does everything take time?

 

Stupid people drive me batty... UGH!

 

I'm sure that it will come to nothing, I think if it were to actually come to a referenda on it, most people would say no - but then this is one of the reasons I'm glad Britain doesn't hold referenda on non-constitutional issues. I reckon the vast majority of the Conservative MPs would be against it to, the back-benchers can afford to have more radical views than the party norm. I suppose we'll have to see though.

And fair enough. I'm not just against AV, but FPTP is my favourite of the voting systems we looked at in politics last year. Good luck with your campaign for the by-election, even if you are labour When is it?

 

^ I like Labour, and voted for them last year. Even if they are a bunch of socialists.

 

I wasn't old enough to vote in the general elections, but I was so excited to vote for our local councillers a few months back - bit of a letdown really when it was just 2 old blokes in a porta-cabin, not as glam/exciting as I'd thought

But I'm a Tory girl all the way.

 

Voting is pretty dull.

I've just had a crazy idea that just might work. Have signs on the wall for all respective parties and give the voter a paintball gun with a single paintball in it. The vote goes to what a person shoots. If someone shoots other then they have to write their choice down somewhere else.

I know. It's a crazy idea.

I wouldn't say I'm Labour, or Tory. I tend to vote for the party I think is best suited, but mostly this seems to be Labour for me.

 

Lmfao, I really like that idea OR - instead of paintballing a sign, we can paintball all the actual candidates who we don't want, and the cleanest guy wins!

 

That's genius! It'll also mean that less people who don't really care will get into politics, because they don't want to be peppered with paint.

This really is genius.

 

Haha, great ideas. It'd make voting so much more fun.

 

It was on 21st July, a week ago last Thursday.

I came third with 94 votes, which was a pretty substantial increase on Labour's previous share of the vote, especially considering the low turnout. UKIP seemed pissed off, and the Lib Dems looked worried.

And the seat's up for re-election next May- along with a number of others in the area- so I'm going to be coordinating a combined campaign.

 

Oh, sorry you didn't win, but it's good that you got an increase in votes for Labour. So is your ward a Tory safe seat, or is their potential for lib/labour to get more votes?

And good luck for next time.

 

Potential for the Lib Dems?

On a related note. It's getting me depressed that I can't watch the Parliament debates without being distracted by the utterly soul-less look on Nick Clegg's face. I miss everything that's said because I don't know if I should laugh at him or not.

 

^^ Always laugh at Clegg, it should be a god-given rule

 

Just signed a petition (not sure about the impact of it) about BBC Radio 4 cutting back on short stories. Apparently, from spring next year they are reducing the short stories they broadcast from three to one a week. Admittedly I don't listen much to short stories on the radio and not as much as I should really, but I still don't want these cuts. I'm going to start listening to the short stories on radio more now. If you want to sign the petition too then just Google something like 'no short story cuts on BBC 4'.

 

I personally don't listen to the radio, but I know my dad listens to BBC4 on his way to work, he always has the stories, or women's hour, or some political commetary on whenever I'm in the car - so I'll let him know about the petition