MY RANT FOR THE DAY: " It's not my job"

[deepseasiren]

Okay...this is enough to make me snap out of my tiredness from lack of sleep. It's my rant for the day. This is one of my BIGGEST pet peeves

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[kyra_neko_rei]

There was a commercial a year or so ago, where this guy would get out of his car and toss his breakfast-food wrappings and coffee cup in the general direction of the garbage can, never actually getting it in, every day as he got out of his car to go to work, and the guy right behind him would always pick it up, never confronting him or anything, just silently picking up this other guy's trash, until one day the first guy comes down to his car after work to find the year's worth of his carelessly-dumped trash piled on the hood of his car, with a note saying "You dropped this."

I loved that one.

People should really know better. What are the odds that they expect employees everywhere they go to do all that stuff that they find beneath them?

[deepseasiren]

My other pet peeve that goes along with my rant also is a laziness thing...when PEOPLE DO NOT PICK UP THEIR DOG SHIT. How hard is it to carry a baggie or one of those metal tong things to pick up? I've seen entire parks ruined by tons of dog shit everywhere!! AND WORSE THE PARKS PROVIDE DOGGIE BAGS!!

[jessacord]

I really hate when dog owners don't pick up after their dogs. But I did see a woman once holding up traffic to pick up her dog's poop from the lane of traffic so I know that responsible dog owners are out there.

civilized

[anonymous]

I don't know if I'd be so generous as to say that's being nice.

To me, those little things you describe are what I call collectively, being civilized. Little things like those are what can help keep the world from spinning off it's axis and plundering into an oblivion.

I'm not kidding.

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Re: civilized

[deepseasiren]

It's just laziness, plain and simple. What really kills me is the whole garbage thing...someone dumps something or leaves it lying around and the garbage is two feet away, or the cigarette sandtray is two feet away and someone STILL throws burning cigarettes on the ground.

[friskykitten64]

Amen, sister. You are preaching to the choir over here.

[deepseasiren]

Today I was at Safeway in Northwest Reno and there's like ONE checker for about ten people. She got on the line and paged for help up in front, and everyone was still waiting...and right in one of the aisles near by there was a kid who worked there and you know what he said????? When she then got angry and paged him by NAME ( maybe he has a reputation for being lazy there) he came up and just told her, " Well it really isn't my job."

Man, this woman ( she was older, about 50, and looked like the grandmother from hell...she looked like she wanted to wring this kid's neck and she should have) got pissed. She basically told him " Get in the checkout lane in the next stand over and start checking...right now."

[veronica_rich]

Every place I've worked with a breakroom or kitchen, there's usually been a sign along the lines of "Your Mother Doesn't Work Here - Clean Up After Yourself!"

Which I never liked either, since it pretty much implies this is what moms are for. I'd say past the age of about 7 or 8, NO.

[deepseasiren]

Well and think about this...what if someone's mother never cleaned up LOL period? I've known people whose mothers were terrible housecleaners ;)