Me complaining about work. Didn't you guys miss my whining?

[yasonablack]

So I'm trying to come back around LJ but you may hate me because all I do is complain (or be excited about talking about Kelly and Sarah

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[classical_wolf]

*lots of hugs* I'm sorry people suck :(

[sammason]

I'm glad you're back using LJ. Missed you.

At your work, it sounds as though everybody's excuses get taken seriously except yours. As if you'd somehow chosen to be disabled.

[nightshade1972]

That's pretty much the attitude I ran into when I worked at a grocery store. Periodically they would dangle the carrot of promotion in front of me, but when I again "refused" to work closing shifts (they seemed willfully unable to grasp the difference between "unwilling" and "unable"), they'd give the promotion to someone else. Clearly what's going in here is that yes, weren't they lovely to give The Cripple the promotion, now she has to repay the huge, magnanimous favor by not being such a crybaby about something as silly and irrelevant as an elevator! Can't she just take her break on the first floor? Can't she be more of a Team Player and less of a Whiner?

[sammason]

I'm glad you've commented on this thread, nightshade. Because you came to my mind when I read yasona's description of being mistreated at work. This seems to be a bigger problem than individual people's attitudes. It's in the context of an industry (grocery retail) where workers can be hired and fired cheaply, and in the context of an economy where jobs aren't easy to find or to keep.

This doesn't make the shite acceptable. But iirc you kept your head down and your Southern-belle smile pinned on, to keep the bucks coming in.

[nightshade1972]

After my last three surgeries, when it was clearer than ever that the writing was on the wall, I was much less inclined to "keep my head down" and much more inclined to tell the grocery store managers exactly what I thought about their treatment of me. At one point, when I was still on medical leave but had to come in to fill out some legal paperwork, I went in to the store manager's office to look over the form before I signed it. I'm a fast reader, and I'd had paralegal training, so I read it fairly quickly. As I got out a pen and prepared to sign the paperwork, the store manager said something to the effect of "Yeah, I didn't understand it either," with a stupid smile on his face. I raised one eyebrow, looked at him, and calmly replied "Really? I understood every word..."

I was actually born in Chicago, and thus I cannot honestly refer to myself as a "Southern belle". I appreciate the compliment, though.

:-)

[lara_everlong]

I did miss you, and I dont think your frustrations with sharing the elevator count as whining!

Doesnt your store have a PA system? Can you have a store wide announcement made that the elevator needs to be returned to the first floor as you leave for your break? Dunno, thats all I can think of right now...

[zeegeek]

Yup, not whining, and yup, missed you!