Tuesday, March 07, 2006
A case of positive blurting
Yesterday morning I was quite cranky. Now, when you’re this cranky, human contact with you is just hazardous. Usually people can pick up on it and avoid you. Some people are just oblivious. Like this temp I get to sit next to. Days like this I really hate sitting next to this chatty temp who doesn’t know when to shut the hell up. Lady, read the body language. I DO NOT WANT TO TALK. My weekend was fine, now piss off!
Then later in the day she’s bugging one of my coworkers. It was just announced that she had gotten a promotion, so of course everyone is happy for her. She deserves it. But she’s the kind of humble person who isn’t into drawing attention to herself, not into titles, and gets embarrassed over such things. She’s sweet like that. But this temp keeps teasing her with things like, “Miss Big Cheese” and “I get to work with a big shot now”. I tell ya she was jumpin’ on all my nerves!
So finally I decide to open my mouth after one of her little jibes. I said, “If you keep that up she just might march over to your desk and smack you with a pencil.” I made it out like a joke, but what I really wanted to say was, “If you keep that up I’m going to march over there and smack you upside the head with something much larger than a pencil!”
The temp responded with, “Aww I was just teasing.” But it worked. The temp finally shut herself up. The other girl stayed silent through this whole thing, too polite to agree with me, I think. Either that or she was apalled at my audacity, ha! Either way it was nice. My big mouth finally did something positive for a change.
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