[Quiet Man Cometh]

Oh, bad days at work suck. Of course they do, or they wouldn't be bad days. I used to work at a Tim Horton's, and I believe it's a given fact that at least once every employee will have a breakdown in the bathroom at one point or another. In my case it was dealing with this other employee who wouldn't stop getting on my case about little things to be done around the store. Why it was my job to do everything I don't know, and she was just plain rude about it. I don't like conflict or confrontation so I usually just ignored her since we were only together one shift a week, but it was a painful few hours. Eventually she glared at me for not picking up some dishes on the counter (she was standing right next to them with no customers and I was stocking the front counters while I had no customers). I made no effort to hide my exasperation -but didn't say anything- and just grabbed them anyway at which point she complained to the supervisor about me getting mad at her because she was telling me to do stuff. That backfired as the supervisor made it clear she had no business telling me to do stuff. Apparently there was a yelling match at some point because she went home. Some relief after that.

But yeah, customer service jobs can easily make for a bad day, especially when people seem to think that because I'm on a particular end of the counter I'm somehow a lower class of individual. I would bump into the same people outside of work (small town) and their attitudes would be different. It wasn't a bad job but it could go downhill very fast.

Even know when I hear the comment "the customer is always right" I want to smack somebody and mentally add "no matter how wrong they are." (I can't remember who said that in the first place but it's pretty accurate.

Well, didn't mean to ramble on quite that much but I've never really mentioned that stuff before.