Today I got bad news.
I work part time at two jobs. This happened at one of them.
Recently I read a job posting for a full-time position in my department and applied for it. Today I was called to my managers office to be informed that I’d been passed over.
I work at a prepared foods section in a grocery store in Manalapan, New Jersey. When I was hired for this job, I went through an orientation in which our human resources officer informed us that the customers in this locale were the most self-absorbed, egomaniacal , thankless crowd we would ever encounter and they would try our patience to the limits of human endurance.
This proved to be fact.
Let me explain.
I was trying to fill a woman’s order. She was a “Low talker” (ala Seinfeld). I work in prepared foods. It is a noisy, super-busy environment . Also I am a bit hard of hearing (too many years in a rock band).
Alas, through all the hubbub and without elaborating, this bitch wound up asking me…”Are you always this stupid?’
Yes, we take this kind of abuse from these motherfuckers on a daily basis. I plan to buy myself a pair of sturdy kneepads so that I might more proficiently get down and kiss their asses. But that will have to wait unil I get a raise.
Anyway, instead of jumping over the counter and disemboweling her on the spot (which was my minds-eye inclination), I dredged up that line from Forest Gump…”Stupid is as stupid does, ma’am.” and delivered it with the proper Alabama drawl.
Clever, right?
No . Not.
She complained to management. IN WRITING…and it came back to haunt me today.
I did not get full-time. But I did get another ridiculous true-life George story to share with y’all..
Whoopie!
Damn it ,anyway
Just another ridiculous quirk in my life.
onefourseven, 2 months ago
Loving your work George, keep it up!
George Yesthal, 2 months ago
Thanx, just wish I could make it up without living it. LOL Naw, not really.
deliriousgirl, 2 months ago
OK, two remarks: AGHHHHH, another Seinfeld lover??? I have every episode memorized and even do a Friday dance like Elaine’s at my office every week. And another ex-rocker??? I played and sang in so many bands while I was busy pissing my youth away.
Three: Jeeeeeeeeze sorry bout the crappy job, been there done that too while I was so busy pissing my youth away.
Tony Ryan, 2 months ago
Cool story although it is a pity your honesty lost you the full time job. Might be for the better if those are the sort of attitudes you have to put up with. It is crazy how self absorbed people seem to be these days. We are so conditioned to seek achievement and survival that truly honest and respectful relationships are taking a back seat.
George Yesthal, 2 months ago
Here’s another HOLY SHIT for ya. Good lord, girl! Who are you anyway? I have an Idea, Let’s try collaborating on something really heinous and irreverent. It’d be like literary sex or something. I have no idea how to go about it, but I think it would be more fun than wiping snot on the Madonna.
Zolton, 2 months ago
Ha ha. Love your humor. the most self-absorbed, egomaniacal , thankless crowd we would ever encounter and they would try our patience to the limits of human endurance. Thank you for sharing that other people talk in funny accents to drive a point (especially with a quote delivered from famous lines). : )
George Yesthal in reply to Tony Ryan’s comment, 2 months ago
Thanx. Glad you liked it. Fact is…I didn’t take the rejection all that seriously Shit happens and and frankly, I make very few apologies. Thanx again.
George Yesthal in reply to deliriousgirl’s comment, 2 months ago
Don’t know if I directed my reply in the right direction. Very late. Tired and a little buzzed. Anyway, it’s the one that starts…”Here’s another HOLY SHIT for ya.
George Yesthal in reply to Zolton’s comment, 2 months ago
Wow! somebody gets my humor. This is a sign. LOL Thank you.
deliriousgirl, 2 months ago
OK, got it!!! Yes, I’d love to have more fun than wiping snot on the Madonna. I haven’t done that in awhile.
George Yesthal in reply to deliriousgirl’s comment, 2 months ago
Alrighy, then!
deliriousgirl, 2 months ago
Let’s think on it and get back with me tomorrow, OK?
deliriousgirl, 2 months ago
It’s fuckin 4am here and I have to be at work at 8.
George Yesthal, 2 months ago
Deal., sweetheart. I’m sheets-bound myself. (we must be in the same hemisphere).Pleasant dreams.
Nancy Stafford..., 2 months ago
that one thing. people if you are partly hard of hearing. and someone does not hire you full time or not. it discraming. even if you put in as part time and you go to applia for full time that decraming against handcap. i know i hard of hearing. i never move up in my department because of it and i wear a hearing aid.
George Yesthal, 2 months ago
Thanks for your input and empathy. In all fairness though, I didn’t get passed over because of my hearing (or the lack thereof). It was because I don’t seem to know how not to be a smart-ass. Thanks again, though.
theyellowfury, 2 months ago
I know but jeebus don’t you just love being a smartass? Beautiful things like subte veiled sarcasm constructions should be let free or the universe dies just a teeny teeny bit.
George Yesthal, 2 months ago
Very good point.
theyellowfury, 2 months ago
May the horrible bastards who persecuted you run into the back of a cop ar at the lights, not to injure anyone, just hard enough to annoy them.
You should see my Tee