I have a tendency to piss people off over stupid things. Usually people who don't really know me. Today, for example, I pissed off every **W2 worker at Goodwill. "How does one do this?" you may ask. Well, I was merely expressing my anger to my boss at how I hate, absolutely hate, when people stand around and talk instead of doing work that needs to be done. It is incredibly hard for me not snap at them. I've had to be moved to a different area of the store so I could ignore them and not blow up and possibly get myself fired. So, I said this to my main manager in the office, and one of the W2s happened to be in there at the time. She proceeded to tell the other girls, about ten feet away from where I was working (and she was not, of course) that I had said I hated them because I do more work than they do and that I was going to yell at them for it. She also continued to complain saying that if I hated my job so much, why didn't I get one I liked. As usual, it was hard for me not to freak out, and I spent about an hour walking around imagining what I would say if I had to opportunity to tell her exactly how I felt. "Trust me, I don't hate my job. I actually like it most of the time. Except for the days when I come in and work my ass off and people just stand around bitching for an hour about their boyfriends stealing $5 from them or whatever stupid, little thing is making them so bitchy that day. Or how about when people take three pieces of clothes to put away and it takes them 15 minutes? Yeah, that's what pisses me off and makes me not want to be here. And maybe if you hated being here so much, you shouldn't have done whatever you did to be serving community service at freaking Goodwill! I choose to be here to pay to go to college. What about you? Why aren't you doing anything better with your life?"
After I calmed down enough, I told the two W2s that are actually pleasant to me that I had not said that I hated them, just that I hate it when people stand around and don't do work, including my coworkers and bosses. I just can't go into the office and say, "Hey, get off your ass and help!" I'd probably get fired. I also told them I was not going to yell at anyone, in fact, I said I don't want to yell at anyone, it's just hard not to when I get so angry at them.
To me, this is the best part. I told a coworker about what happened, and she said "So? Let 'em hate you." I totally agree. Honestly, why did they assume I was talking about them unless they know that they stand around and do nothing? I never said "I hate W2s" or anything of the sort. Just proves my point in a way.
I think the word got around because they were nicer to me for the rest of the day. I hope they know I just won't put up with any of that crap.
**A little info on W2s: W2s are people, mostly girls, usually of ethnic minorities and with children in the case of East Springs Goodwill, who are serving community service because of something or other. (I don't mean to sound racist be saying that, it's just a fact. Only about 10% of them are white. The rest are other races, considered minorities in the USA. Just to clear that up.) They come in and try to do what we do, what I like to call "kicking Goodwill's ass daily." They do a very poor job most of the time, although there are a few shining stars out there they work harder than we even do.
