suck

The antibiotics are doing wonders for my throat, but now I'm back in full blown cold symptoms again, really severe congestion and all that. I think I would have been okay if I'd been able to take time off work, but well... I can't.

At work I was being very quiet and substituting nods and gestures for when I might otherwise say something. Nobody noticed except one freakazoid customer who gave me this move after I rang her up:

her: "Can I say something to you?" <---- NEVER GOOD
me: "Yeah?"
her: "When you rang me up you didn't say thank you, as a person working in a store you should always do that." [instead I had nodded to her pleasantly]
me: [suppressing rage] "I have a bad sore throat and it hurts to talk, so I'm not talking when not needed. I'm sorry if that offended you."
her: "Oh, I didn't know you were sick."

So she somehow missed the incessant coughing and the fact that when I did speak, I sounded like I was being strangled with sandpaper. Very nice.

And you know really, even if I weren't sick? She's still the jerk in the situation for saying something clearly intended to belittle the poor schmuck at the cash register. Didn't say "thank you"? You need to mention this? Why? In what world would it *improve* the outlook of the person you say it to?

People who say things that can only conceivably cause negative responses... they epically fail.

suck

The antibiotics are doing wonders for my throat, but now I'm back in full blown cold symptoms again, really severe congestion and all that. I think I would have been okay if I'd been able to take time off work, but well... I can't.

At work I was being very quiet and substituting nods and gestures for when I might otherwise say something. Nobody noticed except one freakazoid customer who gave me this move after I rang her up:

her: "Can I say something to you?" <---- NEVER GOOD
me: "Yeah?"
her: "When you rang me up you didn't say thank you, as a person working in a store you should always do that." [instead I had nodded to her pleasantly]
me: [suppressing rage] "I have a bad sore throat and it hurts to talk, so I'm not talking when not needed. I'm sorry if that offended you."
her: "Oh, I didn't know you were sick."

So she somehow missed the incessant coughing and the fact that when I did speak, I sounded like I was being strangled with sandpaper. Very nice.

And you know really, even if I weren't sick? She's still the jerk in the situation for saying something clearly intended to belittle the poor schmuck at the cash register. Didn't say "thank you"? You need to mention this? Why? In what world would it *improve* the outlook of the person you say it to?

People who say things that can only conceivably cause negative responses... they epically fail.