I am about to do a lot of venting
Some things that are bothering me just enough that I need to write about them:
1) Churches and religious people. I got a personalized letter from Jamestown Baptist Church. I don't know anyone who works at Jamestown Baptist Church or goes there. But still, I got a personalized letter that read something to the effect of:
Dear Kaitlin,
It was great to see that you made the Dean's List at Elon this semester. We hope you will add Bible Study to your life as well.
That really made me mad. Someone at that church went out of their way to look in the newspaper and see who made Dean's list at what schools, and then they looked up my address, typed up a letter and spent 42 cents sending it to me, and all so that I could think, wow, someone took all this time and effort to reach out to me and they don't even know me, that really makes me feel like going to their church and joining their bible study!
I DON'T believe in evangelism. I hate all these commercials on TV around here, like the one with the dad who is leaving his family and the kid says, "Dad, you forgot your bible!" Oh, what a pun. It's not that I don't believe in God or that I don't like people who go to church. I just think it's so RUDE to PUSH your religion on others.
At Lowes, where I hate to be anyway, there is a certain person who works in the produce department who feels like it is his place to step in and give me life/religious advice whenever he deems necessary. I think this is rude. The other day I had a MEAN customer and I complained about it...a lot, I'll admit, but honestly I think it's okay to complain about that kind of thing since I have to deal with it alllll the time and so do most other people in the store so they understand. But not this guy. He started telling me, "You should have compassion for everyone, because you never know what they are going through in their lives," and "we all have to have inner strength," and "this is just preparing you for your future" and the best one, "people will let you down, but God never will." This just made me about ten thousand times more angry. I think I already wrote about it here, but it made me that mad! It's just that this guy is just so "perfect" and he did it again today. I was in the break room talking on the phone and he was in there. I was talking to Reid about how this job I have now is pretty much impossible because I have to be in twelve places at once and I have three different bosses, all who tell me different things and I can't please any of them. After I hung up, the guy asked me what I'm majoring in at school. I told him journalism. He said, "So, you'll have to deal with all sorts of people in the future. This is just preparing you for that." I wanted to SCREAM!!! UGH leave me ALONE. I don't understand WHY he feels like he has to guide me and give me "advice." I get so FRUSTRATED!
And then CUSTOMERS. It's fucking triple coupons "weekend" today, tomorrow and saturday and that means everyone in Jamestown and Greensboro has to come to Lowes and buy things they don't need just because their coupons will triple. Today I had one customer who had two little kids with her, one of whom paid for a bunch of things by himself because "it's part of his homeschool curriculum." I did my job, gave him his change, used his coupons, though some of them didn't work at first and I had to check his items to make sure they were right. Then I rang her up, said "have a good day" as usual, and she left. Later, Debbie comes up to me and says that someone wrote in to say that "the girl with the ponytail" was very rude to her. Yeah. It was her. And "the girl" was me. What the fuck.
Then there was a lady who wrote a check. For the past few weeks we've been instructed to write customers' driver's license numbers and expiration dates on their checks or else we can't take them. This lady, however, did not want to give me her driver's license. She said, "you've taken my checks before without it." I'm sorry ma'am, I have to write it on there, it's a new requirement. "I'm in the system." I still have to write it on there. "They told me not to do that anymore." I guess she meant her bank? I told her I couldn't take her check, and she asked to see someone else. Rommel, the store manager, came over and said if she was in the system it was fine. First of all, anyone who's ever written a check at Lowes is "in the system" so that doesn't matter. Second of all, what he did wasn't really right. He just did it because he's the manager and he didn't want her to get mad and not come back. She said, "Isn't it nice to learn something new? That you don't have to ask for ID if someone's in the system?" My insides burned. "Actually-" I was about to try and explain the truth to her, when she said, "thanks, bye!" I actually started crying a little bit.
I guess it's just hard to convey how things make me feel. Maybe it doesn't seem like I should be so upset. But UGGGHHH I HATE my job and I HATE it when people think they are right and they are so not and I ESPECIALLY hate it when other people tell me how to live MY life. Maybe you think you are helping but leave me the FUCK alone. PLEASE.
1) Churches and religious people. I got a personalized letter from Jamestown Baptist Church. I don't know anyone who works at Jamestown Baptist Church or goes there. But still, I got a personalized letter that read something to the effect of:
Dear Kaitlin,
It was great to see that you made the Dean's List at Elon this semester. We hope you will add Bible Study to your life as well.
That really made me mad. Someone at that church went out of their way to look in the newspaper and see who made Dean's list at what schools, and then they looked up my address, typed up a letter and spent 42 cents sending it to me, and all so that I could think, wow, someone took all this time and effort to reach out to me and they don't even know me, that really makes me feel like going to their church and joining their bible study!
I DON'T believe in evangelism. I hate all these commercials on TV around here, like the one with the dad who is leaving his family and the kid says, "Dad, you forgot your bible!" Oh, what a pun. It's not that I don't believe in God or that I don't like people who go to church. I just think it's so RUDE to PUSH your religion on others.
At Lowes, where I hate to be anyway, there is a certain person who works in the produce department who feels like it is his place to step in and give me life/religious advice whenever he deems necessary. I think this is rude. The other day I had a MEAN customer and I complained about it...a lot, I'll admit, but honestly I think it's okay to complain about that kind of thing since I have to deal with it alllll the time and so do most other people in the store so they understand. But not this guy. He started telling me, "You should have compassion for everyone, because you never know what they are going through in their lives," and "we all have to have inner strength," and "this is just preparing you for your future" and the best one, "people will let you down, but God never will." This just made me about ten thousand times more angry. I think I already wrote about it here, but it made me that mad! It's just that this guy is just so "perfect" and he did it again today. I was in the break room talking on the phone and he was in there. I was talking to Reid about how this job I have now is pretty much impossible because I have to be in twelve places at once and I have three different bosses, all who tell me different things and I can't please any of them. After I hung up, the guy asked me what I'm majoring in at school. I told him journalism. He said, "So, you'll have to deal with all sorts of people in the future. This is just preparing you for that." I wanted to SCREAM!!! UGH leave me ALONE. I don't understand WHY he feels like he has to guide me and give me "advice." I get so FRUSTRATED!
And then CUSTOMERS. It's fucking triple coupons "weekend" today, tomorrow and saturday and that means everyone in Jamestown and Greensboro has to come to Lowes and buy things they don't need just because their coupons will triple. Today I had one customer who had two little kids with her, one of whom paid for a bunch of things by himself because "it's part of his homeschool curriculum." I did my job, gave him his change, used his coupons, though some of them didn't work at first and I had to check his items to make sure they were right. Then I rang her up, said "have a good day" as usual, and she left. Later, Debbie comes up to me and says that someone wrote in to say that "the girl with the ponytail" was very rude to her. Yeah. It was her. And "the girl" was me. What the fuck.
Then there was a lady who wrote a check. For the past few weeks we've been instructed to write customers' driver's license numbers and expiration dates on their checks or else we can't take them. This lady, however, did not want to give me her driver's license. She said, "you've taken my checks before without it." I'm sorry ma'am, I have to write it on there, it's a new requirement. "I'm in the system." I still have to write it on there. "They told me not to do that anymore." I guess she meant her bank? I told her I couldn't take her check, and she asked to see someone else. Rommel, the store manager, came over and said if she was in the system it was fine. First of all, anyone who's ever written a check at Lowes is "in the system" so that doesn't matter. Second of all, what he did wasn't really right. He just did it because he's the manager and he didn't want her to get mad and not come back. She said, "Isn't it nice to learn something new? That you don't have to ask for ID if someone's in the system?" My insides burned. "Actually-" I was about to try and explain the truth to her, when she said, "thanks, bye!" I actually started crying a little bit.
I guess it's just hard to convey how things make me feel. Maybe it doesn't seem like I should be so upset. But UGGGHHH I HATE my job and I HATE it when people think they are right and they are so not and I ESPECIALLY hate it when other people tell me how to live MY life. Maybe you think you are helping but leave me the FUCK alone. PLEASE.