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As anyone who has read just about anything I've put up on here lately knows, I hate my job and I'm desperate to find a new one. The thought of coming in here, especially after my days off, makes me depressed and a little sick to my stomach. So, the search goes on.
However, it's always good to put things into perspective. I don't have it as bad as others do. At the moment, a gentleman with model-good looks and I are attempting to strike up a relationship. He's a child psychologist in Oklahoma just finishing his internship at a residential program for troubled teens and children. While I'm over here in a hotel lobby getting all emo with my bad self about how much I hate this job, yesterday, he had to stay several hours late at work because the teens in one ward started a riot in an attempt to escape.
To make a long story short, several staff members ended up with shards of glass held to their throats, and every police and social services agency in the city, county, and state were called in to do their thing. In the end, 17 teenage boys ended up in shackles and handcuffs, and will be transported to maximum-security facilities while the residential program documents everything and writes up papers to prove that it would be in everyone's best interests not to have those boys sent right back to the program. And if the write-ups are not convincing enough, that's exactly what will happen.
So, when you think about it, your job may be lousy and your customers may be able to suck the paste from the wallpaper, but it could be worse. I've been thinking about that lot today, and I have ever since he called me and told me why it was that he missed our nightly phone call.
Edit: I put this in the Sucky Customers section because their clients are their customers and it doesn't get much suckier than attempted murder.
However, it's always good to put things into perspective. I don't have it as bad as others do. At the moment, a gentleman with model-good looks and I are attempting to strike up a relationship. He's a child psychologist in Oklahoma just finishing his internship at a residential program for troubled teens and children. While I'm over here in a hotel lobby getting all emo with my bad self about how much I hate this job, yesterday, he had to stay several hours late at work because the teens in one ward started a riot in an attempt to escape.
To make a long story short, several staff members ended up with shards of glass held to their throats, and every police and social services agency in the city, county, and state were called in to do their thing. In the end, 17 teenage boys ended up in shackles and handcuffs, and will be transported to maximum-security facilities while the residential program documents everything and writes up papers to prove that it would be in everyone's best interests not to have those boys sent right back to the program. And if the write-ups are not convincing enough, that's exactly what will happen.
So, when you think about it, your job may be lousy and your customers may be able to suck the paste from the wallpaper, but it could be worse. I've been thinking about that lot today, and I have ever since he called me and told me why it was that he missed our nightly phone call.
Edit: I put this in the Sucky Customers section because their clients are their customers and it doesn't get much suckier than attempted murder.
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