Or is anybody else running into this…
I’m calling it asshole week for lack of a better term…
Seems like nothing I’ve done all week is ‘right’, and everybody I’ve dealt with has pretty much been either an ass or a total s**t. I was asked a question last Friday at 1645 (notorious Friday dump). Except… It was only half a question, e.g. not enough detail to actually ANSWER it…
Soooo, bright and early Monday, I email back and ask for the ‘rest’ of the question. No answer… So I call, goes to voicemail… TEN minutes later I get an email wanting the answer to the question I can’t answer… Sigh…
And it pretty much has gone downhill from there all week… And I’ve run across what I ‘think’ might be a new species, a combination of idiot AND asshole… Thinking the correct term might be idioass…
I jokingly made a comment to our receptionist, normally very bright and upbeat about whether we were having fun or not, and she snarled at me… Needless to say, I got the hell out of her sight… Sigh…
And yesterday evening it was spitting rain… So there are about five or six folks waiting patiently for the crossing light, and this woman with a BIG umbrella comes barging right through the middle of the folks, and just keeps on going right into traffic!!! It’s a miracle she didn’t end up looking like a pancake, so she jumps back and then cusses US out for not warning her… Another idioass…
The piece de resistance, was the asshole that TRIPLE parked at corner by the Metro station while waiting on somebody… Until the guy in the car behind him got out and apparently physically threatened him (no it wasn’t me, I was a half a block back)…
I’m going in this morning, sit in my office, shut the door, answer the phone only, and try my damnest to stay off email too…
Happy frikkin Friday…
Edit- And a strange one this morning… Woman jogged by in a jogging outfit, carrying a bright blue purse over her arm… Strange…
String razor wire, sand bag your desk and rig the claymores.
If you make to 17:00 you can declare victory!
Not just you….
+Eleventy to Gerry! Daisy-chain those claymores now.
I think the term you’re looking for is asshat.
Robert Heinlein wrote about “the crazy years” – We are there and it’s just going to get worse.
It definitely puts an extra “F” in TGIF, doesn’t it?
TGIFingF to you too!!
My new, 30 days, boss says need you to review slides.
I say, OK, I don’t have them.
He says, I sent them to you.
I say, I never got them, please put them on shared drive in “X” folder.
“OK I did”, he says.
Not there. (E mail another person get slides in 30 seconds)
Report due this morning, writing it until 0230 PSDT. Ugh.
I don’t know if they are breeding faster or if it’s some sort of communicable disease.
For some unknown f&%#ing reason, everyone I know lined up to ask me for money this past week. Maybe it’s the moon or something? Maybe they look at my face and think “mooch”, or “wimpy” – and they’d gladly pay me Thursday for a hamburger today.
Since I retired, this stuff seldom happens. However, this morning went to the 24hr pharmacy for two pickups. Closed, been robbed, cops all over the place. Took until 0825 for the place to open.
it has been that sort of a week, and this has been what I call “Fucktard Friday”. I am surrounded and it shows no sign of improvement.
I think that as things continue to spin out of control – undoubtedly accelerating over the past Big “o” years – folks are planting their feet on what’s “theirs” – what they “own” or control. It’s all they have . . . and they are going to fight to the death to protect it. When a person slides from “abundance” to “scarcity” the wheels of civility come of pretty damn quick. Hang in there Jim . . . perhaps you need an Iowa vacation . . . 🙂
How is this different from any other week, NFO?
LOL. Kiss kiss! It is idioass week. However, I made the assholes mad at me because they didn’t like what I said. Oh, well. ***slams door to my virtual office*** I’m with you. Hibernation might be in order.
Then there’s the guy I ran into on the plane Monday…
Definitely not just you. This week has been a slog and those who are usually just unpleasant pains in the ass have brought their A-games and are at Fucktard/email me one more time and I am going to punch you in the head status.
It’s not just you. It seems as though somebody has been really shaking the Crazy Tree hard this week.
Hey Old NFO;
This week has been a *bitch-kitty* I believe how the phrase is. I am hopeful that next week will be more “normal”…..Hoping…but doubtful.
I can live with the idioasses I encounter in my personal life. But it does piss me off when they get elected…
All- WOW, apparently I touched a nerve… Still hiding in my office…
Posted from my iPhone.
“idioass” heh
Make sure to trademark your new word before a troll steals it.
Just 15 minute left, NFO…then you’re free!
Just…drive safe on the way home. Don’t let someone catch you on your freedom run!
Like WellSeasonedFool, retirement has been good to me in that I don’t encounter all THAT many asshats. But I sure do relate to the “notorious Friday dump.” That happened to me EVERY damned week, especially when I worked in (IT) Operations.
Must be something in the water. I tore someone a new anal orifice today. It was a long time coming and richly deserved, might I add. I think I would have felt better if I just hauled off and belted her, but I’d look dreadful in an orange jumpsuit.
Me too! We ran a piping stress analysis using the specified operating temperature of the piping (in the Basis for Design). They send us the latest piping drawings and we find that the entire steam system was rerouted and we have to do the stress analysis from scratch. We got it to work and then they come back and want it run on the max DESIGN temperature for the pipe (which it will never see).
Well, NFO,I’m gonna brighten your day. Up until Thursday morning, my week had been just like yours and a lot of the folks above, Asshat city.
Thursday worked mo-betta. Went to the range in the morning to test improvements made on my bitsa homebuilt AR target rifle.
Shot a 5 round bagged group of 3/8″ @ 100 yds, at last! Practiced my sitting (at 69 YO, it ain’t easy) got a 598/ 42x /600. Went home & took my elderly Jag 120 to Key Largo to meet a friend for a beer, cigar & to catch up. Drove home on a clear, starlit night, arriving in time to have another beer and a good nights sleep. The crowning touch, the wife was happy to see me!
I’m sure that I will pay pay pay in the near future.
Gerry- I made it!!! 🙂
Grog- Maybe I should…
Pedi- Survived all the way home!!!
Buck- Yep, and they tried it today, but I told em I’m out next week, gotta pick on somebody else… LOL
MRs. C- Good for you! 🙂
PE- OH geez… THAT had to suck, starting over and doing a complete remap/run is not quick OR easy…
Roger- That is outstanding! So you are saying there IS hope, right??? 😀
Punji sticks are a must
Rick- Thankfully I didn’t need em… 🙂
No, not just you. It was a week where EVERYTHING was a battle. I was happy to call it a draw on Friday, and that was being generous.