Fish Face

I start my new job in two days and I'm looking forward to the future, but today I'm going to discuss the past because I think it bears repeating (often) that people fucking suck.  Working with other people is very difficult for a variety of reasons and if anyone says differently it probably means that they're the annoying, bible thumping, grammatically incorrect fuck everybody in the office hates but, of course, they're impervious due to their complete lack of self awareness.  What really blows my mind, though, is that the most severely incompetent people seem to skate by like a Catholic priest who is...you know where I'm going with this.

So, I would like to take this one step further and express my shock that there are actually people out there who resist attempts at training them to do their jobs.  Whaaaa???  Oh, yes.  These people exist.  For example, at the job I left to accept the one I'm starting in two days I worked with a very strange and abrasive (yes, if I am describing someone else as abrasive it must be really bad) woman I'll call Fish Face.  I'd compare her to a bull dog, but I think bull dogs are adorable and so I cannot make that comparison here.  However, I encourage you to picture jowls, deep set wrinkles, and very prominent peach fuzz on a freckled redhead who appears to be 60 years old but is, in fact, only 43.  She smokes a lot and smells like burnt, wet plants.  I suspect it's weed, but maybe she just fucking stinks.  Knowing the Director, she came in with a big bad attitude and seemed to think she already knew how to do everything.  She strongly resisted our training efforts, thought office rules did not apply to her, and had a problem with EVERY SINGLE THING.  The training manuals were terrible (they're wonderful), the filing system is not adequate (it's fine), and this and that and the other thing are all cluster fucks (this and that and the other thing are just peachy).  I suspect this was all an attempt on her part to take the focus off the fact that she is not capable of critical thinking and simply doesn't understand a fucking thing about anything.  Further, she was always acting like she had to do this or that or finish "the report" or pull "the report".  What report?  What bothered me more than anything is that she would rather do something wrong than just ask.  It's so easy to ask!  And guess who had to un-fuck everything she screwed up?  Yep, the Labor Statistic.  Like when she single-handedly destroyed our website and then tried to blame it on me.  Um, no Fish Face.  I was filing and not at my computer and certainly not logged into the website.  Here's a tip, when you're editing a page on a website, never EVER hit the Trash button.  Thankfully our host was able to retrieve an earlier version, but the whole incident took a few years off my life.  THEN - she'd act like the office is such a cluster fuck.  Um...ok?  Also, her family called (despite the no cell phone policy) and stopped in numerous times every day for the dumbest shit and then she'd act like she was in prison and couldn't step away from doing nothing for even a minute.  I can tell you this; I've had a lot of bad jobs and this wasn't one of them.  Fish Face was so negative that it actually started pissing me off.  Yes, ME!  That takes something pretty special.  Plus, she doesn't like dogs!  Who doesn't like dogs?  I don't think you can even trust a person who doesn't like dogs.  Anyway, what I've described here is just the tip of the iceberg with this crazy bitch and, thankfully, it's over now.  But I'm sure now that I'm gone she's trying to blame me for all kinds of stupid shit that has no merit and nothing to do with anything except that it somehow hinders her from doing her job and only God knows what that is exactly.  To the Director who is the best boss I ever had:  Good luck.

Sorry for my long rant today, but I just had to share.  I've started school again so I know I will be busy in the coming months.  My posts may be sporadic, but I have no intention of abandoning my blog.  Here's some reading material for fun:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/10-things-co-workers-won-132014242.html?page=1