What a shitty day this has been. My department's been behind on several milk and dairy deliveries this last week, mainly because I'm the only one that seems to be working on them, and today I pretty much imploded. First thing this morning, I got sent over to work on bread, even though it was already done, and had to mark down prices on food that's about to expire, a job usually reserved for department heads. It was about halfway through my shift when I even got to get started on yesterday's delivery. That's right, yesterday's. Oh, and there was also the inane corporate survey that the HR person demanded I do right away, lest the corporate paymasters keel over and die. And then, the one guy who was supposed to help me today got sent off to another department by the dipshit in charge when my boss isn't around, who I'm pretty sure does nothing and can get away with it because he's the union steward. And that's all set up for the meltdown I had in my last two hours.

It was when I checked on the co-worker who was sent away. He's a well-meaning and hard-working guy, but he has two annoying tendencies: 1) If you ask or tell him to do something, he always goes "I was wonderin' 'bout that." (no, buddy, you weren't, otherwise you'd have fucking done it already!), and 2) He twists the English language into some perverse cypher that only he understands. Most of the time, this comes in the form of his own garbled jargon ("going off the deep end"="filling the shelf"; "blackmarking"="writing my name"; etc.), but it also goes both ways, such as if I ask a basic question like "How much do you have left to do?" Easy to answer, but he turns it into a monologue about what he had to do up until that point, and where everything he was working on had to go. Today, I just wasn't in the mood for it, and snapped, "Answer the GODDAM QUESTION!"

Later,...

What a shitty day this has been. My department's been behind on several milk and dairy deliveries this last week, mainly because I'm the only one that seems to be working on them, and today I pretty much imploded. First thing this morning, I got sent over to work on bread, even though it was already done, and had to mark down prices on food that's about to expire, a job usually reserved for department heads. It was about halfway through my shift when I even got to get started on yesterday's delivery. That's right, yesterday's. Oh, and there was also the inane corporate survey that the HR person demanded I do right away, lest the corporate paymasters keel over and die. And then, the one guy who was supposed to help me today got sent off to another department by the dipshit in charge when my boss isn't around, who I'm pretty sure does nothing and can get away with it because he's the union steward. And that's all set up for the meltdown I had in my last two hours.

It was when I checked on the co-worker who was sent away. He's a well-meaning and hard-working guy, but he has two annoying tendencies: 1) If you ask or tell him to do something, he always goes "I was wonderin' 'bout that." (no, buddy, you weren't, otherwise you'd have fucking done it already!), and 2) He twists the English language into some perverse cypher that only he understands. Most of the time, this comes in the form of his own garbled jargon ("going off the deep end"="filling the shelf"; "blackmarking"="writing my name"; etc.), but it also goes both ways, such as if I ask a basic question like "How much do you have left to do?" Easy to answer, but he turns it into a monologue about what he had to do up until that point, and where everything he was working on had to go. Today, I just wasn't in the mood for it, and snapped, "Answer the GODDAM QUESTION!"

Later, I sort of yelled at another co-worker from another department who kept pestering me about helping her unload a truck, despite the fact there were a dozen other people just as qualified as I am to do that, while I was trying to help a customer. In a day that was pock-marked by unnecessary sidetracks, I really couldn't take another one, especially one for a department that I'm not in.

So, yeah, today I was the prick, and it's not a state I like to find myself in.