so i think i might hate my job. well, im sure i hate it sometimes. and its not often i come home elated about my day at the office.
but what really gets me is the lack of respect i get from students. i hope i wasn't like this to the tech guys when i was in college (considering i was basically already doing the same job as them, i really hope not).
i get students walking in (five minutes before their project is due) saying "whats wrong with the printers?" uhhh.... well considering you're the first one to come complain to me about it, and i don't spend my time watching the printers, waiting for something to fail, id have to say "i don't know, what is wrong with them?" "well they aren't working" .... i go, find that the paper is out. apparently posting a giant poster saying how to troubleshoot printers is totally ineffective when there is a "computer guy" available to but for little things like that.
but i digress. what really gets me is when the students put on the whole "um ya, could you take care of that? like yesterday? cause i have a class in five minutes and its really important and i didn't do it earlier cause i was printing out pictures of my mardi gras party then. oh ya, and you can't possibly have better things to be doing, so would you wipe my nose for me too?"
i think i need to bring my degreeS in here and hang them on the wall. maybe that will help. no way.
so it doesn't bother me that i spent an hour of my day working on my resume today. cause i need to get the f outta here.
you are preaching to the choir, my brother. Working in service SUCKs--this coming from a girl who has served up a lotta lattes. My biggest peeve is when I say a friendly "Hi How are you?" and the person looks right through me, does not return my greeting and says. "I want a low-fat double venti (Hi, This isn't Starbucks. Do you see a bunch of annoying mermaids? OK) mochaccino."
OK, I say "That's $4."
They toss a crumpled bill at me as they answer their cell phone. I try to say "Um, excuse me, that's a one dollar bill. I need three more of those." but they're too busy talking about nothing and avoiding eye contact with me.
Yeah. People can totally suck.