There is a special place down below reserved for people who replace the word ‘nice’ for ‘noice’. And people who chew with their mouth open. And then there are those who say ‘SNAP!’ whenever they discover they have the same thing as someone else. Wow, cool, who cares!!
Okay, so I’d never be a stellar retail employee. I’ve never tried, and I never will because the second or third time a customer asked me a stupid question I’d grab them by the shirt-front, drag them over the counter and give them a piece of my mind. Okay, that might have happened once…hence why I’ve quit retail. I know my strengths. And that’s why I work for the window washing company, because it means going to a place, setting up my platform ladders and getting to work completely alone, up in the air and away from crying babies and stupid people. It’s actually pretty peaceful, perched on a platform and feeling the breeze in your face, and also the fact that you’re the only one up there.
I work alone, obviously. They gave me a partner once and it just didn’t go well, but they couldn’t get rid of me because my workload is practically double everyone else’s. So that turned out pretty well for me in the end, huh? Now I’m free and working hard by myself. It didn’t take me long to learn how to set up a work platform, mostly because any idiot with a working set of synapses could do it. Thing A goes in part B, brace C goes into part D so the whole thing doesn’t fall down. Simple enough for everyone? You’d think so, but there are some unforgivable dunces out there. Just thinking about it makes my teeth grind. Best not. Don’t want to take it out on the aluminium planks and trestles, AKA the only things that actually give me any support around here.
-Rosa