a few things about work...

...k, so I'm sitting here eating lunch and a few pet peeves come to mind about the workplace...

1. do your job...you are hired to do a certain job, so freakin do it...and do it in a timely fashion...especially if your job is not difficult...if you don't like your job, get another one, or go to school so you can get another one...but when you don't pull your weight, it throws everyone/everything off...
I hear teachers complain that this kid is bad, or they don't want to deal with that kid...uh, you are hired to DEAL with that kid...

2. if you go to a foreign country and come back sick...DON'T COME TO WORK...we are not immune to those germs...now I'm at work sick, but I got it from a little child showering me with snot in a particularly juicy sneeze...but a co-worker came back from the Philippines sick, and she has infected everyone...so now I'm dealing with a double whammy...if you have to come to work sick (like me, who is the sole provider in my home) take precautions...wash your hands, walk with hand sanitizer...the only one who has gotten sick from me is whirlwind, but not even, cause the other night he didn't have on a hat...

3. you are at work...don't take a two hour lunch...it fucks up other folk, and no, I'm covering for you, cause when I got to take a two hour lunch I tell everyone...they won't dock you as long as it's not a regular thing...

4. before you decide to take a fake sick day...make sure there is coverage...the uptown site had EVERYONE out one day...I thought it was a sickout...no, it was just a nice day...the poor aide that was left in the class was completely overwhelmed with our sp ed kids jumping off the tables, fighting over toys...it was like herding ants...

5. if you have nothing to do, don't advertise it...don't sit and obviously read magazines, newspapers etc, or fall asleep at the front desk...it makes up folk who are working feel like reporting your ass...now I'm one for a nap, but I go in my office and close the door...

6. don't do what you did back in the day...the shit didn't work then, stop trying to drag it into now...the issue with the work place is that one must forge ahead, break new ground, not get stuck and stagnant...and stop ordering supplies we don't need and don't get a fucken attitude when you get barked at...we barely have a job, there is no need to order 100 boxes of 5000 staples...we are still using the staples that were ordered 4 years ago...

and finally 7. if you don't share with me, don't ask me for shit when I bring in coffee, tea, snacks, lunch etc...I have co-workers who will eat/hoard their food and not offer, but let me buy some tostones and they are there with napkins and hot sauce...no bitch...back the fuck up...