Manners!! Do they still exist??

Manners! Where have they gone

Does anyone have manners anymore? I sometimes wonder? Do we just forget about them? Or the older some people get the ruder they become!!! At 32 yrs of age all my mother has to do is still give me that same look she gave me when I was 4 yrs old and I still shrivel down in my seat and say very softly to her "sorry!" and never mutter another word.

Snowstorm recovery...well things are somewhat back to normal today! I shouldn't really say back to normal because our company stayed open till the bitter end unlike every other company in Manhattan who closed early. Although I did leave a half hour early so I could get home and see my valentine! But when I got to Penn Station I was swarmed by other commuters looking to get home early as well-only to find trains were delayed big time. Yeh Snow!!

Today I came into the office to find out we had another in-house training sessions for one of our clients who needs to train their design team on illustrator and do not have the proper set up to train 10 people at a time. Anyhow one of the students/designers training was an Asian guy who was nothing but a pain in the ass from the moment he walked in the door. At first I thought the receptionist was exaggerating because she tends to be a bit snippy-but she was not (exaggerating that is). He shows up a half hour late, then wonders around our office, and then proceeds to the conference room to partake in the training!!! Ok sooo during training the designers' get a break in between, before the break he asked our receptionist 3 times for coffee, when she finally gave him a cup of coffee it wasnt filled to the top because she was brewing another pot, he turns to her and says "that's it?" It wasn't enough coffee for him. Then during break he complained that he was hungry. I heard this and brushed it off. Then he was in our kitchen-I happen to be there as well. Our owners of our company are nice enough to supply our kitchen with a bunch of healthy snacks, yogurt, pretzels, fruit, cheeses etc. And this guy has the audacity to complain that our "oranges" looked like they were 80 years old-as he said "they look like old lady" in his asian accent.
So I politely turned to him and said.."Well they are NOT oranges! They are tangerines! Have you never seen or had a tangerine?" and then he says "that look like this? ha ha ha" I then said "Well I don't know what to tell you! You don't like our coffee? your hungry? and now you are complaining about our "ORANGES!!! Your out of luck arent you!!!"
I felt like telling him to F&*K himself this is a place of business not a god damn deli and that he should have bought his own fn lunch. I just walked away because I knew if I said that I might have gotten into a lot of trouble.

Some people you give them an inch and they take a yard.

Heres a good rule of thumb my old highchool shop teacher taught me whenever we/I acted up in class, me it was usually for talking or laughing at other kids causing trouble and my laughing egg-ing them on!

He swore to us that we would remember it for the rest of our lives, and boy he was right!

The three C's my code will be
Cooperation, Consideration and Courtesy!
I will write this ryhme 10 times and surely behave myself next time!

(I of course had to write this a few TOOO many times as you can see i have it memorized)thanks mr kopelman.

Candidate Coordinator

Happy New Year to all! Its been a while since I have blogged in but needless to say I have to add to my agency drama.

So we had this new gal working with us.A young plump 19 year old gal named Wednesday (we nicknamed her Pugsley)who was into acting and drama. Just recently moved here from Texas to NY. I should have known from the beginning that she was a bad seed. Especially when she got kicked out of her apartment after a month. Storyline: One of the girls she lived with just happen to take her rent money and run off-never paying the landlord. Call me a skeptic but come on the landlord throws you out after not paying for one month. I would think he would give you at least 2 weeks to pay whats owed.

Anyhow my boss thought of giving her a shot, thought she was good because she came from a big family and children from big families fight to get to the top. (not this one) From the moment I met her I was appalled. When I was 19 I took direction and I took direction well. If someone told me to correct something I corrected something with no questions asked. If I made a mistake I would be deeply embarrassed and felt like entire office knew. But this gal??? Boy oh boy was she the pick of the litter. When she first started working with us, she was freelancing for us as a trial run. So of course she was a superstar and mature for a 19year old- in the beginning. But image wise, at first she was dressing ok-and then it went all down hill. I thought drugs or something because she would come in here, smelling awful and dirty looking, thank god she didn't have to deal with candidates, only internal people. Her fingernails I think had some fungus on them which were nauseating to look at. Looked like they were eaten away-like shriveled yellow raisins.

So one night at oh lets say around 5:55 pm, 5 minutes before I am about to leave along with every other freaking person who works in Manhattan on a Friday night. She tells me that my boss hasn't signed her timecard and she needs to get paid. I was like your telling me know?? I don't know what to tell you. But being the nice person that i am (sometimes) I said let me look into it for you. I understand at that age you want money to go out and party, shop etc. So I call the "other" agency and try to follow up. Now at this point she is giving ME an attitude because the timecard wasnt signed..what the f?? Is it my fault that you hand this to me at 6pm Fri. night. I call the agency and leave a message because they too are gone at 6:00pm..So she leaves. I bump into Wednesday a few minutes later on the street and give her a run down as to my phone call--looks me in the face and says "thanks"in a sharp snooty tone and walks away from me-I yell at her "whoa! whoa! I am not done speaking with you", she about faces and turns around and we continue the conversation. I tell her who I left messages with and I am sorry that I couldn't get an answer for her. I then try to make small talk which I can see by the look on her face that it is killing her. so I let her go on her merry way.

Back to the office:
Any time I correct her or ask her something she yes ma'ams me which I am thinking is a Texan thing or she's just being quip with me. and gets mad when told to do something. All along this entire time she's with us my boss thinks she's doing a fantastic job. Oh she's sooo fast and soo quick. I am like what cloud are you on. this chick is on the net pretty much most of the day and then takes home the work-which we think is getting done. I cant say anything because I am not her boss-so I tell the office manager who addresses her internet usage.

We find out that weds is now pregnant and is going to be leaving us in a few weeks. So my boss is off again to find someone anyone who is happy to do boring data entry. Wednesday tells my boss that she has everything under control and that all is caught up etc etc. Now at this point she is just on the net ALL fn day long, and sits at her desk eating burgers and reading a book?? Go figure ok well its lunch time but at least sit in the kitchen eat your burger and read. I guess the everyday burger is the pregnancy cravings. Anyhow my boss finds someone to take her place and weds has one day to train this gal-who thank god is clean, together and on point. In one day she pretty much picks up a the basic data entry skills. Well Cindy who has taken weds place is cleaning up her new desk (weds old-which was nasty-the hazmat team should have been bought in to clean house) and finds piles and piles of unentered candidates in her desk drawers. I am talking months of unentered work. I am completely appalled that no one, not even myself caught on to this and how she pulled the wool over our eyes is beyond me. The sad part is my boss said to me I asked her if everything was done and she looked me dead straight in the eye said "yes!" I cant believe she lied to me. Well believe or not she did and this is what happened. Thank god for Cindy who is quick and efficient and in no time we were able to catch up and get everyone up to date! Yeh Cindy. And thank god Wednesday is gone