Monday, September 22
I am super duper pissed off today, the ultimate shitty shit shit pissed off.
Recently there is a new guy who applied for a full time job. And of coz, new fellas are always without fail, for me to look after.
Especially this one because he is gonna work with me in the shop since my boss started his 2nd outlet in another place.
From reviews from my younger cousin when she sees him in his interview with my uncle, he seemed to be the honest type.
From his resume, he changes job every single year, all along doing retail line, and was a manager before. His retail job was quite diverse like my past resume, but since he is much older, he got much much much more experience than me in retail, from electronics to fashion to food and beverage to many others.
I kept my opinion to myself when I saw him, thinking maybe I am being cynical but he doesn’t seems like an honest type, or to be more exact, he seemed like someone who is trying hard to look simple, honest, and hardworking to top it off.
After the busy event, it went back to our normal retail working life.
The 1st 2 days working with him, made me realize he remembers what I said. With him remembering his duties and the shop’s cleaning routine, I thought I could concentrate on what I have to do.
I was instructed by my boss to make him read some materials so he can learn too, and I did, and he did read some, but probably didn’t put any heart into it. After realizing he wasn’t that interested in boring text about wines. He continues his other usual job, serving customers, and asking me about wines. I can understand that even if someone is interested in wines, book may bore him to death. So I didn’t mind the fact that he kept asking me things, and I happy teach/tell him what he is curious about, or act curious about.
Plus when I ask him to do simple jobs, he asked me how to proceed, although completely amazed by his inability to think, I made extra effort to simplify every single thing by explaining everything I can bit by bit and parts by parts. I felt super guilty because it suddenly hit me that he might be a bit down on his mental that’s why the frequent job change and as willing as he is, he might not be up to his previous jobs etc. I felt guilty because I was supposed to be the cynical person in the first place although not openly known, I thought he look like the asshole type who act innocent. I was completely prepared to make up for my pessimistic wrongful impression of him by being super patient with him.
After that 1st 2 days, I realize, although he does his job on time, he didn’t do it well.
On the 3rd day, after he complete his shift, I take a look around and look at the outcome of things he did.
It confuses me a lot, coz I remember seeing him do his job, but how come it look like nothing was done. I had to re do it anyway coz I didn’t like the way it is.
The 4th day was his off day.
The 5th and 6th day ,
I made him do another job, it was considered half a job since I continued the next half, but during my 2nd half of the job, I realize again, it look like he haven’t do anything at all, but I know I saw he did.
Confuses me totally.
On the 7th day
During the second day of his official time in the shop, I told him I had something on this week, I will put my usual weekly off on Wednesday, and I will take a few hours off a day before and a day after, thus not affecting his working hours at all. I asked him if it was alright, he said yes. I asked if he could cope, he said yes. I ask if he can do all this and this, he said yes too.
I added one more job for him, and again, I simplify it as much as I can. It’s not that hard of a job, as nothing is new, and he had done it once before in his life in this shop. And I even draft out a list of things steps by steps for him coz I didn’t want to totally rule out that last 1% of possibility that he is indeed a little down on his mental. I also let him know that he can call me anytime if there is any doubts in anything at all. My phone will be with me all the time.
He said ok.
That day I was quite satisfied, coz a chalet (although forced to go type) I was happy that I could take a break although still worrying about the shop, I don’t mind a little time to relax.
That day,
I finish what I had to do, and I was casually looking at him doing his job out of curiosity, wondering how he could complete a job three times faster than me.
The sight rendered me complete speechlessness.
He is as good as cutting all his job into 4 parts and complete only a part of it to make it look like he finish everything. Sure he touched a part of everything, but nothing was really completed.
Would anyone whose mental was a bit low be that clever?
I was pissed, but being the nice person I always am, *ahem* I tell him nicely, without raised voiced and without a hint of temper, I told him that he should do this job this and that way.
The reason why I was pissed was because, this is the 3434513412365677th time I realize that I should have trusted my own instinct or 6th sense or whatever you want to call it.
So I was right about him being a smarter lazy ass. But guess what, this is not the reason why this post is even up today.
The 8th magical day, his off day, today.
The shocking thing is, maybe not so shocking if you put all the pieces together la, but the pissing piss piss part is
HE QUIT!
Right before the day the chalet starts.
I didn’t receive the news from him. I receive the news from my boss who came down from his outlet to pass me something.
I was shock, yes.
Asked the reason why, it seems the lazy ass said something about having nothing to learn.
HE CHOSE NOT TO READ!!!!!! I didn’t say that out loud la, but still.
And I proceed to tell my boss about the few hours off a day before and after my off day because I have something on.
I got blamed for scaring that fragile little 38 years old once a manager guy away.
Reason of it being my fault, because I took a few hours off a day before and after my routine off day. which means leaving him alone in the shop for say like about an extra of 10 hours or lesser, more than what it should have been.
AND HE RAN!!! QUIT!!! RIGHT IN MY FACE!!!! BECAUSE OF THIS????
Pissed off about 2 things if u notice!
-About an asshole being an asshole acting like a non-asshole but is indeed a freaking lazy asshole.
-About my boss hiring someone although his resume is off the norms he chose to trust his petty little assumptions and blaming me because that off the norm person has predictably quit. Just didn’t expect it to be so soon.
After telling my boss that I did do my job in letting him learn things and such, so the reason about him not learning anything is a bit odd. ( meaning behind it = he freaking don’t want to learn himself it’s his choice what. What cannot learn anything, more like don’t want to ) and I did tell him on what he should do when I am not around, and it’s not hard.
He just say casually “oh, maybe he has a problem too”
He acknowledge that he MAY have a problem.
He left some instructions to me and went off.
I was there thinking, yeah, maybe when I know that the guy is a non-tard but act tard. I shouldn’t have left him alone that 8 hours extra.
So I sms-ed my boss and said,
I am sorry if I really did scare him off.
He replied
No worries, ( good ) hope you grow from this too ( neutral )
Coz I was thinking, sure, grow, grow to learn that there are actually asshole near me.
Nearer than I thought it would affect me.
So next time I meet another of such asshole, like my boss mentioned halfway during the ‘he quit’ conversation.
Translated by me as
That I should have tried standing in his position, that he is a fragile little 38 years old once a manager man, not knowing what to do in retail line although he has been working in retail line all his freaking life since the year my younger brother was born. That I should not leave such a fragile clueless guy alone for too long, because he will be so very lost despite his 22 years of experience.
This is my pissed off number 3 for the day.
Just imagine if I really have to do that the next time another similar type cheated my boss into hiring him.
The ironic part is, I really love this job, I love working in a wine shop.
Although it is a family business, frankly, I can’t get off days as easy as a normal job, precisely because it is family business and there are obligations, and I do know that they probably hire me base on blood relations instead of my abilities, but then again, if they could hire someone like him, why not me.
Anyway, I guess all job has shitty shits like that, and no one is an exception. And although no one is an exception, I want to complain about it coz it ruins my mood totally, especially right before a so called relaxing birthday celebration chalet. The feeling of ‘looking forward to it’ mood, that I hardly managed to pick up after some effort, went down the drain just like that, STRAIGHT down.
Talk about loving the job. Not long after I started this job, way back. My boss asked, what was the main reason that made me chose to work here. ( wine shop)
In my mind, thoughts were flying. I was really quite interested in wines, alcoholic drinks etc. but the top of top most apparent reason was of coz, money.
Who don’t need money to survive.
So I decided to not wear the superficial ‘because I love wine very much’ type of face and tell him one word,
“money”
You can imagine all the “I believe that ………….. yada yada” talk I got after that.
Apparently like any other aw so inspiring type of guy, he believes in working for interest not for money.
So inspiring it almost brought me to tears. Because it sounds like the type of thing that everyone knows everyone wants to hear thus saying it repeatedly without shame although they don’t mean it.
For my boss case, he might mean it, but at the same time knowing he can only do so because he got a rich daddy who would not hesitate to pay for his expenses even though he is at such age. He knows it, that’s why he can give that inspiring speech of boringness and expect me to comply.
I felt like telling him, ‘like that, don’t take salary la, all give me, I need it more than you.’
But knowing what kind of typically aw inspiring, only want to hear the politically correct answer type of guy he is, I gave him what he want, like I always do, until now.
And here, I end my long long ranting post. Thank you for bearing with me until now. I am off to preparing for tomorrows instruction for my ex-part timer, a 16 years old girl who will not run off because she will be left alone for a mere few hours a day.
