Yer A Fucking Idiot!

Yes, those words have passed my lips more than 30 times while driving this holiday week. Oh my fucking god! I understand that not everybody is good at driving, but jesus christ! Smarten the fuck up!

At this time of year everybody who has access to a car is out there and driving it. 16 with no experience? 84 with no sight? more people than seat belts? unrestrained infants & children? Yes, I've seen it all, and most of it I've narrowly escaped.

My favourite move, and admittedly I did not know it was my favourite move when I started this post, was the ever loving right hand turn from the left hand lane...on the highway! Yes, this beauty happened to me on the snow covered highway by the little town of Princeton this week. Gotta love the elderly. I had followed her for a good 80 k, and when the highway reached town I decided to move to the outside lane, and she stayed put in the inside lane. All was well. Until she decided to turn right. right. in. front. of. me! I was too stunned to honk, too stunned to yell and in fact all I did manage to do was stand on my brake pedal and evade her advancing red Taurus. Did I mention there was snow on the highway? Fuck I thought I was going to paste her and she was completely oblivious. Only once she had completed her turn did she look back to see me, stopped sort of sideways on the highway, holding my head. I thought it was going to explode. Lady, yer a fucking idiot!

I Work With Children

Ok, I don't literally work with children, but the people I do work with behave as though they're 4. My office has 2 levels. Each level has a photocopier. All day long the upstairs people were coming downstairs to use the copier. Not too much of a big deal. Obviously the upstairs one was being used for a big job and was occupied. Nope. That wasn't it at all. In fact, the upstairs copier did not work. Jammed or some other nonsense, rendering it useless until the service technician could come out to look at it. When would that happen? Never! Never, because none of the fucking morons upstairs called for service. Not the HR Dept, not the Sales Dept, nor any of the other allegedly capable people on the second floor managed to put 2 & 2 together and try and get their machine fixed. Nope. It was so much easier to go up and down the stairs all day. How do these people hold down jobs?

Just how challenging is it to place a service call, you might be wondering? Well, you call the telephone number on the machine, quote them another number on your machine and tell them what's wrong. That’s it. That’s all.

Even, at the end of the business day, when one of the evil geniuses upstairs DID decide it would be a good idea to place a service call, they didn't do it themselves. No. The rocket scientist called the Receptionist downstairs and asked her to place a service call. And as if the above was not fucking stupid enough, the upstairs person then had to go to the copier and recite all of the pertinent details to the Receptionist and describe for her the problem. It would have been simpler for the upstairs person to just call the copier place themselves.

It amazes me that these people can find their way to the office everyday. I work with fucking incompetents.