ignorance is bliss....

except for those of us unfortunate not to be that. I've had a lot on my mind this week and tons of good blog ideas but now have forgotten them all but I'll try to see if I can't remember them. School starts in just over a week and naturally the store is crazy busy and there's more work to do than can be done. Which reminds me of one of the things I wanted to moan about. Lazy slacker-ass people. I don't usually have problems with bad employees but this semester I found 2 jems that don't bother showing up on time or sometimes at all and then don't bother to call to let you know that they're not coming. Then you get some bull shit sob story that I only half believe but find hard to swallow when they are so slackerish while on the clock. One girl who has called out 6 times now in 5 weeks delegates the projects that we give her to the other temps who started after her. This last time she sends me a text message (that's how she normally calls in or she emails) and I didn't have my phone with me so I didn't think to have Chad check it until it was way too late. I had told her that she needed to call me directly at the store and speak to me rather than assume I read a text message when I rarely hear my phone go off. The other temp was a no-call, no-show for the second week in a row. Then when I called him to see if he was okay he gave me an excuse which was probably mostly valid but then when I reproached him for not filling me in he got silent and offended and then I asked him if he was coming in the rest of the week at all and he said probably not and once again I asked him if he was planning on telling me and he just didn't say anything. Please understand that I wasn't rude or harsh or raise my voice or anything. Considering how ticked off I was I managed to be very cordial and really I didn't have to be. Both these temps are over 30. How embarrassing to be a grown adult and such a total douche. I'd be mortified if I ever had to miss a day and then just not bother to call my boss. This all brings me to the same question I ask myself all the time. Am I so hard to talk to? I don't understand. One of my returning temps told me how much she liked me and how easy I am to talk to and how embarrassed she was for the other temp who couldn't bother to show up regularly. I told her how much I appreciated her saying that but it still makes me think that maybe I am scary too some people so it's easier to just not call. I've prided myself on being a reasonable and understanding boss (and on making up words like prided!) I don't freak out or judge or criticise. Oh well, 2 more weeks and I clean house and start fresh.