I'm having just the weirdest life at work. Let me say, for those of you that haven't met me yet,
I'm a pretty laid back, happy person, try to be encouraging,
hate confrontation unless a serious line was crossed,
if I can help in any way, I do, been accused of being
TOO Pollyanna-ish...etc...
TODAY...
I held a large, metal ice scoop up to the nose of one of
my maintenance guys and threatened him.
OK, part of it was for the shock value and
to get thru his head I wasn't playing.
Here is how it all began...
Keep in mind we have fun at work, I'm not an ogre!
REALLY!!
We play around and kid each other, the whole crew.
About a week ago, my foot was acting up, and I was going to be
standing still for a couple hours. I asked that maintenance guy to
bring in my bar stool from my car while he was out going thru the lot.
He offered to have me sit on his lap.
His goofy grin verified he was kidding,
and just going for my reaction.
To which I punched his arm...
Yesterday, I told him I needed him to work in an area
he usually isn't, only for an hour.
He said "I love you but I can't, I'm sick" blah blah blah,
wait, WHAT did you say??
Again, his hysterical laughter tells me he's just yanking my chain,
So since he was too sick to do what I needed him too,
he got a couple much worse things to do,
I am manager, hear me roar! GRRR!
I'm too nice, they are not afraid of me :(
Tho, NOBODY likes to get a list from me...(insert evil laugh here..)
TODAY... he was in an overly punchy mood.
The day was rather calm and 'normal'. I went back into our grill,
and hear him trying to tell my grill girls that WE have a thing going,
for quite a while now...
OK, you can yank my chain only so far,
and this is not something I kid about.
I yelled at him after getting my face
back into it's original shape...
and I walk away, totally thrown for a loop.
10 minutes later, I was getting ice with said big ice scoop.
He comes around the corner where I am and I put the scoop up
to his nose and tell him in a tone I rarely use,
"If you keep up this nonsense,
I will call your wife and tell her we DO have something going"
to which he disappeared faster than Houdini, not to be seen again by me.
I think I got my point across. We'll see how he behaves tomorrow :)
If I were a lizard, that would have been an AWESOME
posturing and head bobbing show!
Am I the only one having one of THOSE weeks??
I know this was not sexual harrassment,
just his being stupid, to which he does quite well...
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5 comments:
Maybe you shudda used the scooper to scoop up some nuts if you know what I mean......
I considered a Rockette's move but thought I'd go for a threat 1st, I can be a Rockette anytime, and I'm not afraid to kick :)
LM, I love that the threat of telling his wife made him run off. He should have known better. Like I've said before, the first time I met you, you were flanked by two large lizards. My first thought was, "Don't mess with this lady." Unfortunately, some guys can't help but talk sh*t because that's what keeps their ego afloat.
I had a shock today: the repair on my truck was $527.00. New fuel pump, which is inside the gas tank. What a smart idea: put a pump inside of a tank filled with one of the most flammable liquids known to mankind and then send an electrical charge down into it whenever the vehicle is turned on.
Contact. Ignition. Ka-boom!
Btw, LM, if you come up with some sort of repellent to ward off nut jobs, please, please let me know. They love me, too. One glance in the eyes and they know they've found a brother in me.
wow, he was incredibly well behaved today, maybe I should growl a little more often :)
Diplomacy often works with the intelligent - the stupid you sometimes have to hit with a hammer.
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