What what, grumpy butt
Feb. 3rd, 2026 11:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missdianeLittle irritations are getting to me which the number of them make me think that it's probably MY attitude more than theirs. Or not, who knows.
Elaine at work drives me up the wall with her constant self-congratulatory crap. Today it was how she buys gifts for the people helping at her kid's theater crap. Yesterday really irritated me, though. She was going on about how she "doesn't tell people how to grieve" which is a complete lie. Evidently the grandfather of her stepkids died, though not the father of her husband, the father of the kinda crackpot ex wife. The kids (adults) hadn't seen him in at minimum 10 years and so obviously didn't have a relationship with them. But oh, Elaine had to bring it upon herself to buy a tree and is guilt-tripping the stepgirls that are in the state about going out to Long Island for whatever observance they're having for the guy (he was cremated). Because evidently according to her, that's the "right" thing to do. Then, yeah, you ARE telling them how to grieve and you're an asshole for guilt-tripping them into it. Add in her self-righteous blabbering on about all the wonderful things SHE does when people die, yadda yadda, it really annoyed me and I had to fight to keep my sassy mouth shut. If you feel the need to perform a soliloquy about how good of a person you are, you're not a good person. Good people don't brag about being good people and they don't guilt trip their step children on how to properly grieve. UGH.
Other small irritations are things like jackasses that make coffee in the coffeemaker that I donated to the floor - mainly because it has an automatic shutoff - but then don't clean it up. I don't care if that thing gets all kinds of mold. I'm done with it. I have a keurig in my office. The neighboring lazy coworker that reports to Elaine and hasn't learned her job in over EIGHT months that leaves her space heater going in her office and forgets about it and the door is locked. She's done it twice in a week and today tried to lie that she didn't leave it on last night. Yeah, I could hear it. It happens once more and I'm placing an anonymous call to the University fire code enforcement.
Even smaller dumb things are always being the one to run and put away stuff from the dishwasher, the one that will make dinner 9/10 of the time, the one to try to clean the never ending house clutter, the one that will have to get a shoe stand for my bedroom because evidently having one shelf of the two shoe racks in the living room doesn't help.
Eh, probably mostly not sleeping great doesn't help.
Oh and Emily's having to work from home yesterday and an indeterminate time this week because at her work, the pipes burst above her office and a couple office next to it and it's a health hazard at the moment. We are having NO luck with this stuff.
Elaine at work drives me up the wall with her constant self-congratulatory crap. Today it was how she buys gifts for the people helping at her kid's theater crap. Yesterday really irritated me, though. She was going on about how she "doesn't tell people how to grieve" which is a complete lie. Evidently the grandfather of her stepkids died, though not the father of her husband, the father of the kinda crackpot ex wife. The kids (adults) hadn't seen him in at minimum 10 years and so obviously didn't have a relationship with them. But oh, Elaine had to bring it upon herself to buy a tree and is guilt-tripping the stepgirls that are in the state about going out to Long Island for whatever observance they're having for the guy (he was cremated). Because evidently according to her, that's the "right" thing to do. Then, yeah, you ARE telling them how to grieve and you're an asshole for guilt-tripping them into it. Add in her self-righteous blabbering on about all the wonderful things SHE does when people die, yadda yadda, it really annoyed me and I had to fight to keep my sassy mouth shut. If you feel the need to perform a soliloquy about how good of a person you are, you're not a good person. Good people don't brag about being good people and they don't guilt trip their step children on how to properly grieve. UGH.
Other small irritations are things like jackasses that make coffee in the coffeemaker that I donated to the floor - mainly because it has an automatic shutoff - but then don't clean it up. I don't care if that thing gets all kinds of mold. I'm done with it. I have a keurig in my office. The neighboring lazy coworker that reports to Elaine and hasn't learned her job in over EIGHT months that leaves her space heater going in her office and forgets about it and the door is locked. She's done it twice in a week and today tried to lie that she didn't leave it on last night. Yeah, I could hear it. It happens once more and I'm placing an anonymous call to the University fire code enforcement.
Even smaller dumb things are always being the one to run and put away stuff from the dishwasher, the one that will make dinner 9/10 of the time, the one to try to clean the never ending house clutter, the one that will have to get a shoe stand for my bedroom because evidently having one shelf of the two shoe racks in the living room doesn't help.
Eh, probably mostly not sleeping great doesn't help.
Oh and Emily's having to work from home yesterday and an indeterminate time this week because at her work, the pipes burst above her office and a couple office next to it and it's a health hazard at the moment. We are having NO luck with this stuff.
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Date: 2026-02-03 05:36 pm (UTC)And also the awful cold.
When I used to work..we had the coffee in our office but I made enough for myself and some of the faculty who got there early enough. We had one faculty person (female!) who had a meeting one morning and stuff to do in the early afternoon. She came to my desk with her empty cup at about three and told me I had to make her a cup of coffee. I put the bag of coffee on her desk and told her what to do, and then after she made her coffee I threw away the coffee maker and told them I was sorry, but I wasn't going to make coffee any more. I'd forgotten that until you reminded me.
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Date: 2026-02-03 05:47 pm (UTC)Doesn't help that I forgot to bring my reading glasses this morning and so out of habit to properly see the computer screen at work, I kept tilting my head back (the progressives I have aren't aligned correctly which is why I got the reading glasses). Now I have a headache from that. Just...BLAH
Also I had to clutch the side of the car to not fall when I pulled in the driveway when I got home because it's barely melting and then refreezing and that side of the car doesn't get sun. I dumped a crapton of salt on it before I went inside so hopefully tomorrow morning I have traction.
I need a nap.