Tuesday, February 3, 2009


UPS
crazy-stuff
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A couple of weeks ago, I brought some of my artwork and a stack of my own card-stock to the self-service store where I always make my xerox copies. But when I got there, I realized that I had forgotten how to program the printer for card-stock, so I asked the woman behind the counter who seemed to be a new employee, to please call one of the guys in the back to come and help me as he usually does.

"They're all out for lunch," she said, without even checking, so I bent over the counter until I could see them. "They're right there," I said again. "Please ask Joe to come out?" "No," the woman responded rudely. "I'll do whatever you need done." ......and with that, she came out from behind the counter, grabbed my stack of card-stock, and shoved it into one of the front drawers of the machine.

"You can't do it like that," I said. "You've got to program the printer!"
"No, I don't...." she growled, yanked my original artwork out of my hand, placed it underneath the mat, and punched the print button.

When the printer spewed a mutilated piece of my card-stock out of its side, I became angry and told her to stop, adding that she'd been really rude and that I'd come back some other time.

The woman then returned to standing behind the counter. She never apologized and never tried to get Joe to come out to help me. Instead, she just kept staring at me like some kind of pitbull about to pounce, and her eyes were black with barely-controlled rage.

"Bitch," I mumbled, gathered my stuff, walked out, and had my copies made in another place where everybody was courteous and professional.

I forgot about this entire incident, until I returned to UPS a couple of weeks later, saw that same woman standing in front of me with that same pitbull-rage flashing out of her eyes, and understood that she'd been nurturing her anger at me all this time, that she was acting like one of those mean high-school girls who always planned some kind of evil revenge, and that I'd better watch out, because another employee said that she'd told everyone in the store that I had called her a bitch, without, of course, telling them about her nasty provocation that had caused me to become angry.

So I simply left, and didn't go back
until someone informed me that she'd
been fired because of similar incidents.
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