Oh Sshhmack!

I just found out that Norwegian guy's address was correct... and Mario wasn't going to tell me that she'd gotten that e-mail! Ha ha! (Of course I still hadn't checked in the first place but that is beside the point.)

Mario is currently at lunch... which is why I'm having diarrhea of the blog...

... I wish Mario had diarrhea...

And then there was Larry

Yesterday I sent Larry a list of stickers that were in stock but were not on the website. Today she sent me an e-mail that said, "Did you check to see if these were in stock?"

Umm...yeah...that's why I said "these are in stock but not on the site."

Mario must've been talking smack! Maybe I'll slip her some laxative.

B...U...S....S?

I was fed up with Mario and eager to have lunch with the "guys" in the lunch room. Danny was napping on the couch which left me with Rollo and Thomas. They were apparently having their usual heated discussion but since I don't know sign... I just always think they're talking about me.

Thomas makes about as much effort as I do at communicating with me so we usually just use the smile and nod approach to our day.

Rollo, on the other hand, likes to talk. There was a news story on today (we watch the news mostly because it has the rolling tagline for the guys to read because the TV doesn't have closed captioning) about terrorist threats in Boston. Rollo was trying to tell me something about it.... he was making exploding hand gestures... then he finally spelled out B...U...S....S... I was utterly lost so he did it again... B....U....S....S... at which point I realized it was H not S... it was BUSH. Rollo hates Bush!!! He then shook his head and said some other things which I took to mean "Stupid president. This wouldn't be happening if it wasn't for him!"

He's a cool deaf guy.

Anal Retentive

So I finally snapped at Mario today... didn't know it was going to happen until it flew out of my mouth but it did! Now we sit in silence and I don't know if its because of that or what.

A customer's order got lost in shipping (as it occasionally does with International shipments) and it had been over a month so it was time to re-send his package. I set up the new shipment to go to the Pick List (the list which gets handed to the warehouse guys so they know what inventory to pick off the shelf) and to invoice at which point it falls into Mario's hands. (Its her job to print the lists, packing slips and pick tickets (which is a list of what goes in each box.)

So when Mario reaches this Norwegian guy's order she stops it, looks at me and says "Did you verify this guys address?"

This pisses me off for 2 reasons:

A) Why the hell do you need to even ask me stupid questions like that? Do you think I can't do my job?? Do you think you have to friggin' babysit everything I do? You screw shit up all the time but I'm too nice of a person to say anything to you ... I just fix it and move on. I don't start asking you if you've done it right each time!!

B) I forgot to verify the guy's address.


So I respond, nicely and with my normal dose of humility (I don't know why I dose it up with humility... its apparently making Mario think she can boss me), "Oh, no. I didn't." To which she responds, "So we're just gonna send this to the same address again without knowing if its correct??"

At which point I snapped and retorted, "Then put it on hold Mario!" (with heavy underlying "You stupid dumbass bitch" tone).

I then had to follow it up with some sort of 'I'm not really being serious' attempt so I said, with a faux giggle, "Don't be silly!"

I think Mario is constipated again. She gets moody when she's constipated. She'll be moody for a few days and then tell me on the fourth day about how she hasn't pooped in a few days. Very early in our co-worker relationship she asked me to "Feel how stiff my stomach is!" That was really crossing a line... I refused to touch her hardened intestines.

Lunch

Do you ever get that sudden ATTACK hunger that seems to come from nowhere? Suddenly you're STARVING and it feels as though your stomach is almost gasping for nutrition. It convulses in and out as if attempting to digest air. If it were a person it would be one of those sad characters - thin and malnourished - crawling over a sand dune....

This is the type of hunger I had 2 minutes prior to my lunch time when Larry came in, clocked out, and said "I'm going to take my lunch now since Mario is out," leaving me there shocked and unable to eat until 40 minutes later when she clocked back in.

That's bad...

Today I processed an order for someone whose name looked reeeeeaaaallllly familiar!! Then I realized her name was the same as a T-Shirt style: Heather Gray

That's sad.