think before you speak

[threeplusfire]

"I know how y'all are there, I know you don't really care."
-angry parent upset that I was not taking a report

This is something I hear on a weekly basis. You don't care. Bullshit. If all our calls were not recorded and it wasn't unprofessional, I would go off on these people. Right. I don't care. I have this job because it pays so much money and it's so easy and I don't have to care. I listen to horror stories about abuse and sobbing and screaming and threats eight hours every day five days a week because I don't care. I take between twelve and eighteen calls every day. We'll say I take an average of seventy five calls in each work week. I listen to seventy five different stories and different pleas every week because I don't care. Right.

What the fuck ever.

This day is fired. My car is injured, I have cramps, and I have no cigarettes or lunch and this is all fucking bullshit.

Comments

[rawumber.livejournal.com]

Pringle?

--is all I have.

[kleverkira.livejournal.com]

Right. I loved when that happened too. "You don't care; you're just in it for the paycheck." The paycheck I didn't get? The summer I could've been cavorting in Italy or Germany with some of my friends? Or staying at home with my boyfriend? Yeah, okay.

And I don't know if it's just that people mistake professionalism for stoicism or what, but that's their issue.

[melanie.livejournal.com]

ouch. :(

[sykii.livejournal.com]

Ugh. That is grossly, horribly unfair. Dunno what else to say, but I'm sorry you have to deal with that idiocy.

[yahvah.livejournal.com]

I'd like to meet you.