Well, must be nice to have it that good and not have to work hard. You're having fun? Is that my tax dollars at work?
I am very thankful that both my parents are public school teachers AND that I have several extended family members who also work for the same county government that I do. Because this means that my work rarely gives me reason to dread family get togethers. (other things do, but not this.) Even family members that would be the most likely suspects for this type of attitude don't have those opinions (or voice them).
I do, however, get it at work from people who don't want to pay their library fines, etc.
I also learned very quickly not to complain about obnoxious customers when I worked retail - because then everyone in my family would chime in about this one time they got bad customer service. In a tone of voice that suggested that I deserved what I got because someone else was crappy at their job (or had to follow crappy corporate rules or get fired).
Since one of my stories is about ringing up my cousin's grandmother, and her never realizing it was me because she couldn't be bothered to ever look me in the face at any point during the entire transaction, you can imagine how I felt about that.
This is actually part of what promoted my last blog; I neeeded a place to vent about the people that argued with me about whether or not Mark Twain wrote Huck Finn - because I could not do so anywhere else and still feel heard.
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No answers at the moment for your last question, though. Except for some unexamined ideas about writer's blogs - and other ways of connecting authors and readers - being a useful thing.
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And say that when it comes to this:
Well, must be nice to have it that good and not have to work hard. You're having fun? Is that my tax dollars at work?
I am very thankful that both my parents are public school teachers AND that I have several extended family members who also work for the same county government that I do. Because this means that my work rarely gives me reason to dread family get togethers. (other things do, but not this.) Even family members that would be the most likely suspects for this type of attitude don't have those opinions (or voice them).
I do, however, get it at work from people who don't want to pay their library fines, etc.
I also learned very quickly not to complain about obnoxious customers when I worked retail - because then everyone in my family would chime in about this one time they got bad customer service. In a tone of voice that suggested that I deserved what I got because someone else was crappy at their job (or had to follow crappy corporate rules or get fired).
Since one of my stories is about ringing up my cousin's grandmother, and her never realizing it was me because she couldn't be bothered to ever look me in the face at any point during the entire transaction, you can imagine how I felt about that.
This is actually part of what promoted my last blog; I neeeded a place to vent about the people that argued with me about whether or not Mark Twain wrote Huck Finn - because I could not do so anywhere else and still feel heard.
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No answers at the moment for your last question, though. Except for some unexamined ideas about writer's blogs - and other ways of connecting authors and readers - being a useful thing.