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7 Deadly Sins, Day 3
Day 1 - Pride. Seven great things about yourself.
Day 2 - Envy. Seven things you lack and covet.
Day 3 - Wrath. Seven things that piss you off.
Day 4 - Sloth. Seven things you neglect to do.
Day 5 - Greed. Seven worldly material desires.
Day 6 - Gluttony. Seven guilty pleasures.
Day 7 - Lust. Seven love secrets.
The challenge here is to find seven things that I can put words to.
1. Being discounted or overlooked. I think this stems from being the youngest child of five, and a surprise and unwanted child at that. It happens to me at work at least once a week. I'm the Go To Guy when things are really in a jam, but should I provide an answer that doesn't align with the expected/desired result, I'm suddenly treated like the consultant at the back of the room.
2. Cruelty, especially to children. I don't like mean spirited humor, either, which is why I don't like Mike Myers.
3. Getting an order wrong in a restaurant. I don't care how busy it is in the kitchen, if it's written clearly on the ticket, the line cook should be able to do it. "With cheese" isn't hard to understand. If it is, he should find another line of work.
4. Feeling helpless. For several weeks now, we've been finding evidence of rats in the garage and basement. I've put down bait and traps and gotten little for my trouble except more damage. We finally had to call in a professional for more traps and advice. Though we have a plan moving forward, hearing scrabbling at 4:30 in the morning, knowing I'm not going to sleep again at all that night raises the stress to dangerous levels.
5. Having to say something more than once or twice. If you've read my posts about DataGuy, you already know this is an ongoing issue. Corollary to this is stupidity, especially willful stupidity: ignorance can be educated, stupidity hangs on.
6. Although this is my chosen industry, I hate - fucking hate - dealing with computer people online or over the phone, especially when seeking tech support. As a species we have a tendency to answer questions that haven't been asked, to approach the problem according to our script (in most cases, literally) rather than the asker's needs.
7. Wasted opportunities. This includes movies where the director had perfectly good source material and lacked the vision to see it through or the humility to leave it alone), sales that slipped by because we talked too much and didn't close, and the span of my life from age 18 to 24.
Day 2 - Envy. Seven things you lack and covet.
Day 3 - Wrath. Seven things that piss you off.
Day 4 - Sloth. Seven things you neglect to do.
Day 5 - Greed. Seven worldly material desires.
Day 6 - Gluttony. Seven guilty pleasures.
Day 7 - Lust. Seven love secrets.
The challenge here is to find seven things that I can put words to.
1. Being discounted or overlooked. I think this stems from being the youngest child of five, and a surprise and unwanted child at that. It happens to me at work at least once a week. I'm the Go To Guy when things are really in a jam, but should I provide an answer that doesn't align with the expected/desired result, I'm suddenly treated like the consultant at the back of the room.
2. Cruelty, especially to children. I don't like mean spirited humor, either, which is why I don't like Mike Myers.
3. Getting an order wrong in a restaurant. I don't care how busy it is in the kitchen, if it's written clearly on the ticket, the line cook should be able to do it. "With cheese" isn't hard to understand. If it is, he should find another line of work.
4. Feeling helpless. For several weeks now, we've been finding evidence of rats in the garage and basement. I've put down bait and traps and gotten little for my trouble except more damage. We finally had to call in a professional for more traps and advice. Though we have a plan moving forward, hearing scrabbling at 4:30 in the morning, knowing I'm not going to sleep again at all that night raises the stress to dangerous levels.
5. Having to say something more than once or twice. If you've read my posts about DataGuy, you already know this is an ongoing issue. Corollary to this is stupidity, especially willful stupidity: ignorance can be educated, stupidity hangs on.
6. Although this is my chosen industry, I hate - fucking hate - dealing with computer people online or over the phone, especially when seeking tech support. As a species we have a tendency to answer questions that haven't been asked, to approach the problem according to our script (in most cases, literally) rather than the asker's needs.
7. Wasted opportunities. This includes movies where the director had perfectly good source material and lacked the vision to see it through or the humility to leave it alone), sales that slipped by because we talked too much and didn't close, and the span of my life from age 18 to 24.