MadMan4Ever
Sig-Sauer devotee
I hate people sometimes.... I go door to door installing updated electric meters, not calling ahead because that would be intelligent & corporate doesn’t work that way.
I knock on this door and nobody answers, so I leave the brochure detailing the features, etc. then go to the side of the house to do the install. I get half way thru then hear this old battle axe call out “anyone on the side of the house better come out real slow, right now”.
I do so because I didn’t see the pistol in her hand. I explain how I knocked but nobody answers, I’m quiet and polite, I don’t get loud often... I’m more soft spoken.
She says she has bad knees and it takes her a while to reach the door. I politely suggest she might be interested in one of those doorbells that have a camera & you can talk to the person at the door without even leaving your couch.
She says nothing nasty to me at the time, but towards the end of the day, I get a call from my boss asking what I said to her, she calls Duke to raise a fuss about me not having my badge, how I didn’t have any business telling her to invest in a security, how I have no idea what security she has...
I simply state I don’t know what security she does have, but I DO know she did NOT have that doorbell camera because I’d have used it if she had.. And I had my badge & everything else, she just made crap up.
I wish my boss had the courage to tell his bosses to go to hell more easily...now I work too hard to tolerate anyone trying to get me fired because I try to help them. We need more emoticons to capture my aggravation more fittingly.
I’m not fired or anything yet but it doesn’t endear me to my employer when we have to have stories like this.
I knock on this door and nobody answers, so I leave the brochure detailing the features, etc. then go to the side of the house to do the install. I get half way thru then hear this old battle axe call out “anyone on the side of the house better come out real slow, right now”.
I do so because I didn’t see the pistol in her hand. I explain how I knocked but nobody answers, I’m quiet and polite, I don’t get loud often... I’m more soft spoken.
She says she has bad knees and it takes her a while to reach the door. I politely suggest she might be interested in one of those doorbells that have a camera & you can talk to the person at the door without even leaving your couch.
She says nothing nasty to me at the time, but towards the end of the day, I get a call from my boss asking what I said to her, she calls Duke to raise a fuss about me not having my badge, how I didn’t have any business telling her to invest in a security, how I have no idea what security she has...
I simply state I don’t know what security she does have, but I DO know she did NOT have that doorbell camera because I’d have used it if she had.. And I had my badge & everything else, she just made crap up.
I wish my boss had the courage to tell his bosses to go to hell more easily...now I work too hard to tolerate anyone trying to get me fired because I try to help them. We need more emoticons to capture my aggravation more fittingly.
I’m not fired or anything yet but it doesn’t endear me to my employer when we have to have stories like this.
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