[Rant] Minor Rant III: For a Few Hollers More

Cajungal

Staff member
Oof. I feel shitty today.

Last night I was at this great bar. Good selection and the staff is usually awesome. This one bartender, though, was an ass to me all night. I'd ask a question and he'd roll his eyes like I was stupid or just give a snappy answer and then walk off without giving me a chance to order. I thought maybe he was having a shitty night so I tried to keep it quick and friendly, but it's like my ordering food/drink and asking questions about the beet was just wrecking his night.

I private messaged the owner saying that I had my first negative experience there, but i didnt want to post about it publicly because they're generally a friendly place that prides themselves on being a non-threatening environment to learn about and try new beers. I mentioned this guy and said he seemed like he was having an off night, but that he needs to be aware that not every customer is going to give the benefit of the doubt, and maybe a conversation is in order. I wasn't irate or asking for free shit, just commenting on my experience. The manager jumps on this and says he's out--he's fired. When I said it wasn't that bad a situation, he said this was the 4th or 5th complaint against this guy.

So this bartender calls my sister. He's a friend of hers, unbeknownst to me. He asks her to give me his number so he can apologize. She calls me first, upset with me for getting this guy in trouble. When I explain my side and that he's had several complaints lodged against him, she just ignores it and tells me i should call him. When I call him he says the managers are deciding whether or not to fire him and he feels really bad. Then he proceeds to tell me that he only spoke loud because the bar was loud, and he is very sorry. I said it wasn't his volume, it was his tone, but I accepted his apology. He admitted he was having a bad night and he let it affect how he was working. I messaged the bar and told them he contacted me to say he was sorry and they should take that into account. So, his job is safe.

Here's the thing...I have a very high threshold when it comes to service. I don't need a bubbly, smiling server or cashier. They don't get paid enough, and the service industry is hard. I don't complain at restaurants or stores generally. I felt like this was a justified complaint, but the way my sister reacted to this was upsetting. She doesn't hang out with this guy anymore, but she basically promised him I'd call him and try to help him get his job back
That last part I was happy to do, because I didn't want him fired in the first place. But this "friend" of hers is a guy from college that she never sees anymore. Why does she have to talk to me in an accusatory way and assume that I overreacted, taking the side of essentially a stranger?

I'm so grateful that he isn't fired, because that wasn't my objective in the first place, but my sister's reaction to this was odd. It made me feel kind of backed into a corner. No idea why my sister got so mad over this guy she never speaks to anymore when she didn't have both sides of the story. Anyway what's important is that a guy isn't fired. It's just been a strange afternoon.
 
How did he track it back to you - did the owner name-drop you as the source of a complaint when talking to him? Seems like a really, really bad thing to be doing to your customers.
 

Cajungal

Staff member
I asked tonight when I went back for another show. Apparently one of the managers is super unprofessional so he might have shown the guy an actual screenshot of my complaint, name included. (Apparently he is in the process of being muscled out.) OR he remembered seeing my sister there and having an unpleasant conversation with someone who was sitting with her and tool a chance. Either way it was very weird and uncomfortable.
 
The pain specialist who does my pain procedures twice a year is retiring next March. Before I saw him, I went to the other hospital and they tunneled in for like 45 minutes while I was in the CT and it was awful. The last one I had done there was botched and I had two doctors trying to ram one of the injections in and it took twice as long. It was terrible and I refused to return.

My current doctor has a different approach, gives me IV sedation and pain meds and also doesn’t let me walk after (which is much safer).

When he told me about his retirement I gasped and said Noooo! I apologized and congratulated him right after that. While I’m very happy for him, I’m horrified for what that means for my treatments. The pain clinic has a two year wait list. They’ve had to take on all the patients from a nearby clinic because it closed. I used to be able to call and get my treatment booked within two weeks. Today, we booked me in for December for my next one because they fill up so fast. They don’t know who my next doctor will be, but warned me that they may want an office visit and/or to completely re-evaluate. FML on that last part. These treatments really help.
 
So, I fainted last night. Kinda came out of nowhere. I tried getting up after a minute or so on the ground to get back to the car but then I went down again. I felt so dizzy, like the room was spinning, but once I was home I felt normal (thankfully I was with someone who drove me). I've never had that happen before, and while I have a theorey as to why it happened, I'm just nervous now that it'll happen again. I could feel it coming last night, but what if I'm driving and don't feel it happening in time to pull over?
 
So, I fainted last night. Kinda came out of nowhere. I tried getting up after a minute or so on the ground to get back to the car but then I went down again. I felt so dizzy, like the room was spinning, but once I was home I felt normal (thankfully I was with someone who drove me). I've never had that happen before, and while I have a theorey as to why it happened, I'm just nervous now that it'll happen again. I could feel it coming last night, but what if I'm driving and don't feel it happening in time to pull over?
I’m glad to hear that you’re feeling better now. Please go see a doctor soon!
 
So, I fainted last night. Kinda came out of nowhere. I tried getting up after a minute or so on the ground to get back to the car but then I went down again. I felt so dizzy, like the room was spinning, but once I was home I felt normal (thankfully I was with someone who drove me). I've never had that happen before, and while I have a theorey as to why it happened, I'm just nervous now that it'll happen again. I could feel it coming last night, but what if I'm driving and don't feel it happening in time to pull over?
Yes.
Please get it checked out, as there are SO MANY causes ranging from “you got up too fast” to “your heart could (literally!) be about to explode” and you want a professional to help you narrow them down.

—Patrick
 
Incidentally (not trying to get political), the pharmacy couldn't take my insurance that should be a $5 copay. I asked if I could just buy it cash and she said it was $72. Or I could get it over-the-counter for $15, which seemed like a better option. These things are stupid.
 
Ugh. Being unemployed sucks. Being turned down - especially in the later stages, after several interviews and tests - sucks.
Being depressed and continuously feeling put down by your girlfriend sucks. And I know she means well ,but practically everything she does or says feels like an attack or an insult or a jab at me. Which is sometimes the case, sure, but a lot of it is on me and being incredibly oversensitive and irritable and just not knowing what to do or how to do it and it's getting to me.
 
Huh thats interesting. I can't imagine they would've brought down the price to be less than the over-the-counter price though anyways.
 
It sounds like there’s no guarantee, of course, but that it’s certainly worth asking every time just to be sure...especially if you are someone who would already be paying the supposed “full price” cost anyway.

—Patrick
 

GasBandit

Staff member
Brandie parked in my spot. SHE KNOWS that's my spot. FIFTEEN YEARS that's been my spot. You could see the look on her face when she first saw me in the office, too, it practically telegraphed "oh shit, here he comes, I parked in his spot."

DON'T PARK IN MY SPOT. I have a black interior! It's July in Texas! I need that shade WAY more than you do!
 
Brandie parked in my spot. SHE KNOWS that's my spot. FIFTEEN YEARS that's been my spot. You could see the look on her face when she first saw me in the office, too, it practically telegraphed "oh shit, here he comes, I parked in his spot."

DON'T PARK IN MY SPOT. I have a black interior! It's July in Texas! I need that shade WAY more than you do!
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--Patrick
 
And a car cover doesn't cool the interior of the car, it just makes it that much more HOTTER inside when you pull it off with burning fingers.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
Is it LABELED as your spot, or just the spot you like to park in?
Everybody knows damn good and well which spot is mine. Especially the person who parked there. She's just a bit of a twit. Soon as she saw me, as I said, her face telegraphed that "I know I fucked up" feeling.

Even the GM's spot closest to the door isn't "Labeled," but nobody parks there. In a company with less than 30 employees, people just know.
 

Dave

Staff member
You're like the guy who gets pissed and leaves notes on your car if you park in front of his house. If the spot isn't marked and someone gets there before you, tough titties.
 

Dave

Staff member
You can disagree all you want, but that's not your reserved spot and you have no right to get pissy and you know it.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
You're like the guy who gets pissed and leaves notes on your car if you park in front of his house. If the spot isn't marked and someone gets there before you, tough titties.
Nope. It's my spot. She knows it's my spot. New folks who don't know, I let slide. Not her though. And this is not her only transgression - this is the jock who never can seem to get her production done, either, despite being given it WEEKS in advance.

I guess the silver lining is she's only here for an hour or two a day, but of course, while she's here, she lets her screaming, destructive brats run loose in the building that have to touch/hit/bang on everything. But it's amazing what management will put up with here, so long as the employee doesn't actually want typical levels of compensation (she has a day job at A&M so she DGAF)

You can disagree all you want, but that's not your reserved spot and you have no right to get pissy and you know it.
I have every right. It's my spot. Everybody knows it's my spot. SHE knew it was my spot, and the first words out of her mouth were literally "Did I park in your spot?"
 

Dave

Staff member
Gas the "quit parking in a public spot or one that I arbitrarily assigned to myself even though it's not marked" guy. Who knew?
 

GasBandit

Staff member
Gas the "quit parking in a public spot or one that I arbitrarily assigned to myself even though it's not marked" guy. Who knew?
Dave the "I thoughtlessly do whatever is most convenient for me and fuck everybody else guy," who knew ;)
 

Dave

Staff member
If I'm there first, I take the best available. If I'm there first and there's a name on the parking space I leave it alone and park in the best available. Which is how it should be. We live in a society. We are not animals. You don't get a parking space merely by pissing on it and claiming it's yours.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
If I'm there first, I take the best available. If I'm there first and there's a name on the parking space I leave it alone and park in the best available. Which is how it should be. We live in a society. We are not animals. You don't get a parking space merely by pissing on it and claiming it's yours.


It's my spot. Anyone who parks it in will feel my wrath. Most people are smart enough not to park in my spot, because otherwise there are... repercussions.

(Remember my stories about escalation?)
 
You're like the guy who gets pissed and leaves notes on your car if you park in front of his house. If the spot isn't marked and someone gets there before you, tough titties.
This might just be frustration bleedover since it’s an uncomfortable consequence of not being able to get to bed at a reasonable hour of late.

—Patrick
 
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