My time in hell, gripe of the week

For the past two weeks I've been working at my job as a receptionist. Most of the time everything runs smoothly. However, I will be writing my gripes in this blog.
Today I will start with Gripe #1.

Gripe #1

If you have caller ID, don't misuse it.

I get many calls per day with someone asking the question "Did somebody call here?" or any variation of "Somebody called me from this number", or "What is this?", "Who am I calling?".

First of all, I'm a receptionist, not a mind-reader. If I were a mind-reader, I would not answer your phone call believe me, I'd let the phone ring to my heart's content.

If you're calling someone just because you received a call from that number, then you should at least think of something better to say than to ask such questions. If the number seems strange, then it's either a miss-dialed call, or the call is not meant for YOU.

However, If you feel that it's really important to call back, then think of something important to say. Here are some examples of important things you can say to ME, when you call.



"I'm George W. Bush, and I'd like to let you be the first to know that I'm resigning my post and handing my presidency to you."





"I'm Stan Lee or Sam Raimi from Marvel Comics/Sony Pictures, I'd like you to take over for Tobey Maguire in the next Spiderman Movie."



This is God, I'm coming back soon. Repent.



Last but not least,
I'm the dude from GGW and I need a camera man this weekend in Cancun, all expenses paid, are you available?


Aside from that, please restrain yourself from calling. It might be hard to do, but it's not impossible.

Bums and Buses

Lately I have been riding the MTA bus lines to and from work. What I have to say is not going to be pretty. My gripes about the buses will be listed below.

Gripe #1.
The buses don't run on time.

Either they run too late, or too early. Wednesday morning Rosie and I were five minutes before the scheduled arrival time and the bus was not there. It was scheduled to be there at 6:19. We were there at 6:15. The actual bus did not arrive until 6:45. What's the point of putting up a bus time table if they're not going to be following it?
By the way, I'm usually late to everything, but when I'm early I would at least like to be rewarded by getting all the perks that early people get. Is that too much to ask for?

Gripe #2
Bums.

Bums smell, like urine, sweat, alcohol, feces, dirt. Bums stumble around, talk to themselves loudly, talk to YOU loudly, ask for change, make no sense. I suggest for the MTA buslines to install a decontamination chamber in each bus. That way the bum goes in dirty, comes out clean. I'm sure its as easy to install as their natural gas engine. Believe me, its worth it.

Gripe #3

Graffiti on the bus.

First of all. Taggers do not to have their name written on the seats, poles, windows, walls and i'm sure some of them have tried to write graffiti on a bum. Graffiti is unnecessary, illegible, grammatically idiotic and dirty. No one needs to know that your new name for yourself is; Clevr, zope, zpazo, photoe or any other misspelled or weird name. Your graffiti makes the bus look ugly and it shows how your parents forgot to teach you good manners.



Those were my gripes for riding on the bus. you can share your gripes as well.