High Five to the Face Thursdays

I know if you saw my FB status update yesterday you probably figured out it was a bad day.  Maybe I am PMSing and in need of the chocolate that I gave up for lent, that is a strong possibility.  But I would say the bigger possibility is dumb ass people.  Working from home I really am removed from the majority of office drama.  Yesterday it felt as though I was sitting in the middle of it.  I take an issue with people that tend to talk about you in a negative sense behind your back.  If you have a problem with something someone did, be professional about it and confront the situation.  Do not be that person that will roll your eyes when their name is mentioned and then when you talk to them act that all is well.  This is such a cowardly approach to a situation that could easily be resolved if you just said what was on your mind.  I don't think you should start the conversation with "Hey Dumbass, I don't like you." But there is definitely something to be said about lines of communication...direct communication, not the type that channels through others that eventually makes it way back to you. 

I am the type of person that when it comes to work I take nothing personal.  If I did something wrong, I will be the first to raise my hand and say I screwed up.  That's how you learn, trial and error.  I am not at work to make friends.  I am there for a paycheck.  Don't get me wrong, I work with some amazing people, and I have a lot of great laughs with them.  But in reality at the end of the day if I needed to call on a friend, I would not call them.  Outside of their work numbers I do not even know how to get in touch with them. 

I just think that people (especially if you are in a management role) should have the professional fortitude to confront a person about something.  Not go to others with negative comments or expressions about them.  I would say as management you should be better than that, but in reality as humans you should be better than that.  If I have something to say to someone about anything I am going to approach them.  I don't find myself to be a confrontational person at all, but I do consider myself to be respectful enough of others that I am not going to discuss my issues with someone else.  Because just like yesterday's work drama all lines of communication will end back up to that person.  And to be honest, I don't want to hear people bitch all day that someone was talking about them.

So, after my somewhat drama filled afternoon over work cattiness I decided to go get a brow wax.  It was almost as if God was punishing for thinking in my mind I wanted to high five people to the face yesterday.  I sit down in the chair to a nice girl named Crystal.  After the wax is put on my first eyebrow, Crystal informs me that she is an apprentice in the shop and this is her first eye brow wax since leaving beauty college in 2008.  She said that after graduation she had other things going on and did not get her license right away, plus the first time she took the test she failed.  I am thinking really, can this story get any crazier.  And why yes it does...come to find out when she went to a Beauty College where my cousin instructed.  I can't wait to talk to her today and ask her why my brows are still puffy and I have dried on wax, not to mention bleeding as I left the shop.  This wax almost took 20 minutes.  I knew I was in need of one, but I didn't have shag carpet hanging above my eyes.  I just wanted it to end.  And today I can still see the marks of my 20 minute torture.

Afterwards I decided the only way to end this day was going to be retail therapy. Lucky for me, Target was across the street.  I never get out of Target without spending at least $100 -- so $187 later and a few new items for myself, at 8:30 pm, my day was finally starting to look up a bit.

I do believe that High Five to the Face Thursdays should become a national holiday.