EOW rollout,,,

Working on the J.O.B. today,,, shop day in teacher mode, showing new guy (new-ish, been there before, but never in shop stuff) stuff that we do around the shop when the weather turns on us and we pull in tight.

One of the convos was “racist”; as in “are you?”

Nopes,

I hatez everybody,,,,

only, not exactly true. I DESPISE incompetence, and that covers a whole lot of skin tones/ethnic backgrounds. And its on a ‘one on one’ basis of observation.

I have learned to be tolerant, barely, but its has been one rough road to travel to get here. I still find myself biting my tongue at times because to not do so would start an avalanche of shit,,,,

Incompetence abounds these days, and it is NOT limited to the ‘thirty sumpin and unders’. Fact is, the new guy is nearly my age and well, my opinion of his competency is not all that high,,,

He swears he is not dyslexic but I am seeing ‘muscle memory’ that completely reverses direction on a regular basis. I am going with “undiagnosed dyslexic” and chewing oral muscle matter (and tasting blood,,,) but keep striving to show him the right way to do simple things.

He even asked me today how I felt about doing some of our more mundane things (stretching and tying kennels) and I told him, “If I am alone, I just toss the headphones on, or crank up the sound system and go to town. I don’t need to think about ‘what’ when my muscles remember it, I just need to keep the brain distracted from boredom.” What I didn’t tell him is how frustrating it is to show someone something so simple I have to distract myself from it, and finding it takes THREE TIMES LONGER then if I were doing it solo. (Because I have to show him 5 or 66 times how to do the same damned thing, and slow my actions down so slow it causes me to strain other parts of me. My fingers are THROBBING from tying wire today due to that slowing down.) I understand that I can’t be the only one doing this, don’t WANT to be the only one either, but I have to bite that peice of flesh behind my teeth to keep from screaming at times when I see the same fuckups repeatedly, that I have to go back and fix AGAIN,,,,,

This shit is NOT ROCKET SCIENCE,,,, its flipping wire fence and wireties,,, But it does have to restrain animals and therefore needs to be done to a certain standard,

and these guys can’t even hit THAT!!!!

sigh,,,,,

I try, I really do, but the strain wears me thin at times.

Thanks for listening to me bitch about ‘teh stoopid’ in my life,,,

Keep on livin’

I am. Trying anyways.