Appreciate

I want to talk about a few simple rules to appreciating and being appreciated at your job.

1. Please don't be rude to your co-workers, they have to deal with you too and if you're nice to them they won't be such assholes when you do something else moronic.

2. Please don't show up to work smelling like you not only smoked a bowl before you left, but like you also rolled in marijuana, plaited it in your hair and smoked yourself stupid all week long.

3. Please do not lie to your coworkers.

4. Please do not try to shark customers from your coworkers halfway through a transaction, and then get bitchy when the customer refuses because while she is your friend, she has a shred of morality, and dont tell everyone that said coworker should have handed the sale over because said customer is your sister when she in fact isn't. See 3.

5. Please do not show up late to work at least twice a week.

6. Please do not loan your car to criminals as a getaway vehicle and then have your ass arrested at your place of employment for accessory to the crime.

7. Please do not be surprised when said criminals whom you call friends screw you over and take their car from you at work leaving you without a vehicle so they can flee the law.

8. Please do not bring your drama to work, be it legal or otherwise. Your coworkers have enough drama without your shit too.

9. Please understand when customers are reluctant to work with you because you smell like pot and you have a terrible attitude.

10. Please do not be shocked and angry when you discover that (a) you are fast-tracked for a promotion to customer and (b) none of your coworkers feel sorry for you because you have chosen to disregard rules 1 through 9.

I'd tell you that these were hypothetical, but then I'd be lying. In this job market, appreciate the job you have and if at all possible, don't try so hard to lose it.

Glad to be employed,
kc