Special Snowflake Stories

[snowdragon]

I finally have one for this thread!!

At work we have a mail person whose entire job consits of going to the bank twice a day, picking up and delivering inter-office mail and going to the post office when needed.

I had 8 packages that I am sending express overnight mail via the US Post Office.  The packages are already labeled, sealed and ready to go.  He just asked me if I could please Fed-Ex the packages, because he didn't want to go wait in line at the Post Office.

Ummm - that's your job?!?!  And I'm not going to take the time to find the correct Fed-Ex envelopes, create 8 new mailing labels, etc. etc. just because you don't want to wait in line!!

Man, I already have a follow up - and now we're getting dangerously close to Professional Darwinism territory. 

Our mail person sent a follow up email to my boss and I indicating that it is slightly more expensive to use Fed-Ex but "it would be worth it to not have to stand in line at the Post Office".

Still don't care - do your job!

May I have their job? Please?

No kidding, that job sounds awesome, especially as I lost my job last March. I would kill for that job!

I hope you find a job soon, I have been out of work for two years, I know how it feels.

[Hazmat]

I finally have one for this thread!!

At work we have a mail person whose entire job consits of going to the bank twice a day, picking up and delivering inter-office mail and going to the post office when needed.

I had 8 packages that I am sending express overnight mail via the US Post Office.  The packages are already labeled, sealed and ready to go.  He just asked me if I could please Fed-Ex the packages, because he didn't want to go wait in line at the Post Office.

Ummm - that's your job?!?!  And I'm not going to take the time to find the correct Fed-Ex envelopes, create 8 new mailing labels, etc. etc. just because you don't want to wait in line!!

Man, I already have a follow up - and now we're getting dangerously close to Professional Darwinism territory. 

Our mail person sent a follow up email to my boss and I indicating that it is slightly more expensive to use Fed-Ex but "it would be worth it to not have to stand in line at the Post Office".

Still don't care - do your job!

May I have their job? Please?

No kidding, that job sounds awesome, especially as I lost my job last March. I would kill for that job!

I hope you find a job soon, I have been out of work for two years, I know how it feels.

July for me, although I got mad and quit, something I should have done a long time ago.   

[Christabeldreams]

The specialest special snowflake I ever encountered was a girl who made a tumblr purely to mock a friend of mine and then got all righteous when it was taken down. She complained that she was a viiiiiiiiictiiiiiim and my friend was the one harrassing HER!

[Elfmama]

Saw someone in a black Lexus with handicapped tags this morning.....running three stop signs, including a left turn across three lanes of traffic to get into the center turn lane - it seems that when they were about to get to the stop sign, there was a gap in traffic and they just couldn't WAIT long enough to observe that STOP at the STOP sign or they'd miss their turn.....

Sadly, they apparently live in my neighborhood - so I might be running into them again.....I just hope that they don't run into ME!

Maybe that's how they got that handicapped plate...

[Reader]

I saw a woman electing her kids to be winners of the Darwin award last night does that make her a snowflake?   This is was the second time I have seen her do this now.  Every night on my drive home from my first job I drive over very, very active railroad tracks, as in we can get up to about 5 trains in a 9-5 period, and more in the evenings.  The road I turn left on after crossing the tracks then puts the tracks parallel to my car on the left.  There is a sidewalk on the right side of the road.  Where do you think this woman has her 5 kids, most who look under 10 walk?  Directly down the railroad tracks! If it matters, the right side of the road with a sidewalk is easily accessible with a crosswalk and a traffic light.

[gramma dishes]

...   Where do you think this woman has her 5 kids, most who look under 10 walk?  Directly down the railroad tracks! If it matters, the right side of the road with a sidewalk is easily accessible with a crosswalk and a traffic light.

I would call the police about this one.  That's not just Darwinish.  That's incredibly dangerous!! 

[deadbody]

...   Where do you think this woman has her 5 kids, most who look under 10 walk?  Directly down the railroad tracks! If it matters, the right side of the road with a sidewalk is easily accessible with a crosswalk and a traffic light.

I would call the police about this one.  That's not just Darwinish.  That's incredibly dangerous!! 

honestly this one doesn't bother me that much.  It's not like a train can sneak up on you.  They make a lot of noise and vibration coming, and you have more than sufficent time to get out of the way.  Unless there is no way to cross the street, and no way to leave the tracks on the other side (like maybe it's a railroad bridge) I think this is a non-issue.

[Jones]

An acquaintance posted on FB today "Seriously considering telling people who ask me to baby or petsit to f--- off." Another person posted "I think you just did "

I turned to DH and said "I am so glad we've never asked her to baby or dog sit." He agreed with me. It's one thing to post "I just want to let everyone know that I can't watch your wards," it's another to curse at your (general) friend and family list because someone asked you to watch a single house trained dog.

Ah well, at least I've been warned!

[CrochetFanatic]

An acquaintance posted on FB today "Seriously considering telling people who ask me to baby or petsit to f--- off." Another person posted "I think you just did "

I turned to DH and said "I am so glad we've never asked her to baby or dog sit." He agreed with me. It's one thing to post "I just want to let everyone know that I can't watch your wards," it's another to curse at your (general) friend and family list because someone asked you to watch a single house trained dog.

Ah well, at least I've been warned!

I think some people would even be offended by that. 

[Jones]

An acquaintance posted on FB today "Seriously considering telling people who ask me to baby or petsit to f--- off." Another person posted "I think you just did "

I turned to DH and said "I am so glad we've never asked her to baby or dog sit." He agreed with me. It's one thing to post "I just want to let everyone know that I can't watch your wards," it's another to curse at your (general) friend and family list because someone asked you to watch a single house trained dog.

Ah well, at least I've been warned!

I think some people would even be offended by that.

Yeah, but at least it's polite, so then they would be the special person.  Up until today I didn't even know that she doesn't pet/kid sit, this is the first I've heard of it. A few polite words is a much better way to let people know than dropping the f bomb.

[VorFemme]

Saw someone in a black Lexus with handicapped tags this morning.....running three stop signs, including a left turn across three lanes of traffic to get into the center turn lane - it seems that when they were about to get to the stop sign, there was a gap in traffic and they just couldn't WAIT long enough to observe that STOP at the STOP sign or they'd miss their turn.....

Sadly, they apparently live in my neighborhood - so I might be running into them again.....I just hope that they don't run into ME!

Maybe that's how they got that handicapped plate...

My son and husband were wondering if their handicap was mental....I was wondering about visual problems....I drive a BIG silver van.

[Virg]

Addy wrote:

"No kidding, that job sounds awesome, especially as I lost my job last March. I would kill for that job!"

If you'd kill for a job, there are better paying positions than mail handling.  Look into trash jobs in New Jersey. 

Anyway, on a more serious note, deadbody wrote:

"honestly this one doesn't bother me that much.  It's not like a train can sneak up on you.  They make a lot of noise and vibration coming, and you have more than sufficent time to get out of the way."

Firstly, you'd be very surprised how a train can come up behind you and you don't notice until it's close by.  It seems counterintuitive but I've seen it happen (and had it happen to me in my youth) more than once.  But more to the point, she had five children in tow, and when you need to get five young kids to do anything, you can easily lose track of one or more for a few seconds, and that's all it takes to end up in a position where some of the kids are on one side of a moving train and some on the other.  While you'd think it's not a big deal, a lot of sober people get killed walking on train tracks every year, so I agree that this is one for the police.

Virg

[ladyknight1]

POD Virg, as usual.

DH's storefront is directly in front of a major RR track that runs from the Tampa Bay to Jacksonville. They have "incidents" on a monthly basis of people in the way of the train. The train will always win. Not to mention it is SS behavior to allow one's children to be near the tracks as it is not public property.

[Sirius]

Mr. Sirius says that practically every day while he's driving his school bus he sees people, usually on bikes or on foot, cutting across the tracks of the local Metro train when there's a train coming down the tracks.  Considering that these trains are 4 cars long or at the most 6, this strikes me as really stupid.  Can't they wait 2 minutes?

[artk2002]

...   Where do you think this woman has her 5 kids, most who look under 10 walk?  Directly down the railroad tracks! If it matters, the right side of the road with a sidewalk is easily accessible with a crosswalk and a traffic light.

I would call the police about this one.  That's not just Darwinish.  That's incredibly dangerous!! 

honestly this one doesn't bother me that much.  It's not like a train can sneak up on you.  They make a lot of noise and vibration coming, and you have more than sufficent time to get out of the way.  Unless there is no way to cross the street, and no way to leave the tracks on the other side (like maybe it's a railroad bridge) I think this is a non-issue.

Sadly, there are lots of tragic examples that say you're entirely wrong. People can misjudge even when they know the train is there. Over 100 people have been killed in accidents along the Los Angeles Metro Rail Blue Line since 1990, many of them trying to cross the tracks when a train is coming. Many of the adults with supposedly superior reasoning capacity. Five kids about 10yo on the tracks is a formula for disaster.

Trains and humans don't mix. The US is unusual in that the right-of-way often isn't fenced and we have lots of level crossings. The UK is generally better, in that they have route separation. If someone gets hit by a train in the UK, more often than not, they were trying to get hit.