Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Fucking Bullshit!!!!

Ok, so I've liked my job and my trainer so far. Today, however, ticked me off a little bit. The Fiesta bowl, Ohio v Texas was on TV today. Of course, a large majority of the class wanted to watch it, including the trainer. So, we ended up watching pretty much the whole thing. During part of it we were supposed to be doing worksheets, which I did, because I wasn't really interested in the TV, and not everyone else did them, because they were jumping around and screaming at the TV. After a while, we didn't have anything to do, it was awhile before our break and all we were doing was watching TV with no attempt at looking like we were doing anything. So, I brought out, which I keep in my bag to work on during breaks and after I eat lunch. I did it for a while, and I figured the trainer didn't care, because I made no attempt to hide it and he hadn't said anything. Someone behind me started talking to him, and because he has some hearing problems, he came closer to talk to him. That's when he noticed my knitting. He said "Amy, PLEEASSE put that away right now." I said "Y'all are watching FOOTBALL but I can't knit??" He said something to the effect of we deal with programming as Dish network techs, and we could pretend we were doing something useful if someone in charge walked in. I thought that I think I could probably hide my knitting quicker than they could pretend that a room full of jumping, screaming people were actually doing something useful, but whatever. I just said ok and left it at that. A minute later (while I was staring blindly into space waiting for the break) he comes by and asks if I want another worksheet. I am sure I looked at him with the most dumbfounded look ever. Did I want a fucking worksheet????? WTf?!?! I just said "No, I'll just watch the TV" and then proceeded to stare in the general direction of the TV. Seriously?? Ask me if I want to do more work while pretty much everyone else watches a stupid football game??? What kind of moronic question is that?!?! And the only reason that we were watching football was that he and most of the class like football. If a small portion of the class had wanted to watch it (or probably, more accurately, if he didn't want to watch it) then I doubt we would have watched it. I really don't see why I couldn't knit. No one else was doing anything useful. Like the title says, it was just fucking bullshit.

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