In my life I have the uncanny ability to attract flak from all sides:
From my regional team for not generating enough profit in the business
From my partner for never thinking of her before I jump into some hare-brained scheme
From my family for never ringing them
From my friends for always being conspicuously absent when it's my round
And I also have the ability to get upset and give out just as good as what I can take:
When my crew are of the opinion that Food Safety rules are optional (which is usually followed up by boot in arse)
When my 9-5 girlfriend whinges that my shifts, which I have worked all my career, are inconvenient for our relationship
When my mechanic tries to convince me "honestly" that the car really needed that much work when I take it in for 2 new tyres.
BT Broadband - don't need to go any further with that one!
But the point is that there is always a sense of perspective kept in my, and most other people's mood.
Until today that is, when a very irate customer (later branded "spoilt rich bitch" by 3 of my team) marched up, slammed her handbag on the counter and announced to me her displeasure at my D/T team telling her that there were no Vanilla Shakes and demanded to know what I was going to do about it.
When I told her that there were no Vanilla shakes because they had been removed from the menu until September, she went bright pink and demanded to know why they had been taken off.
I have a mortgage, fiance, credit cards, high pressure job. I have things which can wind me up at the drop of a hat: all in all, differing priorities in my life which need to be handled in certain ways. But none - NONE - involve the product range at McDonald's.
Are there really people out there with nothing else to worry about? If so let me know how it feels; that way I have someone new to ridicule.
