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Edited by II Smiggles II:
4/26/2014 8:32:45 PM
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My Coworker Feels I'm a Threat
Alright, warning this is blog-ish
Also TL;DR I left NSFW drawings out on a clip board accidentally and a coworker felt it was a threat of violence towards her.
Put under the cut for convenience.
[spoiler]I closed Wednesday night an it gets really slow. I've made a habit of drawing on napkins at work, be it on my break or during dead time.
For the first time ever I accidentally left two of them on the clipboard by the safe. One was simply a bunny that I tried to make as cute as possible at the time and another was Yatagarasu, a three-legged crow of myth.
It had a speech bubble that said, "-blam!- you. I'm a God".
This particular coworker of which I helped when no one else would and gave her the nice towel treatment found it the next morning. She took it directly to my manager and said she was "scared, offended and very angry". Explaining to my manager that she felt I intentionally left it for her to find and that it was surely a personal attack/threat. One that needed to be taken very seriously.
My manager today pulled me into her office where I laughed about it. I was asked simply not to draw at the store anymore and the napkins were confiscated. Though as I closed the door she complimented my art style.
This isn't the first time I've been dirtied for ridiculous claims. When I first began working here another coworker had told my manager I scream at her, throw things, and make her feel unimportant.
I hardly talk at all. [/spoiler]
Anyone ever have something stupid happen at work?
I'm still at mine so replies will be slow.
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And, while I'm at it, I'd like to say one last thing. Now, imagine this. You spend most of your spring, summer, and fall working. You're stronger than you've ever been, super healthy, stamina of horse. Feels good right? 8 months of winter roll in. Over these 8 months, there is hardly any physical labour whatsoever, you can't go outside because the average temperature is between -20 to -40, and you're living in a very small house. Over the next 8 months, every gain you've made is lost. All your strength, all your stamina, just slides right on down the shitter. And come springtime, when it's time to work again, it's not easy. It's never easy because you're so atrophied. Which means you have to work twice as hard to keep up. And this cycle will repeat, ever single year. I want you to imagine this. This, terrible feeling, of knowing all the work you're going to be doing in the spring and summer, and possibly fall. And I want you to take the hardest physical thing you've ever done in your life, and remember the feeling of how hard it was. Every, single, year, you will have to go through this feeling as you build up your body again. Through the weeks and months of work to reach the peak you got to last year, only to have it slide back down during the winter. And finally, I want you to imagine this. Tomorrow, whether or not it's -10, or it's freezing rain, you're going to drive for about an hour or two, out to the woods, with a 4 foot long chainsaw, and cut trees down all day. And you're going to haul them, all day. And this is your first day of work after 8 months of winter and atrophied muscles and stamina. I'm not complaining about the stupid people. But sometimes, this province is really, really god damn stupid.
