whats pi**ed you off today?

Been sick today. Got mad thinking about all the stuff I'll miss in classes and I have to drag myself up and go make prints.

Not sure if I'm physically sick or just mentally, work was terrible this weekend, tired of female coworkers always being dramatic and passive aggressive about things. Hey, if your life is all about work, that's fine. Just because I don't like my job and have hopes for better doesn't mean I'm personally insulting you by existing.

Also, many attitudes unbecoming of 50+ year old women. You'd think by then people could just say 'I really disagree with you and what you said upsets me because I am passionate about retail and this company.' instead of yelling and sniping.

Fyi all I did was tell a customer that Copps had an organic produce section more extensive than our store because my boss always pretends to get mad when we joke about other stores. The coworker overheard and became angry.

And two days later I did a small experiment to see if she was still being passive aggressive about it. She'll tell everyone else bananas need to be topped but very rarely does them herself. She told a male coworker earlier that he could do them. (though they didn't absolutely have to that very moment, since we were very busy filling) He was busy and didn't want to at the moment, and another male coworker was going to be in and he liked doing them. So I told him that.

Then she mentioned he could do them again when I was in the room and I said that the other coworker would be in in a half hour and would love doing them.

I figured what would happen is she would get him to the back room, tell him I wasn't his boss and he could decide for himself how to prioritize work, and wheedle him into doing it. And he told me that's exactly what happened when he came back with some bananas a half an hour later!

She stuck to him like glue all day that day, like he was her new favourite thing and basically bossed him around. I found it hilarious because she always acts like she's the boss of us and she's wheedled me into topping bananas before when the sales floor was half empty, we already had bananas, and I KNEW they could wait until later, and she wasn't prioritizing. But she'd keep at me until I gave in. And if she ever said she'd help, she'd appear at the last moment, do one box, and take away the cardboard which is the best part of doing it because you get to spend a few minutes off of the sales floor. So I wasn't even mad that day, just amused. at how predictable people can be.

And no matter which upper boss you tell about her 'catching up with old friends' on the sales floor for half her shift, no one does anything about it. But if the three younger associates and I are in back working and talking for five minutes (literally five, I've started keeping times), we get dirty looks and 'Really, guys?' from our immediate boss.

Tired of double standards and discrimination against younger employees. Sorry for ranting, if I could go to my bosses about things like this, I wouldn't feel the need to...