Joe Fish...nearly DOA

I must say, for a fish that I still have not named, I've grown a bit attached to it. Was changing his water, a day late b/c I was really tired and stressed out yesterday that I fell asleep in front of the TV (which is unusual b/c I usually reserve that for when the next day is a day off), so I went to bed late and ergo didn't have the time to do his weekly H2O change)

Err, wait, Geki! Teikoku Kageki-dan is playing on Anime Hardcore Radio. *off to sing* Okay, back although Panikku is now playing. *flip back to Anime Lyrics to sing some verses* So anyways....

For the fish's water change, I place the catcher (ummm, well it's not really a bowl or a jar, it's actually a 500 mL margarine container) in the sink (learned to this after I spilled water all over the counter b/c the fish just wouldn't flow into the container so I just kept pouring and pouring...) and then tip the jar a bit so the water nearly reached the edge of the jar and wait. And wait. And wait. Until Mr. Fish swim near the top of the jar and then it's pour Pour POUR!!! Usually he'll eventually follow the flow of water and "plunk" into the container and I can pour the rest of the dirty water and fish poo into the toilet. But this time for some reason, I think he actually jumped out of the stream of water and plunked out into the sink. And I'm like freaking out and going "Oh shit! Oh shit! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" I try to pick him up but he's just flopping like crazy, and I don't wanna squish his body b/c he's squirming so much that I can't get a good grip unless I press harder. So after a few panicked seconds I grab him by the fin and plop him into the catcher container. So right now, I'm just waiting for the bleach to do it's stuff w/ the jar, and then it's rinse rinse rinse, dump in treated water, dump in draecena, dump in fish, add more treated water so that it's fills the rest, and back on the shelf.

So Mr. Fish built a bubble nest. Which I guess means it's happy w/ its food and environment enough to consider raising baby fish. If he had a Mrs. Fish. Course the bubble nest is down the toilet, and now he's probably in nervous shock. I'll have to give him 2 bloodworms after he's back in the jar. Usually I only give 1 bloodworm after a change, but I think he deserves 2 today.

Man, I love Dragon Screamer from Capt. Tsubasa.

So about my shitty day yesterday. Although I suppose it's day before b/c technically it's Tuesday. Stupid bag has been calling in since Friday about her VM being down. It's actually affecting the whole region she's in, and the other lines on her acct, and she's been repeatedly told that we have a trouble ticket on it, but she still keeps call in 5x a day. And she says she should get top priority b/c she's a psychologist and her patients make appointments w/ her thru her VM. So it's like, well why dont' you forward your calls to your office or a landline. Oh, well she doesn't have one. OK, what kind of professional doesn't have a landline for business?! It's only $25/mon. And she can't refer her patients to another doctor. And she lays all this crap about how it's life-or-death that her patients can reach her. The only garbage that she said that made sense was that b/c her patients call from the clinic, she can't use call log to find out who called. Anyways, since I was taking the escalation from people on my team, I was basically telling them and mocking her w/ them about the shit she was telling me. Well I don't if it was that or that I was starting to raise my voice b/c she wouldn't shut the hell up, but I saw the OM look down the aisle and then a couple min later, a TL comes down and y-connects on me. Anyways, the TL tells me that I have to empathize w/ her and not make judgements, but for someone who claims to have gone thru at least 8 years of postgrad work, she's a f*cking pompous and stupid @ss. And she's bitching and whining even after and told me to "find a temporary solution for a temporary problem" b/c the quick fix for her would be to change upgrade to a diff billing system. So I call the TL over and then she gives me this f*cking lecture about being a mentor and a coach and how I'm supposed to act and basically the only acceptable response I could give was to agree w/ her. If I was the type of the person to act more on my immediate feelings instead of analyzing things, I woulda walked out. Gawd, I was so f*cking pissed, and basically it was a baaaaad idea for anyone else to come up to me w/ a question after that. And today(yesterday, what the fuk ever), my TL tells me that the other TL emailed him about it, and he didn't ask me for any details but just basically asked me to make sure it didn't happen again.

So also today which I was scheduled for training w/ summarily cancelled w/o letting anyone know. I'm really fed up w/ working for such an incompetent company. And I'm sick of being told to give rimjobs to the Americans. Oh, speaking of Columbus Day, it's the equivalent of celebrating discovering that there's a fireplace in a new house.