Sometimes I dispare...

I tell you I'm truely saddened by some people.

I was talking today with some of my favorite people, the sole reason I really stay at the place I work, and learned that some of the student body have taken to using the suggestion board outside the kitchens as a sort of bathroom wall. Where they can anonymously hurl insults at people of good character, charming demeanor and skilled works.

I heard that Mikey, the man who gets things done, the power behind the chef, and a pleasant individual all around (he laughs at me and considers me crazy and weird, that should indicate he knows how things are and such) was a target of insults and requested disciplinary action. Mainly it appears because somebody didn't feel that any restrictions or procedures should be applied to them and that they were entitled to anything they please.

But more shockingly somebody wrote something nasty about Julz. About Julz? About Julz attitude no less. That's absurd to a level unheard of. I've worked with Julz for five years now, and she is the type of person who I know I will never find something to compare to.

She is her own archtype if you will. There are the kindly grandmother and the dependable old soldier, the downtrodden man who would give you the shirt off his back, and the nervous and shy nerd and there is the Julz. Unflappable, warm chuckling, happy greeting, dependable short little italian woman. The (Person of authority) could swear on (something sacred to the above person) that she was rude and short tempered and it would only mean I would never trust the (said persons) words from then on.

Meanwhile we have witnessed incidents of students who specifically ask for their food to be specially wrapped. Then go off to a corner where they can stuff it into their pockets or bags and go through the registers to buy 'just a milk' and when asked if that's it, unblinkingly smile and say 'yeah I'm not really very hungry today.' before going over to another part of the cafe, to sit in comfy lounge chairs pull out their stolen goods and eat it with their freinds while watching a free Large screen TV playing an athletics game.

Then to top it off, they all rave and praise one worker, who is pushing fifty; lives with his mother after the divorce and talks about his young son TO all the college girls he oggles and flirts with. What's more he's been to court on at least one DUI and recently is facing charges in a shooting. (he even creeps out most of the ladies who work there)

Not to mention some of the sorely dissappointing behaiviour of some other people these days. I mean yeah sure, be human, make mistakes, have differing opinions and such, but at the end of the day lets try to people of moral and social grace, with respect for each other and the rights of everybody to be civil and to live their lives.

Those that demand, and feel entitled and do petty things against others simply because they do not like them are bullies and fools. And they seem to be more common than ever.

and thus my current dispare.

Take care of yourselves.
Roving Jack