Isolation is the oxygen mask your children breathe to survive

I isolate a lot. Can't help it. People get on my nerves. They irritate the crap out of me. So, whenever I get home, I usually stay there and only venture out if I have something absolutely necessary to do. Maybe if I'm lucky, a friend will call and I'll go meet her somewhere but that rarely happens since I don't have many friends to begin with.

Work interferes with a lot of things including friendships.

I turned my facebook account on for the first time in two months. Too much drama on there and I lose connection with the people that I do have as friends. Mostly because some of them just spam my feeds with emo crap. Like they've broken up with their significant others and have a need to broadcast to the world their heart breaks.

I don't care. Maybe that's why I'm not on there much.

On another note, I turned down three extra shifts this week. My leg needed to heal so I ignored my phone the past three days. Its still sore. And somewhat painful.

LAB Rules

My work schedule starts on the weekend so my actual days off are during the week. As I was reading my book while sitting on this guy, Melissa comes thru the door and as soon as she sees me, she drops her head to the floor without saying Hi or greeting me. That gives me the impression that she's ashamed of herself or some guilty feeling. I'm at the point of indifference or disgust with her presence.

LAB makes me feel good about myself. She calls herself The Fat Lady, but she's actually more man than woman. LAB is cool as hell and I love working with her cuz she makes me laugh and vice versa. She made me realize, er come to an epiphany the other night: there's lots of fish out there and all this time, I had blinders on. She even shared her food with me when she didn't have to.

People have been referring to me as "muscular" and "built" but I don't know what they're talking about about. I mean, I go to work and do my job and these compliments just seem to pop up out of nowhere. I did tell LAB that I got her back if shit were to ever go down. I love working with LAB cuz she makes the shift enjoyable and even though we'll get some crazy nights, she doesn't beat around the bush like the others do.

Wing Commander

So the Director tells me that I should take the Outsider under my wing and teach him the ropes. And also tells me that I should try to be nicer to people. Uh huh. I take this kid and tell him how its like on the 2nd and 3rd shifts. He seems to pick up well.

He's learning quick. I feel like a proud mother hen. I think the Outsider is grateful that I'm teaching him that he bought me lunch and breakfast. He also told me more of his home life.

I think the Outsider will do good things if he lasts...

I have 116 hours as of today. I'm happy, yet tired.

Sheltered

So I get called into the director's office and he has this complaint against me from the Outsider saying that I'm creating "a hostile work environment" for the new guy. You gotta be shittin me. Seriously?

I have a long talk with the Director and he's going on and on that I (and my coworkers) need to take the Outsider under our wings and show him the ropes of how we do things and if there's another complaint, it will be my "First and Final", what he in his omnipotent power likes to call it. Granted, the Director and I get along, but he's been flooded with complaints from the Outsider that other coworkers aren't treating his sheltered ass right. Or that we're too direct. Or some other bullshit. The Director told me that the Outsider has 90 days to "get it" or he's out.

Sure I'll take the FNG under my wing, but he better learn quick or else he'll get into a serious world of hurt. And not by me.

And if he starts messing with my money, its going to get personal.

Uncharted Waters

The Milieu Supervisor called me just as I was waking up to say that he wants to see me in his office before I head on to the staff meeting in the morning. Me going in to see any upper management for any reason spells trouble. Or maybe he wants to lecture me on my attitude towards new douchebag coworkers.

This is not boding well. I try to call him back to see if I was in trouble and the HUC says he's gone for the day. WTF. I'd just gotten off the phone with him not even two minutes. Currently feeling like a Russian icebreaker in iceberg-filled waters.