Unbelievable!

As if there isn't enough annoying things that happen at work, I've spent the last couple of hours dealing with a very, very, very serious incident that occurred this morning. I'm not sure if you are all aware or not, "other duties as assigned" is written in on my job description. While most tasks I find annoying there are a few that seem unreasonable, the first being if there is ever a lock down situation, I am to be patrolling the halls, right. Secondly, if there is a fire, I am meant to go into the building and assist as necessary, and lastly, my favorite, Wal-mart greeter. Every morning I am assigned an area where I need to open doors and help manage traffic situations in the back lot. Well, today, I just was done dealing with this one woman who continually has her driver park the car in the drop off lane, takes about a zillion years to get her and her kids out and then yells at us on a daily basis complaining about one thing or another. So, this morning, her driver had been standing on the curb with the backpacks for about 5 minutes, and that was once I started timing it, and cars were all backed up and double parked, kids started getting out in unsupervised areas, certain cars were trapped into their parking spaces, all because of this one car. So, I went out, asked the driver to move the car, and as usual he looked at me like, what do you want me to do, if I listen to you and move the car, Ms. Princess in the back seat will go crazy? I walked over to the car, ripped open the door screamed at her that I didn't care that she was pregnant and that she needed to come with me immediately to see the Principal. Or not, depending on who you believe. I informed her that her car was creating an unsafe situation for many children. She proceeded to tell me that "you guys" doubled the enrollment and did not allow for additional parking and she was pregnant and it was only going to get worse when the baby was born. Great, as if I care and/or had anything to do with increasing the enrollment and there is plenty of parking, which is beside the fact, because she has a driver. I just asked her to move her car again, wrote down her license plate number and then walked inside. A few minutes later she comes flying into the hallway, yelling about how there were other cars and why was I only asking her to move, so, I told her it was because she was from Pakistan. Just kidding. She went on and on about how she was going to go tell the Principal and I said, oh actually, one of the administrators happens to be right here, lets go talk to her, to which Ms. Princess yelled, I need to get my kids to class. Well, maybe if she just would have done that to start with this wouldn't be an issue. At this point in the day, Roberta and I have had to type up what happened, said Princess has stated she's going to call the owner of GEMS, has already called our superintendent to make an appointment and she has had some sort of speaker phone conversation with my principal and vice principal. Are you kidding me? Our vice principal has come into my office more than once to get clarification on how the "situation" was handled. What a waste of time. This is my work life. And, the thing is, there is no way of knowing whether or not this will end up being my fault and I may actually get in trouble for enforcing the rules, because that's the way it works around here. Since I'm being all negative at this point, I'll fill you in on something we've been working on, the top 5 things we learned at DAA. I'll just start with one, it's what's on the outside that counts. The rest will be just as entertaining I'm sure. 4 and 1/2 hours till the weekend. I hope I make it.