nit-picky people

[KellyHabersham]

I don't really deal with SC's or problem co-workers/managers at my church secretary job, but since this is work-related and it has been getting on my nerves, I just needed to get it off my chest......

As I've probably mentioned before, I'm relatively new at this job - started on June 2, the pastor's been out of town for most of the time I've been here, so with the exception of regular volunteers who come in to do various tasks, it's just me in the office. Most of our congregation seems willing to give me a break with being new and inexperienced, but others seem to get nit-picky and fuss when I make the least little mistake on something. Like earlier this evening, the woman who passes along the prayer chain list (which I include in the Sunday bulletin) sent me a semi-bitchy e-mail about how I'd left someone's name out of the list last Sunday. Granted, "Anna" had mentioned in a previous e-mail that she wasn't feeling well, and I don't think she meant to sound snotty, but I don't much appreciate that sort of tone when I'm trying to do the best job I can.

[volatile]

You know what? I have found that some of the most religious or most actively involved in their church are some of the most rude people. I used to be highly religious (I guess I still sort of am...but I haven't been going to church) but I get turned off to churches because of some of the people that attend it. I still have faith in my religion...just not some of the people who are supposed to be my "brothers and sisters."

Whatever happened to do onto others as you would have done onto you?

[Willis]

I was doing a job at the CEO of a major motion picture studio's home about 2 Easters ago and this lady was so nit-picky it was nauseating. She was just a regular volunteer for a number of years and was whining about everything. We were just the hired "help" that apparently didn't know what we were doing even though we park cars valeting at a company that's about 50 years old, primarily does private parties for the rich and famous and one of the most well known in LA county.

The main thing she was whining about was how we parked all the house cars in the CEO's circular driveway. Unbeknown to her, we were told by the CEO himself to park them that way, but she wouldn't listen cause she "knew" what he liked. Our supervisors and some of the valets including myself who parked those cars were looking at her like S H U T U P lady. The man of the house who's the same guy paying us and the same man who so happens to own this freaking mega mansion, which you should already know, told us to do it this way in HIS driveway. She demanded that we move them the way she had always seen it done because we were blocking the horse carriages that needed to leave. They weren't leaving for a bit and the carriage drivers knew what we were told by the CEO.

In the end we prevailed and she couldn't stop going around to random people and some famous people who were still lingering around trying to berate our parking abilities. Parking is OUR business woman. They didn't even entertain her whining.

[KellyHabersham]

Well, again, I don't think that "Anna" was purposely trying sound snotty, but I got the impression that I'd left stuff out of the "prayer chain" section of the bulletin before, people had called/e-mailed her wondering why their names had been removed, & if this was the case, I'm confused as to why she waited until now to say something....because it makes both of us look careless.

[wagegoth]

Whenever a situation like that comes up, I like to think, "What would Jesus do?" It's almost never what people like that do.

[Arm]

"Parking is OUR business woman."

Just imagining how you would say this keeps me very amused