Oh, god, the lady at the HS office was just so unnecessarily pissy at me

[conuly]

But it later transpired that apparently they're not sending out HS applications this year, you have to pick them up in person (because, in the words of the person in the other office, "they claim they can't get on our new system") and whether or not that claim is strictly valid, if she's been dealing with irritated parents the past couple of weeks I guess I can see why she's in a bad mood. I'm very generously assuming that this was the reason, anyway.

Because her pissiness was directed at me she actually supplanted the first unpleasant person I encountered today, who was probably worse. I just had bad luck! Tomorrow I'll only meet happy, cheerful, kind people.

Comments

[wpadmirer]

I hope you only meet cheerful, happy people!

[pink_halen]

You need to always be extra sweet to Pissy People.
It really pisses them off.

;-{}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}

[bibliofile]

Sometimes it helps reset them, if they're just having a bad day. A little sympathy goes a long way.

[conuly]

I actually tried. Usually it takes people more than 30 seconds to determine that they don't like me.

(And seriously, even if she didn't believe that they were the ones who lost last year's paperwork (which we actually submitted more-or-less on time) it would have cost her nothing to just freaking pretend. Other than the standardized test it really is just busywork.)

[sallymn]

A former workmate of mine, when faced with pissy people, could take Poisonously Polite to a high art, we could hear her on the phone and know without hearing the other end of the coversation just how difficult the person was being....

[gwydion]

Ugh.