# (Old) The MMP is the place to be! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [January 27, 2025, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-the-mmp-is-the-place-to-be/1013472 "2025-01-27T12:20:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 390
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-the-mmp-is-the-place-to-be/1013472/390 "2025-02-02T20:42:14Z")
Promised myself for three straight days, I’d have soup. It’s one of my favorites. I have a can, two actually, sitting on a shelf in the pantry. I have a microwave, power, ceramic bowls (hell I even have a few disposable ones, so no dishes to wash). Ratties are clanging their empty water bottles. They’re probably hungry, too. I have food for them. It’s sitting in bags nearby their tanks. Guaranteed **Pretzel** and **Charm** are hungry, too. One of my co-workers is battling a hefty bout of depression. Found him damn near crying by the microwave. Poor kid. Less than half my age, fighting demons I haven’t learned how to fix. So what the hell advice could I tell him? **Car(e)less Co-worker** is shutting down, too, and retreating into his fan-fic writing. On the clock. While we need him to do his damn job, so he gets yelled at while everyone else stands around frustrated. That’s super fun. **Special Co-worker** is dealing with domestic problems that are, frankly, above her pay grade, mentally. So she’s a hot mess. Me? Couple days ago, I ugly-wept sitting on a box of bagged sausage in the walk-in, like a goddamn adult. **S.M.** must be swamped, dealing with all her crew side problems, on top of the fact that the damn reach-in has been on the fritz for … couple of weeks now? … and we have the friggin’ upcoming Superb Owl to deal with, but equipment failure is hamstringing the entire operation. Even on a slow night, things don’t go smoothly right now. A super-slammed night will KILL us if they don’t at least replace the stoopit reach-in. Whelp { _slaps thighs in Midwestern_ } that’s enough outta me. Gonna pull on the cleanest PJ pants from the pile of clothes on the floor, whipe snow offa my car, scoop up **Special** and see what the day brings. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-the-mmp-is-the-place-to-be/1013472)._