I noticed I haven’t complained enough in this, a Pit thread.
A few nights ago, @ 1:35 am, someone from the laundry was wheeling a rack down my hall, cheerfully swearing while loudly gabbing with a bluetooth pal. Fucks and shits were bouncing off the walls. I asked her politely to read the room and cut out the swearing, which she did not, repeating the spectacle on her return trip. I repeated my request and she told me to fuck off.
It is a lousy job market and she just weren’t raised right, but that can be fixed were she willing. However you don’t talk like that in front of babushkas a million years old who already think you plan on killing them, so I reported her. My sergeant at arms (eldest) was disappointed, but sometimes top management needs to step in. I asked that they don’t fire her, since all she needs is training in code switching. I am too nice.
You’re a good guy. Don’t let 'em kick you to the kerb on those dodgy feet.
Yeah, you’re too nice. But brave. Since you can’t exactly run from an irate laundry person if she got violent. Be careful. I worry so. 
I lack mace but my idiot twins, when asked to bring a cane, grabbed my sword cane.
Doofusses, but I’m armed with the dullest edged weapon in history.
Yes, you are too nice. What you described seems like a firing offense to me. No one should tell a patient in a nursing facility to fuck off, especially when the patient has done nothing to deserve it. This employee has failed Human Being 101.
At my company they realized that the pool of qualified people willing to start at nine bucks an hour was drying up with the ones left oftenlacking even the basics of social graces. Corporate wont let us pay more so our noobs are in a company run training program, with classes in business, grammar, comportment, grooming, and appropriate office wear, sometimes providing some clothes. Call it code switching or acting white, we almost exclusively promote from within and this gives some kids a kick into the middle class. And if someone uses their new skills to find a better job they do it with our blessing, since that was why we do it.
One guy, late thirties, FOUR time loser (dealing), became a top salesman while making no effort to sound white as he calls CEOs and builds repeat relationships with them. A lot of this was on his own–too long in Cook County was inspirational. My own VP of Incarceration (guess who) sez Cook County has better food than her own Dupage County. I am so very proud.
But he knows better than to swear.
Who are these VPs and Sergeants you claim to have?
His daughters.
(See post #1)
Most are my eldest, who has many competencies. The twins, not to be confused with The Little Girls, are…cute. One is also Chief Cook and Bottle Washer and Mistress of the Hounds.
The Little Girls, if you don’t know, are adorable rodent killerz. Then there is Wrigley, an Aussie Poo with the intelligence I have come to expect in male dogs and male children, none whatsoever. He can be Officer Wriggles because he loves riding in cop cars.