Take me out to the black, tell 'em I ain't comin' back

Today is my first day back on nights! HOORAY! Starting tonight, my new schedule is Tuesday thru Saturday (Sunday and Monday off) 5pm-2am. THIS IS MY TRUE ELEMENT!

No more having to deal with morning-time crap! I AM NOT A MORNING PERSON unless it's because I'm still up from the previous night.

And it's not as if I'm a night person because I like to par-tay or "commune with the spirits of the darkness" or any of that junk; my body just can not cope with being FORCED awake on a daily basis. My body rebels against me with every waepon in its arsenal when I wake up before it's good and ready. Everything from sore throats to irritable bowels to plain old stomach cramping effect my body in any and all hours before noon, and my stats at work show it.

So HOORAY for the night shift!

HOORAY for The Kool Kids and the Ninjas!

HOORAY for Adult Swim!

And HOORAY for 98% less putting the customer on hold so I can address urgent rush-trips to the restroom!

Heaven

Ahh, this is THE LIFE! Between 3 and 20 people available at all times, a big stack of new comic books by my side, a lively chat room happening, and I hear that Consuella will be coming around with the Marguerita Cart any minute now.

My first night on the new shift is just making me hate the day shift more and more with each passing moment!

BANISHED!

I said something stupid tonight. Apologized privately almost immediately, but it was aparently too little to late. I have been banished from The Ninja Chat, reprimanded by my superiors and been told that I need to go through our Sensitivity Training again because I obviously missed the point.

All becuase they read the instructions twice at the Special Olympics :(

The things that I'm the most upset about are that (a) Somebody I know was deeply offended by what to me was no more than a witty one-liner, and that (b) he was so unwilling to accept my heart-felt apology that he went so far as to report it to management. TO MANAGEMENT! My low-level flippant remark, not even as offensive as any episdoe of The Simpsosns produced in the past 6 years, was enough to put this guy IN TEARS! He even went so far as to tell me that he wants to quit now!

I'm really shaken that what I thought was just a little throw-away "ha-ha" had so much destructive power. ANd it makes me want to re-evaluate everything I find "Funny". Heck, what THE WORLD finds funny. I can't imagine this guy making it through an episode of The Family Guy without breaking don and crying.

Disturbs me that there are people in the world that thin-skinned, and disturbs me that I hurt one of them :(