I'm surrounded by idiots!

I swear I'm surrounded by idiots!

In yesterday's blog, I wrote about the patient and their spouse who ruined the new thermometer that we had gotten for the whirlpool tank in the rehab department where I work. Then there was the volunteer who totally screwed up every project I gave her, so badly that it will take me days to fix everything. I called the dentist regarding my appointment that they had scheduled for tomorrow and discovered that the time they wrote on the card is different than what they put in their schedule. (Good thing I called or I would have been WAY early!) And then, there was the response that I got from a nationally known food company.

The other day I had written said company to request that they make gluten free products. With the growing number of the populous that have food allergies, there is a large market for "special needs" foods. In the email I wrote that since my diagnosis of Celiac Disease about 10 years ago I hadn't been able to consume their product without serious allergic reactions. And that I'd really like it if they could make a gluten free version. I was excited to see that I had even gotten a response from them since most of the letters of this sort I send out are completely ignored. The excitement quickly turned to frustration when I read what their response to my inquiry was.

Here is part of their response.

"Mr Joelle ____, we received your message and appreciate your taking the time to contact ____ Company." (Mr?? When did I have a sex change? You'd think I'd remember something like that...)

"We will be happy to send you a coupon for the ____Company product of your choice." (Ok, what part of the "your product causes me to have SERIOUS allergic reactions" did they not get? A coupon for those products is worthless unless I want to kill myself by eating their food!)

Even the checkout girl at the grocery store couldn't get anything right. She opened up a new checkout so the 30 of us standing in line could go through 3 lanes instead of just 2. (So far so good at this point right?) She called a bunch of us over to her lane and even had a cart completely unloaded on the conveyor belt ready to be scanned. Then she had to switch lanes because she couldn't get the checkout working right. Ok, so we reload our carts and move over to the next lane. (She helped by smashing all the person in front of me's eggs and bread.) Then she kept grabbing and scanning stuff completely ignoring the little divider bars we had all placed between our items. So, we all had to wait while she removed all the wrong items and adjusted the totals. It took longer to check out than it did to shop.

This is how my week has been going. It's only Tuesday and I'm still looking for some form of intelligence in the world around me. My plant has more active brain cells than the people I've encountered. I'm going to exercise and then go to bed. If I'm lucky, tomorrow will bring someone with some sort of brain activity. You can tell the full moon is coming on Friday! The loonies are out and about in full force!