#now y’all better wear your mask and social distance so this can get a proper release or else 🔫

[letme-sleep-please]

To give y’all some background our lobby is closed due to being too small to maintain proper social distancing standards. Appointments are drop off only. People have no patience. Have some client stories:

We lock the doors when we aren’t talking to clients outside so they don’t barge in. One of my coworkers goes outside to discuss with another client about their pets care. A different sees the opportunity to walk in the lobby DESPITE THE GIANT FUCKING STOP SIGN THAT TELLS THEM NOT TO. Then they proceed to get mad at me when I tell them to wait outside and I’ll meet them out there and that our lobby is closed. “But I’m already inside,” yeah but still get out. If one client goes in they will all want to go in. We only let euthanasia’s in or clients that need to see like abnormal xrays or whatnot. Get out.

A client complaining to me about the whole mask situation. I just straight up told them I’m having to wear mine for nine hours (don’t worry I change it about every two to three hours depending). I’m so done with people and the mask argument when they complain about going into the store for five minutes.

A different client today who, again saw the opportunity and walked into the lobby when a coworker was outside, then got mad at me for telling them to go back outside I will talk to them then. Client then proceeded to tell me about how our ER wasn’t even that strict and I do wanted to tell them that they are even stricter because when I went there I was temperature checked at the door, required to wear a mask, then (due to my symptoms at this point) brought into a room that recycled my own air back to me, and anyone who stepped into that room was in full blown PPE. I mean we are having clients wear masks if they come into the building but we aren’t temperature checking or going through the entire process the ER is making you do for even stepping into the waiting room.

We pull bags and cases of food aside for our clients and label them that way when they arrive it’s ready to go and we don’t have to hunt in the back for it. We had a client come up to the door, knock, look through and see that my coworker was putting on her mask to greet her, before angrily knocking maybe five seconds later. When my coworker opens the door the lady gets in my coworkers personal space and just says “dog food”. To which my coworker asked if she called in beforehand and she replies “what do you want me to go to my truck and call you guys? That’s ridiculous.” My coworker explained that it was in case it had been pulled already and then she almost pushed past my coworker to point at the dog food stand in our lobby saying “it’s right there let me just go get it.” Of course we can’t do that because lobby closure you know so my coworker grabs the food and asks for a last name. The lady says Smith and is mad when we ask for further information to find her account. Pretty much the rest of the interaction she’s short with us in general.

Client yells at me because they can’t be there to hold their pet for an exam. There are multiple things wrong with this first of all. 1. We cannot legally have a client hold their pet for liability reasons. If they hold incorrectly and injure their pet, it’s our fault. If they hold incorrectly and their pet bites either us or them, our fault. So this wouldn’t happen anyways and hasn’t happened for years. 2. There’s a pandemic going on and holding a pet requires you to be sometimes mere inches from the vet. So obviously you can’t social distance. It’s impossible. 3. This dog has a history of being aggressive with its owner in the room. We have to take the dog out of the room regardless to safely and calmly look in it’s ears or teeth or whatever we’re doing to it. The dog is perfectly fine without it’s owner there and actually pretty loveable. When I explain all of the above reasons (except for three though because she believes that her dog does better with her and will only listen to the vet.) she then gets mad at me and asks when I expect the lobby to be open. I tell her I don’t know because pandemic. She tells me that that isn’t a good reason and I should just know. She holds off on the appointment until she can be there.

Client tries to push past coworkers to enter lobby and when they get told no they begin to tell coworkers that this whole thing is a conspiracy. When my coworkers tell them that it’s for their safety they respond with “I bet you don’t even know anyone who had it.” My coworkers say actually one of the receptionists (yo it’s me!) had it and now has recovered and been clear for a month now but this is why those precautions are in place. The clients go from “This is a conspiracy” to “you we’re trying to kill us.”

The people who get mad when I tell them that we are doing drop off appointments only and they respond with “well how do I know that you’re going to take care of my dog?” We are a vets office??? It’s our job to take care of your animals???? If you don’t trust to leave your animal with your vet maybe you should get a different one. Trust me. Behind closed doors it’s all baby talk and petting the cute animals. More baby talk and less petting with the aggressive ones though.

Just in general the clients who incorrectly wear masks or you know take off the mask to talk to us or even better the client who TAKES OFF THEIR MASK TO SNEEZE. WHAT???

The client who saw the opportunity to get other clients to sign a petition in the parking lot to ban more comprehensive sex education in our state and continue to only teach abstinence. (I wish I was joking)

The many clients who knock, peek through the window, try the door handle three or four times and when I go out to greet them they ask why it was locked despite the many signs on the door and their appointment reminder telling them that the lobby is closed due to being unable to maintain proper social distancing standards. We’ve also gotten into the habit of telling them that when we schedule appointments too.

The client who pulls up where they aren’t visible to us and honks. We are right by a highway inside a pretty well insulated brick building. It sounds like someone honking from the highway so odds are we will just ignore it. Then said client comes and keeps rattling the doorknob until we come up and ask how we can help them. You can still see us through the door, if you feel that it’s locked and see us coming why would you still try it?

A different client than the one I was working with outside driving up and interrupting me to tell me that she had their puppy there for an appointment and was tired of waiting. The best part about this was (sarcasm) the client I was working with was crying as I was handing her back her carrier with her dead cat we just euthanized inside (don’t worry she was wrapped up nicely in her favorite blankie and other clients couldn’t see inside). Why on earth would you interrupt a conversation with an employee and a crying client??? Also she just drove up, she wasn’t waiting at all.

The client who drove up, parked, and I was on the phone so I couldn’t greet them immediately. A different coworker comes up front and sees them, then she goes to see how we can help them. This client had the audacity to say that she had been waiting there for thirty minutes and all I did was just stare at her. No. Also if you read our sign it says if you aren’t helped promptly to knock.

The client who tried to tell us that it was their right to be in the building during a phone call to remind them about their pets appointment. They then cancelled the appointment but still showed up to it and tried to get into the lobby. The client then told us that they never cancelled their appointment and that “they would be going to elsewhere” and requested their animals records. My coworker was more than happy to get the copies for them so that we no longer have to deal with them as a client.

The person who yelled at me at the beginning of the pandemic when I told them that a dog neuter was considered an elective surgery according to the state and was not emergent therefore we could not perform it at that time. Client replied, “well it’s an emergency to me.” The dog was three and did not have an emergency.

Dog grooming just got cleared to open up along with elective surgeries (spays, neuters, the like). Before it opened up though I lost count of how many people asked me when it would and when I didn’t know because it’s up to the state then promptly get mad at me. I don’t have a crystal ball.

So as you can see, people have been perfectly sane about this entire pandemic. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

#beckles rambling again #coronavirus #beckles coronavirus update #i realize that some of these are kind of morbid but hey its part of my job #customer service #covid2020 #yeah sorry about the dead cat story but i am pretty livid about it still #i might add more if anything else happens

[habitual-irony]

Epik High — “정당방위” | “In Self-Defense” English lyrics

“Guys, I gotta go to New York for a week.” “Okay.” “Gotta make some lyrics.”

Living kindly is damn hard. Look around and it’s all either a palace or the gutter. Everybody wanna beef for that bread. I stick myself in the middle, like a burger. Mustn’t one’s meat be pink for it to taste of flesh? Being prey is my job, so what can I do? “Better do as I say before I take away your food bowl.” You treat me like a mutt then expect some purebred? Aha! Right to know, right to know. Thanks to that, the tabloids lay eggs and fuckery gathers. What yellow dust? The clouds filling Seoul’s sky are just smoke from the fire.  I’m in a proper mood. Soon as I open my eyes, I’m pissed off. Can you stop? Why do you keep picking fights and shit? Leave me alone, fucka!

Huh? Look at the window. Bruh, after lockdown you run your mouth even more. Keep that up and you’ll run into trouble. Bend your back like limbo. You’re the line. I claim self-defense. Listen up, pipsqueaks in the comments, The world us boomers live in is really different from Youtube. You’ll hit your head, huh. You like that kind of talk, huh? Would you do fuck off, man? Was it my way? The money I worked hard to make makes me. Oh wait. Hate that, you just hate it, right? Rest in peace, King Nipsey Hussle. You are just b— (I don’t know that.)

Getting stressed gives me damage. Curse me out, that’s my introduction. Your table manners are dirty. Don’t try to hide it, just eat at the table. Hey, hey, yo, here we change tapes. Red fire in all directions. Turn your eyes. Come at me, saying you’ll rip off my head. Yo, come at me, I’m Scarface. I give the same as I get. Say it right, you’ll get beat up. I just laughed; was it that funny? You lost all your upper teeth. Even the enemies of my enemy say they like me, haha! I can’t go today. Tell your mama. Pick up the phone for your final confession. I told you to just leave me alone, motherfucker.

You’re crazy, going berserk. Pretending to be blind to others’ pain, Gotta stick ‘em hard to feel better. Society overall has a chronic disease. Communication always goes straight ahead. Scolding and teaching I didn’t even want. After listening, I feel like suffocating. I rip off my mask. You’re scared when I clear my throat, aren’t you? I wanna be more than socially distanced; I wanna be distanced from all you negative fucks. You and the virus are all the same— You both only leave pain behind. I keep crashing to the ground like leaves in an autumn wind. Like daybreak, I even swallow up the darkness. I hope you become the sun, even if my whole body burns.

Annoyed, so annoyed. I’m har— no, I’m annoyed. I made it this far on my own, a man from the streets. What’s more, I made it beyond my wildest dreams. Regardless that no one was on my side, I moved here in front of the enemy camp. With my camo Bathing Ape hood pulled low, I wallop y’all shits who bought Brioni suits with their mom’s money. Shits who’ve forgotten their starving youth. Shits who wear expensive clothes and think they’re all that. Middle shits like a J. Cole hit. The world tells me to pick one, And I say, “fuck you.” I’m a hero, a shit who’ll save Seoul. Hero, a shit who’ll transfuse money into their blood. You hypebeasts who call yourselves rappers, Who do you shits think you are? They all talk the same, Stuff like scene, blah, respect, bitch, cash. Your stage is just a fucking magazine. I’ve done all the same things as you save one: Licking damn boots to try to get opportunities. All your peers have no personality, you’ve just picked it up from others. When you get Dom Pérignon, I get Lagavulin. It’s like Gangbuk vs. Gangnam. Try figuring it out, who’s the real artist? It’s me, so from now on, fuck your “artist” marketing, ha!

I swear to God. (Swear I didn’t wanna have to kill again.) Eye for an eye. (Classic after classic, this is number ten.) Hey, you sons of bitches. (Name a fucking rapper we ain’t influenced.) It’s Epik High. If I’m guilty, It was all in self-defense. Bang!

#epik high #에픽하이 #in self-defense #in self defense #정당방위 #album: epik high is here 上 #album: epik high is here pt. 1 #feat woo #feat nucksal #feat changmo #prolly got a lot wrong on this one #i'm not super well-versed in cursing and whatnot