The Litter Box
~ Monday, December 20, 2010
in·con·sid·er·ate–adjective
1. without due regard for the rights or feelings of others: It was inconsiderate of him to keep us waiting.
2. acting without consideration; thoughtless; heedless.
3. overhasty; rash; ill-considered: slovenly, inconsiderate reasoning.
Origin:
1425–75; late ME < L inconsīderātus.
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So I went into the break room to make lunch. I had a paper plate and a box of tornados and I weren't askeered to use them. Someone was nuking their stuff in the right side microwave (I will refer to her as RSU - Right Side User), so I went to the left side microwave. It was off. I opened it, and there was a plastic container with someone's (what appeared to be) cornbeef and cabbage in there. I pointed at it, in case it was the RSU using both at once. She shook her head no. So I shrugged and put the container on top of the microwave. I put my plate and tornados in the microwave and heated them for 2 minutes. My IT coworker came along and waited for me to be done, then put his lunch in for 2 minutes.
Halfway into his cook time, the Owner of the Corned Beef and Cabbage (OCBC), someone I've never particularly gotten along with in the first place, came by and looked in the microwave. Surprised it wasn't her meal currently cooking, she looked around, and found her dish on the top of the appliance. Keep in mind I had removed it about 4 minutes before, and it was done when I got there.
She asks RSU (who was still using the microwave) who moved her food. RSU points to me. OCBC looks at her food and said something about (I'm paraphrasing unless I put it in quotes) how she doesn't appreciate me touching her food. And about how she didn't hear it beep.
I shrugged. "Sorry."
After a few seconds she moves over to the other side as RSU finishes and OCBC puts her food back in the right side microwave. "I just think it's inconsiderate."
Now I'm mad.
Precursor: LOOK UP INCONSIDERATE, YOU ILLITERATE ASS. At no point was ME moving YOUR food infringing on your rights, and if you get your feelings hurt because I moved your food, you need medication.
First of all, YOU LEFT YOUR FOOD IN THE MICROWAVE UNATTENDED.
Secondly, YOU DIDN'T TIME WHEN YOUR FOOD WOULD BE DONE AND THEN KEEP AN EYE ON THE 2 CLOCKS IN THE BREAK ROOM.
Tertiary, IF YOUR OLD, DEAF ASS CAN'T HEAR THE BEEP MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T LEAVE THE IMMEDIATE AREA.
However, all I replied with was, "Well *I* think it's inconsiderate to leave your food in the microwave so no one else can use it."
See, that's me using the word inconsiderate properly, since she didn't give a damn about the rights of other employees who may have been waiting to use the microwave she was taking up AND NO LONGER USING. We apparently are supposed to just wait for Her Highness to pull Her Royal Head out of Her ass and come get Her bloody Corned Beef and Cabbage. For over FOUR minutes. No, I really don't mind waiting on you to finish your conversation or waiting for you to find out "Is Danny really Janice's baby daddy or not?" to eat my food. It's only my lunchtime, and of course, your convenience is SO MUCH MORE valuable than my time.
"I didn't hear it beep," she offers up AGAIN, like that somehow makes it all better. What, you're falling back on the "I'm old and feeble" card? Really? Like that makes you calling me inconsiderate more okay?
I shrugged again. I don't give a shit whether you heard it beep. If you went into the other room, got busy talking or watching Maury or whatever on the TV, then don't be mad at me for moving your shit out of the PUBLIC USE microwaves, of which there are only TWO during a busy lunch time (it was noonish). Just pick up your food, check it, and if it's not done, wait your turn in line again. BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR LEAVING IT UNATTENDED.
But don't call ME inconsiderate for moving YOUR food which had been unattended for AT LEAST over FOUR minutes out of a microwave that was in demand by other people.
I really hate people.
posted by Nikki B at 3:05:00 PM