Bad Manners and Brimstone

The problem I'm having with the "You do you, I'll do me" people is that they are doing them but they are not actually letting the rest of us do ourselves.  You don't want to wear a mask?  Fine, you do you.  But me doing me is wearing one, working from home, and stepping back when you get too close to me.

This apparently makes me a sheep, a coward, and a lemming, and I was actually told on FB (not by a friend, by someone on a local Town page) that I would probably get right into the boxcars if "they" told me to.  Which I found incredibly offensive and that person got blocked post-haste.

I didn't get the impression that Admin is jpcher's superior; either her peer or subordinate.  Jpcher, can you clarify?

I complained about this on E-Hell :-).

In my previous job my work partner's desk was directly behind mine with both of us facing forward.  The left short ends of the desks were against the wall and the right short ends were completely open.  There was maybe a foot of space between the back of my chair and the front of her desk.

For some reason people absolutely insisted on squeezing themselves in behind my chair in order to stand at the long end of her desk and talk to her rather than standing at the short end.  I tried everything I could think of to block the opening...boxes, a stepstool, a plant...it was a flippin' 5' tall ficus tree...people either sidled around the item or actually moved it out of the way so they could squeeze in behind me.  She'd point at the short end and say, "Come over here," every single time.  I'd say, "Please don't stand behind me."  Nothing helped.

Finally I started scooting my chair backwards when someone was standing behind me, thisclosetome.  Bang!  Oh I'm so sorry, I had no idea you were standing there.  Whomp!  Oops, maybe you should stand over there?  Thud!  This isn't really a good place for you to stand.

It may not have helped much but I felt a little better.

 

Along the same lines, I'm incredibly irritated when a police officer is being interviewed on camera about something to do with a criminal and s/he says, "This gentleman <performed terrible crime>" and I think, if he did that, he's no gentleman!

Edited to add missing word.

I attended a sold out theatre production this afternoon.  Just before curtain, a woman came and took one of the last open seats, which was to my right.  She said, "Hello," and I turned towards her and ...

... got a huge whiff of what smelled like cigarette smoke and urine.

Nowhere to move to.

Every time something happened on stage left (to my right) I had to take a deep breath before turning my head in her direction.