Shrimp!

Wow. Some co-workers and I were getting lunch take-out at a Ho-Lee Chow. We ordered no problem. Then a women walked in and wasn’t sure what she wanted. She asked for shrimp and was trying to find out what her options were with shrimp. The counter guy, let’s call him Billy appeared flustered and upset. Billy cut her off mid-sentence opened a menu in front of her and exclaimed while pointing at various spots on the menu: Shrimp! Shrimp! Shrimp! Shrimp! Shrimp! These all shrimp! What you want! The women seemed a little flustered by him and didn’t order any shrimp at all. She then wanted a Vegetable Dish *without* mushroom and *without* egg. Billy exclaimed, you want it without egg? Then stormed off and said something to the chef in another language. I thought the poor woman was going to cry. Merry freaking Christmas.

Speaking of Merry Christmas…today our CEO cancelled the three days off between X-mas and New Year’s. I don’t get this at all. We had the days off last year… there isn’t a major release coming out during those days… most of the staff *is* gone anyway… and yet I have to use holidays now to be off those days. What a kick in the pants. We don’t get a Christmas bonus so *at least* last year these days *felt* like they were in lieu of one. Sigh… it is pretty disappointing, especially with the short notice. (and prior to today we were led to believe those day were going to be off…)