Construction

[low_delta]

They're rebuilding the road outside our industrial park. There are two entrances from that side. They always have one open and one closed, depending on where they're doing the work that week. Today, the first was closed as usual, but when I got to the second entrance, a guy was dragging a barricade across the entrance. I stopped to see what was going on. The far side of my road was already blocked off. I said to the guy, "why do you do this to me?" He said, "it's closed buddy!" I yelled, "but why don't you open the other one?!" He yelled back, "Fuck you!"

Okay, I could expect the "conversation" to get antagonistic, but when a constructive suggestion is met with raw anger, I tend to get upset. I would have expected a blank stare, or an "it's not my job!" but "FUCK YOU!"? Come on. I think I'll write a letter.

Comments

[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

Oh! *fume fume* It's GO TIME! Let me at him!!

Your tax dollars are paying for the inconvenience that has been going on as long as I've known you. That worker needs a bonking on the head by the steel hanky of Politeness Man!

[redthread.livejournal.com]

JEEZ!!! That's just a bit over the top. Yikes!

[fleur.livejournal.com]

That is completely unnecessary. I would call and see if you can locate his supervisor and report it right away, and then write a letter as well.

That WAS uncalled for.

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Write or phone, definitely..you shouldn't have had to put up with that kind of behavior. ((((Kev))))

[vlinker.livejournal.com]

you need to quickly act on this matter.....get on the phone to the general contractor who is doing the project........more than likely, they will listen and perhaps reprimand the fellow.....if they do not listen, make sure your facts are dead straight and get that letter in to the editor......be sure to name as many names as you can including the construction company, etc..........remember, it's not slander if it's true......

[banana.livejournal.com]

As soon as he said "buddy", the conversation was going nowhere.
The English equivalent is "mate" (meaning "not your mate at all"), or to really wind the other person up, "sonny Jim".

Yeah, what they all said up there

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

I agree - take action and do it quickly. You shouldn't have to take that crap.

Seems to me this guy belongs in an online community where that kind of verbal hostility happens for no reason when you least expect it. *sigh*