Don't take it personally...even when it's personal

Fucking sanity......it's a commodity these days. People are predictably stupid and wait until the last minute for everything. People screw up and try to make it someone else's problem. Shit rolls down hill. If you schedule people for a living, you have to be very careful. You have to know when to set up who and what needs to be done. Everybody thinks that their problems are the most important. It doesn't matter what you want, unless you can make it matter to them. I've been sending people fliers offering a Pre-summer air conditioning start up special in an attempt to lighten the inevitable load of work that comes in June but, of course, everybody waits until the first hot day of the year and they absolutely cannot fathom why they are being pushed back 3-5 days for service. It's like: "You know why? SCHMUCK? Because everybody else is as stupid as YOU ARE!!!" Then, you have to deal with other professionals, which is never easy, because, yet again it's everyman/woman/child/donkey for them selves. It's like, we work with people because they give us jobs that help us make money, how much this relationship is worth depends on the BULLSHIT factor. For Instance, if someone we work with keeps setting up appointments to let us in to do work in one of their clients houses and then FLAKES OUT, we just wasted time, money and gas to go there and get skunked. If this happens enough times, these professionals get pushed to the end of the priority list and other people move up. It's like, people will try to get away with what ever they can. You have to see them coming, you have to know how to counter the punches that they throw, you have to know when you're right, and when you're wrong. When to coddle and kiss ass or when to tell someone to go pound salt. People suck because they are complicated, whiny and self-concerned/absorbed; they just have to learn that they aren't the center of the universe, and that instead "I" am the center of the universe. ME! And if you don't like it, you can go piss up a rope!! (LOL)