I’m not putting up with bull shit, bullying, or any kind of crap anymore. I’ve officially had it up to ***here*** with people determining I’m incompetent because they don’t like my style .
I use to joke that when I was an old lady with a cane, I’d be using my cane to keep people in line that weren’t behaving. Well, I’m not that old and I’m not planning to have a cane in the next 40 years, but I’m feeling the need to whip some assholes into shape.
My cane will be my words, until the day when I officially need a cane. And then my words and the cane will tag team.
Today I had to publicly dress-down another election judge. He was jumping into every conversation I was having with voters who had registration questions (my election job is a voter registration judge) and distracting/confusing the answers I was giving.
After about two hours of this interference and in the middle of another interfering act, I publicly dressed-down this guy clearly and concisely, and made him shut up. I then smiled at the voter, answered his questions, and made sure he had the right documentation that would allow him to register to vote and vote on the same day. AKA doing my job.
The other irritating thing was that this other judge had been trailing me and critiquing everything I did once he found out I was the registration judge. I was being bullied.
It’s too bad it took me two hours to deal with it, but I needed that time to figure out how to address the situation without using a bunch of obscenities. Plus, I had a bunch of registrants that needed my help. They come first.
I don’t know how the actual elections will turn out (other than how they turned out for my precinct), but I know there was one clear winner today: me.