L is for Loser

MVWJ was a subset of one of my best jobs which was in a professional office setting. I had to train a new kid to do my job before I could move on to my next assignment within the company. I looked forward to getting him off to a good start, but what a waste it turned out to be. This guy, who was in his mid-twenties, was a major loser. He left his job as a high school math teacher because the students made fun of him. I should have taken that as a sign. When I explained something to him, he didn’t write anything down (even when I handed him a pen) and would come back a few days later so I could explain it again. Meanwhile, he’d sit at his desk and do absolutely nothing. He often overslept and missed important meetings.

His first major assignment was to create some important documentation. He put off the task for as long as possible, did a terrible job, then took the next day off to go to the department golf tournament. While I rewrote the documentation, he got wasted and passed out on the golf course with a boner. On a personal level, this guy repeatedly told annoying stories and was incapable of living in the real world. He put his paycheck into an account from which his mother would pay his bills. He feebly bemoaned when he ran out of plastic dishware at home. He once proudly confided that he didn’t own an iron; I pretended I hadn’t already figured that out. The icing on the cake was his apartment was flea-ridden and he got fleas which he passed on to me. Shortly after I’d moved on, management asked him to leave the company.