One of the maintenance guys at work was off for about 10 months due to an injury. He returned to work a few weeks ago. Before he left he was a little bit difficult to get along with because he was always starting some kind of drama with anyone who would get into it with him. And he would be sure to tell anyone who would listen why he was pissed at someone and what he thought of them. It sucked that he was gone for so long because we were down to one maintenance guy and 2 apprentices. I figured that since he has been gone it would take a while for his previous bitchiness to resurface. I was wrong.

Yesterday someone told me one of the women in the shelter got attitude with him. I cringed a little bit because he has also been known to have attitude with the families in the shelter, as if they don't have enough shit to deal with. Today the woman called me to tell me her toilet was backed up and she needed a plunger. I told her I would call maintenance and let them know. So I went and found attitude maintenance man and our conversation went like this:

Me: The woman in that apartment needs a plunger because her toilet is backed up.
Maintenance Man: She better greet me right.
Me: Well that's not really her job.
MM: Well let's just say if she doesn't greet me right, she's gonna have to go to the dollar store.
Me: Really. Okay. Great.

What? I actually had no idea what to say. I probably should have said:
"do your job, asshole."
"why are you such a dick?"
"are you kidding me??"
"what would Jesus do?"
"I hope you get hurt and leave for another 10 months."

I'm taking notes and when he pisses me off again I'm taking my notes to his supervisor. Which won't matter because his supervisor is really very useless.