While I was working at the restaurant today, I met a new bus boy who's Dad is in the same unit as Michael, and is currently deployed to Iraq. He is a rough kid, who is very nice, but you can tell can make it on his own without any help. Toward the end of my shift, one of the managers, who happened to go to school with Michael, made the statement that the kid was a complete idiot and didn't know what was doing. This conversation occurred after he called into work to get his schedule. He had been at work earlier (as I mentioned), but had forgotten to get his schedule. It happens to the best of us, so I decided to stick up for the kid when the manager (who Michael strongly dislikes anyway) decided to run his mouth.
I explained the situation the kid was in, and I said forgetting happens, but cut him a break, you have no idea what he is going through. The manager than said, "Well my Grandmother died last month, so what?" Ok, two COMPLETELY different things. I tried to explain to him that both are emotional, but a deployment is mixed with sadness, fear, loneliness, among many other emotions, and you have no idea how he is reacting to it. The manager then said I don't care, he's just stupid. I love how sensitive some people can be!
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