Jack of Harts

“I’m not letting drunk people into the pool after hours so they can drown themselves on my shift. That is way too much paperwork for me to want to deal with.” Yes, I said those words today. Not to the people in question, but to coworkers. And yes, drunk people wanted into the pool at my workplace after hours. I did not let them in. I really do not want to explain why I overrode the automatic locks to let stumbling, mumbling, barely able to walk and stand up drunk people into a place that can kill people who are not careful. That would not be a good conversation. So I prefer to stick to the rules and just not let them into the pool. It is closed. I’m sorry, but I can’t do anything about that. And the more people try to force me to buck those rules, the more I stick to the rules. Especially the rules designed to protect people from our own stupidity.