nodanaonlyzuul
06-23-2010, 02:05 PM
so I realize that there are a lot of homeless people that truly are in need, but OMFG the homeless people I am dealing with lately are driving me NUTS.
I work in the especially crappy area of San Francisco (Tenderloin, sup) so it's a lot of homeless people, most of them crack heads. I get harassed constantly and it ranges from them aggressively asking for money, or cat calls. Some stay a few feet away, but some get right in my face.
Thank goodness for having Security at the doors to work, but we have two buildings, about a 6ish minute walk from each other, and it is excruciating sometimes dealing with all the shit on the way. I get it whether I am just walking with nothing on me, or if I have stuff on me. I do a lot of event catering so sometimes I am lugging food or drinks on my way over and jesus lord... I need a baseball bat to keep people away from me. I'm going to be asking for a personal escort each time now because it's getting that bad.
Usually I just ignore them, but ack.
There was a few times in the beginning when I've given my own food away, but then they ask for cash too, and I usually don't have cash and let them know that. One said "I take charge" and the other said "there's an ATM down the street" and pointed at the bank.
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Then they seem to be infesting the train station near my house because today when I was trying to make a phone call, one literally got two inches from my face and said "got any change, if not I see you got a cell phone, you look good, you can call me tomorrow, yeah, call me tomorrow".
It got to me this time and I actually yelled "GO THE FUCK AWAY".
And then when I got to work, security signaled me to go in to the front door instead of the side staff door because he saw a homeless guy heading right at me to start talking to me. It's like I'm a freakin magnet.
I'm getting really irritated. (n)
I work in the especially crappy area of San Francisco (Tenderloin, sup) so it's a lot of homeless people, most of them crack heads. I get harassed constantly and it ranges from them aggressively asking for money, or cat calls. Some stay a few feet away, but some get right in my face.
Thank goodness for having Security at the doors to work, but we have two buildings, about a 6ish minute walk from each other, and it is excruciating sometimes dealing with all the shit on the way. I get it whether I am just walking with nothing on me, or if I have stuff on me. I do a lot of event catering so sometimes I am lugging food or drinks on my way over and jesus lord... I need a baseball bat to keep people away from me. I'm going to be asking for a personal escort each time now because it's getting that bad.
Usually I just ignore them, but ack.
There was a few times in the beginning when I've given my own food away, but then they ask for cash too, and I usually don't have cash and let them know that. One said "I take charge" and the other said "there's an ATM down the street" and pointed at the bank.
...
....................
Then they seem to be infesting the train station near my house because today when I was trying to make a phone call, one literally got two inches from my face and said "got any change, if not I see you got a cell phone, you look good, you can call me tomorrow, yeah, call me tomorrow".
It got to me this time and I actually yelled "GO THE FUCK AWAY".
And then when I got to work, security signaled me to go in to the front door instead of the side staff door because he saw a homeless guy heading right at me to start talking to me. It's like I'm a freakin magnet.
I'm getting really irritated. (n)