It's weird when you know your perspective is off, but you keep getting it pulled into focus in your life anyways.

I have a lot of great things in my life! But the things that walk center stage for 8 hours of my day are things that are annoying, things that make me angry, etc. It's often repetitive, out of my control, and if I try to talk to someone about it, they don't care or don't remember. It doesn't help that most of my coworkers get caught up in complaining too.

-People leave the pitcher rinser running, so it's the sound of constant loud running water. Not only does the sound get on my nerves, but sometimes it makes me not be able to hear customers well.
-Someone putting clean dishes back out so we get it dirty again before the night is over
-People who say the same exact same phrase or sentence to every customer. In response to "how are you?" "Oh hanging in there!" "Can't complain! No one would care if I did!" "I'm tired but I gotta be here."
-Putting dirty dishes in the soap water before rinsing them off (or just leaving them on the side for someone else to do) which makes the water immediately brown with coffee, mocha, etc.
-Some people are just really bad at drivethru and everybody gets confused, they ask unnecessary questions and confuse the customer, etc.
-We're supposed to have under 50 seconds per car at the window from open 7:00 AM - 11:00 AM, so some people get extremely stressed, get angry, ask why a person is still at the window when you have no control over it, ask them to pull up so we can take stuff out to them but there aren't always enough people to do that and then it throws us all off
-People who try to finish a drink that I'm still holding IN MY HAND as if they were being helpful
-Someone leaving a drink half finished and walking off and forgetting about it
-People not making whip creams or filling up half and half carafes, so then when we need them we're rushing to do it because we need it RIGHT THEN
-Someone making loud breathing noises into the headset, weird popping sounds, and pushing the mic to their mouth too far and being WAY louder and hurting my ears, even when ask them to stop
-People doing other things off the floor and then not coming to help us when we get slammed
-Customers who say frappe or frapp instead of Frappuccino
-Customers who add a million things at the window and hold up the line instead of ordering at the box like a normal person

This list never ends. And some people I work with are amazingly annoying, like I didn't know I could be that annoyed with a person until I worked at SB.

I don't want to be so frustrated with all of these things. They are minor in the grand scheme of things. Some of them are really petty and small. Sometimes I try to constantly think about other things at work. The good things. Things at church, things coming up that I'm looking forward to, good books I'm reading, etc. Sometimes that does great! Other times it doesn't. Sometimes I try to pray all day. That works when I am mostly cleaning and doing dishes, but not at all when I'm making drinks and ringing people up because that requires my full attention. But overall, it's just draining. I feel stuck in it. I can't get out. I see no end to it.