Tonights jeopardy winner

So, I vented the other night about what I had been going through because I'm the type who holds stuff in until I can't anymore. What can I say? I'm a work in progress. But I never vented at work. I clammed up and then vented here and at home. Went back to work the next day and was completely calm.
I did mention a little something to one of my leads, but I didn't take the situation any higher than that. My goal was never to get anyone in trouble, but there was clearly an issue that needed to be resolved.
My problem was I felt disrespected, stepped over, disregarded, and "played with" (by mgmt). Then when I tried to get a straight answer from mgmt., they never really gave me one, lol.
Favorite Girl's problem is that she feels like I'm trying to take something away from her. She's used to doing certain things and probably has had free reign on that shift for her entire length of employment. Then I came in—the only actual adult regular employee on night shift—and started "acting like a manager" in her eyes. So she bucked me.
Aside from that, I don't think any of them know I worked at this company for a couple of years. Yes, I'm new to the department, but I'm not fresh off the street. I never bothered telling anyone, though. If they know, they know. If they don't, they don't. Anyway, I think they feel like I'm stepping in and trying to take over "their" territory.
I get it. I understand. But that's not what I was trying to do.
I was asked to watch over them, lock up, count stuff, etc. I don't know who was doing it before I got there. All I know is that's what my mgr. asked me to do. So I did it and felt kind of good that they trusted me enough to ask me to.
It was all cool at first, but then the dynamic changed, and I'm not sure why.
Anyways, the same thing happened tonight, where my manager asked me to do something, and Favorite Girl interjected and overstepped again. Instead of getting mad or complaining, I talked directly to her about the problem. I told her and the other one that I'm not trying to be their mother or their boss. I was just looking out for them as asked.
They could have actually died, and it was rude of them to put their safety in jeopardy to prove a point. I reminded them that we had gotten along just fine, worked together, and followed policies a few weeks previously. So I didn't understand the new attitude. Yadda yadda so forth and so on.
We just had a conversation. No one yelled, cussed, or anything like that. I talked to them because I wanted to hear what they had to say, and I wanted them to hear where I was coming from.
I don't know how things will pan out, but I'll give myself an A for effort in trying to talk to disgruntled teenagers, lmao. That's a first for me.
BTW, the boys are upset with me now. I'm not sure whether it's because I called them kids (which they are), or because I said I wanted to leave when I was upset.
Nevertheless, they expressed their displeasure by playing GOD-AWFUL music on the BT speaker. It was ABSOLUTELY HORRENDOUS. They usually play stuff from my era (on their own with no prompting or request). That's how I knew they were upset.
I returned the favor by waiting until they went outside to dispense, connecting my phone to BT, and playing the theme song to SANFORD & SON as loud as possible. That's not even from my era, but I thought it was funny as crap.
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So my son and I went out to play some casual tonight at a new shop as we were on a bit of a road trip. This shop has three tiers for EDH FNM; Casual, Mid, and Competitive. He chooses to play in mid because, well, he's playing [[Kaalia of the Vast]] and I go casual as I've just thrown together a garbage deck like I like to most weeks. He gets seated with three people and introduces himself to the table and one guy just says, "AJR sucks." My son is twelve and absolutely obsessed with AJR and he's wearing one of their concert tees. The guy continues "They're just way too poppy." My kid ignores this but it's definitely drawn my attention more than the pile of cards I haphazardly tossed under Mishra, Artificer Prodigy.
The table shuffles up and the asshole leans in to the person sitting to his left and says, "They shouldn't pair adults with kids. They should get their own table." My son is twelve and genuinely the most well-mannered kid ever plus he's a little timid so he remains quiet. They roll up and asshole goes first he's playing [[Koma, Cosmos Serpent]] like most assholes do. Turn one, Forest, Sol Ring, pass. My kid, I'm just going to transition to calling him D. D puts out his triome and passes. The other two players have effective early turns. A [[Bruvac]] player and an [[Omnath, Locus of Rage]] landfall deck. Turn 2, more of the same for everyone except for asshole who apparently kept a 1 lander. He begrudgingly passes. D drops either a Talisman or a signet, couldn't say which. Turn 3, Omnath hits the board and Bruvac mills away D's [[Avacyn, Angel of Hope]] much to his dismay. He drops another rock instead of opting to play Kaalia. The asshole hasn't drawn another land and is getting visibly angry. D [[Vampiric Tutor]]s for his greaves on someone else's turn.
Turn 4, mill is building up way too well, Omnom is pooping out kids nonstop, Asshole has still not drawn his land as he declares that, "This is stupid. I run 41 lands in this deck." D gets to his turn during which he got his greaves. He drops the greaves... No responses. He plays the Kaalia... No responses. He equips the Kaalia. Do... Do these people not know what Kaalia does? Attack phase it is, I guess. D has one more trick up his sleeve though and that comes in the form of a [[Master of Cruelties]], the only reason he had kept an otherwise alarmingly creature-light hand. D has three choices here, all of whom are effectively wide open to him. The world is his oyster. I mean obviously he could go for the person who cost him his beloved Avacyn. Hell, maybe the person direct damaging him with Omnath and amassing an army is the play? Certainly not the guy sitting on one paltry forest and a rock that he apparently can't use despite it being arguably the best in the format.
Well, this story wouldn't be worth telling if he had elected to dick punch Bruvac. He decided payback was the play and he was in to win. He attacked the asshole and dropped his Master of Cruelties in perhaps the most passive manner imaginable. Asshole had made it apparent early on that he had brought his best deck and he intended to win prize packs. He definitely didn't want to get paired down to the loser table. He starts by saying, "You could take out one of the people who have actually attacked you and are actually a threat." This quickly transitioned to, "I haven't even gotten to start playing my deck yet. You should pick one of them instead." To, "Please. Can I see if my next card is a land and if so can you choose someone else? I'll target you last." to, "This is stupid. You don't even know how to play the game. You're going to lose because of this play."
D, the whole time, was just saying, "I already declared my attacks." After the guy finally said, "Fine, whatever!" and started packing up, D told him, "It says in the Magic rulebook to be respectful to other players and I like playing by the rules."
I don't know if it was just the humanity of it or the fact that he just got intellectually devastated by a kid who was probably 1/2 his age if that but you could see this guy go through the seven stages of grief right before your eyes over this little exchange and he immediately started haphazardly packing up and mumbling to himself as he told the TO that he had to leave early. He would not even make eye contact with my son after that and while the Bruvac player pulled the game off, I think that D was the real winner... Just not of the packs because, well, you know.