The truth about Tony

My experiences with Tony

I honestly don’t even know why I’m writing this anymore, but I need it documented somewhere, because every time I bring this up it gets brushed off like it’s no big deal.

Tony keeps letting the monkeys loose.

This is not an exaggeration. This is not a one-time mistake. This is a recurring problem, often involving Lucy the zookeeper, and somehow I’m always the one dealing with the consequences.

19th of January
This was the first incident at BSG that really made me realize something was wrong. Tony and Lucy decided it would be “good enrichment” to open the enclosure earlier than scheduled. No warning. No supervision plan. Within minutes, multiple monkeys were loose. One ended up climbing storage shelves, another somehow got into a restricted corridor.
Tony’s response? “They’re curious animals.”
My response? Spending the rest of the day catching monkeys instead of doing my actual work.

21st of January
Despite what happened two days earlier, absolutely nothing changed. Same people, same decisions. This time, the enclosure door was “accidentally” left unsecured after feeding. Again, Tony and Lucy were both present. Again, monkeys everywhere.
I had to track them down one by one while Tony stood there saying, “Didn’t we close that?”
Yes, Tony. We were supposed to.

23rd of January
At this point, it’s starting to feel intentional. Tony joked about the monkeys being “too smart to be locked up” before walking away. Not even an hour later, surprise: monkeys loose. Again. One made it all the way to an area they have never been in before, which raised safety concerns that apparently only I cared about.
Lucy laughed it off. Tony looked confused. I lost what little patience I had left.

The pattern is always the same:
Tony lets it happen.
Lucy enables it.
I clean it up.

I am the one chasing monkeys. I am the one making sure they’re all accounted for. I am the one dealing with the stress, the interruptions, and the complete lack of responsibility from the people who keep causing the problem.

It’s driving me absolutely bananas. If this keeps going, I’m genuinely worried that one day the monkeys won’t be the only ones trying to escape the situation.