John (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} seerow) wrote,@ 2006-10-23 20:11:00 |
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The day goes from bad to worse
Okay, update on stuff before-She actually contacted me about 6 days early. Go figure. Things have been better there, we're giving it another shot, which is always good.
But anyway, today I spent most of my morning trying to call and get hold of Lisa, after about 2 hours Mike picks up and says she's out somewhere. Two hours after I call the house again and turns out she had been sleeping, and wanted to watch her shows. Okay, whatever, if you'd picked up the phone 4 hours earlier I could have saved time and agravation on both our parts calling, but okay.
Anyway, last night I had been aggravated because my drawer was short 7 dollars at work (since I don't think I ever posted it, I got the job at Dollar General Market about 3-4 weeks ago). I stayed there a half hour late trying to find it, I counted through the drawer and deposit about 5 times looking for it, but it the extra money was nowhere to be found.
I thought this was my second actual time being short(since I know one time I was short it got taken off the books because they found it, and one time was from both Maggie and I using the same drawer, so felt it shouldn't count against me), but they claimed it was my 5th time being more than 2 dollars short, so I was fired. I showed up today to go to work, and they told me to just go back home.
It just really pisses me off, because my mom is relying on the extra 100 dollars a week to balance the bills, I was relying on the extra income to try to take a trip in December to visit Lisa, among other things, and really everything I was doing was relying on that extra money.
And really, the job itself wasn't bad. I never really liked the main manager above me, Mrs. Jane, but since she generally leaves around 2 and I don't show up til 3-4, I never had to deal with her much. On the other hand, the people I did deal with regularly, Debbie, Jeff, John, Alex, Maggie, Darla, Amy, Diana, they were all good people that I felt I got along with really well. I was comfortable working there, and 90% of the time, I was able to balance within pennies, which is what they want, and is a lot harder than it would seem when you're there for 5-8 hours during which you can make mistakes.
I mean, the people who are there longest, like Alex and the Managers, last so long because they do other stuff, and go on register only when things get really busy. I mean, I even saw Mrs. Jane being short 2 dollars the other day, but I guarantee she didn't write herself up a warning. And that sort of thing really annoys me.
I dunno, at least Dave wasn't as terrible about it as I was dreading. Immediately after I called Lisa(the upside of this is that she was there to talk after things happened..) nearly crying, and really, I was most afraid of his reaction given how mad he got that I hadn't gotten a job immediately after he said to. But when I got home and told him, his reaction was "Well, that sucks. Guess you need to find something new" and I do. I'll be going job hunting tomorrow most likely.
On that note, I also need to talk to a counselor and someone from financial aid, about dropping the Database Programming class, because it was nothing like what I expected (frankly, it's more a class about how to organize your stuff than any actual programming. I signed up thinking it was going to be php or something similar.) and frankly, too boring for me to stay interested. My problem is what happens if I drop below 3 credit hours for the semester, will Bright Futures drop me? If so, I'll have to deal with it, if not, I'm going to drop it just because the teacher hasn't bothered to respond to me at all despite me emailing him about what work I needed to do. Seriously, it's been 3 weeks now, and I still don't know what I'm supposed to be doing. If it turns out that I do need to take the class, I'll go in in person tomorrow and ask him. I mean, I know I can do the class in 2-3 weeks if I really pushed it and concentrated, but it's so boring I see no reason whatsoever -why- I should. I mean, the credit doesn't even transfer, so it won't help me at all in the university.
I'm gonna go die now.
Okay, update on stuff before-She actually contacted me about 6 days early. Go figure. Things have been better there, we're giving it another shot, which is always good.
But anyway, today I spent most of my morning trying to call and get hold of Lisa, after about 2 hours Mike picks up and says she's out somewhere. Two hours after I call the house again and turns out she had been sleeping, and wanted to watch her shows. Okay, whatever, if you'd picked up the phone 4 hours earlier I could have saved time and agravation on both our parts calling, but okay.
Anyway, last night I had been aggravated because my drawer was short 7 dollars at work (since I don't think I ever posted it, I got the job at Dollar General Market about 3-4 weeks ago). I stayed there a half hour late trying to find it, I counted through the drawer and deposit about 5 times looking for it, but it the extra money was nowhere to be found.
I thought this was my second actual time being short(since I know one time I was short it got taken off the books because they found it, and one time was from both Maggie and I using the same drawer, so felt it shouldn't count against me), but they claimed it was my 5th time being more than 2 dollars short, so I was fired. I showed up today to go to work, and they told me to just go back home.
It just really pisses me off, because my mom is relying on the extra 100 dollars a week to balance the bills, I was relying on the extra income to try to take a trip in December to visit Lisa, among other things, and really everything I was doing was relying on that extra money.
And really, the job itself wasn't bad. I never really liked the main manager above me, Mrs. Jane, but since she generally leaves around 2 and I don't show up til 3-4, I never had to deal with her much. On the other hand, the people I did deal with regularly, Debbie, Jeff, John, Alex, Maggie, Darla, Amy, Diana, they were all good people that I felt I got along with really well. I was comfortable working there, and 90% of the time, I was able to balance within pennies, which is what they want, and is a lot harder than it would seem when you're there for 5-8 hours during which you can make mistakes.
I mean, the people who are there longest, like Alex and the Managers, last so long because they do other stuff, and go on register only when things get really busy. I mean, I even saw Mrs. Jane being short 2 dollars the other day, but I guarantee she didn't write herself up a warning. And that sort of thing really annoys me.
I dunno, at least Dave wasn't as terrible about it as I was dreading. Immediately after I called Lisa(the upside of this is that she was there to talk after things happened..) nearly crying, and really, I was most afraid of his reaction given how mad he got that I hadn't gotten a job immediately after he said to. But when I got home and told him, his reaction was "Well, that sucks. Guess you need to find something new" and I do. I'll be going job hunting tomorrow most likely.
On that note, I also need to talk to a counselor and someone from financial aid, about dropping the Database Programming class, because it was nothing like what I expected (frankly, it's more a class about how to organize your stuff than any actual programming. I signed up thinking it was going to be php or something similar.) and frankly, too boring for me to stay interested. My problem is what happens if I drop below 3 credit hours for the semester, will Bright Futures drop me? If so, I'll have to deal with it, if not, I'm going to drop it just because the teacher hasn't bothered to respond to me at all despite me emailing him about what work I needed to do. Seriously, it's been 3 weeks now, and I still don't know what I'm supposed to be doing. If it turns out that I do need to take the class, I'll go in in person tomorrow and ask him. I mean, I know I can do the class in 2-3 weeks if I really pushed it and concentrated, but it's so boring I see no reason whatsoever -why- I should. I mean, the credit doesn't even transfer, so it won't help me at all in the university.
I'm gonna go die now.
