Last Days Chronicles: Part 1

Starting today I will do something as boring as chronicle the last three days of working at my current job. Yes! Friday I will finally be set free, allowed to start life anew - far far away from the job I've been at for four years, and loathed for about two of them...

I'm going to take for granted that you know about me getting laid off from work, and also of the situation with Mr. Weenie-Hat the Union Rep, so I'm not getting into any of that here.

I will just tell you a little bit of my experiences these last few days.

Well, I got into work this morning. My boss is on vacation, so I won't ever have to see her again. In fact, as I arrived there was no one there who was in "charge" at the place. Not that we all don't know how to run the business anyway...

I had bought my breakfast at my usual coffee shop... I was sad to see that the hot girl who works there wasn't in today. Instead there was this other woman behind the counter whom I don't really like. She looks... dirty. I don't understand why a place that deals with food would hire a person like that... I mean - wouldn't you at least expect that someone who's going to touch what you're going to eat will look nice and clean?

Anyway... I got my cheese sandwich and my pistachio bun, and the orange juice that I usually buy there. That amounts to approx. $6.

As I sit down in the break room eating my breakfast, talking to the other three co-workers I will be spending my day with, I see a new schedule print-out on the table. I decide to look it over to make sure that I am scheduled correctly for the remaining month and a half that I am supposed to get pay without actually working... isn't that going to be sweet?

Now... that's when I started to become agitated. I am not even ON the darn thing. My name is nowhere to be found.

And, with the boss on vacation, and no one really in charge - who do I speak to?

Later, the Sales Manager came into work, despite having the day off, so I confront her about the situation. Of course, she doesn't know a thing. So I do the only thing that's left for me to do.

I call the District Manager... the schmuck in charge. I tell her that I'm not even on the schedule, and she tells me that I should be.

"Well, I'm not."

"Your store manager did the schedule on Monday. She should have included you."

"I know that... but I'm not there."

Apparently, after discussing the matter, it appears that she did, in fact, schedule me, but decided not to include me in the print-out. Alright, fair enough - but I want to see it, to make sure that the hours are the way they should be.

So, the district manager ended up faxing me a copy of the schedule. Could barely read the stupid thing, because our fax machine is from the middle ages or something. I'm getting someone else to print me a copy tomorrow - one that I will take with me home and keep in case they try to slip one by me here. They're not dealing with an imbecile here...

With that done. I leisurely helped out re-arranging the store in preparation for summer articles that are already coming into stock. I'm not busting my balls... but I need to make time go by a little at least.

I swear - today felt like a week at the place.

One of the co-workers I like, and will miss, got some sad news today. I was in the office when I hear her in the breakroom crying - speaking on the phone. My heart sank, as it sounded as if someone had died. I didn't want to interrupt her phonecall, and so I stepped outside to give her some space.

Turned out someone did die... it was her cat. Her neighbors had found the cat on their porch, curled up as if it was sleeping. After a while when the cat hadn't moved they realized he was dead, and so they called her up to tell of the bad news.

She's burying the cat tonight.

Oh! Almost forgot.

I'll be adding a song to the playlist each of those three days as well.

This time I chose "Wish I Had An Angel" by Nightwish. They are a Finnish hard rocking band that mixes the heavy with some "opera" like singing by the beautiful voice of Tarja. She's no longer with the band, and I don't really like their new album. She was what made them special!

This is a really good song!