so the time has come. my last day with my store is Saturday. I was supposed to be "released" tomorrow morning, but they have granted me permission to close my store saturday and end the week with it. this all came out when my area manager wanted to suspend me last night for sitting down on my shift... I WAS ON MY BREAK... it was like 7pm... I had been there since 8:30am.... was gonna be there til 10:30pm. I deserved to take a break. I deserved to sit down for 5 freakin minutes. well he happened to walk by my store and wanted to suspend me. I wasnt the only one in the store, I had a part timer working with me. I didnt have my lanyard on, so to the public, I did not look like i worked there. I could see if i was on the clock. or if i had my lanyard on and just looked like a lazy employee. but no. Im not allowed to take a freakin break on a 14 hour day apparently. I knew my DM was coming out tomorrow, and had a feeling it was to fire me. See, my store has been on an action plan to increase sales. Well, Ive been doing everything possible to not lose my job. Every night ive closed I have made sure we beat last years numbers and increased sales as much as we could. my assistant manager... thats another story. Last night we improved sales by almost 400 dollars. tonight my asst managed to close 200 short of last years numbers. so because she doesnt give a damn it doesnt do anything to improve my stores numbers. they gave me two fuckin weeks to improve shit. and told me i couldnt fire her.... so what the hell was i to do?! so ive failed. ive lost my store. they've been telling me to swallow my pride and demote myself, to be a co manager at the adult store. like ive said in a previous blog, i dont care to work downstairs and watch some idiot run my store. thats a kick in the face every day. do i really need that? no. its not a matter of swallowing my pride, in my opinion. ive been with this company off and on for 4 years.... evidently im not meant to be with them any longer. But heres the problem, I dont have another job lined up. I have decided to take the position at the adult store. at least temperarily. now heres where im stuck. I feel i should ask for a week off between my last day at my store and the day i start at the other store. just a week to get over it. I am incredibly tore up over this. a week to sleep. a week to get some school work done. a week to get every thing done that i havent had time to do since october. Ive only been back for 6 months, so i dont qualify for a week of paid vacation. so i have to decide if i want to take a week off, unpaid. I cant afford to, but at the same time I can. Funds will be a little tight, but I can do it no problem type thing. Not to mention its a week to get my sanity back. to cry enough to get all of this out of my system. and have a fresh attitude when i go back to work. The week off might also make me realize I dont care to go back though. A week off would however give me the time to try and line something up job wise elsewhere.
on other notes... im carless yet again. about a week and a half ago my car broke down on my way home. I was about 2 miles away from my exit on 94 going home... and my oil light came on... so i started to pull over to the shoulder, and just as i got to the shoulder my battery light came on and my car died. wouldnt start again. when you'd try to start it my trunk would pop open. lol. so i had to call a tow truck and what not. well i got it into the shop and they told me they had to replace the starter before they would know anything. so they ordered a new starter, well they ordered the wrong one.. so that delayed it. once they got the new one put in they called to tell me they started my car and it sounded like a lawn mower... my entire engine was SHOT! wtf. so now Im waiting while they put a used engine in. I'm annoyed. Luckily my engine is covered by my warranty so I just have to pay for the starter. Well what pisses me off with that is that they told me that usually when they rebuild the heads on a car, the starter will go out soon after. so why the fuck didnt they tell me that in november when they rebuilt my heads?! and why wouldnt my starter be covered then when my heads and engine both are? Im so sick of my car.
on other notes... im carless yet again. about a week and a half ago my car broke down on my way home. I was about 2 miles away from my exit on 94 going home... and my oil light came on... so i started to pull over to the shoulder, and just as i got to the shoulder my battery light came on and my car died. wouldnt start again. when you'd try to start it my trunk would pop open. lol. so i had to call a tow truck and what not. well i got it into the shop and they told me they had to replace the starter before they would know anything. so they ordered a new starter, well they ordered the wrong one.. so that delayed it. once they got the new one put in they called to tell me they started my car and it sounded like a lawn mower... my entire engine was SHOT! wtf. so now Im waiting while they put a used engine in. I'm annoyed. Luckily my engine is covered by my warranty so I just have to pay for the starter. Well what pisses me off with that is that they told me that usually when they rebuild the heads on a car, the starter will go out soon after. so why the fuck didnt they tell me that in november when they rebuilt my heads?! and why wouldnt my starter be covered then when my heads and engine both are? Im so sick of my car.
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