Things are positively nuts.
I move in just over a week. I will spend that weekend shuffling things between my current residence and my new place and also shuffling myself between the aforementioned places as well as the Chicago Horror Film Festival, where I'll be judging a couple contests on Saturday and performing on Sunday. Then, the following weekend, it's off to Detroit for the Dirty Show for a weekend of performances. Eek!
Also, I'm sure I've mentioned this before, my day job sucks. I work in a horrible environment filled with horrible people who only care about felating the corporate beast. It comes down to this: I may be losing my job because I'm pursuing my education. Great deal, right? When I was first hired in the late spring/early summer of 2007 and submitted my availability, I made it abundantly clear that while my hours were wide open during that summer, things would change in the Fall when I returned to school. The people who hired me expressed to me that they understood that my education was important and that they valued and admired that and that it wouldn't be a problem. And it wasn't. Flash forward two and a half years. As usual, I submitted my new availability, which has more open hours than in previous semesters because I crammed four three hour academic classes into one day (Tuesday) and have one and two classes on Monday and Wenesday respectively. With the way shifts work at my job, this leaves me available for one 5-8:45 shift on Monday, 9-5 on both Thursday and Friday and one weekend 10-7 shift. This is well within their availability requirements. Also, requesting moving/CHFF weekend and Dirty Show weekend off seems to have gotten me into trouble. The office manager called me at home and starting spouting off rules that I, in two and a half years of being with the company, had never heard of about requesting off days. She also told me that I should drop some classes so I can work more or else I'm going to find myself without a job. This from the people who until recently gave me twelve hours ON A GOOD WEEK. Now, I understand that college isn't for everyone, and that you don't have to go to college to be successful, but that is a personal decision, not one to be made by some file wench at my shitty $9/hour part time retail job. I don't plan on give up my education just so I can be guaranteed to make $9 an hour for the rest of my life at a company that doesn't give a fuck whether I live or die. If I were going to choose work over school, it would be for a job where I at least made a fucking living wage and didn't get continually harassed because of my educational and life choices.
To sum this up: Does anyone know anyone who will pay me to do shit? Let me know. Seriously.
/rant
More later. My head is spinning.
Love!
xoxox
I move in just over a week. I will spend that weekend shuffling things between my current residence and my new place and also shuffling myself between the aforementioned places as well as the Chicago Horror Film Festival, where I'll be judging a couple contests on Saturday and performing on Sunday. Then, the following weekend, it's off to Detroit for the Dirty Show for a weekend of performances. Eek!
Also, I'm sure I've mentioned this before, my day job sucks. I work in a horrible environment filled with horrible people who only care about felating the corporate beast. It comes down to this: I may be losing my job because I'm pursuing my education. Great deal, right? When I was first hired in the late spring/early summer of 2007 and submitted my availability, I made it abundantly clear that while my hours were wide open during that summer, things would change in the Fall when I returned to school. The people who hired me expressed to me that they understood that my education was important and that they valued and admired that and that it wouldn't be a problem. And it wasn't. Flash forward two and a half years. As usual, I submitted my new availability, which has more open hours than in previous semesters because I crammed four three hour academic classes into one day (Tuesday) and have one and two classes on Monday and Wenesday respectively. With the way shifts work at my job, this leaves me available for one 5-8:45 shift on Monday, 9-5 on both Thursday and Friday and one weekend 10-7 shift. This is well within their availability requirements. Also, requesting moving/CHFF weekend and Dirty Show weekend off seems to have gotten me into trouble. The office manager called me at home and starting spouting off rules that I, in two and a half years of being with the company, had never heard of about requesting off days. She also told me that I should drop some classes so I can work more or else I'm going to find myself without a job. This from the people who until recently gave me twelve hours ON A GOOD WEEK. Now, I understand that college isn't for everyone, and that you don't have to go to college to be successful, but that is a personal decision, not one to be made by some file wench at my shitty $9/hour part time retail job. I don't plan on give up my education just so I can be guaranteed to make $9 an hour for the rest of my life at a company that doesn't give a fuck whether I live or die. If I were going to choose work over school, it would be for a job where I at least made a fucking living wage and didn't get continually harassed because of my educational and life choices.
To sum this up: Does anyone know anyone who will pay me to do shit? Let me know. Seriously.
/rant
More later. My head is spinning.
Love!
xoxox
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And good luck in the performances! They've been fantastic every time I've seen them.