Whiney job related post

Hello all,

I am well aware that it's been over two weeks since I last updated. As you may or may not know, I was finally hired by a second company. I am very greatful to finally have a second job to cover my basic costs of living. I don't particularly enjoy this new job, and have had somewhat of a rocky start. It is at a department store and one of the main points of the job I was hired into is selling credit cards and Internet orders, and due to the department I was placed in (which is currently under a massive rennovation and in deep, overdue construction, with no registers in said department), I have failed to get any of either. I haven't been talked to yet, and I have brought my concerns up to a supervisor, trying to show I am actively attempting to be better at signing up people. I hate that companies put such emphasis on credit cards and that you can be fired if you don't get enough per week. It's only adding to my stress. Plus there is terrible communication at this job ( which I should have known would be a problem. The hiring process was bizarre and vague), so I basically have no idea what is going on. Like I said, while I don't like the job ( or them repeatedly scheduling me outside of my availability), I am very thankful for it, but constantly worried that I will be fired for not getting enough credit card applications. Hell, I've only actually used the register three times in the couple of weeks I've been there, and all of them either already had the credit card, or said no. It's very aggravating. 

 I may start looking elsewhere in the coming months, because the Christmas season will be awful, and so far the stress of them not abiding by my availability is making me perform poorly at both my jobs because I'm so tired. 

Anyway, I try not to complain but getting this job has really really made me appreciate my first job. A job that actually cares about its employees and doesn't just see them as worker bees is hard to come by and I really believe that I will never find a better retail job than that one. Now, if ONLY I could get full time! I wouldn't have to have a terrible second job that is ridiculous and basically being yelled at by old people because they think construction is taking too long. 

I will be updating when I get a chance but so far between the two jobs I am not getting any days off. I don't know when they think I'm supposed to be able to run errands! Thank god the bookstore is right next to a grocery store so I can sort of buy food after work

I hate everyone and everyone hates me

Even though I've always known it, I'm finally actually realizing that I hold very high standards for public behavior, in myself and others. I've always thought of it just as "being a decent human being": not talking on the phone when conducting business in a store, picking up your garbage and disposing it in the proper place, being aware of your surroundings and saying excuse me when you get in someone else's way, et cetera, et cetera. I'm also continually let down by most other people, as they don't adhere to these standards.

I get very angry or upset when other people don't follow these "rules", but never ever say anything about it, because that would breach my level of politeness. But today, I finally lost it on someone, and it happened to be a child, and I don't even feel slightly bad about it. I get really tired of being walked all over because I don't want to make a scene, or cause any trouble.

I was using the  bathroom at Target, after a very long and very frustrating day at my new job, when a kid (probably 6 or 7, waaaaay old enough to know better) crawled under my stall. I lost my shit and screamed at her to NEVER do that and that it was very rude. Then, when I came out of the stall, I yelled at her mother (ON HER PHONE, SURPRISE SURPRISE OH MY FUCKING GOD) for allowing her invade someone's personal privacy like that. She gave her kid a  half assed "oh don't do that...", never apologizing to me, never even looking up from her phone at me. I was so angry. I still am angry.

I never want to be one with false nostalgia for "better times way back when", because I know no decade or era is ever better than the one we're currently in. But jesus christ, just in my consciousness of  the behavior of others (so, 1999 or so), the way people conduct themselves in public is absolutely gross. And it is not 'kids these days' either. Along with the standard kid having a freakout, or being unable to keep to themselves on the bus, or the asshole teenagers throwing shit at each other in a restaurant, it is adults of all ages who don't seem to give a shit about the other people existing alongside them.

I think cellphones are a major contributing factor of the 'boy in a bubble' effect that seems to grasp people in public, but not everyone who has a cellphone is an asshole and not everyone who is an asshole has a cellphone. I truly do not know what it is, but I'm getting pretty tired of being walked over because, according to "being a decent human being", I don't want to make a scene.  I've officially become that mean old bitch lady, and I really could not care less.

IT'S PEOPLE, WILL ( favorites)

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Brian Blessed Faces by Kate Beaton

And the award for best and most realistic costume goes to

 I don't know who she is but I love her hair 

ORSON WELLES: KING OF THE DOOFS

And belatedly in honor of  Fourth of July

i'm not dead

I haven't been around lately, and will be back in next few days, but in the meantime here's a bat.