Excitement and Nerves
What a weekend! Chris and I ran alot of errands on Friday, one of them to the courthouse to get our marriage license and confirm our wedding date. We don't have much money, so all we can do is a Civil Ceremony in front of a judge and a wedding night at home. Our honeymoon is a trip to the Renaissance Festival. Not glamourous, I know, but all we can do for now. We were really excited! I had to work on Saturday and possibly on Sunday, so we celebrated that night. I got a migraine and had to cut out on dinner at Logan's Roadhouse early to come home and rest.
After that day, reality set in pretty hard core. Worked on Saturday at the Children's Place and was tired and irritable when I got off work. Was really hoping that my call in shift on Sunday was cancelled so I could spend time with Chrysania, but it wasn't, which made me irritable all over again. Call in shifts are shifts where I have to call in an hour before hand to see if I am needed or not. I hate these shifts as it takes me 45 min to get to the new mall, The Greene. 30 min drive time and 15 min to park, which leaves me 15 min to get ready. I really hate being rushed, but can do nothing about it on these shifts. I got in there and the place was swarming with customers and overstaffed. I made mention of the fact that I would rather be spending time with Chrysania to one of the other associates in the back and the next thing I know is, an hour and twenty minutes later, I'm being sent home. One of the assistant managers claims that she received 2 customer complaints about me. One being that I was being snappy and the other being that I said that I could not help a customer because I was new. Mind you, I do not remember any customer seeming upset with me at all. I remember one customer asking me if we had stores in Florida, to which I replied that I did not know, as I was new here. I was trying to make the best of, what to me was, a bad situation and this happens. I had car pooled in with Chris and would not have had a way home. Luckily, Chris' shift at Kroger had not started yet and he was able to come get me. Today, I had another shift where I had to call in and see if I was needed. I was told I was not needed, but the noise in the background told me that they were busy and probably did need me, but I was being told that I was not needed as a form of punishment. I was also told that I needed to call or stop in and talk to Debi, the store manager, before my shift on Thursday. Mind you, I am scheduled 1-5 pm that day and do not get out of class until 12:05 pm. Not to mention the fact that I don't know when Debi works before then and I have classes every day this week.
Frankly, I don't know what to do. On one hand, I want the job, just to keep my mom from nagging me about work and to keep the discount for clothes for Chrysania. On the other hand, this has been a hassle for me since August 18th. Postponing of appointments to fill out paperwork, not being called with a schedule to help open the store, not having an employee ID# until I had been there a week, being forgotten about for training, having 4 hours of register training and then not being allowed on it again since, being shorted a half hour on my paycheck and having to argue over it for a half hour of my own time and still not getting paid for what I should have been paid for, only getting a scheduled 9.5 hours this week, and having to deal with these call in shifts that give me little notice if I am to work or not are the things that I have had to deal with that makes me not want to stay with this job. I know that no one can decide what to do for me, but any advice you may have is welcome.
After that day, reality set in pretty hard core. Worked on Saturday at the Children's Place and was tired and irritable when I got off work. Was really hoping that my call in shift on Sunday was cancelled so I could spend time with Chrysania, but it wasn't, which made me irritable all over again. Call in shifts are shifts where I have to call in an hour before hand to see if I am needed or not. I hate these shifts as it takes me 45 min to get to the new mall, The Greene. 30 min drive time and 15 min to park, which leaves me 15 min to get ready. I really hate being rushed, but can do nothing about it on these shifts. I got in there and the place was swarming with customers and overstaffed. I made mention of the fact that I would rather be spending time with Chrysania to one of the other associates in the back and the next thing I know is, an hour and twenty minutes later, I'm being sent home. One of the assistant managers claims that she received 2 customer complaints about me. One being that I was being snappy and the other being that I said that I could not help a customer because I was new. Mind you, I do not remember any customer seeming upset with me at all. I remember one customer asking me if we had stores in Florida, to which I replied that I did not know, as I was new here. I was trying to make the best of, what to me was, a bad situation and this happens. I had car pooled in with Chris and would not have had a way home. Luckily, Chris' shift at Kroger had not started yet and he was able to come get me. Today, I had another shift where I had to call in and see if I was needed. I was told I was not needed, but the noise in the background told me that they were busy and probably did need me, but I was being told that I was not needed as a form of punishment. I was also told that I needed to call or stop in and talk to Debi, the store manager, before my shift on Thursday. Mind you, I am scheduled 1-5 pm that day and do not get out of class until 12:05 pm. Not to mention the fact that I don't know when Debi works before then and I have classes every day this week.
Frankly, I don't know what to do. On one hand, I want the job, just to keep my mom from nagging me about work and to keep the discount for clothes for Chrysania. On the other hand, this has been a hassle for me since August 18th. Postponing of appointments to fill out paperwork, not being called with a schedule to help open the store, not having an employee ID# until I had been there a week, being forgotten about for training, having 4 hours of register training and then not being allowed on it again since, being shorted a half hour on my paycheck and having to argue over it for a half hour of my own time and still not getting paid for what I should have been paid for, only getting a scheduled 9.5 hours this week, and having to deal with these call in shifts that give me little notice if I am to work or not are the things that I have had to deal with that makes me not want to stay with this job. I know that no one can decide what to do for me, but any advice you may have is welcome.