To the victor [which isn't me] goes the spoils...
::stretches:: It's been a while since I updated. But, money troubles ahoy! Actually, they're already here. I think I've been searching for a new job off and on for about 3 months now. Every time I get my foot partially in the door, or at least think I have a chance of getting out of the place I'm at, it gets slammed in my face or doesn't open at all. ::sighs:: Even if I was working full time there, I wouldn't be making enough to save up 7,000 in 6 months. Hell, could I even save up 2,000 dollars? With a maximum of 560 a week, taking out 20 for gas, 25 for food, and 60 for con expenses, that's 455 dollars. I'm not going to stop buying manga, and at least 3 come out a month, and on the heavy months [like April and July] I have 9-11 books coming out in one month. So, saying I take 25 per check, I have 430 left that I should be able to supposably save, assuming I don't eat any good food and KYO-HAN doesn't break down somewhere AGAIN. So, there's 3 months left before I have to get another loan... either by myself or none at freaking all. That's 3 months and at most, 2580 dollars. That's not enough. ::groans:: It'd be okay, if I could pay it every month, the difference, but I can't. I also have 100 dollars every month going for college because they want us to pay it down while we're in school, too, before the interest kills us. That's 100 less that I planned already. =_=
If I get this new job, and it seems a big IF with MY luck as of late, it's 10 an hour, at least, compared to the 7.35 I get now. Round it down to 9.50 to allow for taxes, and if I work 25 hours a week, that's 237 a week, with a 475 dollars pay check for less physical work than I'm doing now and not even killing myself with 40 a week for work and 20 a week for class... If I do well, I'll get incentive pay, which can be as much as 20 dollars an hour. I might even move up to full time later on, but right now it's just part-time. As long as I get 400 dollars checks, I can at least partically survive. My last check I got was 211 dollars because they bumped me down to 3 days a week and I missed one day cus Kyo-han was dead and I couldn't get there. So, I lied and told them I was sick, and walked to the bookstore. I was so nice to have a 5 day weekend... and when I got back, Dorothy was gone, so all the better.
I have to get a credit card, ::sighs:: and I don't know if 2-3 months of credit is going to be able to qualify me for any kind of loan. I don't/can't have my mother as a co-signer this time, and we already got out a plus loan for this time around. ::sinks to floor:: I'm really running out of options. If I'm lucky, I'll get *this* job and quit my other one. I like the people at my job now, sometimes, but they play around too much and I feel like those who work are getting the brunt of the work. I know life isn't fair, but this is ridiculous. It wouldn't happen this way if they didn't let the younger ones become office assistants [like mini-managers]. They play around all the time, the lines get hella long and we have to *tell* them to open up, and they wander around doing nothing unless we need them for something besides actually working on a register.
I seriously feel like I'm in fucking *highschool* again. This one guy, I know he isn't the most personable and seems like a great candidate to pick on, but that doesn't mean they should. And because I'm the 'nice guy' who has amazing amounts of patience for other people, the likes of which I *myself* don't even know where it all comes from, the spurned all come to me. They complain to me, I nod, give advice, all that stuff. But dammit, I don't want to be the person everyone bitches to. But unless I'm stern and pretty much mock them like everyone else, I'm definitely better to flock to than the rest of them. =_= Of course, I don't always protect them, but I don't just idly watch it. I tell them how childish they're being [not in exactly those words] and ask them why they have to be like that, but it isn't going to change much. They'll do what they want and get away with it like they've been doing for the past year since I've been back from georgia. Well, myabe not so much now.
We have a new CSM. Our old one, Dorothy, was definitely way too soft on them. I complained to her, reasoned, but definitely not begged for her to make some changes. She said, sure, things are going to change, but they never did. So, she was transfered to another store and we got Sandy. Now, at first, I didn't like Sandy. Not really a dislike of her, but getting there. Then, I talked with her about my concerns and she seemed a hell of a lot more capable of doing something than Dorothy was. I look forward to seeing if things really do change. I may not be there to enjoy them, but I sure as hell will relish the little bit I do get to enjoy. I don't think she'll get it as down-pact as she would like it, but she'll damn well try and I applaude her efforts. It's about time someone tried something.
Seriously though, we've had a major shake up of almost *all* the departments at our store. The only department that hasn't had any changes that I could see is the Produce department. Our Store Manager, Assistant Store Manager, CSM, Deli/Bakery and Meat Department Heads have *all* been transfered out and replaced. Our SM went higher up in the coorperate chain and our ASM got his own store out in the ghettos where stealing is rampant cus they know he'll kick their asses straight up and down to fix it. Our CSM was incompetant at our store and couldn't balance being nice and being strict at the same time so she was moved. Nothing was wrong with the meat department that I know of, so they just decided to do that for the hell of it I guess. The Deli/Bakery, I have no idea why they moved her either. And instead of moving someone up within the store to fill the position like they did in the Meat Department, they just moved someone else in. Natalie was *not* happy about that. She transfered to another store just like that because they just side-stepped her like nothing for the promotion. She still comes into our store though, quite regularly, because this is the closest one to her house.
::sighs again:: This whole post has been a bitching session, hasn't it? Oh well, typing it up really does form the thoughts in my mind, so I feel better about it at least, but goddamn do I have a lot of complaints... I guess that's something else to be working on...
Owari. Kage. I usually have spelling errors, but there'll be more in this than usual 'cus I didn't give it a last edit...
If I get this new job, and it seems a big IF with MY luck as of late, it's 10 an hour, at least, compared to the 7.35 I get now. Round it down to 9.50 to allow for taxes, and if I work 25 hours a week, that's 237 a week, with a 475 dollars pay check for less physical work than I'm doing now and not even killing myself with 40 a week for work and 20 a week for class... If I do well, I'll get incentive pay, which can be as much as 20 dollars an hour. I might even move up to full time later on, but right now it's just part-time. As long as I get 400 dollars checks, I can at least partically survive. My last check I got was 211 dollars because they bumped me down to 3 days a week and I missed one day cus Kyo-han was dead and I couldn't get there. So, I lied and told them I was sick, and walked to the bookstore. I was so nice to have a 5 day weekend... and when I got back, Dorothy was gone, so all the better.
I have to get a credit card, ::sighs:: and I don't know if 2-3 months of credit is going to be able to qualify me for any kind of loan. I don't/can't have my mother as a co-signer this time, and we already got out a plus loan for this time around. ::sinks to floor:: I'm really running out of options. If I'm lucky, I'll get *this* job and quit my other one. I like the people at my job now, sometimes, but they play around too much and I feel like those who work are getting the brunt of the work. I know life isn't fair, but this is ridiculous. It wouldn't happen this way if they didn't let the younger ones become office assistants [like mini-managers]. They play around all the time, the lines get hella long and we have to *tell* them to open up, and they wander around doing nothing unless we need them for something besides actually working on a register.
I seriously feel like I'm in fucking *highschool* again. This one guy, I know he isn't the most personable and seems like a great candidate to pick on, but that doesn't mean they should. And because I'm the 'nice guy' who has amazing amounts of patience for other people, the likes of which I *myself* don't even know where it all comes from, the spurned all come to me. They complain to me, I nod, give advice, all that stuff. But dammit, I don't want to be the person everyone bitches to. But unless I'm stern and pretty much mock them like everyone else, I'm definitely better to flock to than the rest of them. =_= Of course, I don't always protect them, but I don't just idly watch it. I tell them how childish they're being [not in exactly those words] and ask them why they have to be like that, but it isn't going to change much. They'll do what they want and get away with it like they've been doing for the past year since I've been back from georgia. Well, myabe not so much now.
We have a new CSM. Our old one, Dorothy, was definitely way too soft on them. I complained to her, reasoned, but definitely not begged for her to make some changes. She said, sure, things are going to change, but they never did. So, she was transfered to another store and we got Sandy. Now, at first, I didn't like Sandy. Not really a dislike of her, but getting there. Then, I talked with her about my concerns and she seemed a hell of a lot more capable of doing something than Dorothy was. I look forward to seeing if things really do change. I may not be there to enjoy them, but I sure as hell will relish the little bit I do get to enjoy. I don't think she'll get it as down-pact as she would like it, but she'll damn well try and I applaude her efforts. It's about time someone tried something.
Seriously though, we've had a major shake up of almost *all* the departments at our store. The only department that hasn't had any changes that I could see is the Produce department. Our Store Manager, Assistant Store Manager, CSM, Deli/Bakery and Meat Department Heads have *all* been transfered out and replaced. Our SM went higher up in the coorperate chain and our ASM got his own store out in the ghettos where stealing is rampant cus they know he'll kick their asses straight up and down to fix it. Our CSM was incompetant at our store and couldn't balance being nice and being strict at the same time so she was moved. Nothing was wrong with the meat department that I know of, so they just decided to do that for the hell of it I guess. The Deli/Bakery, I have no idea why they moved her either. And instead of moving someone up within the store to fill the position like they did in the Meat Department, they just moved someone else in. Natalie was *not* happy about that. She transfered to another store just like that because they just side-stepped her like nothing for the promotion. She still comes into our store though, quite regularly, because this is the closest one to her house.
::sighs again:: This whole post has been a bitching session, hasn't it? Oh well, typing it up really does form the thoughts in my mind, so I feel better about it at least, but goddamn do I have a lot of complaints... I guess that's something else to be working on...
Owari. Kage. I usually have spelling errors, but there'll be more in this than usual 'cus I didn't give it a last edit...