Friday woes
*sigh* Work was pretty okay, but I'm in the midst of fretfulness at the moment. My rent is due on 1 January, and my half is around $400 approximately. At this moment, I have about $100 left from my last paycheck to go towards that. It is looking very much like the state of Florida may deny my claim for underemployment assistance - even with tipout, the store isn't bringing in enough in sales yet for me to be making minimum wage - and my next paycheck is on 3 January.
Yeah, you see my problem.
Additionally, we have had four bartenders quit, two servers have abandoned ship, and there's one runner who no one has seen in days. None of the current servers has any interest in going to the bar to work, and while I want to get trained as a bartender I need to go through server training and do a stint there first. And I'm giving some serious consideration to doing that after New Year's if I haven't given up on seeing any kind of decent money and going elsewhere.
That said, I've put in a few job applications this evening for work as a bartender and am looking for server positions as well.
I'm just feeling all around drained and fretful at the moment, and as I kept a smile on my face at work all day I'm about whupped from trying to stay positive. I may actually take a moment to talk to the acting GM tomorrow if he's around (oh yes, I forgot to mention that the GM quit on the Monday between when training ended and the shop officially opened. What the what, yeah?) and see if he would let me go though server training and then move right up to the bar. We got a shipment in today of the liquor - finally! We've only gone through one of the two biggest bar sales days of the year and suffered for not having any in house - so there will be a need for bartenders, and with no servers interested in stepping up... well. I'll gladly do it.
And now I'm gonna go and either read more fic or just curl up with Samurai Deeper Kyo on the loveseat until I'm tired enough for sleep. I'm at Volume 36 - part of a double-volume of the last four books of the series - and when that's finished up I'll have the double-volume containing 37 and 38 to go before I'll have it done.
If anyone wants to help out and has the means to do so, PM me and let me know, and I'll give you my PayPal account email. For now, I'm gonna try not to worry too much and hope for the best.
Crossposted from DreamWidth. Click here to see other replies to this post.
Yeah, you see my problem.
Additionally, we have had four bartenders quit, two servers have abandoned ship, and there's one runner who no one has seen in days. None of the current servers has any interest in going to the bar to work, and while I want to get trained as a bartender I need to go through server training and do a stint there first. And I'm giving some serious consideration to doing that after New Year's if I haven't given up on seeing any kind of decent money and going elsewhere.
That said, I've put in a few job applications this evening for work as a bartender and am looking for server positions as well.
I'm just feeling all around drained and fretful at the moment, and as I kept a smile on my face at work all day I'm about whupped from trying to stay positive. I may actually take a moment to talk to the acting GM tomorrow if he's around (oh yes, I forgot to mention that the GM quit on the Monday between when training ended and the shop officially opened. What the what, yeah?) and see if he would let me go though server training and then move right up to the bar. We got a shipment in today of the liquor - finally! We've only gone through one of the two biggest bar sales days of the year and suffered for not having any in house - so there will be a need for bartenders, and with no servers interested in stepping up... well. I'll gladly do it.
And now I'm gonna go and either read more fic or just curl up with Samurai Deeper Kyo on the loveseat until I'm tired enough for sleep. I'm at Volume 36 - part of a double-volume of the last four books of the series - and when that's finished up I'll have the double-volume containing 37 and 38 to go before I'll have it done.
If anyone wants to help out and has the means to do so, PM me and let me know, and I'll give you my PayPal account email. For now, I'm gonna try not to worry too much and hope for the best.
Crossposted from DreamWidth. Click here to see other replies to this post.