May 13, 2008 16:57
wow i haven't written in this thing in a long time and I'm kinda bored so i figured I'de add an entry. things have changed a lot anyway and i think it would be good to write it all down. i am not however not going to worry to much about spelling and punctuation so if anyone reads this i want to let you know these entries have always been more for me. ill start with the end of my senior year. i started working at dunking donuts about as soon as me caity broke up. at first i was just a normal employee coming to work on time and doing my thing. however without a girlfriend to deal with anymore i decided to take on some more hours. this happened to workout in my benefit seeing as how dd loves to fire people like its their job. pretty soon they wanted me to become shift leader. while all this was going on at dd i was starting a new life for my self. the brake up with caity really sent myself a message, that i needed to learn how to make myself happy and seeing as how i wasn't running anymore i didn't really have to many responsibilities to deal with aside from high school but i was a good student on my second semester of senior year so you can barely even call that a responsibility so i decided to start doing some things i could never really do in my life. i had a car and a license and i wanted to go out and have some fun. to bring it back to a complete circle, lets talk about dd again in relation to this new found freedom. my manager at the time turned out to be a pretty big drug dealer mostly just with weed and she loved me so i always got a ridiculously good price for some very decent nugget. this is how my new life started. i started bringing this weed to my friends who also didnt smoke to much and we began having some fun with. we had a couple spots around town that we use to hang out smoke make a fire listen to some music and just chill for example next to my friend Aaron's house there's this dirt road that leads to the top of this hill where there is a huge field with a parking lot kinda thing right on top so we use to drive the car up there and do our thing. i felt kinda guilty at first bring drugs into our friends but we were all having a good time and its not like we were the only seniors in high school smoking in fact i think you could consider us pretty kids. the longer i worked at dunkin the more hours they were giving me. there were only about 10 people working in the store and you need about 30 to make it run well. this put alot of pressure on the manager of the store and she eventually quit. this put me and the assistant manager in charge of basically the whole store not so much me at this point but i still had alot more to deal with than i thought dd was going to give me. the assistant manager started working insane hours like close to 80 to 90 a week, this made her stress out even worse that the manager and she eventrually had a nervous brake down in her shift and quit on the spot causing a huge seen of crying and yelling. now i was in charge and let me say that they put me in charge of an entire store a little easier than i thought. i started firing everyone in the store i didnt like or didnt work hard enough and started hiring my friends who i new would work for me and listen to me. everything was going amazing at this point i was only working about 35 to 40 hours a week and still going to high school but it wasnt that bad like i said i was in my second semester senior year. eventrually though as the district manager was teaching me all the other stuff i had to do i had to be at the store more and more and i was still only getting paid 8.50 an hour just like most people at the store who had been there longer than 6 months. i was now working 60 to 80 hours a week plus i was a full time student in high school. was waking up at 4 in the morning to open the store working until 9 going to school for 9:30 getting out at around 2 going to work for 2:30 or 3 depended on the day and what i had to do and closing the store anywhere between 9 and midnight. i felt like i was getting ripped off and i had heard about how some other previous employees had been taking money and they never got caught and seeing as how i was the one that was suppose to catch the people stealing and i had access to all the computer records i had a bigger advantage than they did so i decided to start making some more money on top of the 500 dollar pay checks i was getting every week plus close to 100 dollars in tips a week. at first i only took a little just to test the system but once i get acquainted with it i knew how easy it would be for me to take whatever i wanted especially sense the store was already doing horrible they were not going to think anything of the store losing even more money. i got up to taking about anywhere from 50 to 300 dollars a night. i saved every single penny i was getting in my paychecks and even some of the money i was stealing. eventually because i was working with my friends i got them into it as well. it started getting pretty bad though because dd was replacing the manager and it was hard for me to sneak around and find out all the drawer information that i needed to know plus the head managers started catching on because my friends were not doing such a good job at covering there tracks because of how comfortable they have always felt about taking it. it was the very beginning of the summer and i told all my friends to stop stealing because they were starting to catch on and everyone of them stopped except for 2. those two kept stealing all summer one more than the other however and eventually just as i said they eventually got caught but let me stop the story for now and i will carry on later.