drop everything, start it all over

Apr 08, 2011 12:33

last night they took Lorena's grandmother off of life support and then she died. she decided to come to work anyway bc she didn't know how many call outs she had and she didnt want people talking about her and why she couldnt be there etc etc. that was the last grandparent she had and of course she was a complete mess and instead of being with her family and driving down to take care of things she came to work. i sometimes feel bad for people when they make decisions like that. if my grandmother just died i dont give a shit what people are going to say, i don't care if i get a write up, i don't care if i lose my job. i'm not coming to this bullshit place to spend 4 hours being completely miserable and grieving just bc you need me to be there. she told me her grandmother left all of her money and things to her and her dad and now the rest of her family is fighting over it. and she told me that she is the one that has to take care of everyone in her family. plus her family is doomed medically. her mom died of ovarian cancer when she was 14 and she had to care for her when she was sick. her dad has some weird illness plus diabetes and she has to make sure he takes his medicine every night. her aunt has bone cancer. someone else died of breast cancer. all her siblings have severe asthma including herself and if she doesnt take really good care of it she is borderline for developing some disease. it kind of made me feel like my whining about stupid things was so miniscule.

speaking of medical stuff. apparently John has some weird thing wrong with his knee. he was gone for months and came back the same day that i first started. i only found out a few weeks ago that the surgery that he was supposed to have on his knee he never had bc he didn't want to make it inconvenient at work if he was not around. i think he probably didnt have enough money to cover the surgery and was afraid of losing his job if he didnt come back soon enough. which is probably true. i mean they can ALWAYS hire someone else. but yesterday he got some cortisone shot and he was hobbling all around work all night and everytime he lifted something he almost passed out. it doesnt help that he is like 500 lbs. i'm not stick figure but if my doctor told me i had some crazy knee problem you better believe i would drop all of my poundage bc you KNOW that can't help if you have to carry all of that weight all around. i asked him when he and his fiance were going to get married bc he talks about her all of the time. then he tells me that she has something wrong with her kidney and she has been on dialysis for the last 5 years and they are waiting for her to get a new kidney to get married. i didnt really say much after that bc you may as well say you are never getting married. you have to be on a waiting list for vital organs and god only knows how long that will take. its already been 5 years. i would seriously just be like "hey family, im getting married in my backyard bc i probably wont be able to get married for the next 10 years" god i hope none of my organs never fail on me until im like 100 yrs old and its time for me to die.

in other newsss i invited Lisa to go out to lunch today yaay! hopefully she wont cancel on me. and then Helene said we should hang out sometime so maybe I'll ask her to hang out sometime next week. and then  John keeps harrassing me to hang out but i can never tell if he is serious or not. i decided that i am back to hating my job. my boss is an interesting person. i think he has a tribal tattoo which makes him an automatic douche. but that's sort of ok bc all bosses have to be douchy in one way or another. as long as it's not ot me i dont care that much. but i have noticed that he definately does not like some people and it REALLY shows. i dont think he can control himself anymore. luckily i am not one of those people. and if i am he is really good at pretending. but how could you not like me? haha i am so easy to get a long with. but sometimes i think he pretends to have us make our own decisions but then he knows what he wants the outcome to be so thats pretty much what the final answer always is. and just taking eveyrhting so seriously like the stupid employee of the month. i presonally think the entire store should get to vote and that it should be fun but it's not. its this only the dept supervisors get to vote and we have to do it and we have 2 min to think about it and i voted for Monica and then he pulled out all of these reasons about how she wasnt here that much in the last month. but i was like "SO WHAT" the time she WAS here she was awesome in everything so i dont see how it makes a difference. so then i had to change my vote i call BULLSHIT on that but whatever. that is stupid work crap that doesnt matter in the real world.

or maybe it will come in handy if i ever have to do celebrity apprentice or survivor island. i observe the behaviors of my bosses a lot of the time so i can learn how to deal with things when they arent around. which is good. plus what better way than to  do what they do, but then learn how to do it better. thats how you move up. thats how people get kicked out of their jobs. someone else comes along who can do it better. whatever. i have shit to do! i dont have time to sit around and ponder retail politics! i need starbucks!
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