All things twisted
So I've finally succumbed to the winter bug, and have a nasty head cold, just as things are heating up at school quite warmly...fantastic. I'll live, but it won't be very pleasantly for a few days.
In other depressing news, they cut me down to 2 days/10hours at my new job because I apparently "am too slow." While it doesn't put me in any immediate danger, it aggravates me because I'm new at this job, still learning, and feel slightly victimized by both the people who have been there longer AND the OTHER new guy, who's full time. The other job I was working, under the table, ended recently too under similar circumstances. To top it off, my boss for that one is BSing me out of hours, and may not pay me at all now for several weeks of work. Nothing I can do however because it's all off record.
I always felt like I had a good work ethic, I show up early, I try my best, I do what I'm told, if I don't know I ask. I can't help but think that maybe it's just this sick, twisted, backwards time we're living in right now, where hours at a job are like diamonds and employers are just looking for any tiny reason to save a buck or two. Or maybe I really WAS too slow. I WAS the last person out the door every night for the last few weeks. Guess trying your best just doesn't cut it in some fields.
If I could quit and just work on comics all the time and be happy, like I AM when I'm in class and doing hw, I would. Shit, for $9.50 and hour...I might as well be jobless!
-RD
In other depressing news, they cut me down to 2 days/10hours at my new job because I apparently "am too slow." While it doesn't put me in any immediate danger, it aggravates me because I'm new at this job, still learning, and feel slightly victimized by both the people who have been there longer AND the OTHER new guy, who's full time. The other job I was working, under the table, ended recently too under similar circumstances. To top it off, my boss for that one is BSing me out of hours, and may not pay me at all now for several weeks of work. Nothing I can do however because it's all off record.
I always felt like I had a good work ethic, I show up early, I try my best, I do what I'm told, if I don't know I ask. I can't help but think that maybe it's just this sick, twisted, backwards time we're living in right now, where hours at a job are like diamonds and employers are just looking for any tiny reason to save a buck or two. Or maybe I really WAS too slow. I WAS the last person out the door every night for the last few weeks. Guess trying your best just doesn't cut it in some fields.
If I could quit and just work on comics all the time and be happy, like I AM when I'm in class and doing hw, I would. Shit, for $9.50 and hour...I might as well be jobless!
-RD