a looooong day
so okay, guess what time my alarm went off this morning....just guess...
4 am. and no, it was not a malfunction. I had to be at work by five am. that's right, i had to be at the gap outlet at five o'clock in the morning. take a minute and let that sink in. originally i was supposed to work from 5pm-10pm, but on saturday night i got a phone call asking me if i could come in at 5 am. they tried to seem sympathetic by telling me that if 5 was too early i could come in at 6, but i told them one hour wasn't gonna make a difference and that i was gonna be grouchy either way. then my manager said i was never grouchy in the morning. so anyway, i agreed and then i agreed to take 3 hours that night. i'm such a sucker. so yeah i woke up at 4 am this morning (got out of bed at like 4:13, way to go 3 and half hours of sleep). There was seven people working this morning and 412 boxes of shipment came in. who schedules 412 boxes of shipment to come in all at one time? an idiot. that's who. after helping unload and unpack the boxes i got sent to a section to start "upstocking" I was working with this girl Jen who goes to william patterson, she was pretty cool, and we pretty much bitched all morning because the manager was being really nasty. so then at around 9, when i'm thinking score one more hour and i'm outta here, the manager that conned me into this god-awful shift(not the nasty one) asked me to stay until 2. i obliged after jen gave me as sad, pathetic face and said come on, stay with me. at 1:30, when i was literally ready to gouge my eyes out after doing going back and forth from register to stocking all day, the nice manager asked if we (jen and i) were interested in staying a few more hours. and he was COMPLETELY SERIOUS. we both were like uh, no, not uh, no way. by 2:00 i like flew out to my car. and i was STARVING because all i had all day was half a glass of mountain dew at 4:30 and half a bottle of pepsi at 10. so healthy, i know. so i ate and lounged around on my couch and then my brother called for me to pick him up from track. i need to learn how to say no. or start charging him gas money. something...i hung around outside with the young'ens for awhile and then i went back to the awesomeness that is the couch and tv. around 5 i found willy wonka, but by 5:30 or 6 i was asleep, but only until like 6:30 because i had to eat dinner (not that i didn't have a massive lunch like 3 hours before) and get ready to go to a wake because my brother's friend (well, my friend too i guess)'s grandpa died. and now it's 11:30 and i seriously feel like 3 days should have gone by in the time i've been awake. i have to call tomorrow to try and get more hours. even with my new raise (oh yeah, $7.50....we've hit the big times now) they SO don't pay me enough for this. they're lucky i like them!
so long, farewell, i'll be sleeping for a long LONG time. soon, very soon.
4 am. and no, it was not a malfunction. I had to be at work by five am. that's right, i had to be at the gap outlet at five o'clock in the morning. take a minute and let that sink in. originally i was supposed to work from 5pm-10pm, but on saturday night i got a phone call asking me if i could come in at 5 am. they tried to seem sympathetic by telling me that if 5 was too early i could come in at 6, but i told them one hour wasn't gonna make a difference and that i was gonna be grouchy either way. then my manager said i was never grouchy in the morning. so anyway, i agreed and then i agreed to take 3 hours that night. i'm such a sucker. so yeah i woke up at 4 am this morning (got out of bed at like 4:13, way to go 3 and half hours of sleep). There was seven people working this morning and 412 boxes of shipment came in. who schedules 412 boxes of shipment to come in all at one time? an idiot. that's who. after helping unload and unpack the boxes i got sent to a section to start "upstocking" I was working with this girl Jen who goes to william patterson, she was pretty cool, and we pretty much bitched all morning because the manager was being really nasty. so then at around 9, when i'm thinking score one more hour and i'm outta here, the manager that conned me into this god-awful shift(not the nasty one) asked me to stay until 2. i obliged after jen gave me as sad, pathetic face and said come on, stay with me. at 1:30, when i was literally ready to gouge my eyes out after doing going back and forth from register to stocking all day, the nice manager asked if we (jen and i) were interested in staying a few more hours. and he was COMPLETELY SERIOUS. we both were like uh, no, not uh, no way. by 2:00 i like flew out to my car. and i was STARVING because all i had all day was half a glass of mountain dew at 4:30 and half a bottle of pepsi at 10. so healthy, i know. so i ate and lounged around on my couch and then my brother called for me to pick him up from track. i need to learn how to say no. or start charging him gas money. something...i hung around outside with the young'ens for awhile and then i went back to the awesomeness that is the couch and tv. around 5 i found willy wonka, but by 5:30 or 6 i was asleep, but only until like 6:30 because i had to eat dinner (not that i didn't have a massive lunch like 3 hours before) and get ready to go to a wake because my brother's friend (well, my friend too i guess)'s grandpa died. and now it's 11:30 and i seriously feel like 3 days should have gone by in the time i've been awake. i have to call tomorrow to try and get more hours. even with my new raise (oh yeah, $7.50....we've hit the big times now) they SO don't pay me enough for this. they're lucky i like them!
so long, farewell, i'll be sleeping for a long LONG time. soon, very soon.