Hmm, how about a post with a ton of personal updates~
I've been meaning to do this post for a while. I finally have a relaxing day off work where I don't feel extremely tired so here I go! lol
So my last two posts were pretty emotional, ne. Well this one will be kind of a follow up to my last one. A continuation of my economy and corporate greed post, I guess lol. I'll also be working on a follow up to my post before that one soon. Moving on~
I'm still at my same job with Fiesta, a local grocery store. Most of the time, I enjoy my job. Thankfully, I now get along better with our newest manager (we've been through 3) and for a while there she was helping me tremendously by giving me more hours after we lost some coworkers and even transferring me to other stores for a day or two of more hours. At the time, I was having a lot of money issues because I got screwed over by the tax office for the title transfer on my motor scooter and I had to come up with $550-ish before the month ended. This was right after my tire blew out and having to get that fixed ($100~), and also having my cell phone stolen by a random customer ($150 with insurance!) Pretty bad money times.
Well, I was able to get back on track once I practically emptied my emergency BORN fund/savings. I'm still upset about that since I'd been saving $20 every week I could since starting this job 2 years ago...but that's the life of an adult =/
I got a surprise 50 cent raise at work, up to $9.50/hr, and I was happy for a while until they released numbers for the quarter and they found out that our department had a big amount in losses. Whelp, there goes our hours. The promotion that was given to me when I was first transferred over to this department included a promise for 32 hours. It was lowered to 30, and then 28 when the managers changed. Now its at 26. Yea, um, my check is feeling pretty damn light.
Its not the employees' fault that our department had to replace some machines that weren't working in our department. That's their fault for still using crap from the 90's.
Its not the employees' fault that the store lost a ton of money when the electricity went out due to a lightening storm and we had to close the store down. That's nature.
Its not the employees' fault that the transferring of our computer system to a new, unstable system caused us to have to close down randomly for 5 days straight and lose money. Should have tested the server better.
So why don't the CEOs, etc just take the hit themselves instead of screwing us over with our already low wages? Oh yea, greed. Pfft.
Doesn't help I'm already angry at the government for flagging me for suspicion of possible fraud and holding my financial aid from me so I'm actually off this semester. Granted, I was only going to attend part-time because I don't feel that I'm in a good position emotionally, to be doing full-time school + money stress at work, but to not be able to go at all because they think someone going to 4 different colleges while collecting pell grants means I MUST be doing some type of fraud? Such bull shit. I got credits each year I went to school. Its not entirely my fault I moved around a lot during that time and also took advantage of a study abroad opportunity. Of course, I didn't receive notification of my financial aid hold until 2 days before classes started so I couldn't do anything about it in time. They want paperwork from all of my schools to prove I actually attended classes and earned credits which takes longer than 2 days. Oh well, I'll worry about that in November.
I'm still so angry about this and school in general, I'm starting to question if continuing college is even for me anymore. I already have $12,000 in loans, and if I get more due to the pell grant being taken away from me, what's to say I'll even land a good job after everything and be able to pay it all back? There's so many people right now with bachelor's degrees working at Walmart and McDonald's, who pay SHIT of course. How are we as students supposed to feel confident about our future if what we've been told all of our lives, "Go to college, get an education, and you'll land a good job", doesn't mean shit anymore? Of course the only reason I was even in college was for Japan, but at this rate, I'll be an old lady before I get back. I'm already 24, going on 25 and I still have 2-3 years of college left, depending on if I go full or part time. I'm at an impasse. I don't know what to do, what I'm supposed to do but to keep going to a job that keeps cutting my hours and spending all of my check on rent, electricity, and food with very little left to save for anything. *sigh*
So my last two posts were pretty emotional, ne. Well this one will be kind of a follow up to my last one. A continuation of my economy and corporate greed post, I guess lol. I'll also be working on a follow up to my post before that one soon. Moving on~
I'm still at my same job with Fiesta, a local grocery store. Most of the time, I enjoy my job. Thankfully, I now get along better with our newest manager (we've been through 3) and for a while there she was helping me tremendously by giving me more hours after we lost some coworkers and even transferring me to other stores for a day or two of more hours. At the time, I was having a lot of money issues because I got screwed over by the tax office for the title transfer on my motor scooter and I had to come up with $550-ish before the month ended. This was right after my tire blew out and having to get that fixed ($100~), and also having my cell phone stolen by a random customer ($150 with insurance!) Pretty bad money times.
Well, I was able to get back on track once I practically emptied my emergency BORN fund/savings. I'm still upset about that since I'd been saving $20 every week I could since starting this job 2 years ago...but that's the life of an adult =/
I got a surprise 50 cent raise at work, up to $9.50/hr, and I was happy for a while until they released numbers for the quarter and they found out that our department had a big amount in losses. Whelp, there goes our hours. The promotion that was given to me when I was first transferred over to this department included a promise for 32 hours. It was lowered to 30, and then 28 when the managers changed. Now its at 26. Yea, um, my check is feeling pretty damn light.
Its not the employees' fault that our department had to replace some machines that weren't working in our department. That's their fault for still using crap from the 90's.
Its not the employees' fault that the store lost a ton of money when the electricity went out due to a lightening storm and we had to close the store down. That's nature.
Its not the employees' fault that the transferring of our computer system to a new, unstable system caused us to have to close down randomly for 5 days straight and lose money. Should have tested the server better.
So why don't the CEOs, etc just take the hit themselves instead of screwing us over with our already low wages? Oh yea, greed. Pfft.
Doesn't help I'm already angry at the government for flagging me for suspicion of possible fraud and holding my financial aid from me so I'm actually off this semester. Granted, I was only going to attend part-time because I don't feel that I'm in a good position emotionally, to be doing full-time school + money stress at work, but to not be able to go at all because they think someone going to 4 different colleges while collecting pell grants means I MUST be doing some type of fraud? Such bull shit. I got credits each year I went to school. Its not entirely my fault I moved around a lot during that time and also took advantage of a study abroad opportunity. Of course, I didn't receive notification of my financial aid hold until 2 days before classes started so I couldn't do anything about it in time. They want paperwork from all of my schools to prove I actually attended classes and earned credits which takes longer than 2 days. Oh well, I'll worry about that in November.
I'm still so angry about this and school in general, I'm starting to question if continuing college is even for me anymore. I already have $12,000 in loans, and if I get more due to the pell grant being taken away from me, what's to say I'll even land a good job after everything and be able to pay it all back? There's so many people right now with bachelor's degrees working at Walmart and McDonald's, who pay SHIT of course. How are we as students supposed to feel confident about our future if what we've been told all of our lives, "Go to college, get an education, and you'll land a good job", doesn't mean shit anymore? Of course the only reason I was even in college was for Japan, but at this rate, I'll be an old lady before I get back. I'm already 24, going on 25 and I still have 2-3 years of college left, depending on if I go full or part time. I'm at an impasse. I don't know what to do, what I'm supposed to do but to keep going to a job that keeps cutting my hours and spending all of my check on rent, electricity, and food with very little left to save for anything. *sigh*