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today sucked so bad. everyone called out and i was stuck by myself for the entire night basically. victor happened to stop in because he wanted his neck trimmed and eyebrows waxed, and he ended up staying and doing like 5 haircuts to help out, because obviously i can't do EVERYTHING. literally the only stylists that worked today who normally work mondays were me and erica, and it was erica's birthday so i wasn't about to ask her to stay all night and help me, although she offered to come back if need be. i just dealt with it, and it's a good thing i'm fast or we would have had to turn down a lot of people. took my food "break" during the 10 minutes a highlight was under the dryer and that was literally the only time i could have the entire day.
i should have had time today to do so many things i needed to do (work related) but i had none. now i'm going to have to do those things on my day off or they won't get done. i'm so sick of people thinking that coming to work when you're scheduled is optional. like if you have a good enough excuse you can get away with it whenever you want. and the person in question has only been working with us for less than a month. yeah i can understand emergencies and having to take care of your kids when you're a single mom but FUCK, it's happened WAYYY too many times. it's also nice that she tends to assume that just because she told us the situation that we should know and understand that she's not coming in to work, even if she doesn't call that day and say so! "i might be late tomorrow i'll call if it's a problem" is not the same as "i'm not coming in". seriously WTF.
and on that note, i'm going on vacation soon and i don't care if it's convenient for anyone else. someone who's only been working for us for like 6 months if that was able to take a whole month off to go to china, and someone who's only been working for us for a month takes off constantly, like once a week, for her drama issues. and i get shit if i want to take off for a few days without finding someone to cover my shifts. fuck that. i NEVER take vacations, and i should. it's like the people who are responsible are expected to always be there, and the people who are irresponsible everyone just knows not to count on them so they have to count on us to pick up the slack. but the responsible people deserve to not always have to be depended on! its fucking stressful to always be the dependable one.
i talked to johnny for a few hours last night. it's been like a month since last time i talked to him and so much always changes in a month. he's been taking german classes at psu and he's going to germany through school for 4 months, starting in april. which is so awesome, and i know he's going to love it. but that means if i'm going to see him before august (he plans to come to baltimore once he gets back from germany) i'll have to do it soon. i'm going to try. i really want to get the portland experience and see what his life has been all about for the past year. plus just talking to him makes me miss hanging out with him a lot. we were talking about all the fun places we went while he was living here, and how it sucks that there will probably never come another time in our lives where we'll get to hang out regularly. he wants to learn a bunch of other languages and travel throughout europe next.
i'll continue this later....richie is sick and i need to get him from work :(
i should have had time today to do so many things i needed to do (work related) but i had none. now i'm going to have to do those things on my day off or they won't get done. i'm so sick of people thinking that coming to work when you're scheduled is optional. like if you have a good enough excuse you can get away with it whenever you want. and the person in question has only been working with us for less than a month. yeah i can understand emergencies and having to take care of your kids when you're a single mom but FUCK, it's happened WAYYY too many times. it's also nice that she tends to assume that just because she told us the situation that we should know and understand that she's not coming in to work, even if she doesn't call that day and say so! "i might be late tomorrow i'll call if it's a problem" is not the same as "i'm not coming in". seriously WTF.
and on that note, i'm going on vacation soon and i don't care if it's convenient for anyone else. someone who's only been working for us for like 6 months if that was able to take a whole month off to go to china, and someone who's only been working for us for a month takes off constantly, like once a week, for her drama issues. and i get shit if i want to take off for a few days without finding someone to cover my shifts. fuck that. i NEVER take vacations, and i should. it's like the people who are responsible are expected to always be there, and the people who are irresponsible everyone just knows not to count on them so they have to count on us to pick up the slack. but the responsible people deserve to not always have to be depended on! its fucking stressful to always be the dependable one.
i talked to johnny for a few hours last night. it's been like a month since last time i talked to him and so much always changes in a month. he's been taking german classes at psu and he's going to germany through school for 4 months, starting in april. which is so awesome, and i know he's going to love it. but that means if i'm going to see him before august (he plans to come to baltimore once he gets back from germany) i'll have to do it soon. i'm going to try. i really want to get the portland experience and see what his life has been all about for the past year. plus just talking to him makes me miss hanging out with him a lot. we were talking about all the fun places we went while he was living here, and how it sucks that there will probably never come another time in our lives where we'll get to hang out regularly. he wants to learn a bunch of other languages and travel throughout europe next.
i'll continue this later....richie is sick and i need to get him from work :(