This is what I get for being optimistic. Goddamnit. · 4:31pm Oct 22nd, 2016
Yeah, that new place I'm working?
It's worse.
I didn't account for the time spent driving, the money for gas, the people working there and just how under funded, under staffed and un-knowledgeable some of the people working there are. I'm just in awe. It's just... wow. I can't believe it.
So, I tried to make the best of it, get some work done here and there on my stories and then I realized just how fucked I was. The store is dirty, black mold is growing out of the vents, the people working register there consider 4 people in line a lot and panic when I've had lines of 20 people before and basic things I grasped day 2 of work are foreign concepts to some people there.
On top of that, first week? Something got messed up with my lungs and I ended up with a coughing fit that lasted me 2 days. I needed to go to the hospital and when I called up my boss to let him know, he berated me and guild tripped me into coming into work.
Yeah.
Not having any more of this. I've put in a new application for a place close to me. Until I can get my work situation sorted out, I'm going to have to put some things on hold for the time being.
When the opportunity arises, I will write, but at the moment, things are not looking that good to be honest.
I'll keep you all updated.
I went to the hospital early this year, and I mean the 2nd day of 2016 and I came back 2 weeks later still trying to fight a kidney stone. And I was told by some of the senior staff in the kitchen that they would have waited at least a month before coming back. And I was still the best dishwasher on hand at the time.
If there is mold growing in the ventilation system and it gives you a lung infection, and you are told by your boss that you should come to work, I'd consider legal action. That's hazardous working conditions
Sounds bad. I'm sure you'll be able to make it through this just fine though.
Even if you treat this as just a temporary source of income, at least you won't starve while you carefully find a nice position elsewhere. Perhaps you'll manage to do some good for the place while you're still there, too.
Keep cool and stay strong.