Story Time · 8:40am Jul 1st, 2019
Let me tell you a story.
I started a new job a few months back. It's great; full time hours, benefits, a pay raise and commission to boot. Goes pretty well; it's cell phones, and being the tech nerd I am it wasn't hard to pick up on anything. A few things I'm not familiar with still, but in general I'm not doing too bad. The problem is, when I started there were 3 people working in my store. One of them on Maternity leave. They hired me, and two days later one guy quit. So now it's me, the boss, and the woman on leave, so just me and the boss. Is fine; I pick up fast enough to be left alone in the store after two or three weeks so we can be open every day.
We get a new guy in. He lasts two months or so before he leave to become the manager of another store. Back to just me and the boss. We're good; I'm more than capable of working a few days alone. Just means I need to pick up a bunch of extra hours. Bonus to my pay, at least.
Then the boss gets sick. There's no one available to help from the other stores. I don't have access to everything to run the store, nor the experience required to actually manage the entire store on my own for more than a week. Day to day is fine for me, but there's a lot of stuff that has to be done weekly and monthly that I simply can't do. We're a vendor in Walmart, and now I have Walmart breathing down my neck about why we're closed two days a week (because god forbid I have days off) and my district manager can't spare anyone to help.
That happened last week. I'm moving into my second week alone at my store. Soonest anyone will be there to help me is Thursday. If my boss's doc gives her the all clear. It could well be another week.
Soooo... I've been busy. And stressing over having to run the store on my own. There's no one there to help me, and I'm not exactly confident in the job yet. I only started in March.
That's where I've been! It's been... interesting. I have awkward mid-day hours that don't leave me much time for myself, which is why writing has been a hassle. And editing for someone else has been more often than not falling by the wayside. I feel bad about that.
Anyway, that's enough of my ranting; story stuff! Guilty Pleasures is going to be changed to Incomplete, because I decided I want to continue that story. IBYH updated late, but it did get an update at least. It wasn't great, but it was a thing. I'm going to start the rewrites for Fallen Angel soon, since the poll was pretty clear on that front.
Assuming I don't give myself a heart attack stressing over my job. If I disappear abruptly, you know why!
Ugh, I have to get some editing done. and I have to get up early for work tomorrow. I love getting 6 hours of sleep! Just wanted to let you guys know what was up, given it's a new month. Updates might be slow for a bit until this mess gets sorted.
Until next time,
Kodeake out
Geez, that sounds rough. Any way you can leverage/salvage this nastiness? Put it on your resume, at least, this is the sort of thing you need to publicise to potential employers, isn't it?
Good luck at work, and may your inner Twilight be with you.