Month: March 2022

My priority right now is my grades, I got a grocery job and they’ve been scheduling me way too much, I essentially told them I can only work once a week, which isn’t a lot but I need it to keep my junior year above level. They said they could do two so I just quit, they made me call the head boss of the store (big corporate company btw) and he seemed kinda flabbergasted that I just told him I straight up won’t work with them on two days. I’m glad I did it now, and I don’t regret it.

Toads byPhilip Larkin ​ Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off? Six days of the week it soils With its sickening poison – Just for paying a few bills! That's out of proportion. Lots of folk live on their wits: Lecturers, lispers, Losers, loblolly-men, louts- They don't end as paupers. Lots of folk live up lanes With fires in a bucket, Eat windfalls and tinned sardines. They seem to like it. Their nippers have got bare feet, Their unspeakable wives Are skinny as whippets – and yet No one actually starves. Ah, were I courageous enough To shout, Stuff your pension! But I know, all too well, that's the stuff That dreams are made on: For something sufficiently toad-like Squats in me, too; Its hunkers are heavy as hard luck, And cold as…

So here I am, sitting asleep at the wheel, my last week at a job that I've grown to hate. My boss is your typical out of touch boomer: presses keyboard buttons like she's firing phasers on the 1960s Enterprise, drags every available staff member into interviews (sometimes topping 8-10 people), has more unnecessary virtual meetings than actual face time around the center. I fully expected to not have to serve out two weeks notice based on things she's said about it in the past, but when you've had 10% of your workforce quit in the past week and nobody trained to backfill my position, I suppose compromises have to be made? I have PTO in the bank and decided that I'm going to take a day off this week. Wednesday. I submit for the request and shoot her and another manager a quick text stating I'll be off on…

Who else loves setting goals and acting like they care about “moving up” or pursuing a leadership position? It's such a fun thing to do just to maintain a job and support yourself. Just get me a manager who doesn't give a shit about anything beyond me just doing my job every day and leaving. I'm not increasing my workload because next time around, I'll be expected to increase my workload again. Hard pass!