Month: April 2022

So it's Fri night and my last day with my company is on Wed. My boss HAD to talk to me after 5PM yesterday and when I don't answer her call to my cell phone, she messages me on teams to call her URGENTLY! (I'm a dumbass and answered a group teams msg like 30 sec after ignoring her call). I decided fine.. I'll call back, but I'll make her talk to me on my time around 7PM (my anxiety gets the best of me there – I shouldn't have called back). Her URGENT call was telling me how they are filling my position and moving staff around and that they are announcing it on Monday during our staff meeting (is there anything urgent about that?), BUT THEN, the real reason she calls is to continue to tell me how she knows with the severe IMPORTANCE of this weekend's events,…

My dad grew up dirt poor. Like, lived in the US in a couple places with actual dirt floors dirt poor. My mom grew up middle class with a sah mom and a refrigerator salesman dad. From the moment I could comprehend words they told me “work hard and you can be a vet, or a doctor, or a scientist, or an attorney and then you can be rich and not work as hard as we have to!” I watched my mom give up her entire life and any relationship with my brother and I for her career before she was basically ejected from the school she taught at for sponsoring too many “clubs for gay kids.” My dad busted his ass for years for his company before he was told to write software program to make his job obsolete. I worked hard, I kept my nose down, and thought…

That's it. That's the post. I'm still employed for now, but we'll see how long that lasts. Just goes to show you can be on point 99.83% of the time, but the moment you fuck up ever so slightly, they're ready to can you.

Sorry if this is the wrong place for it, but I wanna get this off my chest. I work at a small mom and pop ice cream joint in the town where I've grown up in. I was working the register tonight, and a person comes up wearing a shirt with a US flag on it… Emblazoned with the unmistakable SS symbol on it. I really didn't wanna serve the guy, but knew my boss would sharply reprimand me for refusing service to someone. So yeah, I had to serve a Nazi at work today and I'm not happy about it.