I am 20 and so far dread this shitty and repetitive nature of life as another cog in the machine. I work Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays. I got done with my first 8/24 hours of the week today and I hate it so much. So for starters, I've been working at a Chevron Gas Station since late November of last year and I hate it. The pay is really shitty as well. I have 8 hours a day and get $14 an hour. So that's $112 a day. So instead of getting paid the amount that is necessary, I end up getting a tax cut which rounds it to $294 ever week and I hate it. The usual pay would be $336, but I understand the tax cut, but still don't like it. I turn 21 this April and I dread it simply for the fact that my co-workers keep pestering me about “MaNaGiNg ThE FiRe” that is the cash register all day and night. The original law was 18 years or older that are able to work the cash register, but now it's 21 years or older.
My problem is that all they have been doing for nearly every single week is pestering me about working the register, even though it is literally a couple months away and it's giving me anxiety that I will screw up. While I don't want to do it, if there is a chance that they might raise the minimum wage a little bit and give me more hours, then hopefully it is worth it. But I am not so sure about it. They'll be training me again this April, since one of my co-workers found out I couldn't during my first day of training and basically wasted nearly an hour for no reason at all.
I hate birthdays because I hate being reminded of the day I was born here against my will on this hellish, capitalist, shitty, consumerist planet called earth. The fact that these idiots are prioritizing my birthday so that I can work on the register, instead of wanting to simply be patient and let me enjoy my one day off of pure misery and shitty wages irritates me to no end every single week. So for those of you who have worked the cash register, how was your experience and did you mess up so many times? Did your job made you anticipate something shitty you aren't really interested in on a “Special” day? If so how did that make you feel? Well, that's it for now and if you guys have anything to say, please let me know in the comments below.
P.S, I know I sound bitchy, but I just hate how some important days on a person's life whether they love it or hate it is irrelevant to the working world. They'll probably let me have a day off anyways, but I still hate the pestering. Well, take care of yourselves and stay safe out there in this shitty generation.