chels,
i don't think it would be douchy of you at all to work at safeway for a month and quit. i actually support you in doing this. first, i think these low paying positions are always taking advantage of students anyway so don't bother overthinking about it on their behalf. second, this doesn't make you a douche because you've worked at IGA for 2 and a half years and you know you can put that kind of commitment into something. people who are douchebags would not have done that.
so this leads into my story of what happened to me at pizza hut on monday (i think it was the BC day long weekend) my shift was 10am-5pm with this girl named fanny whom i've never worked with (or seen before at pizza hut but apparently we've been coexisting and working at the same place for a year) so i come into the store and there was literally 20 boxes of stuff on the floor, which my manager had told me was food supplies that was shipped to us every Monday and Wednesday. i walked into the walk in freezer and there was another 20 boxes of frozen cheese, meat of sorts and sauce in there. everything was scattered all across the floor so i had to move them to shelves so i could walk around. fanny was busy making dough (which was the only task she would do cause she can't speak english and doesn't do anything anyway cause she's lazy as hell) so i had to go at the boxes alone, and they were really heavy (so heavy i had back pains the next day). anyway the whole box ordeal took me a couple of hours all the while i had to answer to customers at the front/phone/make pizza/cut them. and then at around 3 fanny left cause her shift was up and i checked the schedule and no one was coming in for the next two hours so i would be the only one in the store. i know 2 hours may not seem like much but when you work at a fast food restaurant you can easily loose your sanity if you go it alone. the orders were piling up and i couldn't keep up with them, ppl at the counter were impatient, i was completely ignoring the phones. and the one phone call i picked up took me 10 mins cause the person kept changing their order. i really just wanted to scream and run out and abandon the store. and then at around 4:30 jerry (guy who works there) came early and he saw me in my mess of sauce and cheese and helped me catch up to all the orders that were late. as it turns out fanny didn't make enough dough to get us through dinner time, which can really set you back cause dough needs time to rise before we can use it and i had to stay till 8pm cause of all the extra work. all in all it was the most frenzical (word?) day of my life.
the moral of the story is that i finally realize these stupid low paying jobs are a waste of time and i do not need the money that bad to be lifting 20 lb boxes of pineapple, the opportunity costs are just too great (for those who have taken econ) i hope this serves a cautionary tale and these jobs are at best a filler for when you have too much time on your hands.
and now aaron,
that was pretty daring (lack of a better word) of kem to invite you to his grad. i'm not saying its bad, but if he still remains firm on not coming out to his parents then it was a pretty gutsy move. i mean i'm pretty sure his mother (in all her perspectiveness) is suspicious already and would keep an eye out for cues. so does this mean kem is on some level coming out/ beginning to integrate you to his parents? btw how was his mother? was she a scary-christian (jesus at the crucifix on her shirt) or a nice-christian?
ann
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