work sucks, but summer rocks
I almost forgot how exhausting working at qfc could be especially if you're not used to working 8 hour days consecutively. Or maybe it was because I stayed up until 2 one night and didn't get much sleep for the next day... o_O;
I'm working 32 hours this week and no it's not gonna be fun. I didn't sign up for this many hours buy my manager specifically came and asked me if I could pick up a few more hours this week because one of the managers needs his vacation time. So I figured if I worked more this week, it would help me get onto the better side of my manager.
I've been thinking it over and I'm trying to figure out how my future with qfc is gonna work out. See, I only went to work there because I thought they would pay me more than any other job I could find somewhere else and also not cause me much hassle of having to find a new job. If you didn't know the rest of the story, I ended up getting the shaft and ended up only making a few dimes above my old wage, around $8.3 now currently about $8.7/hr, since my old contract expired or so they told me, and I ended up just being a whole "new employee." The whole point of me working was so that I could make enough money so that I could move out next year, senior year, into my own place with a few roomates. Unfortunately, I don't think I'll be able to make enough to live all year only making what I am now. I'm also not willing to start working 30+ hours a week for the rest of summer, not to mention having to continue to work during the school year. I have much needed R&R that I need to catch up on after a surprisingly taxing summer quarter. Oh, but summer quarter ended on a very good note. I may have only been taking 13 credits, but I actually got a really good gpa this quarter XD It makes me so joyful to see my hardwork pay off... Anyway back to the original topic. Thus my current dilemma comes to this: I need money. Either I find a new job that pays more or ask for a raise. I figure the first one would take a lot more effort and the probability of it is also highly unlikely. There are very few jobs out there that offer flexible schedules, a decent wage (almost $9/hr is decent... not great, but decent...), and only 2 blocks away from where you live. @_@ (yeah, qfc isn't a great company but it had a lot of pluses as a job for me)
So just ask your manager for the raise, what do you have to lose? I guess the reason I'm holding back is because I keep guilt-tripping myself over the fact that I'm being too demanding of an employee and they will hate me forever. In reality, the company is a very (pardon my french) sh*tty entity. I just found out that one long time employee (20 yrs-ish) was just fired last week because she mis-read a piece of ID of an undercover kid who bought smokes from her. Just like that, the undercover kid told the manager, and they had to let her go. It's really sad I think. Yes it's policy, but I really feel bad for the woman. She's been working at qfc forever and I think she's in her 40's. I don't think she's got a lot of other career choices after being fired here. 'Tis life. It is a cold, cold world out there. (literally... Seattle reminded us today why it's known for it's weather) If you're gonna be soft, people are gonna step on you so you have to be strong and make yourself tough.
Work has also been an interesting experience as well as a crappy one. You see a lot of interesting people out there. Every day, I'll see a lots of housewives, mothers, businessmen coming home, families, teenagers, construction workers, gardeners, elderly people, shady people, bank workers... etc. Mother's are constantly fretting over their kids, trying to keep a straight face when you really know inside their head it's chaotic as heck. Housewives are gossiping with each other in line, holding up everyone... Businessmen are just trying to get out as soon as possible and give no regard to you (I like these transactions, quick and painless). Foreign manual laborers who don't understand what "Do you have an Advantage card?" means and don't ever want to sign up for one always annoys me. I feel like I should always ask every customer so they don't complain later if I didn't, but I know they don't have one, nor will they apply for one. Teenagers who try to act cool by saying their phone numbers and friggin 100words/min or something instead of carrying a card. DUDE, I DON'T HAVE REALLY SHARP EARS, ESPECIALLY AFTER I'VE BEEN WORKING 6 HRS AND WANT TO GO HOME TO EAT. Say it nice and slow and clearly the first time so it gets done correctly. I've said this before, but to reinforce my point, this job is pretty stressful. Everyone expects you to wisk them out of the store quickly and efficiently, baggin their groceries and takign however much they owe and be done with the whole procedure. When you mess up, you get this line of people looking at you, obviously disgrunted act the fact that they have to wait longer because you fucked up, and need the manager's key to make the stupid cash machine move to the next step. I understand why some of the other employees decided to take up another job, but only work at qfc, one day a week. Really, a person can take only take so much before they break. I plan on only working a day or two when school starts too, more because I feel that school really affects my studies. Not only does it take up time, but it really taxes your body too. After a 4-9 or 4-10 shift after school, you really just want to eat something at hit the sack. Thus you really subtract a whole day out of your week. I can't have my work screw over my studies again like it did last Fall quarter... I've learned my priorities.
Well, I'd love to write more, but I'm about to keel over and hit lay my head tgfsagdsssssssssss the keyboaaoard, so i'ma head out noww. nite -_-zzzz
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