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"This Job'd Be Great If It Weren't For The Customers" 2003-11-21 - 3:36 a.m. older - previous - next - profile - host - my band - my lj I keep meaning to update this thing before I get so tired I can barely keep my eyes open I have today/tomorrow/friday off which means I must do something with my friends seriously, I'm going insane also, I'm going in to take my final around 1 so I'll get that over with and then be done with high school hopefully work went ok today funny things happened I'll get to those in a minute; I want to bitch about my problems first it seems like work isn't a problem it's me that's the problem every morning I get up; and I get super-stressed and put myself through hell and make myself sick for an hour then I go in; go to work for however long come home, relax for a few hours then spend the rest of the night worrying about how badly I'm going to stress out the next morning that sucks that's no way to live work is so easy and I know that if I don't worry there'll be nothing to worry about but I can't help it and so I freak out and take way more medications than are healthy and then go to work, where everything's fine gah it just really sucks that I know I'm the cause of my problems and I just can't stop I know that all I have to do is relax but I can't and so it goes on it sucks as far as work goes; I'm definitely asking for less hours when they make the schedule for the next few weeks I should've done that today I'll have to do it saturday anyway I haven't made any new friends or met any girls but today I was ringing up this girl employee(I think she was around my age) while she was going to lunch and this older guy stands in line behind her and he asks: "are you checking her out?" and then after a short pause: "so to speak" I said: "nyuk nyuk nyuk" but she said: "I'm not that lucky" and the reason it stuck out so much in my mind is because she wasn't being sarcastic or anything it sounded like she would've genuinely considered it lucky to be flirting with me and this just shocks the hell out of me since I've pretty much accepted the fact that no woman will ever be interested in me; ever so I'm still more or less speachless about that I bumped into her once more; but I was late getting somewhere so I couldn't stop to talk, but we had a quick semi-conversation in passing but on a seperate occasion when we passed eachother she said: "howdy"; and that disturbs me because people who say "howdy" aren't generally my type I don't know I'm just confused about the entire situation another funny instance was this little two or three year old girl in her mother's cart I was doing my job, and the little girl is just staring at me with this serious/troubled look on her face and then she asks me: "are you a girl?" and I paused for a second and said: "no" then she said: "why do you have earrings?" I said it was because I was a pirate; but the mother just said that some boys have earrings I thought it was really amusing for some reason my last Interesting Anecdote about today comes from when I was about to go on my last break of the night I worked the express lane today and yesterday and express lane = twenty items or less, right? well this Hispanic family who couldn't speak english very well comes up with three shopping carts just full of stuff and I wasn't really giving a crap about the "twenty items or less" thing until then at first it was just a woman and two kids and one cart then slowly more kids and a man filtered up with two more carts after I had started ringing them up and I was ringing the stuff up and it just kept coming when you go on break on register someone else comes up and replaces you and the guy to replace me came up about 3/4's way through their first cart and so he had to stand there and watch as they just kept pulling more and more merchandise out of their carts it was astounding at the end of the transaction when you print a receipt it says how many items a customer checked out and these people had 79 79 fucking items in the express lane that sucked now, 79 may not sound like that much you may think: "well; it's not like hundreds" or "I've been grocery shopping before and we get a lot of stuff; that's probably close to 79" well no it's not go get 79 of anything that's a lot of shit but other than stuff like that work is super easy like I've said: I daresay it's almost fun it's just me that's the fucking problem and I think part of it is that I just go to work and come home; and don't really do anything else so I need to do something with my friends now that I have off work it's driving me crazy Just Because I Serve You Doesn't Mean I Like You � � |