Taken advantage of...naturally.

Sorry for the long rant, everyone. But it's almost 11 pm, and I'm at my wits end. Ready to cry. I feel so torn.

I got the promotion at work. And I still want it, I'm still excitied. But only because I know that I can do awesome things for the store, and make it more fun for the younger kids to work there. I want to do that.

But I feel like the manager, my boss, is taking advantage of me already. When we discussed this promotion, we talked at length about my schedule. I volunteered one night a week. One. She literally giggled, she was so excited. She wasn't even expecting me to do one. So I got brownie points. And she assured me that, if I closed one night, she wouldn't schedule me to open the next day. Yay!

So I look at my schedule this week and lo and behold....she schedules me 2 nights. AND I'm opening the day after BOTH nights!!

So, here's my week. I worked tonight til 10:30, I open tomorrow at 6:30 am. School tomorrow night until 10:00. Repeat. So I literally only have 8 hours between shifts for the rest of the week.

Yeah, I know, I probably shouldn't bitch too much, but this is exactly what she said she wouldn't do to me. Plus, I'm in college. I'm supposed to be having fun. i still haven't gone out and celebrated my birthday with friends, because of work and school. My entire life is far too serious. I have nothing at all to look forward to for weekends, school vacations....I'm just not like everyone else.

I feel like I'm being taken advantage of already. I have no idea what to do. I'm on the verge of crying right now, out of sheer frustration. How do you handle something like this? Especially with a boss who I love....she's so sweet, so nice, and she really does treat each of us with respect and she tries to make our jobs fun. But I don't think she understands that I want this to be a part time job...not my life. I have Brent to take care of, school to focus on, and a childhood that is slipping away before my eyes.

WWYD?

Testing this...

YES! I can put a title on my posts now! God, I hate Blogger.

Ahh, the joy.

I made my first legal alcohol purchase this evening. Get this....it was at....Wal Mart. Yes, I really am that lame. I have yet to go to a bar or restaraunt. Instead I buy a 6 pack at Wally World. And here's the most fantastic part. Me and Brent were at the register buying, and the cashier asks for ID. Knowing the law fully well, we both hand her our ID's. She waves mine off, but takes Brent's. He's 25 and looks older...I look 16. So I have yet to be carded. So I don't know how waiters/bartenders will react to my "Under 21" license from MA. Even though it says "Under 21 until July 10, 2006", I'm sure someone will give me gruff for it. But apparently we'll have to wait and see for that.

In other news I am officially an 8.5x11 scrapper. I am in love with that size. I finished 3 LO's in one night, and I'm itching to do more tomorrow instead of housework. I even used bunches of chipboard and ribbon and buttons on the LO's, which I usually don't do. It was a nice change of routine.

Hopefully going to N. Nashua on Tuesday for a free crop. Have already posted on SJ about it for every Tuesday this summer. So if any MA or NH Jazzers are reading PM ME!!

I got it! Woo hoo! There was nothing to it at all. The manager took me aside, asked if I was serious about wanting the job, and told me to grab a notebook and start taking notes for training LoL. It's going to be so exciting! I think I'll make a good manager. I hope I'll be the person that the high school employees will want to work for. I have one supervisor like that, and working for him is a pleasure. I think I will just model myself after him, and make people feel very appreciated for the hard work they do. I think that's the main ingredient that's missing from supervisors/managers that people don't like.

I don't know if today could have gotten any worse. It was just so....so blah! And I hated it.

Exfept for this little part: My boss was putting up a sign today that said Now Hiring: Shift Supervisor. I told her I could do it, just gie me the manager code! And I was kind of joking around, kind of being a bitch cause I really should be supervisor before they hire anyone from the outside. Well, the other manager says I should apply, and then the big big manager says she wants to talk to me tomorrow morning, first thing. And there's a supervisor at work who has been teasing me for a few weeks saying I'm the next supervisor, and he's going to train me himself so it'll be like torture.

So I have this weird feeling that I was being considered for the job beforehand, but for some reason nobody had approached me. Maybe they thought I wouldn't be interested? Well, I sort of am.

It will mean taking on more hours, on top of school and a non-existant social life. BUT it will be more freedom in the store, more respect, more money, and much better experience for later jobs. I'll have managerial experience. That's HUGE when applying for jobs later.

I hope that's what the big manager wanted to talk to me about. I really do. I'm going to pray on it tonight and see where tomorrow brings me. I could use some prayers from everyone else too. Getting a raise right now would make my entire life a little more secure. Thanks!

Okay ScrapJazzers, be gentle.

Especially since I have no idea how to use this silly Blogger, I can't seem to make it format the way I want to.

Plus, I'm tired. So I have an excuse. :p





I think these two pictures of Duke are my favorites.He has the cutest expressions, and the bench he's sitting on makes an awesome background. He was such a ham!






















Look at this silly face! I got tons of shots of him sleeping upside down, with his paws straight in the air, but they didn't come out this nice. So I'll save them for a rainy day. :)













Okay so I couldn't resist putting just one of his sleeping pics. Just don't tell him lol. See the smile??!! It's like his life just can't get any better than this! About an hour after these pictures were taken, Duke was found waist-deep inside a 50 pound bag of dog food. Tell me he isn't the coolest cat.











And here's my little brother, attempting to run away from me. He was sick of my snapping away within a few seconds. But he ended up being a pretty good sport. He grabbed my camera and started snapping shots of me. They came out pretty good!










See? We have another budding photographer. He's such a cutie.




And I did have a ton more to post, but it's almost midnight and I must get to bed. back to work after a 4 day weekend. Ugh. :(

I'm on my way to fireworks, free food, lots of pictures, and a water baloon fight. And yet all I want to do is sit in my room and scrap!!! Argh! Why why why, when I have no time, that's when the urge is greatest!?

Oh, and yesterday I went to Hampton Beach. I have a sunburn, sand in my hair, I smell like dead fish, but I got a million beautiful pics. And a 50$ ticket. Oops.

Got GIMP??

I do. If I happen to get lots of free time this summer, I see nothing but bad, bad things happening lol. Downloaded some free 2peas kits. Learned layers basics. Uh oh. This might not be a good thing lol. If only BG made digi papers....ahhh, life would be good.

Oh, and I'm pretty sure I scored the sweetest deal ever today. Got an 8x8 Colorbok album with a cs/pp/punchout pack for 7$. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't those coordinated punchout packs typically 9-10$?? Yeah, I think they are. So, I bought 2. Naturally.

And now I'm off to learn opacity.

This morning is so awkward!

I stayed up until 3 am crying because Brent is a complete ass. Complete. Now I have to sit in the same house as him without throwing things at him. Totally weird. And, in typical fashion, he is acting like somehow I'm at fault? Okee dokee then. I swear he PMSes half the month.


Oh yeah, there he goes, totally slamming the drawers, and he definitely just threw a loaf of bread? Yeah, because that's manly and solves problems.

Are all men this ridiculous?