Working for a living

I had heard that what you do on the first day of the new year is a signal of what you’ll be doing all year long. Well, I started off the day very well, sleeping in a bit, starting a lazy morning hanging with my friends. It would have been the most beautiful day if I had just ended it there.

Unfortunately I had to go to work at the retail job. Starting your year working, is a good thing. But by 2pm the day had turned to shit. The girl scheduled to be the cashier for the evening was a no-call/no-show. Well….she called….but at like 5pm. 3 hours AFTER she was meant to start. Since I was the only person other than the manager trained to work the register, I was the cashier for the evening. So my department (apparel – which is like half the store) was the biggest trash heap of the new decade.  And the guys working the floor did very little to keep up with it while I rang on the register for 4 hours non-stop (yeah, I didn’t get a lunch break.)

So I just want to say this, if you have a job, whether it is working retail or at a factory for minimum wage, helping a friend for free, at a company where they pay you a full on salary, or whatever… You have a responsibility not only to the employer, but the other employees to show up and do the job they have chosen to employ you to do. If you feel this job isn’t worthy of you, then quit so they can hire someone who will bother to show up. I don’t care if you just didn’t feel like coming in,  if your car was stolen, if you’re really sick or if you’re still too high to show up. When you know you’re not coming in you call and tell them. You give them PLENTY of time to find someone else. You don’t make them track your ass down through other employees, because you’ve changed your number. In this age of cell phones, even if your phone was stolen or dead, you can find a phone to call on.  If your car REALLY was stolen, then you knew HOURS before you were scheduled that you  wouldn’t make it in. Hell, the house you were staying in had people with phones and possibly even a land line to call your employer with to say, “dude, my car was stolen, I’m in the city I wont be in.” If you’re old enough to own a car, you’re old enough to act like a responsible adult, especially where your job is concerned.

You may live with Mommy & Daddy, but you are old enough to be employed, own a car and drink… be old enough to take responsibility for your actions so that you don’t screw other people over.

Yeah…. happy new year…. I’m starting it off pissed…. thanks a lot you self absorbed child…