apply for the other job. worst that happens - nothing. I loved working retail - even during xmas until I became management- of the work 10000 hours and get paid for 40. not that it was the money, but more of some of the other things that had to happen. - encourageing 16 yr olds to drive in a snow storm to work. encourageing people to come in when the were sick. In other words - applying, interviewing , even a job offer gives you the ablity to figure out what really bothers yo about the job, if any of it is fixable, or is it the nature of the beast. You won't really examine it if you don't make an effort to get out.

Teppy -- interesting dream. I hope that NO PART of it was prophetic!!!

vw, rec'd and backflung with a thanks. I know the desperation of having a suckass webmail.

You should just sign up for the gmail now. It takes seconds. Then you could leave the notifying everyone until after the party. If you placed a filtered down notice/request in your LJ, lots of people would probably mail you, and because of the way gmail works, you'd then have their addresses. It's a snap to add them to your contact list, and a snap to find addresses, even if you haven't added them to your contact list.

t /gpimping

of the work 10000 hours and get paid for 40. not that it was the money, but more of some of the other things that had to happen. - encourageing 16 yr olds to drive in a snow storm to work. encourageing people to come in when the were sick.

This is so exactly it, beth. I even get paid halftime on top of salary for overtime, but it's the soullessness of it all. It's started to snow now, and I know that tonight I'll have girls calling me asking if they have to come to work, and I'll have to tell them to try. I've been told that I should write people up if they are sick w/out a freaking doctors note and they don't cover their shift. (I didn't once, and got in trouble for it.) Basically, to become really good at my job, I'd have to become someone I don't want to be.

I'll still apply. I've got a spiffy new resume now, and I've written something to use as a sample, which I can edit tommorrow night. Wouldn't hurt.

Got and backflung with one, vw, thank you.

I'm going to have to go get horizontal for a bit. Hope everyone has a peach of a day.

Feel better, Deena!!

Definitely feel better, Deena. Mwah!

Nora, if you're around, I just sent you a semi-urgent e-mail to rainoftoads.

and then Jon B. showed up, followed by JZ and Hec, and I introduced all 3 of them to my best friend as "those internet people."

JZ's not pregnant either. But I'm glad we were hanging around in the funhouse which is your brain.

Not me, Teppy!

Lilty, definitely apply. The new job is more in line with what you want to do long-term, right? So even if you were content where you were, you'd be better off in the new place.

And welcome, Bells!

Not me, I'm happy to say.

Last week you would've scared the crap out of me, though