Please feel free to ignore the rant: Yesterday was a disaster, and I am dreading having to leave in a little while to go back there. I keeping getting different information on how to do things from every manager I work with. I kept screwing up in little ways yesterday(which wouldn't be happening if I got any kind of cashier training at all), that somehow got turned into major disasters. My manager freaked out at us because we couldn't remember the exact percentages of shrink that relate to fellow employees, customers, and employee error that we learned in training. And, finally I made it through a four hour shift without feeling like death only to be informed that I would have to stay "a least another hour". I had to fight back tears at that point, and by the time I did leave I felt like crap again. Also, they are scheduling me for too many hours and being on call for so many shifts sucks beyond belief. Grr

Yay Cashmere!!!

{{sj}} retail is absolute hell. I wish the managers could get their act together. I figure the scheduling will be bad since they're entering Christmas shopping season. I hope it gets easier for you.

but it makes no specific argument for any specific theology. The God proven within is eternal, unique, and a Creator. That's it.

That's a pretty specific theology, if you ask me.

I don't personally think any "proof" of the existance of God is going to hold up if the person reading/writing it isn't already a believer -- my willingness to accept conclusion C depends entirely on how much I buy premise A in the first place, not how air-tight steps B1-25 are.

I figure the scheduling will be bad since they're entering Christmas shopping season. I hope it gets easier for you.

Thanks. I specifically told them no more than 15 hours so I can keep my earnings down to what is acceptable to the government. They have been scheduling me for more than that, but a lot of those hours are on call hours, so I haven't really worked more than fifteen hours, but I potentially could. It is all way too complicated for retail, imho.

On the bright side of my day yesterday, I really do have the best mother. I may complain about her being too much, but she is always there when I need her. I called her crying from the parking lot of the mall last night, and I ended up going back to her place where she had Chinese take out waiting for me. I fell asleep at her place last night and she made me breakfast this morning and ironed my skirt and found me a new top to wear to work today. She is the bestest.

They have been scheduling me for more than that, but a lot of those hours are on call hours, so I haven't really worked more than fifteen hours, but I potentially could.

I don't get how they could make you work more than you say you are able to work. Retail is a mystery to me...and for that I am truly grateful.

My friend/guitarist in my band is a manager at Sharper Image so I hear all the horror stories of being in the local managment side of retail. Plus we have to take a hiatus from playing out every year for November- December because he has no time off at all.

Today is my mom's b-day and my 18th anniversary. I have NOTHING planned for anyone. I have not even bought a card for either of them.

Good lord, Fred. I've been in that station at rush hour and I can just imagine the riot.

No riot -- everybody gets off the train there in the morning, so nobody was left at the station. And the driver announced that there'd be a train at the next station (McPherson Square) to bring people back.

aw, {{sj}}