Life Sucks At Bailey's

Well isn't that wonderful? Upper management has been threatening for three whole months now that people are going to start getting written up. I never thought in all of my craziest dreams that I would be the first person to get written up. My work is practically ALWAYS done perfect, when there is a mistake, it's something pretty small, and I have no problem admitting that I was wrong, and I take whatever steps I need to in order to correct it.

Today, my boss got pissed off at me because I have clocked in almost 30 minutes early every day this pay period. Even though the store manager always asks me to do stuff for him and I have a very strict policy that I will not work off the clock, apparently I'm not allowed to do anything before 9 a.m. Fine. I just won't be at work until exactly 9 a.m.

At my preformance review, they said that my attendance was an issue. I've only ever not been to work 2 days in 4 months, once because the power went out where I live, and without power, my phone doesn't work. The second time, I actually went to work, stayed until the next shift came in at 11 just because I knew I was going to be the only cashier there until 11, and once the other girls came in, that's when I went home. Only because I didn't have a baby sitter.

I've tried my best to make sure that I'm doing my job, I always tell my boss where I am at all times, with the exception of today because she went to lunch. When I tried to talk to her, she kept walking away and said "didn't I say I was on lunch?" I had been trying to get this stupid address list done for the General Manager, only because the damn list has been sitting on the counter for 3 days, available for ANYONE to look at. I didn't feel that it was a good idea, so I took it upon myself to make sure the list got done so it could go straight back to GM, away from everyone's prying eyes. Damn me for doing that, because I got yelled at for it.

What really pisses me off, is that damn near everyone in that building can get away with just about anything... from doing shady deals with customers and constantly lying about crap, to arguing with management and doing whatever the hell they want. The other cashiers pretty much take turns on being late, someone calls each and every day to say they are going to be late, paperwork is always an issue, keys to the tills get left out on the counter, people stay logged into the system even when they are away from the computers, dress code violations, you name it. Do they get written up for any of this? No. I get written up for not only being on time every damn day, but for being early. And, on top of it, I get yelled at for taking the initiative and making sure that shit gets done, gets done right, and gets done on time.

From now on, fuck them all. I guess the only thing at that company I need to be worried about is myself.

Here it was, I thought this was different from every other job, that this wasn't a dead end job. Apparently I was wrong. Apparently, there is no future in this company for me. Good thing me and my brother came up with a good business idea today. Now it's a matter of sticking to it.