Yesterday was an emotional wrought night of tears, jeers and other random emotional breakdowns at work. And I can't even contribute all of these emotions to me.
To sum up yesterday:
1) I cried in front of co-worker (the girl I consider my closet friend there. She was upset because she can't keep a dog she rescued in her apartment anymore,and she thought I was mad at her because I was not in a good mood yesterday. I was not in a good mood because of work and because fourth of July is a week away). It was a completely frustrating tear fest of ' I'm not always a happy smiley person. Some days just suck. today especially' followed by her proclaiming 'me neither'. Lifetime movie, anyone?
2) The Store Manager was fired causing us all to lose our shit! We like the way she runs the store, with her leaving things are going to get ugly. She wouldn't go as far as to say she was fired, she said it was a 'mutual' decision between her and the company. But in my experience, there is no such thing as a mutual decision between two opposing people.
3) One of the boys got in a fight the other night. He seemed distraught/excited about the whole event. So it didn't help when I told him to 'shut up' some time earlier because I thought he was mocking my sad demeanor. I guess taken aback by my response, he kept apologizing to me all night feigning concern for me, in order to make sure I didn't perceive him as an asshole. He then went into the male version of a sob fest regarding the fight, but I was not to interested in hearing.
4) An annoying coworker was promoted to head cashier, and now she is on a 'power trip'. She didn't land a teaching position post grad (welcome to the club) and she wanted a full time position. But yesterday she referred to herself as a 'manager' and said she was going to use her teacher tactics to get us into shape. Did I mention that she's 22 and gives directions as if the map is tacked to her ass. That's unfair, I now but seriously.
5) McAbs and I got into an argument regarding my privacy. 'Co-worker who got in a fist fight' stumbled across me and 'co-worker who saved a dog' after our tear fest. He looked confused and amiss in our aisle of tears, he must have gone and told McAbs about it because 30 minutes later, McAbs wanted to give me a hug. A real one.
As I was leaving, he wanted to know what was up, but I immediately sensed he was being noisy. I told him that sometimes it's better not to know everything about the people we work with. What good would that do. He seemed all offended, which is weird because he said the same thing to me...what...four weeks ago. He said something along the lines of 'that unfair. but if you want to keep your business to yourself. go ahead. it's not like i care anyway'.
Damn. All in the span of what, an eight our shift.
I have to close tonight, and I can't help but feel as if I am returning to scene of a crime. A crime where tears were shed, egos were busted and people were fired.
I don't think I'm ready for this.
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