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10/15/2006: ""

Work has been hell for me. I've been working everyday for 8 hours a day since last Wednesday, and my next day off is this thursday. It sucks cause the other lot attendants keep calling in sick and leaving me with the hassle of doing the lot by myself.

I've pretty much been certified cashier at work. They have to do some paperwork and send them to HR before I could get my patches. They let me shadow and run a register... Someone else's register. I go the hang of it and pretty much did a good job. The downside is the guy that was letting me run his register kept telling me what to do and kept messing me up when I was still doing the task that comes before that. Overall it was pretty cool. The downside is the other lot attendant that was supposed to be there called in sick so after I started getting in to it, I kept getting called away to help someone load or had to go collect carts cause the new assistant store manager said theres not enough carts, when my front end manager told me there was enough. Either way, I had to run back out there and collect carts for a bit.

I've been kind of sick. I've been having a scratchy/sore throat and today a runny nose. I've been popping cough drops like tic tacs to lessen it and get on through the day. If I could make it to thursday, it would be a miracle. Since I'm closing the store the next couple days, I try not to call in sick. They make the other cashiers collect the carts when the store closes, they got pissed at the other guy when he called in sick on the day he was closing. They all love me over there, and I try not to piss them off.

It was kind of weird last monday. Since we had nothing better to do, and I had the day off. Me and my cousin went to this bar that he always goes to and I ran into Rachel (Erin's friend) and I also saw Amy (yes that Amy). They weren't together, Rachel was there with her own friends and Amy was there with others. It was Karaoke night and they were there to sing. Me and Rachel were having a good time, I didn't even talk to Amy at all. Which is pretty much standard for every time we've met. I had a few too many and thought it was a good idea to sing. I sang "Solitary man" by Neil Diamond and "The Wanderer" by Dion (might have to google the lyrics if you never heard these songs [which is understandable]) I was going to sing one more song then my cousin's friend wanted to leave and he was getting upset. So we left.

Right now I've been doing what I can to try and get out of lot. I keep joking around with the heads of the other departments when I have to go and help them. They're always saying they could use me in their departments. I keep telling them to try and get me before the other departments do first.