disgruntlement
Mar. 18th, 2006 09:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7I don't want to go to work today.
This is a long-standing thing. I hate working 11-7 on Saturdays because it means I cannot have any kind of social life. All my weekends, forever and ever, world without end, Amen, are tied up in this manner-- both Saturdays and Sundays, and there is no way at all ever ever for me to avoid this.
This has been the case for the better part of a year.
And it's really starting to get to me. There's a weekly Irish seisun at Nietszche's with $2 pints of Guinness, and I've been thinking for literally months that I want to go to it, and gosh! Have never been able to get there.
So I'm really just not feeling it today. It makes it that much worse to know that for some reason the bar manager has taken it into her head that she doesn't like me, and so if I ask to leave once it's dead, she will carefully say "No, I think you should stay until the latest possible time I can make you stay," without making eye contact.
Thanks.
Last Sunday I stayed almost twelve hours. At ten point five hours I said, "I think I'm going to leave soon," just as a courtesy to let her know what was up, and she said, "Wait, no, I'm not sure, I gotta think," and I was like "Whatever" and went back out to work more. Thing is, she could not actually make me stay. I cannot be forced into overtime. They cannot make me work more than 8 hours at a stretch, or 40 hours in a week. And so I stayed until she dismissed me that night, because it was reasonable to do so, but still-- I was doing her a fucking favor.
Will she remember this when, come five pm today, I point out that there's nothing more for me to do, as there is never anything for me to do after five on Saturdays?
Unlikely.
And yet, when my compatriot down the hall, also working the same shift, just decides to close her bar at 6 and get out early, as she does every week, will she be disciplined?
No.
Sigh.
A quote from Zobar: "In the last two weeks, my imaginary dialogues with people have involved me calling them 'idiot' a lot." Amen, brother.
Speaking of Z, I now have added his journal as an RSS feed to my friendspage. It's on my friendspage now. As an experiment, I am linking to it here:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
z0bar. (I don't know if that link is right. It's an ExPeriMent.)
At the moment there's nothing in it. But there you have it. He was pouting that I hadn't friended him. He's very funny, I assure you, and I'm sure you'd like to hear him speak for himself.
A lot of what he writes is about the local community because his blog is hosted on elmwoodstrip.org, which is a (duh) virtual community based around a real one. (Buffalo's Elmwood Strip is in the northwest part of downtown and extends on Elmwood Ave. from roughly Buffalo State University (and the Albright-Knox art gallery) downward toward Downtown, and pretty much ends where it intersects with Allentown. Allentown is on Allen St. and is roughly the Buffalo equivalent of NYC's East Village.)
Disappointingly, his userpic there has no exposed flesh.
This is a long-standing thing. I hate working 11-7 on Saturdays because it means I cannot have any kind of social life. All my weekends, forever and ever, world without end, Amen, are tied up in this manner-- both Saturdays and Sundays, and there is no way at all ever ever for me to avoid this.
This has been the case for the better part of a year.
And it's really starting to get to me. There's a weekly Irish seisun at Nietszche's with $2 pints of Guinness, and I've been thinking for literally months that I want to go to it, and gosh! Have never been able to get there.
So I'm really just not feeling it today. It makes it that much worse to know that for some reason the bar manager has taken it into her head that she doesn't like me, and so if I ask to leave once it's dead, she will carefully say "No, I think you should stay until the latest possible time I can make you stay," without making eye contact.
Thanks.
Last Sunday I stayed almost twelve hours. At ten point five hours I said, "I think I'm going to leave soon," just as a courtesy to let her know what was up, and she said, "Wait, no, I'm not sure, I gotta think," and I was like "Whatever" and went back out to work more. Thing is, she could not actually make me stay. I cannot be forced into overtime. They cannot make me work more than 8 hours at a stretch, or 40 hours in a week. And so I stayed until she dismissed me that night, because it was reasonable to do so, but still-- I was doing her a fucking favor.
Will she remember this when, come five pm today, I point out that there's nothing more for me to do, as there is never anything for me to do after five on Saturdays?
Unlikely.
And yet, when my compatriot down the hall, also working the same shift, just decides to close her bar at 6 and get out early, as she does every week, will she be disciplined?
No.
Sigh.
A quote from Zobar: "In the last two weeks, my imaginary dialogues with people have involved me calling them 'idiot' a lot." Amen, brother.
Speaking of Z, I now have added his journal as an RSS feed to my friendspage. It's on my friendspage now. As an experiment, I am linking to it here:
z0bar. (I don't know if that link is right. It's an ExPeriMent.)At the moment there's nothing in it. But there you have it. He was pouting that I hadn't friended him. He's very funny, I assure you, and I'm sure you'd like to hear him speak for himself.
A lot of what he writes is about the local community because his blog is hosted on elmwoodstrip.org, which is a (duh) virtual community based around a real one. (Buffalo's Elmwood Strip is in the northwest part of downtown and extends on Elmwood Ave. from roughly Buffalo State University (and the Albright-Knox art gallery) downward toward Downtown, and pretty much ends where it intersects with Allentown. Allentown is on Allen St. and is roughly the Buffalo equivalent of NYC's East Village.)
Disappointingly, his userpic there has no exposed flesh.
