Christmas Rant
My retelling of Christmas this year turned into:
National Family Stress Day has passed. Yes, that’s right I survived Christmas again this year. My dad came into the city to pick me up after work on Christmas eve. Of course, I didn’t get to leave work early because the person who volunteered to vacuum did a sucky job as well as a really bad job mopping as well. How do you miss entire sections and yet claim to have mopped?
So yes, my dad picked me up, brought me pizza and I went out to his house that night. I didn’t go to sleep until one thirty in the morning for I was far to excited to watch tv! But at seven, I got my wake up call to start getting ready. It was actually pretty beautiful to watch the sun rise over the untouched farmers fields of snow. I didn’t bring my camera.. Of course. If I had I’m sure it wouldn’t have been anywhere near as beautiful Lol.
We opened presents at my sisters house, I got a 20$ gift card to Walmart and a 25$ gift card that can be used at Swiss Chalet, Montanas, Milestones, Harveys, or Kelseys. My roommate, on boxing day, gave me a really awesome dragon scroll and skull and cross bones stickers. I know it’s stupid but I can’t help but be jealous of my sister who got several gc’s, four boxes of chocolates, movies, electronics, and more. Just like for our birthday for a few weeks ago. I felt like such a cheap skate at my own birthday when I got her a twenty six dollar gift certificate and she got my a forty dollar one plus a twenty dollar box of chocolates. Way to make me feel awesome! Woo. She also for her birthday, got numerous presents. I remember tuning her out as she started listening them for a few minutes over the phone.
So.. Anyways.. We left my sisters house not more than ten minutes before her in-laws showed up. Which is a good thing we left because my dad has effectively alienated us from them. He couldn’t wait until after Christmas, Nope. Definitely not. He had to interrupt a fight my sister and her husband were having about jobs(he is still a jobless shmo), and call him a loser and so on and so forth. So my sister asked us if we could make sure we were gone before her new relatives came over because they were very mad at my dad, and in turn....me as well.
I mean.. I’ve never gotten along with her husband. But he and I have a mutual agreement to be nice to each other when in the same room. It’s called being a grown up. Though kids are essentially taught the same lesson. Play nice on the play ground. Seriously people not that hard.
So after breakfast and presents at my sisters house we drove out to Millet again for four hours until we turned around and drove back into the city to go to a buffet for dinner. What I can’t understand is the people who sat behind us. Why would you pay twenty five dollars a person, have one plate of food and leave? It’s a BUFFET, you’re supposed to eat lots. Specially since the one plate they had, didn’t even have dessert on it. Sheesh. It was crowded in there but the food was actually decently good. They had turkey and crab legs, perogies and pizza. For dessert there was the normal, banana cream pie and apple crisp. There was also a chocolate fountain. All in all a satisfying meal, to bad the pop was $2.90 and I didn’t even want a refill of it.
This morning I got up to go to work. Surprise, Surprise.. I’m still sick. I think I’ll have to suck it up and go to a doctor on Monday because that’s when I next have a day off. But I’ve been sick for over a week now and Theodore just won’t leave me alone. So.. Work looked like it promised to be busy when I got a text message at eight thirty telling me that the mall was full of line ups. Notebly not a single one of those lines was for our store. Why? Because our sale theme absolutely sucked much. Up to 70% off. Wooo.. If only that seventy percent was actually on more things rather than a few items here or there. Or better yet, it would have been nice if it was take an extra off, so all the little deal seeking people(who live up to unfortunate stereotypes) would stop asking me how much extra they got off things.
Certain people in the work place were as useless as always. I was zoned behind the cash desk.. So why is someone who is supposed to be half way across the store, always standing behind it. Worst off yet is I can’t complain because she’s a member of management and if I were to complain I’m pretty sure I’d get written up. One of the associates today is probably going to get written up for her actions. I can understand she had a disappointing Christmas. I mean her father ditched her for no reason other than to get drunk. That sucks. But when working with lots of people you just have to push that behind you and worry about it later. I managed to smile and crack jokes all though Theodore was insistent that I barely be able to talk and his buddy aka a Sinus Infection decidedly prevented me from breathing properly and my hearing impaired.
Certain members of management were also just as stupid as always. I know you are ‘above’ me because that is your title, but I’ve been here two years longer. If you’d just bothered to listen to me maybe you wouldn’t have had to call the technical support clue for making your mistakes that you did. Also.. Why did you have to go and touch the payroll? All you had to do was make sure we were all clocked out before submitting it. But no.. you assumed I had made a mistake and completely undid the hour of work I had done on Christmas Eve so we wouldn’t have to do it today. Completely undid it! I’m sorry.. Could you not NOTICE that all you had to do was fix one violation instead of playing with other random little things and making more work for me because you didn’t know how to fix your mess up?
Also, you were the reason I had to call the tech support a third time with in a half hour period. Why? Because last week you messed up payroll again by not submitting it. There’s a million reminders and it’s the only thing you have to do on a Saturday night. It wasn’t even busy and we all know you break the rules and close the one register early, so what was the issue really. But it just made more of a mess of things. Grr. /workrant.
On a positive note, when I got home tonight, one of my roommates had cooked me up a fabulous turkey dinner and gave me an awesome present. It helped me relax a lot though I still wish I wasn’t so tired that I can barely stand to be alive. I just have to keep reminding myself that things are a lot better this year and have potential to just get better.
Gods, I'm selfish.