FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTBALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!

[snglesrvngfrend]

Last night I came home crying after a 16-hour workday with my ridiculously crazy boss. Want to quit, feel bad about it, not sure what I'm going to do. That's the extremely condensed version (I just deleted three paragraphs' worth of a more elaborate one. It was boring. You can thank me later).

Meanwhile, it's the season opener of the NFL tonight.

Comments

[forsweatervests]

Wait, I actually kind of want to hear about the job fiasco. Can I? If it makes you feel any better, I've been working 14-hour days this entire week. And it's probably not going to get any lighter.

[snglesrvngfrend]

That doesn't make me feel better--it makes me feel terrible for you! Do you have some crazy deadline or something? It sounds unbelievably lame

[forsweatervests]

Nooo, I'm a public school teacher who is a) in her first year, b) without a curriculum and c) without materials (worksheets, quizzes, tests, etc). I also stay after to tutor kids, so I'm up at 6 am, in school by 6:45 and I leave around 7 or 8. I left at 5 today! It was fantastic! So, okay, maybe I do have a crazy deadline. I just have it every day. (My school also frequently forgets to tell me important information, like progress reports are given every Thursday and I have meetings on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and so on and so on

[snglesrvngfrend]

Ah. School-teaching. Ech.

That's good advice, my boyfriend actually 100% agrees with you, except he says "look for a job, take the raise you've been promised, keep looking for a job, and when you find another job, QUIT. Who gives a shit what she thinks? IT'S JUST A JOB."

I think one of the big problems that I'm having is that she really is a good person. She's very human, and if I had to quit because something better came up/I was genuinely unhappy/I got into school, she would have no problem at all. It's because she's so fundamentally decent (I just happen not to like her or her extreme bible-thumping ways) that I'm having such a hard time putting her in a bad position regarding my replacement.

It's a shitty situation and I'm still struggling with a solution. The most common thing I'm hearing is exactly what you're saying, and at the core I agree. But it's easier said than done.

[nightanddaze]

Aw, girl! Dish about the job, the bad and the good (kitties!).

[snglesrvngfrend]

There were lots of kitties at our shoot! Big Maine Coons, a little Cornish Rex (so pretty! I want one!), a few Persians, and a couple American Shorthairs. One of the American Shorthairs was the #4 cat in the country (these were all show cats, except a couple of the Coons). There were even three kittens: a Coon, a Persian, and a Shorthair (the Shorthair was actually the cutest, but also mostly because he was the smallest/youngest. Tiny little tabby baby named Cubby. SO ADORABLE.)

Job. Ugh. See above reply, and also accept an additional UGH. Stupid job.

[faunaana]

FOOTBALL! \O/

[snglesrvngfrend]

OMG I KNOW! It's my favorite time of year :]