bleeeeeeerg...

[roxy]

work. have I told you how much I hate work? *sigh* why why why was I born to be a spoiled rotten princess?

It's horrible, the rest of the fam has this puritan-german work ethic--it's scary. BG has had a job since she was 14, can you believe it? she hounded the local pizza place into hiring her under the table--(what? it's New Jersey--it's tradition). Mr. Roxy has worked since he was knee high to a grasshopper. And me? I got my first job at 16--and my next job at 21. It was sadly downhill from there, except for a brief period in time after BG was born and I got to be a stay at home mom. More on that another day (oy!)....

I asked for a transfer to the new Targe-hell they are building not far from the Rose Castle. I have to wait until January to find out what's what. If I last that long. Target is a weird place to work for. It *is* like working for family though. A huge dysfunctional family, with a repressive and over controlling distant father who makes up arbitrary rules and and only tells half the family about them and punishes the half that doesn't know what they are...*gasp* why, it's just like coming home everyday I go to work!

Kidding! pretty much

Goodness! Is that the time? Must dash! See you in your lj :)

Comments

[jennifus.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain. Pizza Hut is the same damned way.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Work is the devil!

[bluemeridian]

What is it with these people?! My boss thinks I need another mother. I just want to scream "I have two, damnit! I don't need another one!!"

So, yeah, those Dilbert cartoons? Frighteningly like reality.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

I swear--I just want to scream sometimes. fortunately being a low-wage retail slave, I can!

hey!

[ender24]

..german work ethic..

I have a German working ethic, thanks *bg* , go on like this, and I will not working on the very porny clex screensaver that i promised to make ;D

now, *off to abandon the work ethic, to read your fics, hehe*

Re: hey!

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

now, now--us Austrians are the same--we just like to part a little more frequently! *G*

Re: hey!

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

party--I meant party! lol!!

[tabaqui]

Duuude!!

Right there with you. I was born to loaf!
:)

*smooches you like a mad thing*

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

let us loaf together!
*loafloafloaf*

[kaydee23.livejournal.com]

I hope you get the transfer. :fingers crossed:

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

*huuuuug* Thanks, sweetie! I'll know after January but I think I already annoyed some folks by asking. Oh well!

[kaydee23.livejournal.com]

I worked at Target in college and later. When I was in college, I was the PBX operator, and I cashed pay checks on Fridays. That was so scary because I was upstairs in this little office at the back of the store where people came to get employee applications and watched me give butt loads of cash to employees on Friday, it was scary.

I told them I wanted security up there on Fridays and they sent different guys from Automotive to stay up there with me.

Later, it turned out, the Head of Automotive was stealing from Target and selling tires and shit out the side door. So that was the fucker who was protecting me and payroll each week. He and his band of thieves.

Later, I worked at Target back in the early 90s. It was a second job. Friday, night, all day Saturday and Sunday. I was the PBX operator. This time I was in the women's dressing room. I was supposed to answer the phone on the 3rd ring, keep the maternity area straightened, the men's area straightened, hang back up all the dressing room discards, keep the dressing room cleared, rewrap packages, make announcements, vacuum the employee break room, and go to the customer service area and pick up returns.

And answer that *fuckin* phone on the third ring.

Target is nuts.

During the holidays, I'd show up at 5:30 to work until 9:30 as my schedule showed. Then, the store manager would show up at 9:25 while I was vacuuming the break room and tell me I needed to go to Health and Beauty next and help them straighten.

I'd tell the cow I was off the clock at 9:30, and she'd say, "And I say you're not. Go to Health and Beauty." So I'd go to Health and Beauty, go to domestics, go to housewares. Blah blah blah blah. And I'd end up finally clocking out at 12:30 or 1:30. Sometimes 2:30.

But, I didn't get a 15 minute break, lunch, nothing. Then, when I'd complain, they'd yell, and I needed that second job.

Then, HR would bitch at me for working nonscheduled hours.

Did you know that Target has been sued for not letting employees take their legally allowed 30 minutes every 6 hours?

They are some sorry MOFOs. You are right about calling them Tarhell.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they're fuckers all right. But you know what--I never ever could take that shit and I never did. And god knows why I get away with it, but I do. That would be the bloody fucking day that I didn't get my break--but you know what? They still do it. And bitch if you don't take breaks.

THey've strung me out pretty good and made me sweat losing my job, and that pisses me off. but retail is the devil no matter who you work for and some are way worse than others.
Plus, I'm a horrible example to the children, they can see what not pursuing your calling brings you--HELL! LOL!!!!!

Aren't you glad you're not me! ;)

[kaydee23.livejournal.com]

(((hugs)))you. I love you Roxy.

I let Target treat me like shit because I needed the money. Then, I got another part-time job to treat me like shit, so I told them to kiss my ass.

Right now, I'm a high school librarian.

Everyone else has to sign it at 8:20 and sign out at 4:10.

I have to sign in at 7:45 and sign out at 4:30, but I'm not getting paid extra. I'm suppsed to, supposedly, but I don't.

All teachers in Texas get a 30 minute uninterrupted lunch.

All teachers get 900 minutes of uniterrupted planning time too.

I get butkus.

I eat in the library in front of the kids. These bastard gangsters came in the library with their subways, drinks, and chips.

I told them the library was not the cafeteria, and they just kept arguing. I finally got them to leave.

Then, I went to the library kitchen to get my tiny lunch of cottage cheese and fruit and eat it.

I don't get a lunch, a break, or a planning period.

Those bastards ran back in the library and started yelling at me for being a hypocrite and eating there at the circulation desk.

I told them, "You're right. You have a cafeteria to go eat in, and I don't but you're right. I'll stop eating right now."

I put my lunch away.

And then I said, "Now get the hell out of my library!"

My job sucks too.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

*Hugs you so so hard and *LOVES LOVES you* Fuck those fucking bastards!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fuck them! You're so much fucking cooler than anyone, don't let them make you feel any less than what you are! *Love you!*

I wish I was half as brave as you.

[treetracer]

What part of NJ are you in? My company has a big presence in Mount Laurel, and they're very cool to work for.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Actually, a mere 15-20 minutes from of Mount Laurel can you believe it--lawks, I have no marketable skills. I should be ashamed.

[treetracer]

Darlin', if you can survive RETAIL, you have marketable skills. Most of it would be phone/computer work. Hmmm.