The Striken Strikes Me


I’ve never liked having to ask for things. Asking someone to do something differently, to chane something just for me, has never been a comfortable situation. I would rather just go with the flow, try and work with what happens. That means I pick the onions out of my own hamburgers instead of getting it “my way”, I turn in papers a day late and hope it goes well, and am entirely too scared of management to ask for days off. I already know that I want/need/would really like to have the two days after thanksgiving off, and was hoping to summon the courage to skip out of some part of this weekend as well.

Unfortunately my day off is Wednesday, so I really only had today to ask into getting time off. And it would require revamping a bit of the schedule. And the mumbly manager is a bit annoyed with me(I think, it’s hard to tell. I will elaborate) and I can’t talk to the moody manager because his moodiness is rather frightening.(on this too, elaboration will come)

I am trying to think of a way to solve this all, but the conclusion that I’ve mainly been coming to is that (A) as a temp I can’t ask too much because I could be out of a paycheck if I get greedy. (B) It’s pretty late to ask(mostly my fault thru miscommunication) (C)My parents just gave me an Anti-pep talk which I have entitled “101 reasons that reasons (A) and (B) are right” and finally, (D) This “temporary” situation is starting to get awfully long and is but inflexible and edgy and ruining my “me” time.

Work is a stupid idea. No matter how good the money.

-- G 'Bye, Sonya --

. ( 19.11.03 ) .