Today, I was starting to feel the burn of knowing I could be fired any minute. It started with my frustration when struggling inside the refrigerator. The issue is magnified by all the unsorted products that rarely found their way onto shelves or at the deli kiosk and often goes out of code. It feels like neglect, something I have no personal tolerance for. If something looks disheveled, then it better be out of trying to find a place for everything and striking out more often than a base hit.
More to the point, there is a lot of stuff to process–not just product, but the packaging. It’s hard to tell where everything should go and more keeps piling up. Now, this wouldn’t bother me, but it was the store’s general state coming in. I vowed to solve this weighty issue, but it hasn’t been easy. Maybe it is a coincidence, but after the assistant manager spoke about my approach, I skip a day and, just today, I noticed my hours were taken down by one day for next week and two more the subsequent week.
When I saw that, I felt as though my days were numbered. I thought it was settled. They didn’t like how I approached the problem. My heart froze. Selfsame day, I am asked to do a lot of stuff that I have not been asked to do before. Little things here and there. This included facing the candy bar before the registers, which finally got its new listing. Before I could start, someone asked that I take out the trash. Two co-workers begin working through the bar. Typically, I am at the register–weakest link.
The day goes by quick for one where I’m bent out of shape. However, the manager approaches me to buy a quintet of $10 scratch tickets. It is here where she lets slip a personal ambition of hers to start up a business alongside another co-worker–a fact that I had not heard before. I never considered the chance of her or anyone else at work having an entrepreneurial spirit. It was then I realized I was not alone and that losing a two or three days at work simply means I have some extra time for myself.
Myself and My Business.
Happy Lent, by the way.