Marcasite
February 17th, 2007, 08:37 PM
I had to call in on short notice this morning. I tried all night to sleep but couldn't. At 5am I realized that if I went to work my 7-1 shift I was going to do very poorly on my exam at 2. Everyone tells me it's important not to compromise my schoolwork for work so I stayed home and slept. The manager I spoke with said they'd have to write me up for calling in on short notice, and that's okay. I just worry I will get fired.
I've only been there a few weeks and I've had other problems. The way they do the tills, is that you get assigned to one and if it's short at the end of the shift, you get written up for it despite the fact that many other people use it and the managers skim it (take money out) throughout the shift. Anyways, my till was $20 short last shift and I don't know if they managed to locate it or not.
I'm really regretting my decision to call in, honestly, I'd rather do poorly on an exam and not worry about starving. Andrew and I are in terrible shape financially. We are in about $1000 debt on the credit card and only have another $2000 to the limit. We really need my paycheques to pay down the card and so we can pay the bills (andrew is working 30 hours a week while going to school). My cat also needs expensive dental surgery and we have to pay for Andrew's dentist work all at once as well because he forgot to pay the bill last month. If I were to get fired, I don't know what I'd do. It took me about a month to find this job and it would probably take a while to find another and all that time we'd be going further and further in the hole. We will be fine after he graduates, but that's 5 months away and we need the money to live in the meantime. I'm terrified.
If you could send me some job-keeping energy I'd appreciate it.
I've only been there a few weeks and I've had other problems. The way they do the tills, is that you get assigned to one and if it's short at the end of the shift, you get written up for it despite the fact that many other people use it and the managers skim it (take money out) throughout the shift. Anyways, my till was $20 short last shift and I don't know if they managed to locate it or not.
I'm really regretting my decision to call in, honestly, I'd rather do poorly on an exam and not worry about starving. Andrew and I are in terrible shape financially. We are in about $1000 debt on the credit card and only have another $2000 to the limit. We really need my paycheques to pay down the card and so we can pay the bills (andrew is working 30 hours a week while going to school). My cat also needs expensive dental surgery and we have to pay for Andrew's dentist work all at once as well because he forgot to pay the bill last month. If I were to get fired, I don't know what I'd do. It took me about a month to find this job and it would probably take a while to find another and all that time we'd be going further and further in the hole. We will be fine after he graduates, but that's 5 months away and we need the money to live in the meantime. I'm terrified.
If you could send me some job-keeping energy I'd appreciate it.