There has been entirely way too many things happening at once. Not only did we just go through a big move, starting new jobs (mine at least working at a new store), and trying to get back on track, but it feels like things just keep coming.
I got an offer for a promotion at work. Teisha, one of the full-time managers at my store just left to go to a seven-week store manager training and when she comes back, she’ll be what they call a manager-in-waiting. So although she will still be working there, they want someone to be prepared to take her place. This is a full-time position, sick leave, vacation time, and insurance. I still haven’t found out exactly how much more I’ll be making, but right now I’m making minimum wage, so I suppose any pay raise will be worth it. And I’ve never had a job that gives me benefits. I don’t know what I’ll do when I can actually make a doctor’s appointment.
I submitted my application and resume to the website and hopefully sometime this week, Tracy, our regional manager will call Kevin to let us know. I’m trying not to get my hopes too high though. I feel like every time I do, it gets ripped out from under me. Kevin seems to think it’s a done deal.
Only a few days after I got the offer, the auditor came by in the morning while I was working. Her and Kevin were in the office going over paperwork and when I called Kevin out to get me some change, she followed. I was completely baffled when she picked up my empty energy drink can and took it into the office. But I ignored it thinking that she probably didn’t want trash lying around the store or something. So a little while later, Kevin calls me in there when I’m going to break and they ask me if I have the receipt for it.
Now mind that although this energy drink is sold at our store, I brought it in my lunchbox and bought it at an entirely different place.
So when I told her that I didn’t have a receipt, that I was pretty sure I don’t have it, she proceeds to spend an hour and a half looking through the journals trying to find the transaction in which I bought this energy drink. After not finding anything, she calls HR and they tell her the only thing she can do is have me sign a form that basically states that I am suspended from work until I bring a receipt back. It also stated that I had 24 hours to do so.
After she left, Kevin said that he had never seen anything like this happen before and he had no idea what would happen if I didn’t bring a receipt back. He called Tracy and she seemed to think that it was so trivial that nothing would come of it, so Kevin went ahead and scheduled me to work today and so far, we have heard nothing from either the auditor or Tracy concerning this whole ordeal.
I couldn’t believe it! Not only was she willing to waste their time (and mine) on finding this god forsaken receipt, but she suspended me for a DOLLAR item. A DOLLAR! I would’ve given them ten just to drop the whole thing.
So I left work early because she had already clocked me out. So instead of trying to sleep that evening because I had to wake up and drive to my mom’s at three and make it to Leavenworth, Kansas by eight the next morning, I stayed up in a fury, not even being able to sit still.
The drive up to Leavenworth was nice though. Very peaceful, low traffic, and I had a great time talking with my mom. The only thing that went wrong was me leaving my I.D. at the house, so instead of going in with her and visiting Anthony, I had to sit in the car. (I slept for about four hours!)
A great nap and a wonderful chicken sandwich and I was headed back to the apartment.
I’m hoping this week is a little less intense. It has started off just fine, short five and a half hour day at work. Now I’m doing laundry and waiting until its time to wake Clay up. I love having down time….
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