Don’t get me wrong. I love working at Sephora. But there are two things that annoy me:
1) I’m getting super bored at cashwrap. They were training us towards the end of January and it seems they just lost it. So who knows what’s going on (the other seasonal-now-permanent employees noticed the same thing, so it’s not just me)
2) I nearly killed myself driving to work when the highways had not been touched from a large amount of snow a week ago. I was supposed to work 1-5 and have on call hours from 5-7 but they sent me home after 2 hours. Today I was supposed to work 11-6 and on call until 8. They literally sent me home at 3:10, after I’d already taken a 30 minute unpaid break. That makes me pissed off. Not only did I just lose about 3, possibly 5 hours, but I also got a break I didn’t need (I wouldn’t have gotten a break for 4 hours of work).
It all has to do with how busy we are. Sephora was closed because of the snowstorm on Saturday so I know that probably was a huge loss, and today we weren’t that busy. But really, I get that they may not keep on call hours but not even being able to finish your actual given shift ? I already lost hours last week and this week isn’t looking any better. I HATE the back-and-forth with hours. I hate it. I probably only ended up with 15 hours last week when I could have had as many as 24.
I really don’t want a second job. I can barely keep up with one, I think I would go crazy with two, especially since the hours would be all over the place and I would annoy both employers with availability. I didn’t need full time hours at Sephora but I really wish they could keep me at a minimum of 18 per week, preferably 25.
Yes, yes, 15 hours a week is better than 4, like in December. But I still don’t know what it’s like to even just make enough to pay the bills and have a few dollars left over. And Cori lost hours on Saturday because of the storm, which is a big chunk of his pay since he works 8 hours on Saturday and only 5.5 on Sunday.
Amanda told me that the front desk position at her mom’s job is open and probably pays around $35-40k a year. I can’t even imagine making that much. I can’t even imagine making half that ! But I can’t deal with a daily commute from Cincinnati to Dayton. I can’t. I don’t want to add 500+ miles to my car every week just because of work, and I know some people do it (even our assistant manager at Sephora does it) but a big reason for me moving from DC to here was so I WOULDN’T have to spend an hour each way in my car getting to work. Granted I would be going 52 miles one-way and not 12, but still. I probably still should’ve applied. I probably wouldn’t have been interviewed, anyway.
We would even be okay at $20,000 a year I think. And of course things would be better but Cori’s time is mostly taken up by school and his unpaid internship, so he can’t work much. As it is, I would’ve loved for him not to work.
I don’t know what to do. I’m young and shouldn’t be picky, but I have a seriously hard time dealing with stress and anxiety, so much so that I’m going to therapy for it (finally). I just break down and can’t handle it. I almost killed myself while I was working at Benetton, and I freak the hell out in new situations. I can’t even believe I was once a supervisor… I probably could be a manager, but I couldn’t deal with the stress. We were closed on Saturday but Rachel (manager) still had to go in for a couple hours. She is working until 5 today and then comes back at 1AM until 10AM… as in… 7 hours from now (it’s 6 PM). And she’s doing it 3 nights in a row. She comes in on her days off for an hour. I can’t do that. I like to leave work at work and not deal with odd hours. The 9PM-2AM is the closest to “weird hours” I will do. My sleeping is f***ed up enough without having to deal with overnights. I get sick when my schedule changes too much; I start puking or having migraines.
And like I said, I just can’t handle stress. Some people are chill, and can handle just about anything thrown their way. Not me. I flip out. Sometimes I’m decent at hiding it, but then I go home and scream in pillows and can’t sleep and cry and cry. I can deal with criticism but not very well. Only just, I suppose. It’s bad enough when, like today, it’s slow at Sephora and I wander to the areas around the registers and start stocking or straightening up, looking over at the registers every 10 seconds to make sure someone isn’t waiting to be checked out, then all of a sudden some random person appears out of freaking nowhere and a manager needs to say “Rachel, can you ring her up ?” It’s never mean, but when that happens I always wonder if they think I’m not paying attention, or perhaps not as good at paying attention as I said in my interviews. But I get so BORED at the registers, I NEED to do things like stocking and cleaning. If I just stand up there, someone is going to think I’m lazy. But if I’m near the registers doing something else and a customer walks up out of nowhere and I’m not ON TOP of that, then I feel like I shouldn’t be doing anything but lazily hanging out up there.
No one would ever guess that I have a college degree. As a cashier at Sephora.
~Rachel
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