Work, XMAS, Life, etc.
My co-workers have been telling me their hours are being cut at Walmart. I was surprised since it IS the HOLIDAY season! Well, after Christmas, they will be cutting mine to 8 hours a week. I wonder if it is worth it? I will stick around because soon summer will be here and I will need a summer job. What do you think? I do enjoy it; I am a people person. If you don’t like people, Walmart is NOT the place for you to work. People can be rude sometimes…sometimes MORE than sometimes.
I picked up a half day sub assignment today. I am up early to do some more baking. Everyone loves a late Christmas box of munchies. I am doing the scoop and drop cookies right out of a cookie dough tub. Don’t laugh! People ask for the recipe all the time. So far, I have made white chocolate macadamia nut. I have some ginger molasses cooking in the oven now. However, I did make from scratch some seven layer dream bites and mini pecan pie tassies. Not to mention that I have some cookie dough tubs of sugar cookies, chocolate chunk, and oatmeal cranberry still in the freezer!
On a better note, I have mailed my presents out to my daughter in S. Korea and she already received them. Her twin sister will be in Minnesota for XMAS, and I hope to get her package in the mail today or tomorrow. My son and his family live up the road, so I will be delivering their packages on XMAS Eve when we have dinner together. My son Jake is in my heart so he knows I never forget him. I wonder what a 21 year old would want for XMAS? Jake would have been 21 this past May…sigh.
Oh! My mom received her present last week. My brothers will get baked goodies and/or gift certificates to the Waffle House…it is a Southern thing…you have to be there to "get it"…lol.
I have a few XMAS cards to put in the mail, too. I don’t mail stacks of cards out. I mail one out when I receive one. I am not cheap…just practical. I have received 5 already. I think people just call and email these days to wish their friends a "Merry Christmas"….
I still need to put together at least one "blessing bag" to give to a homeless person. Money is so tight at the moment. I am so "broke" I make Humpty Dumpty look "chipped". I do manage to get the day to day expenses met and keep hoping for a full-time job. Maybe Santa will bring me one. "All I want for Christmas…..is a full time job…"
Have a GREAT week! Next week will be here in the blink of an eye!
If it’s so you can still have a job during summer, I’d keep it, never know when you may get more hours!!! Merry Christmas!!! Hugs
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I was wondering if Walmart is laying off as retribution for the demonstrations last month?
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Merry Christmas. And Walmart has asked some in the distribution centers to take voluntary leaves of absence. They do this every year. So this is nothing new.
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I wish you had a full time teaching job, here. You’d be well off. I will say some prayers that you find one.
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It’s sad that a company that pulls in that kind of profits thinks so little of the employees who make that possible for them. Very shabby. People hate unions because corporations like this have villified them but if there was a union there, this wouldn’t happen. Since it’s only 8 hours, I’d keep it around as a just in case job. That is, unless they are expecting you to work four two-hourdays, though. I mean, working one 8 hour shift or two 4 hour shifts wouldn’t be that bad but if I had to go in for less than 4 hours, I’d say it wasn’t worth keeping.
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I totally hear you my birthday buddy. Nothing around here either. Who knows where the jobs are? Japan, China, Mexico? Any snow your way? 14″ here. I’m heading to Joy’s on Christmas if my car decides to make it this year. Nothing special, just hanging with the kids at their house. What do 13 yr. old boys want? Isaac said: nothing. Just come over Nana. I have a feeling Jake would be the same.
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That’s normal for hours to be cut back after the Christmas rush. But keeping the job may bring back more hours throughout the year. RYN: My profile picture I found at some website. I didn’t make it, but if I were to make my own that would be exactly how I’d like it. Thanks. ; ) Hope you get a late Christmas present of that full time job. And Jake is only a heartbeat away. ; )
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RYN: Well, isn’t that what everyone likes to do? Most people anyway. ; )
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