[NoJoMo] 3: two weeks

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I believe that I forgot to mention I put in my two weeks notice at Xando’s the other day. Now in doing this, I discovered that very few people aside from myself have any sort of respect for the two weeks notice. I knew this already, to an extent, from working at Redner’s but I had always attributed it to the fact that everyone I worked with was in high school. They were teenagers–kids really. And although I was just a teenager myself, I was somehow more mature than them.

But that’s not really entirely true is it? I’ve discovered, that most people see the two weeks notice as an official ticket to slack off. To call out when you’re not really sick, to show up late, to not show up at all. I try to explain to my friends that, no, I can’t go out tonight because I have to work. They don’t understand. “Didn’t you quit?” they ask. “come on, you’ve put in your two weeks, they expect you to slack off now. Just skip work! Even today, on a day that I’m REALLY feeling sick, and have skipped all of my classes, I can’t… i just can’t skip work. I went to my office job at 9am and came straight home at the time I normally would’ve gone to class. I’ve eaten lunch, and am planning on curling up in bed with a book, a cup of hot cocoa, and a bottle of nyquil for the rest of the afternoon. and then at 8pm, I will go to my other job. Even though I’m leaving in two weeks and apparently they expect me to slack off…

i just can’t do it.

whatever else may be said about my work ethic regarding classes and homework, I would have to be literally on my deathbed before calling out of work. That’s not to say that I haven’t called out before–I can remember a certain “family emergency” that amounted to my best friend’s 18th birthday party–but those instances are few and far between. The last time I called out of work was over a year ago, when I still worked for redner’s, but before I had become a CSR. I don’t know if it was being in a position of authority that really made me understand what it’s like to have to work short-handed when people call out for stupid reasons, but I very nearly actually have a mental block on calling out of work anymore.

And besides, it’s only two weeks.