I thought it was getting better *Edit*

Sent Criter a text a few minutes ago telling her I’d been trying to call all day but kept falling asleep, and would it be OK if I called later or did she have plans? I was actually just being polite at that point, I figured she’d want to talk since she called me on Monday night wanting to talk but I was at work.

She’s in Gatlinburg, TN.

Probably with OtherGuy.

That’s where people from around here go for short trips, usually romantic getaways. Usually for something significant.

If they weren’t before I’m pretty sure they are now, and I don’t know why it bothers me this much.

I’d have loved to take her places like that but the kids were in school, she was working nearly full-time and I was being over worked (as usual) because we were short.

I was going to take her and the kids to Helen, GA sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas last year. There’s a church just down the main road from the shopping area (within walking distance) that has a lovely outdoor Christmas thing on the weekends during that time. I also wanted to take B & K to the *actual* Cabbage Patch where the dolls come from.

Now work is calling me. I’m sure as hell not going in tonight, one of them is going to have to stay if goober called in.

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Nope, Mego didn’t call in or anything, but I did get the wonderful news that I have yet another freaking mandatory training session to attend next week. I’ve been told the facilitator will try to dismiss the overnight managers as early as possible, but with this particular guy that usually means about half an hour ahead of the normally scheduled end time.

DAMMIT!

If I didn’t need a job so badly I’d call them back and tell them to find someone else to run the store for them on overnights because I was mailing my crap in and not coming back. Bastards.

And I’m still upset about Critter, even thought I know I really have no right to be. You’d think I’d learn.

Earlier in the week I was asked if I was working Tuesday night, and I told the senior manager in question I normally did, but I was off this Tuesday. He asked why, and I told him it was because he took me off the wrong day when he took us back to four twelves from five tens, but I’d be in Friday instead and we could fix it next week if we were going to stay on four twelves. He said he’d fix it that day (I think it was Sunday). Well, he did. He put me on for Tuesday and didn’t take me off on Friday, putting me on five twelves this week. Mego told me I should have been scheduled that way because he was and it was only fair.

Horse pucky – he was scheduled five twelves this week because he only worked three twelves last week. Yeah, he took an extra day off, so he had to make up the time. And I found out, just now, while I was being scheduled for next week’s twenty-two hour day, that I’m not going to be getting Fridays back any time soon since "Fridays are really too busy for one manager to handle by themselves, and it wouldn’t be fair to leave him in the building alone." OK, then why was *I* (supposedly the weaker of the two overnight managers) scheduled alone this past Friday, Saturday, and Sunday? No one had any problems with that. And they’ll be leaving me alone on Saturdays and Sundays until further notice anyway, because Mego won’t work on Saturdays. Claims he made plans for the whole year’s worth of Saturdays back in February when he went to overnights. So his fifth day will be Monday. Yeah, that makes *SO* much business sense to have two managers there on Friday, Monday and Tuesday and for there to be only one manager there on the weekends. Go Team!

Bastards.