Livejournal Thread 4: Can't kill what's already dead inside

[Kisai]

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[VeryCuddlyCornpone]

I want to stay home today

I miss having real weekends

[VeryCuddlyCornpone]

Help you guys I stayed up long past my bedtime and now


I'm tired

[Cope]

Well, you're doomed now.

[McDuffies]

Quick, someone put her to bed! sounds dirty

[VeryCuddlyCornpone]

My mom received one of those shitty forwarded "This is the downfall of society, people taking God out of our schools, blah blah" emails from my aunt, and even though she does not agree with the message of the email, and knows that I DEFINITELY do not agree with the message of the email, decided she ought to read it out loud to me.

I hate, hate, hate, hate, hate that shitty tripe, and now all it's done is it got me worked up and angry, because it's not like the email writer is right here with us and I can tell him/her where they can go shove their paranoid and outdated views.

I'm annoyed with how worked up this stupid email got me. It was so bad that I almost made a Facebook post about it, and i never EVER do religious/political rants on facebook. I had it all typed up, almost posted it, and then I realized that there is going to be those one or two people who want to argue over it, and I didn't feel like coming home from work today to have to deal with that and let it make me angry all over again.

I mean, damn. I'm not even an atheist and this shit pisses me off. I believe in God/a higher power, I just don't believe that God gives a shit about pretty much any of the things these email writers think he gives a shit about.

Plus, people acting like debauchery and teen pregnancy out of wedlock is a modern symptom of our downfall? Back in the 1700s, those pure and wholesome God-fearin' times, somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2 of all weddings involved a pregnant bride. It's not just a recent thing that kids have figured out a way to insert peg into hole, it's just recent that we've been trying to teach them safer ways to do it instead of just forbidding it and letting everyone deal with the consequences.

[VeryCuddlyCornpone]

It looks like I'm turning this thread into my own personal LJ

eh

EH???



Anyway so

Today I quit my job. It was getting to where every day I would wake up mad, be mad all day, come home and be mad that I had to get up the next day and do it again. Mad at every customer coming in, mad at everyone looking to make an appointment, just angry all the time.
I was tired of being mad, tired of never knowing what my hours or workdays would be on a week to week basis, tired of the job monopolizing my dreams at night.

I made some wonderful friends there and loved all my coworkers. That's why I managed to last there as long as I did. But even that wasn't enough to make it worth staying longer.

I thought quitting would bring to me a sense of great relief. I had a bottle of wine I bought a few days ago in preparation for this night. But I don't feel like celebrating. I kind of just feel really bummed that it ended htis way. I was really excited when I got this job. I'm glad I didn't leave on bad terms, but sad that I had to leave at all.

[MariaAndMichelle]

Ugh, that's the same way we feel about our jobs. We're both working crappy retail positions at Barnes & Noble, and all of our co-workers are FANTASTIC... but all of our customers SUCK, especially the regulars. Our manager has become a really close friend of ours, and she's being really great about letting Maria take time off to care for Michelle, so her schedule is pretty set at the moment (Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings). But normally, we never know from week to week what days we'll be working, or what hours, and our schedules often are opposite of each other, so we get screwed out of seeing each other a lot. We were just starting to look for new jobs when Michelle got sick again. And now having health insurance is super-important, so we can't even quit before we find something else.

[VeryCuddlyCornpone]

Ugh, that's the same way we feel about our jobs. We're both working crappy retail positions at Barnes & Noble, and all of our co-workers are FANTASTIC... but all of our customers SUCK, especially the regulars. Our manager has become a really close friend of ours, and she's being really great about letting Maria take time off to care for Michelle, so her schedule is pretty set at the moment (Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings). But normally, we never know from week to week what days we'll be working, or what hours, and our schedules often are opposite of each other, so we get screwed out of seeing each other a lot. We were just starting to look for new jobs when Michelle got sick again. And now having health insurance is super-important, so we can't even quit before we find something else.

That suuuucks! My friend from work really wants to quit but needs to get another job lined up first because she has debts she needs to pay and car repairs she needs to get. I mean, everybody talks about wanting to quit but I'm not sure how much of it is just regular bitching and how much of it is actually being like "No I really do not wish to work at this place anymroe and the benefits no longer outweigh the negatives."

The crazy hours I think was the worst part for me because it made it impossible to schedule anything- appointments, going to a party, even running errands. I would often have two days off a week, but they wouldn't be consecutive, so I'd have that one day off to relax and recover but never get a second day to actually accomplish tasks.

[MariaAndMichelle]

The crazy hours I think was the worst part for me because it made it impossible to schedule anything- appointments, going to a party, even running errands. I would often have two days off a week, but they wouldn't be consecutive, so I'd have that one day off to relax and recover but never get a second day to actually accomplish tasks.

Ugh! It makes you crazy, doesn't it?? People are like, "We should go and do __________ on Tuesday! " and we're always like, "Uhhh... we don't know if either of us will be free. " And the never-two-consecutive-days thing is a killer.

And now having health insurance is super-important, so we can't even quit before we find something else.

This being in addition to ALL OF OUR MONEY being gone (student loans and medical bills), so we couldn't even make it even if Michelle was suddenly all better forever.

[Spaceprincess]

the last few months of my life have been an insane roller coaster ride. I had a surreal romance. which made me realize the real world ain't so bad but after years of being depressed and introverted my real world muscles are atrophied. kind of like the matrix but instead of a red pill it was someones tongue down my throat.