Okay so I'm not 100% positive it's allergies, at least not any more. I guess it could be a number of things, but I was thinking obvious. Only once have I ever had an allergic reaction and that was to Tide when I was little. Well over a year ago, I have no idea why but we switched back to it. I was a little nervous at first but everything seemed to go really well and no allergic reaction! Which makes me wonder if that's what this is, but Tuesday morning I woke up with a rash on my left thigh/hip area and by that night it was past the hip, moving down my leg and up my stomach. This morning it had grown some more and was on my left arm, behind my knee, and across my lower back. The worst area by far is where it originated. The only thing that seems to be helping it is Benadril cream, which stops the itch for an hour to two. Now I think it is on my right hip area too... It's like the energiser bunny! It just keeps going and going.
Unfortunately I was scheduled to work 8 hours today. I thought that I would just do it, but after my shower set it off and really showed where it was hiding, James convinced me it might not be a good idea. So I call the store, went up to Harris Teeter and bough some Cheer detergent for sensitive skin and some meds to set out on my task of washing everything that touches my skin. I figured it was at least a good place to start. Well, that would have been way to easy and life doesn't like it to be easy for Shannon, especially not right now it seems. I ended up having to go into work anyways because no one else would work for me. Sad isn't it, that you can't even call in sick to work. I mean it's not like I was too fond of my job to begin with, but that sure didn't help. (Don't go crazy on me Hallmark girls, you know I love YOU just not the job. Be honest with yourself, you don't care for it much either and would be working somewhere else if you had an option.)
Circumstances recently have really got me thinking about how unhappy I am working there. It is driving me insane. To start things off I am way too qualified and way too underpaid. Seriously, who pays their employees who have worked there 4+ years minimum wage. Oh yea, college degree and and over 4 years at the company and I'm still making minimum wage, and I'm not alone in that category. Not only that, I can't ever get hours that AREN'T on the weekend, oh I'm sorry yea I get Wednesday nights and weekends. So if I have anything planned for Saturday there goes most of my paycheck! Personally I don't think that's fair either. I better not dig any deeper into some of these areas, I might get myself in trouble. But today was just another thing to add to my list. Oh sure it wasn't the girls' fault who couldn't find me a replacement, goodness knows they tried. However, what would have happened if I wasn't a nice person who put aside her discomfort and said "No I'm not coming"? Not to mention I'm not positive it is an allergic reaction, what if it is something contagious? I'm not going to dig too deep, because I might say something to offend people, but personally I though it was irresponsible of the management to let this happen. Sorry, but that's part of the job description. When people call in sick and no one can work, guess who gets stuck doing it? It sucks, but that's not the sick person's or the other workers' fault that they can't work. That's just how it is sometimes.
So needless to say my night at work was horrible. It was four hours of complete discomfort. Oh sure there where times that it wasn't THAT bad, but that was right after I slopped cream all over the areas, which I need to do again now that I mention it. So that was my horrible day. Not how I was planning on spending it by any means. However, it made me even more adamant about finding a REAL job. Speaking of which I got a call for an interview today, the only thing good that happened. It's not what I want to do forever, but it's better than minimum wage, not enough hours, and unable to call in sick. I will keep you posted on that and my recovery process which needs to start before my mom makes me go to the doctor. (She has given me 24 more hours.)
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Fire Skin
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Shannon, you should have spoken up and said no please I don't want to work. But you said if Lori couldn't you would. I am tired of being called and asked to fix the schedule when I am not the boss. I am a sales associate too. I work 25-30 hours a week, AND go to school 40+ hours a week AND a household to take care of. I have $800 of my OWN bills to pay per month. I am very sorry about last night but you should have talked to Ellen and told her NO I can't. She would have worked no matter what. I was supposed to be off yesteray and already made plans but I came in to help put stuff out anyways. I deserve a day off from everything. I did more than I was asked and changed my whole day around. I am sorry I could not work for you and I am sorry I couldn't find anyone to work. It is not in my job description to do fix everybody's schedule when they can't come in. You really hurt my feelings. I am in a similar boat as you. I have way to much stress on my own. I work, A LOT, I don't have the luxury to just go to school and only work 2 or 3 days a week. I have to, to make ends meet. I think I do a lot for everyone at the store and I don't think anyone appreciates it, at all. It makes me want to walk in right now and quit.
Totally not what I meant Beth... I know Ellen takes advantage of you way too much. All of us really. We had this discussion the other day remember? I'm not blaming you AT ALL, it's not your problem to fix. If you were the asst manager or manager it would have been, I just think Ellen is way too comfortable in how easily the store works sometimes because of people like YOU who step up and do HER job when she doesn't feel like doing it. Maybe she needs an asst manager if she doesn't feel like doing her job... Of course you know my solution to the whole problem, we talked about it the other day. And remember, any time you need a day off I'm always here to help. Sorry if I offended you, I was not meaning you at all and was not expecting you to fill in for me since you were already scheduled to come in. Maybe next time someone Ellen or any of us have a problem you don't feel like fixing, just tell us to fix it ourselves. We are all grown adults and can do that. We don't need you to do it all for us, but we do appreciate it.
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