Mundane in Current Events

I actually got enough sleep last night. Feels like forever since I felt rested. October wasn’t forever ago, was it? I had my first payday in almost a year. Things feel somewhat stable now. My work weeks are only three shifts big so my budget is extremely tight. I encountered a first-world problem this morning. I downloaded an app on my phone that had a free trial last week. I deleted the app because I don’t want to pay for it. The damn thing auto-installed on my iPad and I didn’t notice until it tried to bill me to a maxed-out credit card. Anyway, I have to be that new guy who begs for more shifts. My supervisor sent me a text asking me if I wanted to pick up hours on Monday. That’s when my dumbass realized that I left work the other day without checking on my shifts. There is an app for that so when I looked I thought it was going to bump me up to a four-day workweek but it only bumped me up to three. In two weeks I only have a two-day workweek. I’ll let Melfunction, my supervisor, know that I am open to acquiring more shifts. Tally said I’ll probably end up working full-time because I’m catching on very quickly and everybody likes me more than the women I’m replacing. I know I’m still just there training and I’m a burden so once she deems me useful enough I can be there whenever. I was going to wait until my probation is over and we have that sitdown about how my performance is. Definitely couldn’t hurt to jump on that. She just texted me that she is glad that I can pick up that shift on Monday. I got a good feeling.

On Tuesday, she casually brought it up to me briefly how I’m able to be cross-trained around the store to get more hours that way, she said she was hiring another part-time and somebody full-time. I’m under contract, I’m filling in for somebody on maternity leave so I don’t know if I’m allowed to ask if I can apply for that full-time position or just fill in that other part-time one. I’m thinking that Melfunction doesn’t want to see me go? So that’s why she brought it up? If that conversation wasn’t at 6 am I probably would have caught on to that sooner and offered myself up. Bev said she will kill me if I ever get hired for a full-time position before her. She’s been trying for a couple of years now. Her availability is a bit of a problem because of her kids. Mine is wide open. I’ll see what happens. Melfunction is super nice, she bends over backwards for her team and if I overheard her correctly when she was talking about me she really wants to keep me. I did update my resume immediately when I got hired though. Just because that felt like a good idea.

Blah, I actually fell short of paying my bills this week. I’ll live though. I’ll be falling short next week also. I will have to do something about it. There are people with far worse problems right now so I am counting my blessings. Today I got paid. Work is going well, I think. I am rested today. The weather is going to be gorgeous. I need to get some groceries, run an errand or two and for the love of me I need to get a pair of jeans for work. All my clothes are skin tight, I need something I can breathe in at work. Man, I was hoping to be able to afford a haircut sometime soon. Oh well. It’s going to be nice out, I’ll spend the day outdoors and listen to Jordan Peterson’s Beyond Order on Audible.

Anyway, I should get on with my day now. Finally back to some mundane entries. I have been ignoring my comments, I’m backed up over a hundred. I’m self-aware enough to know that my opinions are not palatable. I’m a product of my time and I’m just trying to make sense of this world and I’m just not in the mood for the triggered snowflakes, yet.

Last updated March 12, 2021