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Archive for July, 2008

resignation letter

Dear Katrina,
I am writing to tell you that I am giving you my two weeks notice.  I wanted to put words to paper as opposed to telling you in person because my level of frustration makes me feel like I can’t communicate what I’d like to say properly.

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lackadaisical

I’ve found myself resorting to methods of controlling myself at work that I’ve never had to use before.  Deep breathing, surrounding myself with “good” energy, focusing on something calming, or envisioning how happy I’ll feel once I’ve left the building.
This, in my opinion, is a bad sign.  Of course no one has to like their [...]

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Looong night…

“Do you have diet ginger ale?” the woman asks me, peering over her menu, opened to our drink selections.
“No ma’am, I’m afraid we don’t.”
“Well, I’ll have diet mountain dew.”
“No problem ma’am.”
Same table, 5 minutes later…
“This mountain dew doesn’t taste right.  I’ll have a diet pepsi instead.”
“Of course it doesn’t taste right.  It’s diet mountain dew.  [...]

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dinner on the 4th

Boyfriend and I actually had the night off for the 4th of July, which is a rareity in the restaurant biz.  So naturally we slept in, lazed around, and then decided to go out to dinner, since we had no particular plans.  Neither of us has ever really cared one way or the other about [...]

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This will be a short post, but I’m overdue.
My head is killing me.  I’m prone to migraine like headaches thanks to a small sinus cavity and today is a big one.  The only medicine that helps I’m developing a pretty solid immunity to.  It sucks.  When I have a headache like this, it’s hard to [...]

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Well, I survived another shift at Hell, as I’m fittingly naming my new place of employ.  Another damn day shift.  More management miscommunications, both with each other and with the staff; more asinine ego trips from some of the Big Dogs at work; and yet again, not much money made for the amount of running [...]

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