OK, so my new job is kind of pissing me off.
They called me last Friday, shortly after I had turned in my application, and say they are interested in hiring me. They ask me if I can come in that weekend, and I say, sure, I can probably do that. Then they say, can you come in tonight? I say ummmm....(cause I think I was going over to Paul's shortly) I guess so..., thinking they just want to interview me more or something. They say, good, be here in half an hour.
Oh, turns out they want me to work.
Well, ok, I get trained in and work for a few hours, and then I am ready to go and the owner says, Well, see you tomorrow, same time! I say, huh? And it turns out I am working the shift on Saturday night too, although I already had plans. Well, ok, they want to see how I work alone (not shadowing someone). So I do it, cause I don't want to complain my first day on the job. Although I am disappointed to miss out on my Saturday night plans. Wasn't bad though cause I got lots of tips since pretty much the entire International Film Festival came and ate there.

So the night ends on Saturday and I am getting ready to leave, and the owner says, so, we'll see you on Monday night. Now I am thinking, alright, I said I was flexible, but I didn't mean I have no life!! So I tell him I can work that shift but what is my permanent schedule going to be, etc, and he says his wife is the one that handles all that.

Ok, so Monday evening I am about to start walking over to the restaurant at 5:30 (for my 6 pm shift) when I get a phone call. They don't actually want me to work anymore that night, they just want me to be "on call." Screw that. I went and finished my paper instead, un-contactable in the cartography lab at Macalester. The owner('s wife) told me that she is going to call me on Tuesday to tell me what time she wants me to come in to work. ("You want me to work tomorrow?") I say to myself that I'm going to give her until 5 (pretty generous on my part) and if she doesn't call me by then, I'm not going in. 5:35 rolls around, and guess who's on the phone. My sister actually answers it and pretends I'm not there, so I don't call them back until around 6:15, when I tell them that I can't get in for at least an hour, because of the bus strike and all. She goes back and forth with me for a little bit but finally says that it's alright for that night, but...then I tell her that she really needs to give me more advance notice cause I'm not going to be able to come in within barely any notice, since I have no reliable transportation without the buses.

So then tonight. I had to meet with the dogsitting people at 6:00 and of course, I got a phone call from the restaurant at 5:30. I tell them no, I can't come in, I have a "meeting." "When's your meeting?" "6." "Well, when will it be over?" "7" (I made that one up) "Well, can't you come in at 7?" I finally say I guess so, but I make sure I sound really reluctant. So finally he said he'd call one other person and see if they could come, and luckily they could. But then he says, "But you'll need to come in Thursday Friday and Saturday nights."

J-C!!!!!

I'd better be making good money this weekend. And they'd g-d better give me a permanent schedule soon. They say they are training 2 other people for this spot, why aren't they getting called in every night?!

I wouldn't mind so much if I had been working there a long time and felt comfortable saying no or knowing who else was available, but I just feel like I can't say anything cause I'm new. Also, when I said I was flexible I didn't mean it like "i'm so flexible I'll bend over backward so you can walk all over me!!"

therein ends my rant.
i just got a big sloppy random kiss from the baby, so i guess that makes things better.
bedtime.