I like my job most of the time, but it kind of sucks lately.
I work at a grocery store, and I wasn't there when it happened, but the other day a guy came into my store with a weapon (not a gun, thankfully or it would of ended worst) and was threatening people and tried to go after one of my managers. Thankfully, they got him to leave the store, but the whole time this was going on, no one that wasn't in the immediate vicinity knew what was going on. So, this guy could of easily hurt somebody as he was leaving the store or that happened to come across it because it is a fairly big and busy store, and it is also a store that is supposed to have procedures in place in case something like that would happen so its definitely scary. The guy ultimately ended up hurting a police officer and he was fatally shot.
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The two main problems that I've been having at work aren't as serious in comparison, but they're still annoying. The first is with two people that work in my department, and their both married to other people, but they are having an affair with one another. They think that nobody knows about it, even though we all do because they're together all the time at work and flirt with each other constantly, and its creating tons of friction with everybody because the girl does do her job (and I don't have problems with her when he is not around), but the guy does nothing except text her on his cell phone (even in front of customers) if she is not there and try to pin his work off on other people which sucks when he is the only one there to help. They also take all their breaks together even if it means leaving someone to work alone when there are supposed to be at least 2 people there, and they go for longer then their allotted time. At least a few of the lower level managers at my store know about it too because my co-workers have complained, but they don't care (even though this guy got transferred to our store because of a similar situation with his current wife). They've been "watching" this guy since July about his cell phone use and long breaks, but they haven't done anything about it. The other day, someone heard them having sex in the cooler which is absolutely nasty. The most disgusting part is she is 24, he is 51 and looks older.
I'm definitely thinking of going to a higher level manager and discussing the situation if it continues to get worst because I'm tired of dealing with it.
The second is that I explained to them that I only want to work one day a week next semester, and the manager that did used to do my schedules was okay with it, but we just got a new manager who is supposed to take over our schedules. So, when I got my new schedule it has me working two days a week which wouldn't be a big deal, but I would like to have at least one day off a week (I've done the whole work everyday with no days off thing before, and it sucked). Plus, my data collection for research needs finished by the end of January and I'm really worried about having time to finish it because I can only catch birds during the daylight when I'm not class or work and have sufficient time to do the set up (plus I'm dependent on them actually coming), and I have my Penn interview so that knocks off a few possible days.
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my dad snores like a freight train.
