caithream | (no subject)

I honestly can't with Starbucks right now. I mean, more than usual. I'm completely burned out. I'm sick of certain coworkers (new ones! not even the horrible old ones that left!), I'm sick of customers, and I'm sick of being treated like a coffee robot. It's incredibly tiring working at a place where, regardless if someone is sick and can't come in, regardless if you're working with the lazy coworker, regardless if it's super busy, you have a set list of things that have to be done. Have to. And usually it's me and probably 2 other people who pick up the slack and make sure things get done. With the crap I have to put up with, and still making waaaay under 20k a year? It's embarrassing.

There are some things about Starbucks that I do like. Obviously, or I wouldn't still be working with the company almost 5 years later. But for some reason, working at this store more than any of the others I've worked at, it's draining. I can't stand a good handful of coworkers. And when work falls on EVERYONE to accomplish, and when it doesn't get done? It sucks. It sucks a lot.

(Don't even get me started on this new hire that worked with the company a few years ago. She's thick as a fucking brick and generally lazy, constantly complaining, and useless. We found out a week after she started that she was apparently over 3 months pregnant with twins [lololol working at Starbucks on your feet running around lifting heavy things while you're pregnant WITH TWINS HAHAHA NO], and then last Monday she complained to me about stomach pains and that she was spotting, and so I told her to call her doctor. She leaves to go to the OB/GYN and then calls an hour later with a, "Yeaaah, I lost one of the babies," barely sounding upset at all. BY THE WAY DID I MENTION that she's apparently had two previous miscarriages and smokes cigarettes and drinks a shit ton of coffee, but then refuses to use bleach to clean things because it'll "hurt the baby"? JUST. NO. NO.)

Also I gave my mom the ultimatum that, if we finish up all the renovating and put up a For Sale sign by January/February? Then I'll stick around to help them move up to Georgia. Any longer than that, and I can't make any promises. I want out of Florida so bad it's driving me insane. My sister put up pictures on facebook of her and her friends going to an apple orchard and doing a corn maze somewhere in rural Indiana and I'm like, jfc take me there. It still feels like the dead of summer here. By the way, NYC. By hopefully no later than March of next year. I hope I hope I hope. Fingers crossed.

At least Wincon is close! So very super excited. Take me away, fandom shenanigans.