Thank God for Memorial Day!!!

I am so looking forward to this weekend, mostly because my job sucks. The upper management (well, basically just the General Manager) has been screwing me over with the schedule lately, and my enjoyment of working in that store is completely gone.

For the past five weeks, I have been given either a Friday or Saturday night closing shift. This wouldn't be so bad, except our store is open until MIDNIGHT on Fridays and Saturdays, so the closing shifts normally don't end until almost 12:30am. So when I was scheduled for this Friday, I politely went into the General Managers office and asked her nicely if there was any way I could not be scheduled for yet another Friday night. I had asked for Memorial Day weekend off so I could spend three uninterrupted days off with John, and she had granted my request without any fight. So I thought it was worth asking to not close.... She said NO. She told me that if I wanted the weekend off, I would have to close on Friday. So I dropped it.

The next day I go into work and she calls me into her office. I got super nervous, because anytime she calls me in to her office, she has nothing nice to say. So I sit down and she closes the door and tells me that she doesn't appreciate the fact that I am complaining about working Friday night. I appologized and said it was not my intention to complain, I just thought that weekend closings were to be rotated among all supervisors and we were taking turns on closing on weekends. (I only thought this to be true because I had not been asked to close on a Fri or Sat in nearly 6 months.) She told me this was not the case, and that everyone was required to close on a weekend night and this was just the way things go. (As a side note, she ONLY ever works 7am-4pm Monday through Friday) She told me that it appeared to her that I was not dedicated and I needed to reevaluate whether or not Borders is the right place for me and whether or not I want to do this job. I explained to her that closing on weekends are hard for me because I have a husband who I never get to spend any time with, and she said told me that maybe I should get an office job somewhere where I would be guaranteed weekends off.

I left her office in tears, not knowing what to do. I am the most senior supervisor in our store, and I am getting the worst schedule and the worst treatment.

So, that is why I am so looking forward to the weekend. I will be off for three days with my honey, and I can "reevaluate my future with the company." So if anyone knows of any leads for good jobs in LA, I could certainly use the help.

Apparently 4 years with the company means abso-freaking-lutely nothing.