The June Post

So, things tend to change really quickly in my life... as you've seen thus far. The update now, however is this:

I hate Trader Joe's. I knew that as a retail operation there would be some problems. But I'm having personal problems. I've been targeted at work. There is a full-timer (member of management) who told a part-timer (someone in my pay grade) that they disliked me. Not long after this grossly inappropriate gossip session, I find out that there have been some horrible discrepancies with my cash drawer. Horrible as in hundreds of dollars... and some in one day.

The way the cash flows in this particular store is that we are given a drawer that we are responsible for. They don't like us to count these drawers as it takes too much time. When we are working on the floor, or going to lunch, we hand off the drawer to a full-timer who puts it in an open closet in the office. They only people who have access to the drawer is then full-timers, but there can be up to 5 people in that office at the time, and it would be very easy to slip some cash out of a drawer while others are occupied or when that person is the only one in the office.

I'm still employed, but now I'm being very paranoid about the drawer, I'm counting it four times a shift and having the full-timers balance the drawer with me and sign off on it in my personal log. I'm also posting my resume EVERYWHERE. I'm not going to work in a place where I feel that uncomfortable. The few people I've talked about it with (TJ's employees) presented me with the same theory: Someone is out to get me. So much for being a better company then the Evil Empire... I NEVER had a problem like this with Wal Mart EVER.

In other news, I tried to move. I was going to move in with my boss from the convention. Unfortunately, though he promised me the room, his roommate also promised someone else the room, and the bills are all in her name. So I'm stuck living in this place that is completely horrible.

I should have seen the day I moved as a sign: For one, it's not a safe place. Three days before I moved in there was a shooting outside the house. Also, I was promised internet, but it only works in the half of the house that I DO NOT live in, so I have to buy a new laptop or only use the internet when I can get to a library... which is never... when was my last post??

Also the shared grocery budget SUCKS. My place is so far away from where I work and my bf that there is no point to going home half the time. Espeically since I get out of work really late at night and walking through that part of Boston that late is like a death wish... On top of that, I can't eat soy, alcohol, and I've given up gulten and meat, so 90% of what's in the house I don't eat. And 3 people should not be spending $400 a month EACH!!!! I have to pay them for food I don't eat and that they spend WAY TOO MUCH money on? I don't think so. I don't recall ever signing anything saying I would pay into something quite like that. In fact, I never signed anything saying I'd help pay for food, it was just a verbal agreement upon living there. But not like that, no way.

The bf is talking about his wander lust... San Fransisco, New York City... Perhaps it's too early for another life-altering change, but since this risk hasn't seemed to pay off, I might continue to risk it all and move again. I would love to have the time to learn about the city I'm in now, but I wouldn't mind up and leaving again.