Currently Reading S is for Silence (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries) By Sue Grafton see related

So today was a total day from hell. If you didn't know, I work in a coffee shop and I'm the kitchen manager. Yesterday thru tomorrow I'm day manager because the girl who usually does it is out of town on vacation. We are WAY busy this time of year too. Anyway, I'm scheduled from 5am - 2pm... My 7am girl didn't show up and we got SLAMMED beyond belief. So, here I am busting my ass off, and I'm so exhausted and strung out because I'm by myself, and there are like 20 people in line. So, Mindy (the owner) calls during the time when I was busy and said she needed some gift certificates made out so she could take them to her daughter's school. I told her that we were running WAY low because Courtney (my 7am girl) wasn't there (she called and was on her way by now) and she was supposed to be picking them up on her way to work. So she calls Courtney and tells her to make sure she gets them before she comes in. Then Mindy starts callin people in to work and we ended up having one too many people. So, Mindy told me to send someone home. So, I ask this girl Casey who just got there if she wants to go ahead and go home or if she wants to stay. I tell her if she stays she's gotta work the kitchen because she'd be replacing Dolly (the girl who'd leave if Casey didn't). So, Casey decides she wants to stay, and I send Dolly home. Lunch comes around and guess what, Casey throws a big bitch fest about working in the kitchen so I have to go work back there (which wasn't what I was scheduled for today. I was so royally pissed because Casey told me she'd work the kitchen if she stayed... And THEN Misty (my sister) works there and she told me she heard Casey complaining about me saying "Crystal's up there doing nothing and I'm back here making sandwiches which isn't even what I'm scheduled for today." Damn... That pissed me off even more because she's right, she wasn't scheduled for it, BUT DAMNIT SHE SAID SHE'D DO IT IF SHE STAYED. I had to go into the back and cool down or I was gonna beat her up. I was there from 5am to 1pm until I could even take a break. Everytime I'd try to sit down Mindy would tell me to get back up and do this or do that... Hell if I really wanted to I could get her ass in trouble... it's against the law to work me that long without a break.

GRRR! I SWEAR IF TOMORROW IS LIKE TODAY WAS I'M GOING TO EXPLODE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yesterday my 7 o'clock girl didn't show up either. Yay. I love the people I work with.

Well, I gotta go.

Adieu.