You think work can't get any worse...and then...



Okay there are these things called Pins at work. Pins aren't totally bad things, they are like little warnings that go in your file that say stuff like; "You made a mistake here, don't do it again mmkay?". So overall they don't say;"You suck! Why do you work here? Fire you!" But I don't care. It was my goal to never, ever, ever get a pin. Why? Cause sometimes I want to be a perfectionist. Sometimes...Like at work.



Okay, so today I was working and this cute employee guy comes over to Milk Can and is like "Can I throw one?" Seeing as how employees can play but can't win I say "Sure cute guy here you go." and I hand him 1 ball. One. Uno. He misses, o'course. It's a hard game. Well anyways Jessie, my meanest boss lady sees this and comes over. She's all "Where do you work? What's your name?" To cute guy. He's like all telling her. And she says something like "I'm calling your manager about this." And then she turns to me with this wicked little smile and was like "And this means you're getting a pin." I was musta turned twenty shades of pale then as I gasped and sputtered. She walks away all huffy. Me, feeling really really embarrassed turn to Josh and apologized. He was all like "Do you want me to beat her up or something?" Tempting...*cough* Anyways, later on that day CTV come by, bratty kids, the cutest kids ever, time passes. Jessie comes back to do a change run. I sorta thrust my money at her and not look right at her. Then I realize..Hm, not the best thing to do to my manager who already doesn't like me to much, so I look at her. All sad like. Jessie's like "You know why I did that before right?" and I'm like "Honestly Jessie I had no idea we weren't allowed to let employees play. I swear. You know me Jessie, I only follow the rules. I don't even let people step on the scale at Age N'Weight." She kinda glares at me for a moment and says "We'll talk about this later." Later on that day I see her going home. Uh..kay.

At the end of my shift (finally) I'm cashing out. Somehow I'm 20 dollar short. I have absolutely no idea how this happened. I can only guess that I made a whole bunch of little mistakes that added into one big variance. I think. So now Amy the best Worker EVER has to go tell her boss. Whose back there? Only the nicest boss in the joint.

"Umm Jeff.." I say.

"Yeah?" He says.

"I had a variance.."

"How much?"

"It's pretty big..."

"How much Amy?"

At this point I can't fight the tears that are building up.

"20 dollars..."

"*sighs* Do you have any idea how this happened?"

"I honestly don't know..you should just fire me now." Tears, Tears. Oh come, you all knew i was over dramatic when you met me. Cept for you, silly you. My friend Chris came and hugged me then. I like Chris, he's nice.



Then I had to go down and sit next to him, my boss.. I kept pulling the brim of my hat over my eyes to try to hide the stupid tears but he knew I was crying. He explained to me that I did have a Pin being issued by Jessie and now I would have another Pin for the variance. He told me that overall I'm an excellent worker but I have to be retrained with my money skills. Then my big boss Harry comes in. Jeff goes to talk to him and I try to clean myself up. Harry wants to speak to me outside.



Basically he says all the same things Jeff tells me, except Harry looked really upset that I was crying. If I wasn't, y'know, crying, I would have thought it was really cute. He was like "How can I tell you this if your'e crying?" and he kept looking so sad when my lip trembled. Anyways, basically he said that everyone makes mistakes and pins aren't like being in trouble, they're just things to remind you to be careful. Then I went home and cried leaving the park.



I'm not upset about the whole being talked to by the boss thing, nooo. I'm upset with myself for making mistakes. I really, really wanted to have no Pins and be like the perfect employee. I think it's funny that I made Employee of the Week, and got 2 pins all in the same week. *sigh* Good times.



I do like my job, I really do. I think it's all so much right now though, because it's my first real job and I'm not use to not being able to hang out with my friends whenever I want to.