Me - August 2011
2011
After living with my family in Kansas City for 5 months, it was really getting on my nerves. I was always wrong with my cousin, no matter what I do, she even got a job and tried to get me to work with her but I knew if I were to work with her, my life would be more of a living hell 24/7, not just at home. One of the many thing other than looking for a job online, I was also looking for dates/ guys on dating sites and such. One of the sites, I went on Plenty of Fish, and I actually got some dates through that. I actually hooked up with someone there and we were together for 1 month and he helped me a lot for a short amount of time we were together. He helped me get a job, which was more than my cousin has helped me. Out of all the places I applied to, I got my first 2 jobs in Liberty, Missouri working in a gas station next to walmart and a new thrift store called savers. All because of my first boyfriend. Of course, it was short lived, he broke up with me, and then I used him as an excuse to move out of my family's house, it was bad manners to do so but I didn't care at the time. I knew that if I continued to live there with my new income in my family's house, I would have given them all my paycheck and I would just get trapped in a situation all over again, and I wasnt gonna get sucked back into it. So my new friend, let me live with him for a couple of months till I got back onto my feet. I was working non-stop, even working on holidays, walking to and back home from work, sometimes I would be lucky for my friend to drive me there or back.
After living with my family in Kansas City for 5 months, it was really getting on my nerves. I was always wrong with my cousin, no matter what I do, she even got a job and tried to get me to work with her but I knew if I were to work with her, my life would be more of a living hell 24/7, not just at home. One of the many thing other than looking for a job online, I was also looking for dates/ guys on dating sites and such. One of the sites, I went on Plenty of Fish, and I actually got some dates through that. I actually hooked up with someone there and we were together for 1 month and he helped me a lot for a short amount of time we were together. He helped me get a job, which was more than my cousin has helped me. Out of all the places I applied to, I got my first 2 jobs in Liberty, Missouri working in a gas station next to walmart and a new thrift store called savers. All because of my first boyfriend. Of course, it was short lived, he broke up with me, and then I used him as an excuse to move out of my family's house, it was bad manners to do so but I didn't care at the time. I knew that if I continued to live there with my new income in my family's house, I would have given them all my paycheck and I would just get trapped in a situation all over again, and I wasnt gonna get sucked back into it. So my new friend, let me live with him for a couple of months till I got back onto my feet. I was working non-stop, even working on holidays, walking to and back home from work, sometimes I would be lucky for my friend to drive me there or back.
My Uncle & Aunt with their grandchildren
Savers
When I first started working at Savers, I was really excited. It was a new store of a franchise and they kept on saying that they do promotions, benefits, helping the environment, and all that. I was working there full time, making friends all over the place.... after awhile, things settled down. In the beginning, my position was to be a women's clothing pricer, but I wasnt fast enough so they transfered me to do bed n bath department- sorting, folding, tagging, pricing n rolling my own stuff. I had 1 other person in my department and her name was Ashley, she seemed to be cool. But later on, she had some personal family drama that led her to miss so many days and her not being at work really affected me and for the both of us, to not make our quota. By this time, working at savers was not fun anymore. I was really stressed out for not making quota because the second person wasn't there half the time. It was pissing me off... but nonetheless, I had fun especially when we dressed up, there was a big thing of costumes all the time.... I started to hang out with my coworkers like Tim, Sherry and Buffy. Tim was a musician and music producer and worked as a recycler full time on the production team. He was always nice to me by helping me out recycling my linens without me calling out. Sherry is a Baptist, started off in shoes department then transfered into the bed n bath department to help me out. Buffy was a cashier in the beginning, then she became a roller for clothing, then switched to do jewelry department.
When I first started working at Savers, I was really excited. It was a new store of a franchise and they kept on saying that they do promotions, benefits, helping the environment, and all that. I was working there full time, making friends all over the place.... after awhile, things settled down. In the beginning, my position was to be a women's clothing pricer, but I wasnt fast enough so they transfered me to do bed n bath department- sorting, folding, tagging, pricing n rolling my own stuff. I had 1 other person in my department and her name was Ashley, she seemed to be cool. But later on, she had some personal family drama that led her to miss so many days and her not being at work really affected me and for the both of us, to not make our quota. By this time, working at savers was not fun anymore. I was really stressed out for not making quota because the second person wasn't there half the time. It was pissing me off... but nonetheless, I had fun especially when we dressed up, there was a big thing of costumes all the time.... I started to hang out with my coworkers like Tim, Sherry and Buffy. Tim was a musician and music producer and worked as a recycler full time on the production team. He was always nice to me by helping me out recycling my linens without me calling out. Sherry is a Baptist, started off in shoes department then transfered into the bed n bath department to help me out. Buffy was a cashier in the beginning, then she became a roller for clothing, then switched to do jewelry department.
Savers Logo/Poster/Brand at Grand Opening
My Horrendous Work Station
Some of us during one of the costume days
Gas Station
Basically started both jobs the same time. Because savers was a full time job, I asked if I could get my part time job at the gas station to coincide with the savers job. My boss at the gas station was really nice about it. I was really grateful that the gas station was just down the street from Savers so after working Savers, I can walk up to the other job and I would bring my backpack so I can change from one work shirt to the other work shirt, both red. Of all the colors, I always hated the color red but it just happens to be that way. When I got hired at the gas station, there were also 2 other new people, Corey and Jennifer. I had fun there, it was more laid back than Savers. Whenever I worked with Jennifer, we would gossip about our coworkers and customers all the time. There were even a couple of guys that we worked with that we had semi- crushes on. I liked this guy name Matt and she liked another guy .... who was already taken... lol... Matt, the guy that i liked, was 1 year younger than me. It was so wierd, liking someone who was younger, I was always into guys who are 13 years older than me haha... after our first date, we seem to be hitting it off pretty well.
Gas Prices were actually reasonable...
Work at the Gas Station was chill but nice to work at compared to Savers
Corey!!...
Denny, the Night guy
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ReplyDeleteHey Lee! I thought you forgot about this blog! I'm catching up on it slowly! Hope you are well!
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