Today was a "Blah" day at work, oh and Yesterday was too. There were no Customers and i was thinking yesterday i just had a case of "Monday-itis" but now looking at today it was not the case!
I have been working at my current Workplace for almost 1 Year, i had worked in the same industry a few years back so as far as learning the products etc it all pretty much came straight back to me. However i was 4 years younger than i am now (17 then, 21 now) and i had ALOT to learn, one of the biggest things was how to deal with confrontation, well in time i learned how to manage that etc and i can be happy to say i don;t have that problem anymore.
Soon after i joined my current Workplace we got a new Manager, who unfortunately totally had it in for me, some people say she was jealous i just say she needed to worry about herself. She gave me the 1st written warning i have ever recieved and it was for "Not wearing stockings with my skirt" although this is not even outlined in the staff manual. She also was hired at the same time as the other male colleague was hired and he had it in for me too, but in a different way, i would walk past and he would say rotten things under his breath etc.
I would go home and cry to my Partner "D" and the poor thing would'nt know what to do or say, because i only started this job for him as i moved Inter-state for him.
Things got enough for me and i started looking for other work, unfortunately in the state i live in theres a smaller population to the state i grew up in which means the people applying for the one position can reach in the hundreds. I was not successful in any of the positions i had applied and i stuck it out where i'm still working now.
I am pleased to say that at the start of this year the Manager went mentally ill, took a huge amount of stress leave, tried to do our Company in for some pretty big $, was unsuccessful in doing so and hence never returned.
I am equally pleased to say the mean male colleague ended up with a larger than life drinking problem because of his Girlfriend that he cheated on countless times and stopped showing up to work.
So... both of the problematic people out of my workplace = peace at last!
In any other previous employment of mine have i ever experienced such conflict. I blame it on the "type" of personalities this state have as opposed to my home state, people here are very different, they're used to routine and their own "type" of people, so when somebody like myself comes along (Happy, Bubbly, Personality bigger than the world) they don't know what to do so they put their guards up.
So now that those rotten apples out of the bunch have been extracted i am struggling with something else and although it dos'nt seem like a big deal to everyone it does to me. So here it is:
My Partner and I plan on moving back to my home State within the next 6 months and i have been offered a transfer with work (which is great in alot of ways) but i don't want to be in Retail or Sales for the rest of my life, i feel as though the targets of sales (although i can sell ice to eskimoes) still get me down to the point i can feel the wrinkles forming on my face! It would not be a sensible idea to move States without a job therefore i will accept the transfer but this will mean i have a 7 day roster.
All i want is a general 9-5 job no weekend work! This way i can formulate so much more routine in my life and see my Partner and spend quality time with him every week. At the moment i'm lucky to have 2 days a Fortnight with him.
I don't know what i want to do with myself in the long term as far as working goes though and i feel as though the years are passing by WAY too quickly and if i don't figure something out soon i will be unhappy forever.
I wish for a job where i love it so much it dosn't even feel like "Working".
My Partner is worrying a little too much about finding work over there however the pay rate is higher for his Trade there and there are many more vacancies i don't think he will have a problem.
Please see above for a pic of me at work.
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