HUGE spanish exam tomorrow January 08, 2009 @ 09:47:45 pm
Ugh! I've got a fifteen minute long oral spanish exam tomorrow. I have to have a conversation with the teacher in complete spanish. Seems easy enough but in order to get an A you can only have like one or two mistakes. To get a B you can only have like 5 or 6 mistakes. You have to keep talking too, she'll ask questions but if there is a lull in conversation you get docked because she wants us to keep it rolling. She said fifteen minutes but as we were working on other stuff she was doing exams and today each exam was like 20 minutes! I'm stressing. She told us today that the exams so far were good but she expects more from an accelerated class. Not to mention most of the people who already went were the smart Einsteins of the class..
MY BOSS IS A BITCH! sorry for the language.. here's what she told me today December 17, 2008 @ 03:59:46 am
If you missed the first part of the story. It may or may not be beneficial to read the last journal.
This is what she told me today.... I hate her by the way.
I tried to be nice and I just started the conversation saying "I'm putting in my two week". Then she just started degrading me, making me feel like a worthless piece of crap.
Let me tell you a little story from over the summer. There was a woman who worked there named Tina. Over the summer Tina would come in almost 2 hours late every day, she would make excuses as to why she can't come, she would make food without paying for it. and a whole bunch more. Well, BB (my boss) told me that I turned into her. She kept saying how mad she was at me about Saturday and that I used to be a responsible person but now I'm irresponsible and she couldn't count on me anymore. She told me that Sunday she was so busy because she had to go to a surprise birthday party and go do bingo at her church and yet she wants me to drop my family plans after my grandpa died when all she was doing was going to a party?
She kept yelling and screaming at me. Making me cry in front of her kids and in front of my other co-workers. I came home balling and my mom called her. They screamed at each other for a good five minutes. My mom told her she'd never see my face again in that shop and that I was one of the best workers she ever had. My boss denied the fact that she was paying me under minimum wage when my mom brought that part of the story up. My mom said that she completely turned the story around to make it look like she was the good guy and I was in the wrong. My boss told my mom that I was lying to her. I would NEVER lie to my mother! I tell my mom everything.
I'm really just ... sick and tired of the constant stress and emotions I've been through the past week and a half. I'm surprised I even have tears left to cry.
OH YEA and then after all that. I had to borrow her key to close tonight. She texted me saying "I NEED MY KEY RIGHT NOW. MEET ME SOMEWHERE." Hell no.. do you really think I'm going to meet you after all that? I told her either myself or my mom would drop it off tomorrow.
my boss finally pushed me far enough to quit December 15, 2008 @ 02:37:04 am
She first made me a little mad on Thursday. Thursday was my grandpa's funeral and I was an emotional wreck and I could tell that I still would be on Friday. I was scheduled to work on Friday so I called me boss and told her I didn't think I was going to come in because of obvious reasons. So I called her and she first asked me how old my grandpa was. I told her he was 84 and she said "Well, he was old. You had to have known he was going to pa** away sooner or later. You should have gotten yourself prepared for that. And it's not like he was young or anything, it would have been different if he was your parents age or a child or something." Then she continued to say "Jordan, you just have to be strong. Worse things are going to happen. Like, your mom or dad could have died. These things happen and you just need to move on now and put it behind you. You put way to much stress on yourself over this. You don't need to put all this stress on yourself over your grandpa dying. It happens." After she said all that I was just thinking how on earth do I not put stress on myself when my grandpa who I was extremely close to died and his funeral was that day so of course I was going to be upset. Also, my grandpa was sooo close to me that it hurt so hard. You can NEVER prepare yourself for something like that.
THEN, she put me on the schedule for Saturday. I told her I had a tournament on Saturday and she said "yea but it's close to home so you'll be home at two or three." I was on the schedule for 6-9 but the thing is is that this tournament had 4 rounds instead of 3 and that ONE extra round usually creates almost 3 extra hours of tournament and no matter how close or short a tournament is I have NEVER gotten home before five. I got home on Saturday at about 8:30. (I told her ahead of time that I wouldn't make it and she just told me to call the shop when I get to the high school and am on my way home.) She called my phone at about 6:15 asking me where I was. Obviously I didn't answer because my phone is never on at tournaments. So, we didn't even get back to the high school until about 9 and I never turned on my phone until the next morning. She was mad at me about that but I can't just leave a tournament right in the middle to come to work.
THEN TODAY she made me SOOOO mad. Today was my day off. I went to church with my grandma, my mom, my uncle, and my cousin. She called me while at church but I had my phone off. So she called my house and my dad told her where I was. So then she just left me a text. After church I got her text and it read "Hey Jordan, you need to come into work today because Mari is still in N.C. Come in at 4:30." Ok. If she would have said "can you" then I would have been fine with it but NO she demanded me come in and I had plans with my family.
My family and I tonight went to my grandma's house to visit before my aunt went back home to Mississippi and we wanted to just get together one last time to discuss and talk about my grandpa's life and to just try to calm things one final time so we can try to get on with our lives. This was extremely important to my dad that everyone be there and it was important to me aswell. Get a little more closure I guess.
So, I call my boss and I tell her I can't come in. She asks why and I explained it to her and she responds "Well Jordan, I'm busy and I need to you come in. I gave you Friday off and I was mad at you for not coming in yesterday so you have to come today." I responded "I understand that you're busy but I'm busy too and this is extremely important to my entire family. I CAN'T come in to work." So she says pretty much the same thing I said before.. twice more this time though which just really set me over the edge and I said "YOU KNOW WHAT! I ALREADY TOLD YOU I CAN NOT COME INTO WORK. THIS IS IMPORTANT TO MY FAMILY AND I AND IF YOU CANNOT HONOR THIS THEN I'M GOING TO HAVE TO QUIT BECAUSE LIKE I SAID THIS IS IMPORTANT TO ME AND MY FAMILY AND YOU CANNOT FORCE ME TO COME IN!!!" She responded "Ok Jordan... thanks.. bye.." and hung up.
Absolutely sick of her trying to run my life and dictate what I can do at what times. MY LIFE DOES NOT REVOLVE AROUND THIS STUPID PIZZA SHOP. I CAN GET PLENTY OF OTHER JOBS. It's obvious my boss doesn't have any sympathy as to what happened with my family. All she cares about is her money and her shop.
I will admit that now I wish I would have handled it a little better on the phone but if I wasn't mean about it she would have kept pushing me and pushing me so I almost had to do that. My family was there beside me when I called her and they said I did well. I had to stand up to her eventually because I can't allow her to run my life anymore. I've had to change my life schedule around so much because of that place and I'm SICK of it.
So, my parents got two dogs Wednesday night, right. Well, they turned out to be a little wired. So my dad is going to take them back next week. It's sad, but maybe they can get a family they can fit into.
Things have been good. December 13, 2008 @ 12:29:06 am
So, Wednesday night my parents bought two new dogs for us. Their names are Fudge and Vanilla, and also it snowed last night, so yay for last couple of days.
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I'm stressing. She told us today that the exams so far were good but she expects more from an accelerated class. Not to mention most of the people who already went were the smart Einsteins of the class.. 
