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It's Sunday night/Monday morning, and I'm dreading another week of work. To quote my dear, sweet grandmother, who once said, "I don't know who invented work, but it must have been some stupid fucking idiot who had nothing to do." True, I don't actually support myself with what I earn, so I could quit at any time. But it's weird because they actually depend on me. I've never had a job where I was depended on.
Case in point: I had a no call/no show back in August(which, if you are not familiar with the concept of work, is a very bad thing), and when I came back the following day, they were furious. Honestly, in all the jobs I've ever had, I've never gotten a reaction like that to a no call/no show. And I commented to one of my favourite customers that they reacted like the place was going to fall down if I wasn't here. That's when she told me that it would fall down if I weren't there. That they've never had an employee like me work the post office before. And that so many people are pleased that I'm there, and I know what I'm doing, compared to some of the previous employees there.
In my previous jobs, I would have just gotten a "Just don't do it again."
But I had never thought of it like that before. Like many people, I only think about my situation; how the drama of me, the sitcom of me, is doing. But when I finally stopped and saw the bigger picture, the film that I'm just a bit player in; there seems to be method in the madness of the world.
My boss, lovely lady that she is, once told me that God had told her to hire me, which is the reason she hired me so fast(I applied on Monday, interviewed on Tuesday morning, and started that same afternoon). And it makes perfect sense. You see, I'm a person that believes that we experience things to learn something. And from this situation, I've learned that business owners are not all money-grubbing pigs that care nothing about their workers. I've learned that being nice to people can make a difference in their lives. I've learned that helping people is my calling. And I've learned that running a retail business is a gi-normous headache that I can't imagine ever wanting!
And I'm sure my bosses and my co-workers learned something from me, but I don't want to be presumptious enough to guess at what they might be.
In short, I was meant to have this job in California. I was meant to be out here, to do what I'm doing, to work where I'm working. And even though I have to be at work by 9:30 tomorrow morning, I can at least have the pleasure of walking in, and saying to the football fans in the building, "How about them Dolphins!"
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