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*cough, hack, groan*
Right, so I’ve been sick since around this time last week. Aches, pains, sore throat, coughing, congestion, the works...only thing missing really was the fever. Oh, and apparently my voice for 90% of the time. Do I have sick days that I can use to ACTUALLY get the rest that I need to heal and recover from this miserable thing that has decided that I would be the perfect target to inflict itself upon?
ABSO-FREAKING-LUTELY not
Why in the heck could I possibly need sick days for? Why would that be a benefit included for fast food workers? I mean, I already get a minimal amount of paid vacation because I’ve earned that at least. At this rate, I’m going to have to ultimately probably cash out my ‘paid’ vacation money sometime soon, to ensure that I have enough money to pay my bills.
Which, by the way, at the moment...I will be struggling to do. Already, I’m going a minimum of 4 days without a phone. I still have to figure out how I’m going to save up to get the decent phone that I want, that is not outrageously priced, and yet still has reviews that ensure that it won’t fall apart on me three days after I get it (like pretty much every phone I’ve priced that is under $100 — because you can’t get a decent android based phone for under $100 that won’t be a steaming pile of electronic crap within a month...). Don’t get me wrong, I love my current phone….I just need a phone that will stop throwing a diva sized temper tantrum EVERY TIME I TRY TO DO SOMETHING SIMPLE. Seriously. I only wish I was joking about that.
Also, it -might- do me some good to attempt to find the vision insurance card that I have, and MAYBE find the money to go to the eye doctor sometime before my vision and medical insurance from work is canceled at the end of the year. OH WAIT, even if I find the insurance card how am I going to afford the copay for the visit, the copay for the frames/lenses?
Also, I’d intended on attempting to find at least a cheap set of full sized sheets for my new bed this week, or paying a small amount on the electric...or you know, the $40 for my phone bill so I have it while I’m walking to work in the morning. (Though I can use Draco’s phone while mine’s not in service).
Stress.
Sick.
This is the story of my life at the moment.
Also, this pretty much has solidified any and all desire I have to get the flying fark out of fast food and ultimately the food service industry as a whole. I want a job where I am actually using my degrees, I want to be able to afford to go back to school and finish my MBA in Accounting and maybe teach at the collegiate level. Yet, I am stuck working for a wage that makes it nearly impossible to get ahead, at a job that provides a minimal amount of benefits to employees that are treated worse than second class citizens because we are a society that panders to the vastly outdated philosophy that “the customer is always right,” and can pretty much act like snot-nosed, spoiled children because they know they can get whatever the hell they want from management simply because their superiors want nothing more than sales.
Right, I have a feeling that this diary should have come with a rant warning, but little too late for that now. So, this is a glimpse in to my life currently and the stresses that currently have me losing my damn mind.
How are the rest of you doing? Hopefully better than me….