Friday rant

This Friday morning I will be waking up bright and early at 2:30 AM (well, I probably won't go to sleep the night before) to arrive at the mall at 3 AM to grab some coffee before starting work at 3:30 AM. Then I'll be working a 9 hour shift, have a couple hours of downtime (read: naptime) and then I'll be heading in to my other job from 3:30 in the afternoon until 10:30 at night.

I want to kill myself.

I think it is perfectly reasonable to expect people to wait until at least dawn to get to their holiday shopping. I do not think that people need to be waiting in line to get into a store at midnight. That's completely ridiculous. Also, I for one am not looking forward to a 16 hour workday.

Not to mention that I'm scheduled to do sales floor stuff (register, recovery, etc) at ON. That would be fine except my training for sales floor was approx. 6 weeks ago and lasted for about an hour. I don't remember how to work the register. I don't remember the color flow. But they're going to expect me to jump right into it with lines headed to hell in a handbasket.

Then after I'm done figuring out how to do my job on my own because I was never really trained for 9 hours, I get to jump right into a job that I know backwards and forwards for 7 hours. Which wouldn't be so bad if I hadn't just worked 9 hours. I'm really hoping that nobody expects me to be the most friendly barista in the world by then, because I'm expecting to be dead on my feet by the time 3:30 rolls around. Hell, I'm going to be surprised if I don't flat out fall asleep on my feet halfway through my second shift.

I understand that people sometimes work 12 hour workdays, and that's what they're expected to do. It sucks, but it can't be THAT bad, they say. Oh no? In my limited experience the 12 hour shifts are for factory workers. Factory workers that don't have to be SUPER HAPPY AND EXCITED TO BE SERVING YOU COFFEE!!!!! Because that's how I'm expected to behave, for those 16 hours. (Replacing clothing items for coffee for the first nine hours).

Suicide looks like my best option right now.