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Friendship.

by Monique on February 2, 2008


Well, I am at work… I showed up after all. I was really tempted to wear my PJ’s but felt that wasn’t appropriate for a post office. Plus, I think I would have been sent back home. Not that that would have been a bad thing.

Something I rarely - actually I never - talk about is the people I work with. One special person I work with is this pretty dorky girl who I call RoRo, she is kind of like my boss, but also one of my best friends.

We have such an unusual friendship. And it’s not because she is my boss, but because we are so candid with each other. We are absolutely uncensored in each others presence. If it has happened to her, she has no problems telling me… and I do the same with her. I even went with her - and sat in the room - when she got her first Brazilian wax. I was her support team! Let me tell you though, there are very few women on the planet I would have done that for.

She is younger than me but it has never plaed a factor in anything. We have walked the same steps in so many situations. We both lived our lives as anorexics, battling with the right to have control in SOME aspect of our lives. We have dealt with past abuse. Childhood traumas. I’m adopted, she was in foster care. You know, just things like that that make us more relatable to each other.

She is one of those people who accepts her faults and lets me pick on them. And she does the same to me. We are constantly taking jabs at each other… calling each other names. I make fun of her accent, she makes fun of mine. She loves to say things to shock me… just to see the look of disgust on my face. She has this loooooooooooud, I’d even call it a boisterous laugh I would probably hate coming from anyone else. She is really clumsy too. She once broke her toe because she dropped a jar of pickles on it. Today she is hoping around here because she stubbed her pinky toe on a door and then fell face first into the floor. Genius eh?

Working with her is usually a barrel of fun. We can just give each other a look and fall to pieces laughing. Customers don’t know what to make of us, that’s for sure. Sometimes we play fight and insult each other, and they actually think we are serious. A donkey would know we are being sarcastic. Shows you how stupid rich people can be. (I think I might have some deep issues with “people with money in Texas”. I’ll cover that in another post.)

If it weren’t for her, I would probably hate my job. Or like it a lot less than I do. She makes it bearable and a lot of fun. It’s nice to be around people you can be real with. So when a customer makes me mad I can wish death upon them and she will laugh and understand. 

Now that you know who she is, I can devote more time to picking on her on the World Wide Web for all to see!

Ok…. I was about to close this post and go back to work… and this whench just came in and announced she had sex over her lunch hour. See? Oh wait, she ate sushi and then got boinked. My bad.

I tell ya, the stuff I have to put up with.

I still love her though.

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Wrong Side of the Bed.

by Monique on January 31, 2008


 I start work in less than an hour.

I don’t want to be here today.

I can feel that it’s going to be one of those days… and as I sit here waiting for the time to tick tick tick by so we can open the door and let the loonies in, I feel a real sense of dread. Like, today is the day that I am going to go off that one special customer who rolls her eyes at me one too many times, or sighs for the 10th time because the machine isn’t going fast enough to accommodate her very busy schedule.

I know it doesn’t sound like it, but I really love my job. The people I work with are awesome, but even they risk getting the wrath of Unstable Mo.

There should be some kind of employment code or rule that says if the employee doesn’t get a good nights sleep, they don’t have to come into work until they feel they are able to handle their work duties. Ok, maybe that won’t work. No one would show up for work.

What I need is one of those jobs where you make your own schedule. Where you can show up at 11 am and then put in your full 8 hours. Places like that do exist right? But if I changed jobs, I might not like my co-workers as much as the ones I currently have.

So, I guess I will have to just stick it out on my grumpy day. It will be very hard because someone is bound to piss me off.

I hope everyone else has a good day at work though!

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So Bored.

by Monique on January 10, 2008


Well, I am back at work today. I got here at 8 am because they are setting up our new system. Actually, I got here at 8 am because that’s normally when I get here. My DH and I ride together and while he starts at 8, I start at 9. It’s nice… I drop him off and then if I want I have an hour to roam town, get coffee or go shopping. I usually don’t though. I just come right to work and do nothing.Of course, now that we are all here (having all arrived an hour early),  standing around bored out of our minds, reading Post Secrets books and other items of interest, we still haven’t even begun our training. The original plan was to have everything up and launched by 2 but I seriously doubt that’s going to happen. They are saying now that the install might take 8 hours. What the hell are they installing? I don’t get it because everything is attached back there, but they are standing around laughing and talking while we scratch our heads.It’s good to be back to work though. I missed it. I really did. The smells, the people, the idiots who try to yank open the door at 8:20 even though we don’t open until 9…. And most of all, I love that nothing has changed. We have a big sign on the door stating that we are CLOSED for a system upgrade, but yet, not ONE person has read the sign… and then they walk right on in and sigh and looked pissed when we repeat the exact same information that they could have read from the comfort of their car before they chose to get out, get their kids out, get their boxes out, and set their car alarms.…. And wouldn’t you know it someone just walked in and did EXACTLY what I just described.  JUST walked through the door.

Anyway, I’m going to go watch them install.

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