I just got here, and it's supposed to be my day off!

[myswtghst]

So I'm at work today. I work Sunday through Thursday normally, yet I had to stop in for a few yesterday, and I'm back, working, today, as someone called out, making this my seventh straight day at work--which will end up making it so I'm here 12 days in a row. Woohoo. There goes my weekend.

A little bit of background, one of the features of our lovely computer system is the ability to page techs. We take the case we want them to call in on, and put it in a pager "bin" that automatically pages them out. We've had problems with the paging system the past few days, with pages not going out, then backing up and sending all at once, in mass quantities. This started on Thursday night, during my shift, and was tons of fun . Apparently it happened just before I got in today, but I wasn't really aware of it, as I'm still adjusting to being here on a Saturday.

I got a call a few minutes ago that got on my nerves. Not super sucky, but didn't know when to shut up, I guess, and kept interuppting me.

Our cast:
Me:
ST: Sucky Tech

Me: Thank you for.....opening schpiel.
ST: Yeah, you paged me on this case. (Gives case #)
Me: (I pull it up, and before I can say anything, he gets going again..)
ST: Did the customer call back? Did their system go down again? I just deferred this....blah blah blah.
Me: (I finally read the case notes) Sir, it's still deferred out til tomorrow. The case may have paged you to let you know it was assigned back to your pager, but we don't need anything on it right now. I apologize for... (and he interrupts again)
ST: Not til tomorrow!! Til Monday!!
Me: I'm sorry sir, you're correct. I don't normally work Saturdays, so...
ST: So is it a problem with the paging system then? It's been down, hasn't it?
Me: Sir, I'm not sure. I actually just got in, and no one has informed me of any issues...
ST: So you don't need anything from me? I'll just leave it deferred out then. Make sure it doesn't page me again though!
Me: No problem sir, anything else I...(and at this point, he hangs up.)

Charming, really.

[Delphae]

When I was working 2 jobs, I once worked 19 days strait and had to argue with our temporary manager about working another full weekend at my part time job becuase I hadn't put it on the calender that I wanted a day off. I was working 5 days a week as a subsitute teacher, then would work a couple of evenings and a week end day at the place I work now full time. We didn't have a manager so we were a person down. She wanted me to work full weekends in a row, just so she wouldn't have to go into over time (our company hates that, but would understand that we were short handed). I was working over 55 hours a week.

[Knightmare]

Ever hear of the word "No?"
It's a pretty good word. Comes in handy sometimes.

Boss/supervisor/etc: "Hey, can you work today? I know this will totally ruin your weekend, and that this will be your 15th day in a row. So can you work?"
You: "No."

Tah Da! A day off!

[Ghostlightkeeper]

I've got you all beat and I just finished and 8 week stretch with NO DAYS OFF! and I worked an average of 60 hours for that entire time.

The worst part is I'm on salary.

Guess who isn't likely to be at this job for very much longer unless he gets a BIG pay raise.

[Kara]

Dante: I'm not even supposed to be here today!

I used to have to work a couple of weeks at a time 12 hours a day with no days off when I was on commission. I tried to convince myself that the paychecks were worth it. Didn't work.

[Imogene]

Dante: I'm not even supposed to be here today!

*pile of clothes in front of a framed picture, hand slips out to grab ringing phone, retreats into pile of unwashed clothes, a muffled 'Hello?' can be heard, and a mere second later, Dante bursts forth from the cocoon of disgusting and dirty clothing, camera pans back to reveal the store from the point of view of the counter*
"Ha! You can't ask me to come in today, because I slept at the store tonight!"

[megami]

at my very first job (dollar store. woo), i didn't really have a backbone, so whenever my manager would call me to cover, i'd just say yes. one day when i did get a backbone and said no...she started crying.
i still didn't cover.

[Becks]

Juwl, that's a good scene. I like it!!!!!!!!

[Imogene]

Juwl, that's a good scene. I like it!!!!!!!!

Even better, cause the scene I took it from follows a scene that's just rife with gay references for Dante and LL.

[Knightmare]

When I was a RadioShack manager, I worked for three months in a row, with only Christmas day off. And most of those days were open to close, with an hour commute one way.
The money was good, but was offset by gas being $3.00 a gallon (much like it is now) and I was driving a giant gas-guzzling SUV.
I was actually losing money by working there.