we must reinvent love.

I need to just stop checking my email.

I'm going to work. So I can deal with a bunch of aggravating people whine about policies that I have no control over.

Then I'm going to go clubbing and get completely trashed because this new gay club looks awesome and my friends want to go.

And then, I will come home pass out, and do it again tomorrow.

Sometimes it's good to have those days where you can be incredibly shallow.

I need a break from people calling me bigot and prejudiced. Directly pointed at me or not, it all hurts the same.

So I walked out of work today.

It's come to the point where it's my self respect or it's that job. And I care a whole lot more about my self respect than some part time job. Like I've stated before we got some new management at Ross and she's a handful to say the least. I don't like her, but that's not the problem. The problem is that she presumes that I'm going to lie down and let her walk all over me just because she's area supervisor. Which, I'm not.

Yesterday, I came in to work and I was supposed to be in fitting room where I am 90% of the time. She has a certain way of doing the fitting room which isn't the way that I do it. That's where our quarrel begins. And, though I agree that if she's a manager I have an obligation to implement her changes I also have a right to not do them if they don't make any plausible sense. I don't get a lot of help in the fitting room so the way I do makes sure that I can maximize all the space that I can possibly use because it's a necessity to make things easier for me. She doesn't agree with me. Okay that's fine, so I went to my store manager and told him that I wasn't going to have her talking down to me. He told me to do it like I do it, and to ignore her.

So that's what I did yesterday, and then she threatened to have me fired, switch stores, have my hours cut and that if I wanted to I could go cry about it to Glenn (my store manager) because she was going to fight me on it.

First off, you are a manager. Act like it. You don't tell your coworker to "go cry about something" you try to solve it, you try to compromise. You don't throw out ultimatums like a spoiled child on a power trip.

Second off, in the world of Ross you don't have any power. You are just like every other employee but with a fancier title. You're not even a real manager. You can't fire me. You can't cut my hours. If you want to scare me, then have something to back that up. The only person who has the power to fire me is the store manager.

And speaking of cutting hours, I'm a part time employee. I don't want to be working 40 hours a week like this is a full time job. My full time job is school and I've been trying to get them to reduce my hours for months. Thanks for speeding up the process because I sure as hell won't be working with you so they'll have to cut my hours.

At the end of the day I'm never going to let someone make me feel like I'm less of a person or try to make me feel that way. It might have been a little drastic to have walked out today, but I've never been that person to roll over and take someone treating me badly.

I have to go in tomorrow morning to talk to my store manager. That should be interesting.