About to quit now.
Oct. 28th, 2025 06:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxratedMom came home yesterday, and managed to pick me up at 2:30, half an hour after my shift ended for the day.
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Three days ago, someone named Elizabeth brought me into the team lead office after having spotted me multiple times in a part of the store I do not belong. This was not the first time she called me out on that, but the first time that did happen, I simply tried to increase my focus on the job. This time around, though, she asked me why I keep walking to the back of the store when I belong out in the parking lot, and I explained that I usually start each lap of mine at the auto care side-entrance. Instead of reaching some kind of understanding with her, she told me that from now on, I should go to the end of that side parking lot from the pharmacy main entrance that I'm responsible for, unless I'm returning a special cart to the back hallway.
I hate the job itself to begin with, and have desperately been hoping I actually can monetize my YouTube channel one day in order to put Walmart behind me. This incident, along with having previously been told not to collect loose change that no one is actually gonna waste expensive gas to come back for (and that people often drop on purpose), is starting to feel like a repeat of Mrs. Bandows, who would get on my case for things like turning my head around for just one second whenever anyone would pass us in 7th grade health or not being in my seat once in 8th grade chorus the very moment the bell rang (teachers themselves would usually give everyone a minute or so thereafter to settle down).
The next thing I did was text Mom to ask if she'd be available to drive me to a new round of interviews, unlike last year when she still had Dad to take care of. She told me that doing so could jeopardize several trips we have planned out for these next few months, and that we could talk more when she'd come get me.
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Having originally planned to take care of this after completing my Earthbound playthrough, I decided the next day to look into adapting one part of my previous YouTube video into a short and linking that back, in order to gain some new subscribers towards monetizing my channel. It took a day and a half just to figure out how everything works regarding shorts, including some things I didn't realize were possible (some labels under certain icons would've made it clearer that I can watch a privatized video to see what it would actually look like in public, instead of setting it just momentarily to public).
And, I've only gotten one new subscriber, out of two different surges in traffic so far.
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Now that she's home, Mom and I spoke at dinner about my options regarding work. At one point, she mentioned the idea of simply going a few months unemployed, and that did not take me long after dinner to decide upon. Even Marie supported such an idea when Mom later suggested I get her take on it, which is saying something when she quit her previous job on the spot after getting cheated following her Digitas trip to Japan in 2017 and couldn't find work for a good few months from there.
Along with all the bullshit that would inevitably come with the month of December, I am currently scheduled to work eight hours on Saturday, and then another eight the following Saturday and Sunday each. This frees me to use my remaining PPTO towards those three days (currently have 20 hours and 36 minutes), when I would normally save that for actual emergencies and was going to use some on Christmas Eve when one of our aforementioned trips is scheduled (I was denied an unpaid request off for that day).
(While I remain both unemployed and a long way off from monetization, I will need at some point to look with fresh eyes into re-reading either of two ebooks I have commissioned so far, editing them and requesting edits, commissioning a cover image (if I don't use what I already have for one of them), and publishing to Amazon.)
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Three days ago, someone named Elizabeth brought me into the team lead office after having spotted me multiple times in a part of the store I do not belong. This was not the first time she called me out on that, but the first time that did happen, I simply tried to increase my focus on the job. This time around, though, she asked me why I keep walking to the back of the store when I belong out in the parking lot, and I explained that I usually start each lap of mine at the auto care side-entrance. Instead of reaching some kind of understanding with her, she told me that from now on, I should go to the end of that side parking lot from the pharmacy main entrance that I'm responsible for, unless I'm returning a special cart to the back hallway.
I hate the job itself to begin with, and have desperately been hoping I actually can monetize my YouTube channel one day in order to put Walmart behind me. This incident, along with having previously been told not to collect loose change that no one is actually gonna waste expensive gas to come back for (and that people often drop on purpose), is starting to feel like a repeat of Mrs. Bandows, who would get on my case for things like turning my head around for just one second whenever anyone would pass us in 7th grade health or not being in my seat once in 8th grade chorus the very moment the bell rang (teachers themselves would usually give everyone a minute or so thereafter to settle down).
The next thing I did was text Mom to ask if she'd be available to drive me to a new round of interviews, unlike last year when she still had Dad to take care of. She told me that doing so could jeopardize several trips we have planned out for these next few months, and that we could talk more when she'd come get me.
-
Having originally planned to take care of this after completing my Earthbound playthrough, I decided the next day to look into adapting one part of my previous YouTube video into a short and linking that back, in order to gain some new subscribers towards monetizing my channel. It took a day and a half just to figure out how everything works regarding shorts, including some things I didn't realize were possible (some labels under certain icons would've made it clearer that I can watch a privatized video to see what it would actually look like in public, instead of setting it just momentarily to public).
And, I've only gotten one new subscriber, out of two different surges in traffic so far.
-
Now that she's home, Mom and I spoke at dinner about my options regarding work. At one point, she mentioned the idea of simply going a few months unemployed, and that did not take me long after dinner to decide upon. Even Marie supported such an idea when Mom later suggested I get her take on it, which is saying something when she quit her previous job on the spot after getting cheated following her Digitas trip to Japan in 2017 and couldn't find work for a good few months from there.
Along with all the bullshit that would inevitably come with the month of December, I am currently scheduled to work eight hours on Saturday, and then another eight the following Saturday and Sunday each. This frees me to use my remaining PPTO towards those three days (currently have 20 hours and 36 minutes), when I would normally save that for actual emergencies and was going to use some on Christmas Eve when one of our aforementioned trips is scheduled (I was denied an unpaid request off for that day).
(While I remain both unemployed and a long way off from monetization, I will need at some point to look with fresh eyes into re-reading either of two ebooks I have commissioned so far, editing them and requesting edits, commissioning a cover image (if I don't use what I already have for one of them), and publishing to Amazon.)