Posted

Nov 18th 2004

Mood

Lazy

I'm finally getting more responsibilities at work. I actually feel like more than a part timer with key rights now. I was responsible for someone being fired this week....I held an interview....I reviewed applications and selected the ones I thought would be good....I'm forming a backbone yet still being able to be their friend.

Okay, so this guy, Dean, he used to work for us. He always harcore hit on me. According to Heather, another girl who works there, he wanted me bad. *sigh* He didn't stand a chance. I just ignored him and went about life. Sometimes I'd stop and giggle but never any more than that. He had three strikes against him, and I had told him that too, but he continued. Well....I've been jumping around on crushes lately...I'm torn between two...and he heard me and Katelyn, another girl who works there, talking about them. She had just happened to stop by work that day. Well, had also stopped by and we had talked about it, and I think with the combination of it all, he might have finally realized that he didn't stand a chance and that I wasn't interested. I mean...the guy wanted to get a piercing because he thought that I was all about that stuff. HELLO that doesn't MATTER!

His whole attitude changed the next day. My friend Derek and I pretty much always go on break together when we're both working. It keeps us company I guess. Well it was early in my shift (this is Saturday) but the assistant manager was still there and I wanted to get mine out of the way so I wouldn't have to leave the two part timers alone. Makes sense right? Okay, so the assistant manager sent Dean down to get some sandwiches from a TOTALLY DIFFERENT RESTAURANT than Derek and I were in. We were sitting in the window though, so we could be seen from the entrance to the mall. Well the next thing I know Dean is in there talking to us. This was still early in the break. We were there at least another 15 minutes, and the place he went to was dead. It shouldn't have taken but five minutes. He somehow manages to be done at the exact same time and starts to follow us back to my store. On the way me and Derek run into the other Derek. Of course I have to give him a hug, and Dean was still behind us watching, even though we were now stopped. This was the first thing that irked me. After that, it seemed like Dean was trying to act like the kind of person he thought Derek was.

Instead he became a pest. He wanted to go home. IT WAS SATURDAY! NO! He wasn't dying so he's not going home. But he's being obnoxious the whole day. This is early on mind you. He starts backtalking me, not doing things I tell him to do, not that they were hard or anything. When he did do something, he half assed it then messed it up worse than it was to start with.

Now it takes a lot to make me mad. It takes way more to make me blow up on someone. Well harrassing me is one thing. I'm 21, I ignore it, when I say stop and he doesn't, oh well. I can easily tune people out. Well he started harrassing the 16 year old, Katelyn, which is wrong on so many levels. Dean had a habit of rubbing his croch up against your ass when he walked behind you, no matter how much room you had. Well he did that to her, and sometimes made it to where her face would have to be there pretty much. Plus he SAT right behind the register so that our asses had to be in his face.

I'm trying not to go into a lot of detail. If I did, I'd have a novel because I remember pretty much every little detail. Well the 16 year old wanted something done, and I made sure it got done. The first pang of responsibility I've really felt like I had. Filling out that form was kind of weird. Having my assistant manager question me about everything was weird, having to handle situations when Dean called was weird because I had to be responsible about it. This was the first time my training at school helped me too because I knew my limits.

It seems that after this, I've been trusted with more things, which I don't mind. I guess I handled it the right way. Its just weird.