Real Work - An Interrupted Introduction

I phoned up the store this afternoon in an effort to find out what the heck was going on. I don't think Sheila picked up the phone when my call was transferred to the office, but whatever. I told the lady on the phone my name, that I was a new hire, and I had done my 5 computer tutorials and I was wondering when I needed to come in again.

"You're overnight?"

"Yep."

"Can you come in tonight?"

"When?"

"11."

Oh. "When can I expect to be done?"

"7... your duty manager's name is Nicole and she'll give you your schedule and have you do 90 minutes of [computer tutorials] tonight and then get you on the floor. I hope that wasn't too short notice!"


My sister just applied to be a part-time tutor at her university next year. That's a 3-hours-a-week job and it pays $13/hr for sitting around in the academic centre waiting for students to show up with homework problems.

*sigh*