I know I haven't posted in a while, but SO much has been going on! lol Let's see, where do I start?
March 19th was the last day at my job that I've been at for a few years. I wasn't getting any hours and it was conflicting with my second job, which was giving me almost triple the hours of my first job, plus it was alot closer to home. I was sad to go but I had to do what I had to do.
A few weeks later, my friend Paige and I went applying for jobs in Tampa. We went store to store in several malls in the area, hoping to get something! We seriously applied to every imaginably possible! So I came back home after spending the long weekend with Paige at her new apartment in Tampa. Not even a week later, I'd gotten a call from Forever 21! They called me in for an interview for that following monday. I went in for an interview and they interviewed Me and 2 other girls, Alyssa and......oh gosh, I can't remember the other girls name. Anyway, they gave all 3 of us jobs on the spot! I was SO excited and happy! I wasn't too familiar with Forever 21 because we didn't have one in my area. So in ONE WEEK, I had applied for a job, got an interview, nailed it and got a job! I was pretty freakin excited. They said they would contact us in about a week or so to do paperwork. I didnt hear anything for almost 2 weeks. I called and called but they either never answered, or there was never a manager available. Finally, 2 Friday's later, I got a hold of a manager and explained to her that I hadn't heard anything and was wondering when I could come fill out paperwork. She asked me to hold for a moment while she looked at the schedule. Then she gets back on and tells me I start on SUNDAY! 2 days from then! I told her that it was fine and I'd see them on sunday.
And then, I started to panic.
2 days. Really? Seriously? I had 2 days, to pack EVERYTHING I was taking with me, and lug it up to Tampa and move it into my grandparents house? I immediately got to work. I got everything packed by saturday night. Then came the hard part; saying goodbye to my friends. It wasn't as hard to say bye to my parents because I was going to still be living with family that we saw fairly often, so it wasn't like I wouldn't see them soon. My friends however, was a completely different story. I said goodbye to whoever I could on such short notice, but the hardest person to say goodbye to, was my best friend Josh.
I don't think I've ever mentioned Josh before in my blogs, but he and I have been super close since we were 12. We met up and I gave him a collage pic of us in a frame and we said our goodbyes and I drove 2 hours north to Tampa.
My family up there was very happy for me to be moving in with them. They had cleaned out the spare room for me, so that when I got there, I could easily unpack, decorate and make myself at home. I did and this is how my new room looked!
Cute right?! I was going for a Black&White with red accent theme I guess you could call it. I kinda miss this little room.
Anyway, long story short, I stayed at F21 for a month, was treated like shit everyday by the girls, was played by favorites, stayed there til 1am every single night because they don't do go backs til after the store closes. So I quit, walked out on them. The last straw I had, came on my last day there. I got there at 4 and was told I was going on break at 8. The mall closes at 9:30 so I had 30 mins to get my dinner then come back to work. So I was working fitting rooms and was told I wasnt going on break til 9:30 because a girl (lets call her "Ashley") came in at FOUR and needs to go on break. I was like "um hello? I got here at 4 too?" They ignored me and let Ashley go on break. When I asked if I can go on break earlier, my manager says "You go on break when we say you do" When I said that if I went on break at the time I was told, I wouldn't be able to eat dinner. To which she replied "Well maybe you should learn how to pack a lunch" before walking away. Seriously? wtf? So 8:50 rolls around and they say I can go on my break. So I walk into the hallway and was looking at the schedule for next week (which I had requested Easter weekend off because I was going out of town) and they had me working. So that was straw number #3. As I'm looking at the schedule, I can hear my co-workers talking in the break room around the corner (they couldn't see or hear me in the hallway outside) and I hear them talking the usual crap about fellow co-workers. And i hear this one particularly nasty girl (whos always stuck up and rude to everyone) say "What's up with that stupid new fat bitch with glasses working the fitting room?" Oh. I knew it was me, and you can bet your ass I was FURIOUS. I walked in, gave them a dirty look, grabbed my purse, slammed my locker shut, gave them another dirty look, and instead of clocking out for break, I clocked out to go home and walked out.
So that was the end of that. I packed up my things a few days later, and moved back home.
I sadly haven't been able to find employment since, but if my new plan works out, I might be moving to Orlando with one of my friends and get a job up there. Cross your fingers for me! But since then I've been hanging out with friends, family, Josh, my neighbors and alot of other people. It's been fun, but I need to get back to reality lol.
Well, I think thats it for todays entry. Sorry I slammed you guys with so much lol. I'll post again soon, I promise!
Lots of Love,
Mel
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