Jobless and Laughing

First thing is first I'm new to this so l'll start with my hellos. Hello hub people. First in this first ever posting I will explain why I'm here. I'm here because I need some kind of vent space. A place to let my brain release everything inside so I don't go completely wack-job, nut-case, section 8, koo koo, you get the idea.

I worked a dead end job for 5 years. I got pay raises on a regular basis based on my efforts. At least that's how things started. I was quite content being a "burger flipper". Then one day new management came in. Greedy annoying "I cant do my job because I don't really know this store yet so you'll have to help me out till I'm used to it" what that means is "get under my desk and ware a neck brace" basically. Not literally of course. The first day of the job the new manager hired 20 people. Random selection. And most of them were and are lazy. We had a fine crew before this. Sure some of them had attitudes but we got along and got the job done.

The next stage of our glorious new leader's brilliance was to fire 15 people. He fire them based on if they said no to cleaning the toilets. We have a person who does this already 3 of them. Their jobs were safe. One day I was asked if I wanted to make more hours and more money. My response was sure why not. So I move to the position of "day porter." What this means is I clean the parking lot, restrooms, and hand scrub the walls. No big deal really. Also I took the trash out.

The hours got better for a while the pay went up but as my pay went up my hours began to drop. Given my new managers history of firing people based on how well they kissed the brown eye. I sat where I was for about a year and some change. Eventually the manager got a slight promotion it wasn't official but he wanted to swap stores since there were two stores in my town. He moved most of the crew stayed. Over this time I got so hard up for cash I made yet another deal with this devil. This time for full time employment.. Yeah that lasted about half the year..

Did I mention I had quit this place twice?

Did I also mention I was asked to come back multiple times while I was unemployed?

I was working in a warehouse 12-15 hrs a day 5 days a week some times 6 days. I had worked my way to night foreman so I told my self " I can leave this burger joint". So I quit my burger job and when in the work at the warehouse. I was greeted with grim expressions. I will discuss the reasons for this in my next blog. But staying on task I was laid off the same day. But the paper work for my warehouse job apparently never made it to the DOL. Which means when I applied for unemployment I was told I'd get about 80 bucks a week.. That's right.. You can guess where I told them to stick that.. I went back to the burger joint and worked there.

My cousin who had a job in atlanta said, "Hey I make lots of money and it's easy come try it out man. So I go, I fill out the application which I later find they tossed in the garbage after making me fill it out twice due to my horrid handwriting. Since I'm unaware of this I give my two weeks notice to burger joint and I move to atlanta only to find there are no jobs at the paper.. "Oh how wonderful I can't get away form this nightmare." I go a while and i get a job holding a sign by the road.. It was seasonal it ended I'm unemployed again.

Is it just me or am I cursed?

I'm laughing at all this.. But only because its all so absurd.. So come laugh with me..
If you haven't noticed i've become very sarcastic.