Daylight Comin', Me Wan' Go Home

One of the girls at work quit back at the beginning of July. She was the one who worked the night shift, and I was asked to take her place. I don't mind the night shift at all — hey, I am a Night Owl at heart — and it is great that I am now on a regular, straight shift rather than doing the crazy rotation of shifts that I had been working so far.

Furthermore, since her quitting put us one woman short on the team, I offered to fill-in the deficit until someone else could be interviewed and hired. So, I've been working 7 days a week for the past 3-ish weeks. Since I am now working as an hourly employee for the first time in 27 years, I am actually getting overtime pay for part of the week! That rocks! Of course, my pay rate is minimum wage, (the first job I've had since High School that pays so little) so even with 56 hours-per-week the paychecks are not the best in the world. As a couple of my friends keep reminding me, it is more than I was making when I was unemployed.

Last night, my manager asked me to start training a new employee that was hired for our team. It looks as if I might actually start having a day (or two) off each week again! Yay!

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