Edit 15:15 : I forgot to talk about my new boss; She's definitely good at her job, but she's so horrible. You know the kind of manager who never says 'well done', who never motivates you, who never meshes with the other employees cos she's so up her own arse, even though she arrived in the Box Office like a year after me as a casual, she just had the time and the experience required to go for the duty manager job. I'm so pissed that our previous manager left to go back to Australia. He was great at his job, very hard working, motivating, strict, but also nice and funny and helpful, and relax when needed you know! She's just not. So I left work crying on friday. I've only worked 3 days there since she's been manager (sounds like not much but since this is my last year at uni, i don't have that much time for work at all), and I can already see the influence she's had: good in the way that the office is organised and she's made executive changes that are good even though fucking time consuming (like having to send a confirmation email to everyone who books tickets through the disabled booking line, even though the phone usually rings non stop), but really bad in the way that she's out of order when she relates to us all.
On friday evening, I was the last one to leave the office, before her, and I went to tell her that I was sorry I couldn't work that much but that as soon as I was finished with uni, I'd be like "Yay, work!" (I obviously meant it like 'yay, finally time to earn money!!') and she answers me with disdain "no, you won't". Fucking bitch!
Another anecdote is about me closing my window when it said it was 9:05pm on my computer (I finish at 9pm). She comes over, sees that my colleague's computer says 8:58pm, and tells me to reopen my window (even though my colleague had closed hers and was already counting her money - which takes about 15 minutes). So I had to reopen my window, take another customer, and finish 15 minutes late, leaving work at 9:30 instead of 9:15 at most, obviously time that I'm not getting paid for!!
I think she doesn't like me. I don't think she likes anyone to be honest and doesn't hide it very well.
Anyway, when I ask for 4 shifts, I only get 2, let's see if I ask for 2 how many she'll give me.
So that's it, I don't know what I'll do, cos when I finish uni, I plan on working a minimum of 4 shifts per week, and when Pat was manager, he really helped when I needed more shifts in the summer, I just don't know how helpful she'll be. I really hope I'll get what I want/need cos otherwise I'm gonna need to find a new job straight away, and I thought I could wait for after our Cyprus trip in October (if that happens) to do that...
