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First day of work, and other things.

Before i start, myfursona devs. the lack of notifications when people write blogs and the disappearance of the 'remember me' option is getting highly annoying. They added a search function...but half the time it doesn't work properly....and you search for something and a person with the username of the exact query you entered doesn't show up till page 4...makes me wonder what is being done?

So, starting today, i officially join the ranks of the employed. I have a job as a 'stocker' for my college's bookstore.

So, i went to bed nice and early last night, to get up at 5 30 in the morning. I actually woke up at 5:18 am, for some reason, and just sat in bed until my alarm went off. I got up, showered, ate breakfast, washed up, and then enjoyed the return of fur affinity (lol) for 10 minutes, then drove to work.

This isn't the first time i'm admitting it, and it won't be the last. I HATE DRIVING. I'm new to it, it scares the living daylights out of me, and it makes matters worse where I don't really even know the town I live in, direction wise. So, here is my first time driving to some place that I don't really feel comfortable driving to, on my first day of work. Nervous? hell yes.

I manage to get to the parking garage where I would be parking in a good amount of time, besides having parking issues because A: I suck at parking and B: the lines for the parking spots were almost invisible and i had to get out and look at them to see them to make sure i wasn't being a jerk and taking two spots. So I manage to park, and I start the like 3 block trek to where the bookstore is. I of course have to go the long way around because we have to enter at the third floor for various reasons. I enter, and go into the staff break room area, where I fiddle with my locker, making sure it works, putting various stuff in there so I don't have to carry it all day. Then I come to the clock in machine. I don't have a 'timecard' yet, so i'm unsure of what to do here, I finally figure out that I'm supposed to fill out this sheet that is meant for missed 'clock ins' until I get a card, so I fill that out and pocket it so i can have my 'supervisor' sign it. I then sit in the break room, staring out the window, being bored, watching other employees converse and sit around on laptops or reading newspapers

At 7:30 i head down and and find the desk that I was told to report to. The lady around that area told me to go report to 'Dave' since i was a stocker. So she takes me into this back room area full of shelves of merchandise and carts and boxes abound. Dave is this bald headed guy who is short, strong, and his skin has a tint of red so he looks kinda menacing. Once I was introduced, basically his face contorted into a 'wtf?'' expression, then begins to explain to me that he was not expecting anyone for another week, and he had never had a student in his department before (as in a student employee). He sends me to go retrieve my schedule from my locker as he still doesn't believe i report to him, so I run and get it and show it to him, and he still goes 'wtf?'. So....he tells me to hang tight until he finishes what he was doing, so I sit there for 30 minutes, admiring the digitial clock screensaver on the inventory computers, taking in the entirety of the place.

He finally finishes and takes me to the administrative floor again to talk to some people...who had not arrived yet as its still early in the morning. So he takes me back down to the second floor again, and he finds a guy who is my 'real' supervisor, Andy. He greets me, introduces me to people behind the counter, and takes down my information from my schedule, as I am apparantly not on their either. Reassuring.....

I get a short tour of the place that i am NOT working,...and then I get taken to the back room where there is this warehouse type place, with tons of boxes everywhere. I get instructed to take some boxes onto a pallet and move them down to these storage containers at the other end of the warehouse. The guy i'm working with seems cool, has a sense of humor, but its most likely my shyness showing here, but I doubt i'm going to get to know him or anyone else very well.

So basically....my job is moving boxes from point a to point b. The points change,....moving the boxes coming off a truck into organized piles...putting boxes from a pallet into a storage container...and organizing boxes of binders by color and 'design' number (and there were like 30 different combination of this,....that was oh so fun). The constant lifting and carrying is making my arms hurt, but of course its because I have been sitting on my butt all summer. I guess this job will get me some muscles as least.

Anyway, this job has a combination of students at the college, and adults. It seems really weird working with half 18-20 year olds and then working with people who are like 40 and 60+ years old....the adults themselves seem smart and nice, and it makes me wonder why they are working with me (a temporary position for the back to school rush...) and why they found themselves out of work and unable to secure a job that they had to turn to something like this...makes me wonder and feel depressed that I have no idea what I'm going to do with my life, what i'm going to study in college...make a living...

but other then that, the job went smoothly. They doubled my hours on the first day....I was only supposed to work three hours but half way through they asked if i was able to work 3 more...since they are 'working out kinks in the scheduling'. i accepted since I dont do anything else all day and extra money is good, right?

oh and after i left, i had to drive home in pouring rain. As if i wasn't nervous about driving in the first place...lets add slippery roads and poor visibility!

I've also noticed that people are starting not to talk to me on messengers. I used to converse with several people..but now i'm online, and they are online, and I notice they no longer start up conversations, even though they most likely see me log on. Is it something I did...?