calling to change your mood

It’s funny and weird how one simple call changes my mood. It was nothing big, but still, it was nice.
On Wednesday I forgot my cell on vibrate and on the next morning didn’t hear when I was called about 2 deliveries I could have had. As my 2nd part time job, I work at Boston Market as a delivery driver, and the way it works is that the delivery manager calls us, the drivers, around 9:00am to ask if we are available and give us the location and time of the delivery. Now since I didn’t answer, my manager went to next driver on the list. Anyways, so I was a little pissed during the day that I forgot it on vibrate. I also had lot of free time and got bored. I hate getting bored.

Then I went to my other job (as a projectionist in the cinemas) and found out that I didn’t get my $1.5 raise yet. So now I was pissed again, really pissed. I started thinking what I’ll tell my boss. “…I still haven’t gotten my raise yet, either you guarantee that I will see the raise in the next paycheck plus an additional check with the amount of the raise times all those hours I worked since I was supposed and promised to get a raise (which was when I start working the projectors by myself) or I quit right now…” Lucky him he wasn’t there or I didn’t see him (there are like 7 guys working in the projectors and I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t want to lose me, I haven’t screwed up any movies yet, others did).

But then, as I was building a movie, I got a call from my delivery manager asking me if I can do a delivery tomorrow (Friday) and that’s after telling him that Fridays are a problem for me. The reason is that on Thursdays at the cinemas we get the new movies that come out on Fridays. We need to build them, and then we need to watch them. There are a lot of other things we need to do, so we get off usually not before 2:00am. which means I go to sleep around 3:00am (after I shower and all that). So to get up at 8:30am and wait for a call from my deliver manager isn’t something I’m really looking for. I also need to sleep sometimes, not just work.
Now since he called me on Thursday evening (7:30pm) then I was able to say “sure I’ll take it, thank you!.” Another reason why it’s funny is because where I was at the moment I usually never get reception, but when he called I did have. I almost lost the call but had enough single to hear the time and location and tell him that I’ll take it.

I hope this post wasn’t too confusing…

~ by LiLi on November 23, 2008.