6-Day Work Weaks: Too Busy to Too Stupid or Too Proud

Maybe it was the sinus headache. Maybe it was the feeling that I just had to get my 13-hour day over with. Maybe it was driving in a loop to get to the first job thanks to the Illinois Marathon. Maybe it was the frustration building upon each day that I am in a holding pattern until I done putting the time in to beef up my resume. Whatever the reason, I want to get this day over with and my patience may not be there.

My manager at the retailer let me out 30 minutes early because of how slow the day was. I know the hotel would be sold out the previous night, but slow days elsewhere tend to represent slow days everywhere. Then there are parents to cheap to drive to Bloomington for Chuck E. Cheese.

Screw "Main Event of the Dead" (ask for a treatment of my zombie/pro-wrestling, no budget comedy by emailing russthebus07@gmail.com). I should ask for a loan to open a "Dave & Busters" in the CU. Jupiter's Pizza's main delicacy is not worthy of an arcade. Just give me half of the Toys R Us. You can have the other entrance for you seasonal Halloween store.

I guess you have families who are traveling great distances to celebrate the name day of a wee one. Why brave the road back home? Treat yourself by knowing you will not have to clean up a mess. Let your kids roam around and publicly not pay enough attention to them.

The youngsters should know it is never going to get better than tag around an ornamental fireplace. Who needs animatronics and skee-ball? They are never going to see Disney World anyway.

You can blame my OCD, but I do not want to remembered as a slob. When it comes to kids, I am no parent, but they would be my top priority, my primary job. Why would you want to look lousy at your job? If that is not a call for socialism, I do not know what is.

I bust my ass six days a week to earn less that $11.00 an hour while parents drop the responsibility on me of making sure there kids do not get injured on top of that. And I take pride in my work for that. Parents who leave their children asking me for solutions to why they cannot play video games in a business center or on their tablet seem to lack the pride. If they are making more than me, it is justified that I feel pissed. Customer service professionals are not people you should be inconsiderate to.

Like the douche who got lucky after I failed to realize a larger room was available. He asked for it and if we offered CDL discounts, which I replied with I do not believe so. Having to try and make me feel bad, he said "That's cool, but some in your chain do...most of them do." If you did not tell me you were getting a room to party in, maybe I'd knock $10 off.

Divine punishment I suppose for failing to realize that I could have moved a third-party reservation to a bigger room despite that party needs to learn the pitfalls of not booking directly with us. Sadly, they are so far the better guests, and I shouldn't come up with petty reasons to deny them better things. Failing to read your reservations details should not be the end-all be-all.

I would like to state that reading is the first part of societal empathy. If you are illiterate, that's society fault. But if you skip reading something, that is on you. It is on you unless you are trying to make sure that lawyers actually have a valid purpose. Someone has to read the terms, might as well be them.

If only I could electrify the floor to make customers avoid exit lanes at check out. You are not special, and again, you do not look good when the line starts to form. But, the employer is not putting up an "exit" sign to have them read. This may lead them to think they are not breaking any rules despite there are "enter" signs.

People seem to get more ignorant on the weekend. I do not mind answering questions, but when an expert answered it first, do not expect me to recant their response. If you tell me you bought something four months ago and did not plan to use it until after the three-month manufacturer warranty expired, it is not our responsibility to correct your ill conceived plan, not ours. Buy the warranty in December. You are still paying way less than MSRP.

Being slobbish on the weekends. Failing to take the time to think before you act on a Saturday. I think you may be abusing your finer wage and reasonable schedule. We need to correct this. So lets make you appreciate your downtime.

WE SHOULD ALL WORK SIX DAYS A WEEK UNTIL 40.

The only detriment to this that I see is an economic hit from not having that extra day to be stupid. I say that we are still all pretty weak when it comes to impulse buys, so the chance of this happening is slim. Why are you going to buy the latest video game when you do not have time to play it? Because I am a completionist and optimist.

But, you are not going to ask those stupid questions with less time. When are you going to come up with your bullshit reasons why a bad purchase is not my fault? For the sub $11 per hour, you will know our struggle so you will not be a twat about it.

The sub $11 may be encouraged to show you more respect. We will aspire to find new ways to make everything even easier on you and all you have to do is make it easier on us. Who does not admire the on call doctor who is damn near guaranteed a 60-week? We admire them but not the clerk who is forced to read scripts.

People we admire get unearned perks, that has always been the way. I am just a man wanting to admire everyone. Here's to finding a city where I can do that.