Fired again!

Hi internet. I got fired. I seem to get fired a lot. I've been fired three times in as many hundred days. It's not like I don't know why either. Here are the reasons for the last three times chronologically, starting with the longest time ago and ending with the job I got fired from this week.

1. The Convenience Store: I hated that job. I acted like a dick to people all the time. Too many complaints, so I got fired. Assholes.

2. The Restaurant: I was a server. I liked that job. They hired 5 of us at the same time even though they were going out of business. They didn't tell us that they were in danger of going out of business. Then they fired us to save the restaurant. Then they lost the restaurant. Assholes. But funny in the end.

3. The Furnace Cleaning Company: They hired me knowing I would be going back to school next fall. They assured me (all of us) multiple times that no one would be fired for lack of business, ever. LIKE EVER! Like it has never happened and will never happen. Then, with no warning whatsoever... they fired me. 'Cause I would be going back to school in September, and since business was slow they couldn't keep me around. Assholes.

I'm angry, because I could have lied to the Furnace Cleaning Company but didn't. I was upfront with my intentions with the job, letting them know when I would be planning to leave. They did not repay the courtesy at the time of hiring when they could have told me that they were probably only going to keep me around for when it was busy, and in fact actively told me (all of us) that my position was safe there.

But I'm mostly just angry because it feels like I'm putting my future into other peoples hands. I have no choice but to trust these people that they will not be screwing me over, interrupting my life plans, endangering me of becoming homeless and/or working at a fast food chain and humiliating me in front of my friends and family as I once again attempt to explain to them why I am jobless and why all of my planning and scheming will likely not come into fruition. And then they do. Assholes.

(Yes, I do realize that all of that really doesn't apply to the Convenience Store. But seriously, have you ever worked in a convenience store? It sucks donkey balls. Every other customer just treats you like total shit just because they can and know you can't do anything about it. Fuck that.)

But being fired is not so bad. One door closes, another one opens and all that. Here are my plans for being fired, not necessarily in the order that they will be accomplished, but probably:

1. Write this blog. It's good to have routine when you're fired. It puts off depression. We need to feel productive so we can feel good about ourselves.

2. Watch Michael Cera movies, or movies that he is in, as many of them as I can. I don't even really like Michael Cera all that much, really. He's alright. He's pretty good I guess. I have watched Juno and Nick and Norah already, and I'm gonna watch Superbad and Paperheart next. Maybe I should go see Youth in Revolt. If that's still in theater.

3. Build a gigantic pyramid out of empty Fresca cans on my coffee table. One that will be so high it will reach my ceiling. I'm five cans in. I'll post pictures! Fresca is good, because it has no sugar (in the biz' this is called "sugar-free") and actually tastes really citrusy, unlike sprite and 7-up which just taste sugary and syrupy.

4. Get a job, obviously.

5. Read Dale Carnegie's book "How to Win Friends and Influence People." Because I wanna get really popular and have lot's of friends. So far I have finished the first chapter. The first principal is "Don't criticize, condemn, or complain." That sounds really hard to do when taking into consideration my own personal shortcomings and limitations, but I will try.

6. Get out. Like, out of this house. This goal should go well with goal 4 I think.

Honestly, I don't know why I'm so upset. This could be a great opportunity for me. That job payed quite poorly and the next one might be better, to begin with. I should not be trying to derive satisfaction in life from the lame jay-oh-bee that I am working anyway. I know this. I should focus my attentions on the things that nourish my soul and enrich my personal being. There is opportunity here. There is hope. I could make a empty Fresca can pyramid, 'cause I alway wanted to and now I have the time! So I'm gonna blog about that.