All in 1 day:
Learn that my application for promotion was rejected arbitrally. The application was glanced at by my superiors, and two days later I was informed I did not get the job. It was today that I learned that it wasn’t for another three days that management began interviewing the applicants. This came as a surprise to my co-workers as I am already performing, and performing well, most of the work I was applying for. Probably because I only have partial college education (the job is High School degree and/or experience), that I took several weeks off last year caring for a bed-ridden parent (yes, that includes wiping their ass and turning them to stop bed sores), and paragraph #3 below.
Everything I own is breaking or broken—or has been replaced over the past three years. TV? Won’t turn on. Monitor? At it’s brightest setting it’s about half as bright as the monitors at work. Bathtub? Hole where there shouldn’t be. Refrigerator? Busted for two days. I’m barely not in debt, though I’m living paycheck to paycheck, and will be for some time.
A psycho-bitch co-worker asked me out on a date. This wouldn’t be a completely bad thing, except that she is immature and four months ago she tried to start rumors about my sexual orientation when I ignored her advances. The reason for her sudden re-interest? She broke-up with her boyfriend (another co-worker) after catching him with another woman. She is also trying to win him back. Oh yeah, and these two love-birds were disciplined two or three months ago after they were caught screwing each other in a stairwell. She’ll start shit again when she realizes I want no part of her or her drama.
I informed my superiors about this possible problem today (they are fully aware of what had happened previously, and it had been my choice not to pursue sexual harassment charges against her since I was able to take a shift that I both wanted and had minimal contact with her instead – it kept everything out of my official employment records)…and their response was disinterest. Or more precisely, they all-but accused me of trying to start something, when all I was doing was trying to give them pre-warning of possible problems. I never gave them details, just that she was contacting me for dates again and I wanted nothing to do with her.
A young woman I am interested in blew me off again for a first date. She says she wants to go out with me, but each time I try to set a day/time she reneges. I might give it one more shot, then after that just forget it…I’m not sure. I might just make a colossal blunder and give her control of scheduling.
I figure those last three paragraphs fit in this board. I feel like just giving it all up and become a mindless drone at this rate, but I’m open to suggestions.