Scorp Scopes

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Tuesday is the most passionate day of the year so far. Look to get an exciting
message from someone you previously considered too fickle to count on. A
fortunate financial situation could lead you to consider investments, although you should wait until next week to make any big commitments.

Your luck this week:
Love: A
Money: A
Work: B
Signs to seek: Cancer, Virgo
Signs to avoid: Leo, Libra

Your most important tool today is your sense of humor. You could be dealing with hostile customers, annoying coworkers, or rude strangers. By laughing it off, you will be able to relax.

Lately my horoscopes have been so true, it's scary. So check this out. I'm standing at the POS (basically a combo computer/cash register) doing my little excercises I have to do as part of my training, and it's really freaking hard, and all this noise is happening all around me, and it's all chaotic because we had a huge freight shipment come in, and blah blah blah, and I don't even know what I'm doing, my head is pounding threatening me with a migraine which I never even get, and like three customers in a row who totally had attitudes for ABSOLUTELY no reason come up to my register, which is fine, they didn't know I wasn't authorized to ring them up so I can't fault them for that, but I was really super nice about it and I said, "I'm training so I can't ring you up, but she (coworker) can at the next register". Not a word. Not a smile, nothing. It's okay...maybe they were all having a bad day. It's just frustrating that even though I *feel* like freaking out and running away if not being a total cookiemonster, yet make this huge effort to be EXTRA sweet to people, and they just couldn't care less, that's upsetting. Not that I need validation from other people, but I had forgotten that sometimes there are some customers who are never going to be happy, no matter how you try to help them and no matter how nice and friendly you are to them. And of course, I don't have a schedule written for next week when I asked and was told that in fact my schedule would be ready 5 weeks in advance, always. And if I have to read one more thing I'm going to get all Linda Blair. And I'm really trying not to complain. Really. I just feel like crying
😢

oh and this woman wouldn't stop staring at me, as if i couldn't see her out of the corner of my eye staring, while i'm being beeped at by the POS and i'm making mistake after mistake (luckily none of my mistakes count yet since i'm in training mode), so eventually i just looked up at her and smiled, and she looked away. why are people so lame

um...i just realized how negative that whole post looks. I should point out that the vast majority of customers seem to be really nice and talkative (sometimes too talkative) and friendly and whatever. It's just that this was toward the end of the day, and I wasn't doing very well on my excercises, and all the noise was driving me nuts, and it was all getting really overwhelming. So I think maybe I'm being too sensitive about every little thing.

And yes, I realize that I am talking to myself.
lol

p.s., as much as i hate everything right now, i actually like the job. it's hard to explain. I got 100% on a hazardous chemicals test. lol. woohoo

p.s.s. why in god's name can't they make calculators with a percent button that you can just press and find out what 50% off something is— WHY NOT—??!—??

Oh, and because I read my horoscope on here this morning before work, I remembered to laugh things off so I could relax. lol. It actually worked!

what a weird day

Don't worry, I've experienced the same thing, phoenix. 🙂 I work at Starbucks, and you wouldn't believe the type of people you meet there. You made me think of myself when you were explaining how you feel about being nice to a customer and they ignore you. New jobs can be very overwhelming when it's something completely foreign to you.

After a while, you'll get used to all of the customers, noises, etc. I sometimes keep myself motivated at work by thinking of what I'm going to do after work, which keeps me going through the day.

haha, you're funny!

Oh, Scorp Guy, you just made me feel a lot better -- thank you. So, I'm not the only one! Thank God. Great idea about thinking about what you're gonna do after work, I should try that. Most of the time what I'm thinking is, "there's a good chance I'm retarded...or this machine hates me. I don't think I can do this. When do I get to clock out and go home?" lol. Seriously. I need to like, get some confidence going somehow...I mean, I can fake that I have it, but I definitely don't feel it.

lol, Libragirl 😛

Hey Phoenix girl, you made me laugh so much today, i can not thank you enough. I could just imagine the whole thing so clearly... I had this image of you smiling and looking like you knew what you were doing but having this look in your eyes of "what the butter do i do next?"!

When you start a new job they throw you in the deep end and expect you to know everything, you've just got to "nod and smile". I used to work with a cash register and after a while you get to know it and it seems like second nature.

I just wanted to tell you your post made me laugh all day, and i really needed it. I think it's the way you explain things in such fine detail that makes it so easy to imagine. And the fact you were talking to yourself. I am so glad you're mad just like me...!

Btw, how's that virgo guy going? Don't mean to bring it up but would hate to give the impression i don't care, cos i do *smiles... It's so frustrating, sometimes you want to give your dxpnet friends a hug and you can't 😢

Oh butter, i have to go to work now. Oh yeah, just a quickie, i used to get through work by thinking i wasn't allowed to look at the clock until the next hour. I know it sounds strange but it used to work. I used to make such a concerted effort not to look at the clock that i would actually forget to time-watch and it would pass quicker. I dunno, my warped logic maybe, who knows...

Adios Amigo and i will speak to you soon. Have a nice day to whoever shall read this. I am spewing i have to go to work, i wanted to tell you guys (?!) about a film i saw today, "far from heaven", or something. Anyway, that can wait for later. Now I've got verbal diarrohea, butter, im running late.

Seeya... (*the 'seeya' bit trails off as libragirl runs for the car).

Libragirl, you're actually quite funny too! And thanks for the compliments, very nice of you! 🙂 I know what you mean about wanting to hug your dxpnet friends. lol, I feel exactly the same way. I feel better about my day at work today because I forced myself to stop putting so much pressure on myself to do everything freaking perfectly, I thought "they wanted me to work here, stop trying to please everyone so much and just do what you know and the rest will fall into place". I just thought, you know what, I'm not gonna be perfect, ever, no matter what, so unless I want to give myself an inferiority complex, I'm just going to have to cut myself some slack. My boyfriend actually was the one who made me really see all of that yesterday, suprisingly. Also, the other girls I work with are extra super nice and helpful, and they all keep helping me out when I don't understand something, and they've really been good about not making me feel stupid. lol, which helps, because much of the time I feel pretty stupid. lol. But anyway, I wanted to thank everyone here for also being so helpful, it's all been very crucial for me...i thought I was going insane, but maybe i'm in the same position a lot of people have been in?

Hope you had a good day Libragirl!🙂

PS...the Virgo guy (thank ya for asking!) is still away on his trip, he'll be back in like five or six weeks i think. Honestly, I haven't had hardly a chance at all to worry about that (but of course, I have worried a little) as far as what will happen when he comes back because I've been totally focused on this job thing. I have to write him at least a couple letters though, because we agreed that we would write each other...I don't really know how I'm going to word them though...ugh, I don't want to think about it right now. lol

Hey, im glad the work thing is going well 😉