I'm mad at Taco Bell

So yesterday after my entry of the phone and my psychic connection, I was sitting here and I thought the stupidest thought that I have ever thought. I thought it was a good idea at the time.

At Taco Bell there is a shift manager (Shelly) that only works on Sunday's because she works as a house keeper at the hospital here. So I got the brillant idea that I would ask Rod if I could work like two nights a week and keep my job there at Taco Bell.

Before I had even punched in I had changed my mind about it, but I had already told Rod I would like to talk to him about something. That was before he totally pissed me off. (I didn't really realize how pissed I was at him until later in the night when I made myself sick thinking about it.)

Shelly was covering a shift yesterday and when I walked through the doors she was running around like a manic cleaning things up. She was sweeping when I got back to the sink after telling Rod I would like to talk to him before he left for the day. Shelly starts telling Rod she isn't trying to be like Joe (one of the assistant managers) and leave her pile of dirt in the middle of the floor so someone else can clean it up. She just needs to hurry and wash her hands so that she can help him so the customers can get their food faster.

Rod turned and looked at me and said something about her getting her nose out of his ass.

My comment to Rod (knowing that he is a little sensitive about his size) was "You don't think there is room for both Travis's and her's?"

Shelly heard my voice and asked Rod if I was talking shit about her. He said yes and the told her that I had said what he had said.

By this time I was standing up at the counter taking an order. When I finished Shelly turned to me and said, "I used to think not a bad word could come out of your mouth. My opinion of you has totally changed."

At first I couldn't understand where Shelly had taken offense in me making fun of the size of Rod's butt. Then Rod turned to me and said that he had blamed me for everything that was said.

Once everyone had gotten their food, Rod asked what I wanted to talk to him about. I told him I didn't want to talk to him any more because he was a jerk, and he had made Shelly mad at me for something I hadn't said.

He drug Shelly up into the corner and told her that I hadn't said what he said I said he had and then asked me to talk to him.

So I told him my crazy idea and he turned it into getting me as many hours as he could working around my school schedule and my Target schedule, which wasn't at all what I wanted. I told him I would let him know what happens at my orientation on Tuesday.

After work last night, and this morning I am just so tired of the place that I think I may go in tomorrow and tell him that it was a stupid idea and that I don't think it will work. If I knew that I could be the one girl that he wouldn't make cry I would tell him that after the way he made me the fall guy for his comment on Shelly being a brown noser I don't really feel safe working for him anymore. What if next time I just happen to be working the wrong shift and he messes up something with the money and he decides to put that off me too.

But I barely made it away from our talk yesterday not crying. Something about that man and the way he talks to women makes them cry. I have seen every other girl that works in that store cry because of him and one of his talks with them.

As of last night when I figured out what was bugging me so much I don't even care if I leave Taco Bell with Rod as a friend. That is how upset I am about this.

I don't want to be scheduled anymore after next week. I should have told Joe not to plan on putting me on the next schedule when I was working with him today, but I am pissed off at him today too.

I closed last night. I was at work until almost 3am (we actually got out of there early this morning) and I had to be back to work at 10:30. Joe took the headset from Melissa as soon as I walked through the doors and he hung out in the office for pretty much the whole time I was there. Taking the few orders that came through drive-thru and a few counter orders and maybe helping me online for 10-15 minutes, the whole 4.5 hours I was there. The few times he did come out of the office he checked the food online (made sure there was enough.) I watched him check the rice, so I thought he had made another pan of rice. I had about 12 scoops of rice left and I asked him if there was another rice. He hadn't made one, but he said he would as soon as he finished something in the office.

Between finished what ever it was in the office and taking an order I had used 8 scoops of rice. Then he lost the scissors, and yelled at me for them, (that didn't upset me because I thought I was the last person to use them.) Melissa said she had used them to open a bag of border fryz so they should have been on the fry table, but they weren't. I went back into the storage section of the store and found the scissors right where Joe had left them when he grabbed the rice seasoning. (I'm a great detective.)

By the time Joe had finished making the rice I had run out. You have to wait 45 minutes for the rice to rehydrate so I was out of rice for 45 minutes. He was mad at me for running out of rice. Then he was mad at me for not having the pans rotated. With as busy as I was being the only person making food, he was lucky that I asked Melissa to drop food when I did or we would have run out of everything.

He stormed around the store for about 15 minutes throwing pans around and behaving as if Melissa and I hadn't done anything all morning. By 2pm (an hour before our shifts ended) Melissa and I were seriously thinking about walking out on Joe and leaving him to run the store all by himself.

So I guess I get to go in on my day off (tomorrow) and tell Rod that I have changed my mind about trying to work both jobs and ask him not to schedule me after Tuesday the 6th. Hopefully I will walk out of the store with no tears shead.