Horrible

Last night I was trying to get some sleep, and I couldn't get sleep, which infuriated me. After a few hours of sleeplessness, I got a text message, sent to people who work at Crumb Brothers, the bakery I work at. It was from a coworker, and she said that "something came up" and she wasn't "able to make it" to her shift the next day (today). I have the morning shift, from 6 to 10, so I can go to school from 11 to 2 and then work the evening from 4 until whenever I get done. This girl's shift was from 10 to 2.

Well, at about 9:58 this morning at work, I started looking for her to come through the door, or to at least drive up and park in the parking lot or something. The bus comes by my work at 14 minutes after the hour, so I was really hoping to make that bus so I could get to school by 11. Every minute I looked at the clock with great interest and passion, hoping that this girl would come and relieve me. I called her and left her a text message, and she didn't even bother to answer her phone. Somehow she is able to use it at 1:13 a.m. but not at 10:03 a.m.? What the stink? Anyway, there was no one to relieve me. I just had to be stuck with it. I was stuck there until almost 3:00 this afternoon, and then went straight to my other job. I can't imagine what could have "come up." If her mother died, I'd think she would say in her text message that her mother had died. I think that she would have called the manager (who isn't there on Mondays, but we have been given her home phone number, and it's on the same paper where she got my phone number). Maybe she got stuck in Puerto Rico or Russia --- but I'd think she'd also have mentioned that in her text message. And I think she'd also have called the manager about something like that. When she says "something came up" and "I won't be able to make it," I think she decided to go to a movie with her boyfriend. Or that she wanted to go to a birthday party.

BUT YOU DON'T JUST NOT SHOW UP. It wasn't my responsibility to be there this afternoon. It was my responsibility and obligation to be at SCHOOL. That's the "something that came up" for ME. The fact that she ignored my phone call and text message really ticks me off. She should have at least let me know she wasn't going to be there at all, so I knew what to count on, or so I could arrange a replacement (even though that's not my responsibility --- I'd have been happy to do that if I at least knew what to expect!!). I know I can't count on her for any reason. I am so incredibly bothered by this situation. In retrospect, I'm glad she didn't show up at all because I'd have been angry with her and probably have said how I felt, which may have made her cry, and I don't like it when I make people cry. I don't think she wants a job that badly. For a girl who's getting between 8-12 hours a week and missing a 4-hour shift so irresponsibly, she's not really proving her desire and commitment for a job.