So Open Enrollment for part-time insurance benefits at work is about to begin. I’d already decided to enroll for the dental at the very least so I’m now trying to decipher what it all means. It can be really confusing to someone who’s never really dealt with insurance before, ya know?
I’m wondering though, if this might be that step that insures I’ll quit. You know how that goes, you wanna do something and keep giving yourself reasons not to and then when you’ve finally got a solid reason, you end up doing it anyway now that it really makes no sense!
I dunno. Things have been changing a little though. My new manager is pretty awesome. She’s a really logical person and doesn’t seem to have a lot of tolerance for things that just don’t make sense…she’s really understanding when it comes to how we deal with a lot of things.
We’ve gotten some new equipment too, but it’s been stuff like used cisco routers for their offices and new registers–same kind, just new–not the stuff we need like new credit machines and new deactivators. Actually, I guess they did replace a few of the credit machines, but they didn’t replace two of the ones that absolutely needed it and well, they’re not good machines to begin with; we really needed to be able to move to a different kind or something. These are horrible at reading cards and they don’t even tell you that it didn’t read your card until after you’ve put in your pin, chosen cash back and approved the sale, so of course, people tend to worry they’ll be charged twice–they’re not. In two years I’ve never known anyone to be, but it’s annoying to deal with on top of the other general things that put customers on edge with you.
I’m starting to realize it’s just not Lowe’s that bothers me anymore. As far as jobs go, it’s fine now. There was a lot of stupid stuff going on for a long time and well, there are still some stupid things, but for what I actually deal with, it’s not horrible. I think I’m just really sick of retail in general. I want a desk job so badly, but I just don’t know how to have one while I’m still working on school. I think the closest I could get would be working at a hotel, but really, that’s not much of a step away from retail when you think of what I’d be dealing with there.
I’ll get my insurance–that means I have to stay on for at least another 6 months or so–it’ll be that long before some of the dental benefits I need will kick in. Maybe by then I’ll have my retail second wind and I’ll be able to keep on. Or maybe by then Publisher’s Clearing House will have given me ten million or $5,000 a week for life…..::dreams::
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