I got fired today!
 

Yep. I got fired for being too slow at making coffee. A likely excuse. In all reality I was inciting panic in employees by telling them about the ridiculous reasons for people being hired and fired recently. People who have no plans to gain an education can keep a job at Tim Hortons' for 25 years, even though they make coffee at half my speed. Management overheard me and another guy complaining and now I'm out of a job. Just one week before my probationary period was up, and I got fired. They certainly waited to get the most out of their money, because one week longer and they'd have to give me a raise. Ridiculous. Even if I was fired for being slow, that's quite a contradiction. We're told that customers come first, and we should do our best to give them what they want. They tell us that, but want us to do everything fast, fast, fast. I'm just morally opposed to doing anything less than a proper job.

The best part is how I've been sick with a flu bug for the past 72 hours. I called in sick last night for today's shift and the Manager has the guts to call my house in the early morning, wake me from the sleep I had just fallen into, all to tell me my "position was terminated". Real fucking classy.

I know the above probably sounds like I'm pretty angry, but I truly could not care less. The job was killing me. After getting that call, all my flu bug symptoms were gone, and I was able to sit and draw something other than fan art, for the first time since I started working at Tim Hortons'. Literally sucked the life out of me. I'm so much happier now, and am hoping to find a job at a nice little artsy coffee place. Somewhere relaxed, where it's okay to do things right instead of just fast. Where I can be creative, get my photography hung on the wall and serve fair trade coffee.

End of ranting/ expression of gratitude.

Best of luck Miss M.

It's awful to have a job you hate. Hope you find something better soon.

Tough luck Miss. Hopefully you'll find something better, eh.

Well, Congrats on losing your job. I guess thats the best way to say it, given your statement about how you hated the job so much. And you'll find a better one. Don't worry about it.

You can work for me. And be the little lady. Yes. I am a newlyfound chauvenist. Now make me a mocha.

Sounds like you're better off, MissM. I don't hate my job, I tolerate it.
One day....you'll find the same thing ;)

Where is my coffee, I ordered it a fucking hour ago!

Take the experience with you.

Why do you only want to work at Coffee places?

Maybe she really likes coffee? Or maybe shes attracted to the twats that go there and sit at the tables with their fucking laptops typing away at their novels that nobody is ever going to read, just to feed into his own twisted image of self worth?

Don't ask me why, but people who go to coffee shops to get work done just fucking annoy me. It makes me want to dump my overpriced coffee on their laptops. I mean seriously, who goes into a public place to get work done, like writers.... I mean cmon. They are just there to look cool or some shit. I don't know. Fuck em.

What assholes. The service industry seriously sucks, especially at fast food-type chains (I know it's not a Wendy's, but it's like fast food coffee; pretty much the same idea).

You're a threat to management; you're the person that makes them think, "What am I doing with my life?"

Good to hear that it's giving you some breathing room to get inspired... You should post it... I love your art.

Good luck, MM.