Now the bad day starts morphing into a bad week it seems...Tuesday I go in for the meeting all of us had with the big boss.

She uses the time to get our schedules down and also decided to "unveal" her new plan for workstudies/bookstore. She wants to completely change the way the bookstore runs.

As a bookstore workstudy we only get paid like $7.55/hr no benefits (no medical, no vaction or sick time) there is no advancement or raises in the workstudy program and you have to be enrolled as a full time student and once you graduate you are immediately out of a job, no exceptions. What makes the job appealing is the fact that while we work hard it came in little clusters followed by clusters of down time.

Before the bookstore ran like this. Our old boss Don would have a list of things to do for the day around the building, if we finished that list of stuff, pretty much the rest of the day we had to sit in the bookstore and just wait for staff or students to come down and ask for things. Also if some of the jobs were highly strenuous like having to move a bunch of furniture or something, after it was done we would be able to sit down for 30min-1hr afterwards and just relax. We could work on homework if had some, browse the internet on our laptops play some games even. As long as the jobs got done we had this privilege. Dons motto was "Work smarter, not harder"

This new boss of ours Karen is apparently the type that feels that if you should feel privileged to have a job period and no matter what the circumstances you should be working your ass off the whole time you are there, no down time.

She is elminating down time and instead wants us to contiuously work all day no matter what, she is closing the bookstore down for most of the day except for certain "windows" of time where it's open to get students and staff stuff. The rest of the time we are to help maintenence or the IT department or another department with stuff and stay constantly busy. She is also wanting to enforce an hour cap on workstudies only allowing us to work like 20-25 hours. Which really sucks since I'm currently trying to save up to get my first car.

She just made the job a dreaded piece of crap. It went from being my favorite job the previous week to being a job I dread and want to quit. I'm not a workaholic. I believe in getting "my" job done and thats it. I work because I have to, to support my home life, to pay the bills. I refuse to break my back for a job that no matter how hard I work will be over with as soon as I graduate college within a year. I can't just quit though because due to my transportation problems and me going to college, no place will hire me because I can't work but a specific set of hours, a very small window. Since it takes so long to get around this horrible city on the bus. I'm virtually stuck here in this job until I get a car.