The Final Chapter at B&N
Tonight is my last shift at Rhymes with Darnes & Joble. At 11:00 tonight I’ll be officially “retired”, only without any retirement pay, gold watch, or even a measly token office. I’ll be a quitter ex-bookseller, and that’s it.
But I’m okay with that. School is keeping me busy enough that I won’t have time to worry about it. Still, I’ll miss the place. It’s been a lot of fun there (for the most part) over the last couple of years, and I’ve made a lot of good friends in the process. But the worst part? I’ll lose my employee discount. How unfair is that? Nothing sucks more than having to pay retail prices for my reading habit.
I’m still a little bummed abut walking away right before their busiest season of the year, but it can’t be helped. Accounting starts next week, and from what I’ve heard from those who’ve been through the class already, it’s a real bitch. Tons of homework, lots of studying. Since I’m still sporting a 4.0 GPA (and I have a 99.05% in Microeconomics right now), I’d like to keep it intact for a while longer. So I’ll read about ledgers and account balances instead. Not nearly as exciting, but in the long run, it ought to be worth it.
Rhymes with Sarnes & Yoble last week even gave me a raise – which I really appreciated, since my fulltime employer hasn’t given us one in the last 2.5 years. (El cheapo bastardos.) It’s funny how I’m leaving the job I like to stay with the one I don’t, but alas – the fulltime gig pays double what Thymes with Karnes & Poble does, so I’ll to eat a few more shit sandwiches for a while longer until I finish school and can get the heck outta here and away from Skippy Whitebread and his OCD world. The things we have to do to avoid living in a cardboard box...
So that’s it. I’ll go in tonight, fill a basket with books I’d like to have before my discount melts away, then right before closing I’ll make my Visa card smoke like the air at a Dead concert. Then I’ll go back to being just a civilian, free to browse the shelves without having to worry about alphabetically arranging the titles in the process.
And I promise I won’t come in and leave a mess for the current booksellers to clean up. That’d be just rude, and we can’t have that, now can we?
So hurry up, make your final purchases, finish that latte. The doors are closing. Perhaps one day they’ll open even wider for me.
But I’m okay with that. School is keeping me busy enough that I won’t have time to worry about it. Still, I’ll miss the place. It’s been a lot of fun there (for the most part) over the last couple of years, and I’ve made a lot of good friends in the process. But the worst part? I’ll lose my employee discount. How unfair is that? Nothing sucks more than having to pay retail prices for my reading habit.
I’m still a little bummed abut walking away right before their busiest season of the year, but it can’t be helped. Accounting starts next week, and from what I’ve heard from those who’ve been through the class already, it’s a real bitch. Tons of homework, lots of studying. Since I’m still sporting a 4.0 GPA (and I have a 99.05% in Microeconomics right now), I’d like to keep it intact for a while longer. So I’ll read about ledgers and account balances instead. Not nearly as exciting, but in the long run, it ought to be worth it.
Rhymes with Sarnes & Yoble last week even gave me a raise – which I really appreciated, since my fulltime employer hasn’t given us one in the last 2.5 years. (El cheapo bastardos.) It’s funny how I’m leaving the job I like to stay with the one I don’t, but alas – the fulltime gig pays double what Thymes with Karnes & Poble does, so I’ll to eat a few more shit sandwiches for a while longer until I finish school and can get the heck outta here and away from Skippy Whitebread and his OCD world. The things we have to do to avoid living in a cardboard box...
So that’s it. I’ll go in tonight, fill a basket with books I’d like to have before my discount melts away, then right before closing I’ll make my Visa card smoke like the air at a Dead concert. Then I’ll go back to being just a civilian, free to browse the shelves without having to worry about alphabetically arranging the titles in the process.
And I promise I won’t come in and leave a mess for the current booksellers to clean up. That’d be just rude, and we can’t have that, now can we?
So hurry up, make your final purchases, finish that latte. The doors are closing. Perhaps one day they’ll open even wider for me.
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