So last week I lost 6.5 lbs and this week I seem to have gained it all back! Yeah, I was pissed at first. But you know what? I haven’t cheated and maybe I didn’t drink enough water… Though the real issue is likely that I am in freakin’ pain still with sore feet. My ankles and feet are still really swollen. I’m likely retaining water due to the inflammation.
Plantar fasciitis is a total nightmare for people who have to stand all day at work. I got inserts that cost some $600 a few years ago and they helped then making things tolerable for a 24 hour hour work week (or less). After a job where I didn’t have to stand all day and trying to go back to it… no way! Not going to happen. NO one should have to suffer this kind of insane pain.
The last few nights have been the worst. My feet burn, pulse and cramp while sporatically going tingly like a lack of circulation. Only a long epsom salt bath helped me sleep last night at all. That and some over the counter Tylenol 1 with codiene. After going into the UWL clinic and a quick stop at the grocery store, I’m back where I was last night pain-wise.
The UWL staff figures the weight gain is likely due to the pain and inflammation. I am probably retaining water – as you can easily see by my swollen ankles! So I’m not too freaked out with the weight gain. It’ll probably sort itself out when the pain goes away. And I hope that’s soon!
Thank gawd I’m starting a new job at a call center next week. Sit down job with benifits. I am never, ever going to take another job where you have to stand all the time. I’m too old for that crap. To be honest, I’ve done retail too damn long anyway. I don’t want to deal with fussy, bitchy customers any more thank you very much. At least on the phone they aren’t sneering in my face lol.
Speaking of fussy customers. In the grocery store I stopped at a til with no line and one woman with her toddler in the cart. The cashier was on the phone with a supervisor. I wondered if I should bother putting my things down or move to another cashier. I put them down. Bad idea. The customer was quibbling over a price on some sippy bottle type of thing. The cashier was saying, “… but the customer said …” and I knew I’d made the wrong choice. I said, “Shall I move my things to another til?” and the woman turned to me looking justified and self-righteous, “I saw the price was different than they are saying and I bet it’d be quicker if I went over to look myself.”
So do it. Or don’t. Sh*t or get off the pot as the saying goes. I moved my stuff to another cashier with 2 other people in the line. When I was done that woman was STILL quibbling over the price and holding people up. She didn’t give a damn. She wanted the price she saw or thinks she saw. Fine, if the posted price was incorrect you usually get the posted price over the scanned price. But if the cashier/supervisor are quibbling over it I say keep it. I don’t want to buy the dumb thing. I wouldn’t waste my time (or anyone else’s) demanding the price I thought I saw.
All over a few cents? Maybe a whole dollar. And yeah, time’s are tough – money is tight. If it makes you feel better, or “powerful” by all means hold up everyone in the line and quibble about the price. Just remember that you are the only one that will be pleased about the tiny gain you think you made. Everyone else is thinking, “BITCH!”
And that’s why I will never, ever work as a cashier again lol.
