Not a Good Start

07-01-2010 Thursday

Being late sure isn't a good way to start a new month, is it? Heck, for the first time ever since I started living away from home, I woke up late. I couldn't believe it myself, how could I have overslept?! Oh, and why is it that my handy li'l celly did not alarm?!

I had a plan of rendering overtime today to make more money, so I set my alarm to buzz me at 4 in the afternoon. Well, surprise, the darn thing did not alarm. I was lying in bed wondering why is it that when I opened my eyes, I was hearing a late night program blaring from the TV of the other boarder's room. First I thought it was just a commercial but when I heard continous sappy scripted conversations, I snapped up in bed, reached for my cellphone to check the time and my shoulders slumped down when I saw that it's almost 10 in the evening. There's one new message from my manager reminding me not to be late since I'm the only one who's not there yet.

I contemplated on whether I'll still go to work, or just call in sick. If I go to work, I'll probably be there before 12 midnight, my shift starts at 9pm..I counted with my fingers, it's not late, it's half day but at least I still get paid, I decided I'll just render overtime after my actual shift. I need the money, I thought of this one day that I'm gonna lose in my salary and I realized that I can't afford to be a lazyass, got bills to pay and stuff to buy.

Good thing Alex left me some food in the pot. I breathed a sigh of relief because I don't have to cook! I didn't bother heating it, I opened the pot, grabbed a plate and indulged. I took a quick bath, got dressed and rushed outside.

I was able to log in at 11:30pm. I only did a 30 minute overtime by the end of the shift. The calls kept coming in and my stats doesn't look good so I decided I can't risk a 1 hour overtime. Not a chance I'm gonna risk taking in more calls with less sales, this is the hardest part of being in Inbound sales. Sigghh.

My manager is not pleased. I told her the truth, that I woke up late. She knows my situation but there's no acceptable reason in this type of job for someone to be late. Gee, now I'm thinking I have to buy an alarm clock unless someone would be kind enough to call me at a specific time that I wanna wake up so my phone would ring it's exotic scream. I really can't figure out why the alarm on my cellphone just stopped working. One important feature that I really need since there's no one to wake me up in the afternoon, unless Alex is at home or it's his day off. Alarm clock? Another stuff to buy. I hope I can find one that's really cheap but works.

When I got home in the morning, I told Alex that I'm late and it's because of the alarm in my cellphone not working. He laughed at me and said that I should get another cellphone.

I scowled at him, "You'll buy me a phone?"

It's his turn to scowl, "Why would I?"

I laughed, "Let's buy an alarm clock, then"

"Fine." he said, grabbing a pillow and burying his face under it.

I lie down beside him, and when my body touched the bed, I instantly dozed off.

Labels: alex, July, late, manager, months, pink crimson, work

posted by Monica-Lynne @ 3:21 AM