Just woke up from another nap. "But, Seth - I thought you had to work today." I DID ... for like, two hours ... then I just closed up and ... quit. Yes, I quit today. I couldn't take the manager reeming my ass for the stupid shit, then cutting back my hours - blaming things on me that are really someone else's fault and he just doesn't want to take responsibility for it. I'm tired of picking up other people's slack - cleaning up their messes, doing their work, and then dealing with the customers who think they're the fucking kings of the world. In the middle of a rather large 64-piece order, out of chicken on the display, so I put a sign up saying when the next batch will be available because I had that order and there was no time to make some for the other customers. So a lady come up wanting some turkey sliced, which I am happy to comply. And I'm in the middle of slicing her turkey when this guy walks up to the hot deli and says "Excuse me. I'd like to get a plate lunch." I tell him "I'll be with you in a moment, just let me finish this lady's order first." Then he proceeds to tell me what he wants on his plate - I tell him to PLEASE wait a moment and I'll be right with him. And he just huffed and said "well if I can't get a plate lunch, how about some chicken instead?" I told him that I would get his plate lunch as soon as I was finished, but that there would be no chicken until 3:00 due to an order for 2:45. "I want some goddamn chicken," he said. I tell him that I'm sorry and that it will be ready just as soon as the order is done. Then he storms off. He tells the manager. Manager comes back just as I am handing the lady her turkey and she gives me this sort of "I'm sorry" look and I just tell her to have a great day, she says "you, too" as is custom in retail. Manager says that a customer just came back to him and said that I got sharp with him and refused to offer him service. I explained the whole thing to the manager, but he still had this sour look on his face. Yelled at me for not having any chicken out, that it was prime time for chicken and I needed to have some out - I told him again, that there wouldn't be any until that time because of an order. He told me that one woman called saying that she only had 7 pieces of chicken in her 8 piece. I told him that I'd put out a 7 piece, but it was labeled as such and marked down because of it. If she hadn't wanted it, then she shouldn't have gotten that box. He said "now we know why she (Amy) is losing money in this department." Then proceeded to tell me to close three hours early. And I was quiet for a moment, and then I just said - "That's it." He was like, "what?" I said, "after tonight, I quit." He asked me why, I said because I couldn't take this anymore, that I worked hard all day long, took up other people's slack, did everything I was supposed to do to distinguished level and did even more - I covered for people, I made almost every customer leave with a smile, made a majority of them feel at home, and now that one of my coworkers and friend has been fired for something she didn't do, I have absolutely nothing holding me there. I'm vastly underappreciated and exhausted and I'm sick of it - so I'm leaving. After that spiel, Amy called me because aparently the manager called her to let her know that I was quitting after tonight. I told her I was sorry, but that I just couldn't take it anymore. I told her that if she needed me to work Christmas Eve, I would - but that was it. After that, I'm gone. So it's official. I hated doing that to Amy, but sometimes ... you just can't take it anymore. They lost a VERY good thing when they fired my friend for something she didn't do - and now they're going to lose two good things because management just fucking sucks. So ... now I'm looking for more jobs. I ... don't really know where to start. I don't really want to work with food anymore. Speaking of food ... I'm hungry now. I wonder if Meredith is in her room ... Enjoy this eye candy of Kaori Yuki's ... yet another piece of evidence going into my file under the belief that she does, in fact, have a link.