Frustration at work

The problem with hiring kids in high school is eventually, they go back. After the summer they go back to school and leave you hanging at work. This puts the stress on us working slaves. Stuck at the job those kids just saw as a summer obligation. Be it because they needed money, they are supporting their own children (oh yes, we have some of those), or their parents make them. At any rate, they leave and we are stuck at work just hoping that someone else walks through the doors and applies for the job just vacated by the high schoolers.

But alas, it doesn't happen like that. We just get the royal screw job. I went from having a team of three (including myself) down to just me. I run around trying to play catch up from the previous night when the kid who was suppose to show up didn't and left me with a shit bomb when I walked into work today. Just one more thing that is horribly wrong with working in a retail store. It was days like today that make me wish I had a degree in something that was useful to me right now. AND something that could pay well and throughout the entire calendar year. But no, thats not how the chips fell.