"you will miss me when i am gone..."

"this is the last song."

Today is the last day. The last time I dress in ridiculous uniform. The last 40 minute drive. The last of putting up with disrespectful employers. The last of being underappreciated for hard work, and the last of being taken advantage of. I hope.

About to get ready for my last shift in the Takeaway room at Outback steakhouse. I was thinking all of these thoughts and I felt that I should get it down. It has been exactly FIVE years of me working there and ever since the original Proprietor left for a promotion the store and the ways it's run has all just gone downhill. And it continues to go downhill each and every day I walk in there. It used to be such a fun place to go into and make full times pay in part times work. I loved it; the people I worked for, the people I worked with, the money I made and the people and the food that I served. I am very much a people person but I am NOT a greedy people person. And its been this way for almost a year now and just finally I am being saved from it.

I have no doubt that the business and the customers will miss me when I am gone. The things I have heard that they are going to be doing with that room just make NO sense and it is so ridiculous. Not sure if I have ever mentioned the fact that since I have been working there the Takeaway sales have increased to 17% of the entire restaurants sales. Only bigger locations such as Henderson (the original in Tampa), Lakeland and Palm Harbor have similar numbers. Being that Largo is a really crappy location for a store to do well, that shows a lot. Of course I had help from the other 4 amazing girls in the room (love them all) but WE did it. And now they are making changes to how things work in that room only so the managers have to do less work and pay less money to the employees. Whatever, I am over it. Ill let them feel the consequences. They will realize in time. I dont care really, because I needed something to throw it over the edge so I could get out of there. I need the change, it is all for the good. Everything happens for a reason. I know it. Thats how my entire life has been so far. 

So about the blessing I recieved. It just fell into my lap without me even searching for it. I actually gave up searching for another job because I could not find one with the same pay and hours. BUT, good things come when you are not even looking for them. So I start working at my heaven of a scrapbook store this week! SO. Freakin'. excited. Such a great group of women and a great atmosphere as well. Not to mention the scrappy goodness all around. I dont think Lisa realizes what she has done for me. There will be SO much more opportunity to get the Photography business up and going. I will have so much more opportunity to lose the weight I have been needing to pull off of me. Such great things ahead...and you know how I LOVE having things to look forward to. : )

Okay, must get ready.....for the last time.

Lyrics are The All-American Rejects

Comments

[Roni Hunt]

tmj - i am so excited for you (and of course the faithful rr groupies). You now have a dream job for sure!!! RR is the perfect place to spread your wings and move on from the negative!!! Yahoo!! And you can sing them the following: (it's a country song...you probably have never heard it, but they lyrics fit!)

Why don't you kiss, kiss this, and I don't mean on my rosy red lips
Me and you, we're through, and there's only one thing left for you to do
You just come on over here one last time
And pucker up and close your eyes, and kiss, this goodbye!!

[Jeannie Towle]

Theresa,

I am so excited for you. Lisa is a great person and she runs the best scrapbook store in the world and I know that you will have a blast working there. You will see me there alot as well, not working but shopping my little heart away (LOL). I can never walk in there without buying anything.

Well see you soon in the happiest place ever, Ruban Rouge.

Hugs

[Jamie Hircock]

yay! I am so glad you are getting out of there :D

[Rebecca Shelor]

TMJ! I am so freakin' excited for you! ARGH! You are so lucky girl! I too am looking for a way out of my job of TWENTY years! It's too toxic for me to keep working there in that place where my ex and his girlfriend work... can't do it anymore.. but I'm still lookin'... and I won't give up.
I'm so happy for you..
see you at RR!
rls

[Genie]

That is great news for you! and for those of us who shop at RR. I look forward to seeing you around the store. You will do great there.

[Island jen]

Congrats to you and this new opportunity!! Amazing how when we stop searching for something, it finds us!! Congrats! :-)

[Shawn Buckmaster]

Congrats!
I don't think I've seen you since I ran into you one day shopping some new KI at RR. We all sat together for Elsie's classes way back when.
Look forward to seeing you even more at the store!
enjoy!
Shawn

[Aleida Franklin]

Great post! Don't know you, first time I visit here, (I think) but feel your frustation(s) and so happy that you will leave and be in what sounds to be in a better place, fo sho! Shoot I am in a similar situation, wherein I absolutely hate my job, hate my co-workers. But it pays the bills and so to make me happy, I took a 2nd part-time job at a scrapbook store. I work harder there...but it's a heaven of an environment.

[Chrissy]

Yeah Theresa!! CONGRATS!! Can't wait to be seeing more of you. You will love working there. I know that I did. You will be working with a great group of women. Can't wait to be seeing more of you there. :-) :-) :-)