early today... what am I thinking?!

[lavandarlizard2]

I have a part-time job, see... *sigh* It won't pay the bills and it sure as hell won't pay for my insurance, but at least we'll eat. But I expect to be beat to hell by the time I get home tonight, so figured I better post this now. >_>

For anyone interested, the job I really want is still in process. Who knew that it could take up to six months to get a job where you don't even carry a gun? O.O Alternate job possibility has skipped happily into my life, so I may even have a backup now. ^__^ Happy about that; not happy at spending all day on my feet again. I worked pretty hard to get past that stage of my life; not at all amused at having to backtrack. Still, the place does offer a pretty decent employee discount... if I had any money to take advantage of it. =p

Anyway; more Lockjaw. Enjoy!







A rumble of protest from the hallway.

"I SAY SO! OUT! IF SOMEONE DIES BECAUSE OF YOU, I'LL SEE EVERY-DAMN-ONE OF YOU IN PRISON! Get that fucking camera out of my face or I will feed it to you!"

"*GENTLEMEN! LADIES!*"

Wufei snickered. "Uh-oh... Une's here. They're stuffing into the elevators like sardines into a can... Yuy just planted his foot in someone's butt so the doors will close. Ha! Noin brought a squad in riot gear... Heero's coming..." He hopped away from the door only an instant before it burst open.

"Duo! Are you okay? They didn't get in here, did they?" He didn't notice Wufei flattened against the wall until he spoke.

"Yuy, please!" he huffed. "Do you think I'd let those hyenas disturb Maxwell? I am insulted!" He stuck his nose in the air haughtily, but the effect was ruined by his snicker.

"Chang, you're supposed to be resting, not fending off jackals." Heero wrapped his arms around Duo, hugging him close. "Okay?" he murmured and kissed his forehead.

"I am now," Duo sighed.

"I was resting," insisted Wufei, returning to the chair. "Not like I couldn't still kick ass on those fools," he sneered.

"Lemme see," Duo demanded, turning Heero's head to get a look at the stitches. Wufei also leaned closer. "Hmm... Not too bad," Duo allowed critically, tracing the twelve tiny neat stitches covered by a clear plastic butterfly. He glanced at Wufei who was also nodding his approval. "Your lady does pretty good work."

Wufei snorted in amusement. "The lady has taken up quilting."

Heero also snorted. "An outstanding use of her skills."

Duo reached for his arm. "Wrist now. How bad is it?" he demanded checking the splints and wrapping.

"Clean break. Sally says she'll stick it in regen as soon as the swelling goes down, and then cast it. Tonight or tomorrow." He nuzzled Duo's temple. "Sorry about our vacation, babe..."

Duo huffed. "So am I, but hey, I'm a big boy; I can handle it."

Wufei snickered. Duo glared at him.

"I already talked to Une," Heero said. "She says we have six weeks of medical leave plus up to six weeks of vacation, if we want it. Starting now."

Duo stared at him. "Really? Well, shit; we may have to name our first child after her!"

Comments

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

It's only fair; Heero fusses over Duo, so Duo gets to fuss over Heero. Everyone's happy. ^___^

I almost applied at Walmart... got as far as the application terminal and chickened out... >_> Just couldn't do it. Target was bad enough. =p

[rogue53.livejournal.com]

No, don't do the WM thing! Can vouch for that. This week they cut our hours and then expected us to do everything in a shorter amt of time. I'm going to try and transfer to a saner store, if there is such a thing... And maybe someday a real job will show back up...

[duohiro.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Wal-Mart is getting nuttier all the time. Can't have any overtime, period. So if you get any you have to kill it at some other time, which puts you behind so you get more overtime, and over and over and over. And this close to Chirstmas even the sane ones go nuts. Can't believe I've done this for seven years now. Maybe I'm the one that's nuts 0.0

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

*points at self* Thirty years (one way or another) in retail. THAT'S nuts. =p

Walmart's grip on the market and on suppliers seems to be slipping; probably why they're in panic mode. The attitude that really ticks me off is the 'you don't like it here, tough; you can be replaced anytime.' It's the troops on the ground who really know what's going on and what customers want; if Bentonville don't wanna listen, oh well.

I'm working at a craft store. Same holiday lunacy, just two months earlier. There is just no way to bag damn flower picks without them holing the bag. >.< And cheap bags, at that.

[rogue53.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and the funny thing was that two of our asst managers were looking at our daily sales and figured out that they were up on days we actually *gasp* had associates on the floor. Well imagine that. But WM is slipping, too much 'either sell it our way or go away' and it's come to bite them in the butt.

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

I used to work at Target, back room, and our sales were always better when we were fully staffed. the days when they only had two people on the floor for the whole frigging store, sales just went into the toilet, but "sales don't justify more people". It's a vicious cycle.

Are you familiar with the blogs about Walmart? I read this one obsessively.

http://www.behindthecounter.com/index.html

It's always good for a laugh, though it makes me hurt for the intelligent employees. O.o

[rogue53.livejournal.com]

That was some of the funniest (and saddest) stuff I've read in quite awhile. And pretty much true. *sighs*