Wednesday afternoon

I have been demoted at the Beer Store. What does that mean? it means that while I applied for a better position (Permanant Part Time, what kind of crap is that?) instead of giving me the job, they moved someone else who is a PPT to our store. That means that everyone, get's fewer hours. We hardly had any hours to begin with!! It doesn't really affect most of the people working there because they are going to school but I was getting less than 30 hours a week already. This week I'm down to 21 and have to work Sunday to even get that many. The reason for the new person is because Ontario has this new program that is starting next week where everyone will be paying a deposit on all LCBO containers now and they can then bring them back to the beer store and get their deposit back. Well you can imagine the loads of hoarded liquor bottles that are going to just create havoc at work. At work it is this big thing that everyone is getting so worked up about. I try not to get involved except that I have now been demoted. They say that once the program starts I will be back up to 40 hours a week. I'm sure I will get more hours then but probably just for the first month and those hours will probably be mostly evenings with no supervisor pay. I was really ticked off about it. I called my boss, had a big long conversation (I think I got too emotionally involved in that one) and then left it. Some of you are going to wonder why I didn't mention it in previous conversations (on the phone, and such). The reason is that I really don't want any pity. I'm not really angry or upset about it anymore. I had Mon, Tues, and now Wed. off! It was great. We do need the pay check but those two days at home, reading my book (the one by Mark Haddon, intersting...) were really great. I cleaned, bummed around, slept in and read. It was nuturing. I also thought about this work thing and figure that I should take it as a great but push out the door. The beer store really isn't where I should be biding my time. It's a great place of employment and one that I will keep my foot in the door at but I shouldn't get complacent there. I need to keep looking at what is next. I was told I need to face the future full of expectancy and hope. Because its all coming my way. It's a complicated issue in my head but one that I'm not going to make much of a fuss over. I'm sure it really won't make much of a difference. I will be busy again soon enough, I'm sure.