Fuck Corporate America

...Because Corporate America does not give a fuck about you. Or its own employees. (Reference Madoff, Enron, Tyco, AIG, The Big 3 and allll of Wall Street.)
Corporate America wants you to work yourself and be inconvenienced by them, in return for what? A funky lil paycheck that taxes eat all up anyway? Time=$. Got that part. But there are cases when your time is actually more important - a concept Corporate America does not comprehend.
E.G: Yesterday my aunt died of cancer. A few hours later I was scheduled to work from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. Now, because I started a new job, the first 90 days are like a probationary period. In fact, in the interview I was told, "The quickest way not to work for me is to call off or show up late."
But I was kinda hoping that watching a relative suffer and die was a legitimate reason to have a personal night off...what you think????
SO I called the office and explained the situation. Her response:
(Pause. Hesitation. "In the first 90 days there really is no legitimate excuse, but you could call in tonight and in the morning talk to HR and see if there's anything they can do for you. But I don't advise that. Or you could come in and talk the supervisor and see if she'll give you an approved Early Out, which I recommend."
Let's review the options:
A. Get fired tonite and beg for your job tomorrow.
B. Get up, come all the way down here, hope the supervisor has sympathy - but be prepared to stay all nite just in case she doesn't.
OK. So I get to the pre-shift mtg and explain the sitch to the head supervisor. Her response, y'all:
(Hesitation.} "Do you have to leave like right now?"
Not right now, I said, but as soon as possible.
"OK, well we'll see what we can do after last call. BUt make sure you remind me cuz I tend to forget stuff like that," she said.
SO I'm like, it's 11 now, and last call is 1:15 a.m. SURELY the world is not going to end in the next two hours if I don't serve these ppl these lil funky pops and s*it. But if this is my option, OK. I wind up having an hour lunch break at 1 anyway, and when I reminded this woman, she opened her mouth and said to me, "OH Yeahhh....I have to talk the girls with seniority and ask if they don't mind you leaving."
WTF??????
This chick coulda said that to start with.... OR how bout this: YOU'RE THE MANAGER. YOU DON'T HAVE TO CONSULT WITH ANYBODY. YOU DECIDE WHO GETS TO STAY AND WHO LEAVES, AND WHAT TIME THEY DO SO. So you gon seriously look me in my face and say you have to ask sum girls (with NO authority) who barely even know me if it's alright that my aunt died today and so I dont fuckin feel like serving drinks for eight hours???
OMG. And do you think that trick eva got back to me???
Tell you what....I'm out here lookin for a REAL job rite now w/ evryone else, so it's not like I don't need a little sumthing from Corporate America rite now. But it'll be even better when I work for my damnself.
Oh, and because DevaDonna aint neva scared, fuck MGM GRAND DETROIT.