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Here's a little update for you all. In late 2004, things were going from bad to worse at Pizza Hut, until one Thursday I was scheduled to come in early at 2PM to cover for my store manager so she could go to a meeting of the area's managers. I showed up and realized that she had sent every crew member home early and the evening crew would not begin showing up until 6. Oh and the supply truck would be showing up at any moment. So I was stuck trying to put away all the food, making pizzas, serving tables, and cashing out customers. Now she knows that the dinner rush starts around 4PM every day, but rarely schedules anyone to come in at 5PM, and never at 4PM. When she finally returns at 6, she figures up the labor and freaks out and says it's not low enough. Now, I have been running a restaurant during a rush with only a delivery driver for help for FOUR AND A HALF HOURS. I could not possibly have done anymore to help the labor. But I let it go and finished my shift. Early next week my cousin and roommate manages to sell his mobile home. Around this time the new schedule is made. She makes the same schedule as the last week becuase she is too lazy to make changes, despite any conflicts or issues. So Thursday at 2 comes around and I just finish watching Office Space and am inspired to just not go to work. I don't call or anything. The next day I bring my uniform in. The area manager is there and practically begs me not to quit, even offering me a raise to $7/hr and a transfer to a deliver and carryout only store, which is the easiest kind to work at. Since I've already accepted a job with my uncle selling steaks door-to-door (yeah, I know), I turn her down. In retrospect, I should have taken her up on it. All I'll say about my next job is that I'm lucky not to owe my uncle money. Sales jobs suck! By this time I've moved from Shreveport back to my hometown of Monroe so I go to the Pizza Hut which happens to be the one I was first hired at. The manager is all too happy to let me return as a Shift Manager, but needs to check with my old store manager and area manager. He calls them and, wonder of wonders (no sarcasm at all), they have nothing but good things to say and I'm a manager at the store I wanted to be at to begin with. The store manager is one of the best bosses I've had before or since, the building is new, clean, and well run, and the crew is competent, conscientious, experienced, and considerate. On top of that my social life is at an all-time high. So everything is great, right? Wrong. After about 10 months of smooth sailing, the area manager decides to transfer me across town. This store is also clean, because the store manager focuses on that to the exclusion of all else and wants everybody else to as well. The crew is mostly inexperienced, irresponsible, self-absorbed, and lazy, because she hires her friends and fires the good people for the slightest transgression. Finally, I get fed up and put in my two-weeks notice and immediately get a job at a smaller regional pizza chain. About three days later, about 20 minutes until closing time, we get about 7 delivery orders. I have two training shift leaders there so I help my driver get them delivered. When I get back, there is $360 missing from the register and I can't find out why. Next day I came to work to find out I had been fired. Depressed and angry as I was, I was able to take a short vacation and then start my new job, so I was mollified. I delivered pizza for about a year and realized just how much I missed it. It might not be for everybody, but if I had only saved everything I had left after gas, I would have thousands of dollars saved now. It might be hard on your vehicle, but if your good enough, you can definitely make it happen. Once again, things are going great, so naturally I get a speeding ticket last April, on my birthday, no less. Since it's my third in three years, the company will no longer allow me to deliver until a ticket drops off my record a year later, strangely enough. So in April, not only will I get my tax refund and birthday presents but I can return to the lifestyle to which I am accustomed. April is gonna be great this year! I'm gonna use the extra money to get a membership to a gym, upgrade my computer, my truck, learn to play guitar, and generally make my life richer and more satisfying. I'll enjoying a low-stress occupation that will provide a comfortable lifestyle, using the lessons I learned the last couple years to avoid pitfalls, saving money instead of spending it on shit I don't need. I'm very excited and, for once, I'm very optimistic; the future seems very bright.