Moving Up

Hello most humans and many others,

Well, the excitement is not palpable around here. Missy Linda is not overjoyed with the news, and things around here will not change much. It seems that Missy Linda is going to become a supervisor at work. Sadly, that is not the fabulous promotion that it seems.

There will be different responsibilities such as closing or opening the registers, opening or closing the store, ordering merchandise, going to work or staying late an extra hour to do whatever they do in the office at that time. When she asked Mr. Fry what the duties of the job are, he said, "You have to be me for twenty-five hours a week rather than the sixty to eighty hours I have to be me." (He gets paid a lot and gets benefits, though.)

Don't get me wrong. Missy Linda says that there is a raise involved. It will be a whopping fifty cents an hour. Add that to the ten cents an hour she will get in August for being there a year, and I think she will have it made in the shade. She seems to feel otherwise.

She says the advantages that made her accept the job are that she will not have to work every other Sunday. She might even get Saturdays off- - -or not. Also, when she leaves this job, she will be able to put on her resume that she was a supervisor. She is hoping that will make a difference when she is trying for a better job.

I just don't understand why she is not more excited, do you?