I Has A Happeeeeeeeeeeeee

If all goes as planned, tonight should be my last shift at (Faceless Glorified Applebees) as a bartender. Or as anything, for that matter. I really can’t see myself ever setting foot in the place, voluntarily, ever again.

I. Am. So. STOKED.

(This is me. Although I might be slightly less sausage-y.)

It’s been a little over a year… not all of it was bad. When I was working with Tuesday Boozeday, it was great, actually. But she left me to move on to greener pastures (i.e., got promoted at her day job and no longer had to slave away at two jobs like the rest of us), and things changed. The clientele got worse. The management got more controlling. The bartenders I worked with, though good people, were often questionable in their actual skills. During a typical shift, I would estimate that I did about two thirds of the work.

Still, it’s always an odd feeling to walk into a place of employment for the last time. Never again will I frantically fight my way through the masses in Gallery Place, desperately trying to make it in the door AND change my work clothes in the half an hour between jobs. I may be busting my ass to get somewhere after work, but it will be somewhere else.

A change of scenery will be extremely refreshing, but what I’m REALLY looking forward to are the couple of weeks I’ll have off from a second job. I can’t remember the last time I only had one job… it is going to be heaven.

Here’s to escaping (part of) my corporate hell…