new job

so, my first real shift at my new job was saturday night. i now work as a night shift stock clerk at the atlantic superstore. what a nice surprise. it's a small store--well, not very small, but much, much smaller than the one i worked at in toronto--and much less busy. my new coworkers seem to be much more relaxed than my stressed out and edgy coworkers in toronto. of course they were stressed out--they were constantly understaffed and overworked, with management constantly threatening to keep cutting their staff and increase their workload.

working at the superstore saturday night, i felt like i had never left. it was a very comfortable and satisfying feeling and i'm happy to be working here. they do many things differently here, but i'm looking forward to learning it.

also, there's no union, so i won't always have to work weekends. and all the other union-related problems attached to working at the previous store... like part time employees who get paid half as much as their full time coworkers having to work harder than their full time coworkers because they can be dismissed easier.

but i'm sure this place has its own problems. anyways, i'm quite happy right now and looking forward to working here for the next little while.