I give up.

I give up on having a job that I like. I'm reminding myself constantly that in the Navy, I'll have a job I like, I'll have job security, and I'll have nothing to give up on.. however, for the time being, I give up.

The manager of the diner where I've been working the majority of the past two weeks (who, by the way, is having some severe stress-related health issues and thus has been absent during most of the shifts I've worked there) overheard me telling one of my customers (the retired chief petty officer) about how I'm going into the Navy, and then took it upon herself to tell our boss, and between the two of them, they decided that I need to not have any hours any more. On top of that, the folks at the other diner, the one I'd occasionally worked third-shifts at, had given the boss bad reports about my work habits, which royally pissed me off since the things they said (a) weren't true, and (b) were just being used to gloss over their own less-than-good work ethics and abilities. Case in point, one of the biggest things that they said is that I talk to customers too much .. yes, I'm talkative, but no I did NOT EVER let it get in the way of serving all of the customers in the diner, forget just the ones I may or may not have been talking with. And my chatting is why they were coming back, btw.. as one of my downtown coworkers said, we're a bar without the alcohol. Most of our customers come in alone and are lonely and want a listening ear. I don't air my dirty laundry or my issues with the diner or our boss, or anything else like that to them.. I keep it light conversation, or listen to them if they're bringing it to heavier subjects. And again, I'm still on top of my other job duties. So GRR! Freakin' GRR! So meanwhile, the biggest reason my boss told me about the cutback in hours was because of my going into the Navy, to which I responded that legally he is not allowed to cut back my hours for that reason, and the next day brought him a letter from my recruiters explaining the Uniform Code of Justice and how they cannot fire or cut back hours or otherwise make negative decisions relating to the job based on the Navy decision.

Oy.

So, I give up.

And the computer I'm on is about to run out of time (I'm at a library), so I'm gonna go vent elsewhere.