Sunday’s Chat — Leaving is scary & pretending Covid doesn’t exist
Hey, good morning!
It has been a while since I’ve done a casual chat Sunday with you guys.. The last one had been on January 9th, where I spoke about my vacation & my first week of 2022.
* This is my version of the meme “Sunday’s Post” going around the blogosphere (without the this week’s/next week’s posts) hosted by @Caffeinated Reviewer.
Currently obsessing about;
★ Love Hypothesis, Ali Hazelwood
★ Story of Season; Pioneer of Olive Town
★ Sims 4
Firstly, after 4years of working as a Barista and absolutely loving what I do.. I had to take the sad decision of stepping back and leave; my last day being last thursday. Which was one of the hardest thing for me to be honest.. as an anxious person, I was comfortable in knowing my job really well, aswell as constantly be doing the same thing days in & days out.
However.. it just wasn’t possible anymore. The overload of stress on my shoulder from the other “supervisor” not doing her work in the morning, obligating me to do everything in the evenings, plus the customers and my own duty had became too much- One can only do so much before losing their sanity. Not to mention how it isn’t fair that you need to work for 2-3people while the other person next to you do next to nothing while still having the same pay & tips as you. The stress had started to come out physically as my hands & arms itching so bad they would becore covered in red bumps and nothing could really soothe me; despite constantly applying nourishing cream.
The more exciting news now, I’ll be starting as a Pet specialist at one of my locally family-owned pet store!! Not only should the atmosphere be much better, but the benefits from that job floors everything that was lacking in my past one. Bonus that we get to learn more on animal diets & products that can literally be so benificial for my own dachshunds, AND I’ll get to meet customer’s animals everyday! 😄 The store also welcome cats up for adoption from local shelters, being fostered within the store, so I can take care of them too.
I’m exctatic but also nervous, because new staff members/things to learn and all that.. despite knowing very well that this job should be perfect for me; and so much more rewarding too, as customers will ask questions and will show gratitude after being given an amazing product.
Onto the pandemic news.. We’ve sadly joined in on the “pretending Covid doesn’t exist anymore” bandwagon 🥲 From March 14th, so last monday, EVERYTHING left has been taken off- the vaccine passport having already been removed on the 28th of the past month. That means: no more distantiation, stores allowed to open to full capacity again, and the removal of the mandatory mask order.
While I understand people are fed up with it, and “Come on it’s been 2years already!” .. I don’t understand how we can proceed to take normal life so quickly.. Guys we have no say on that, it’s still a global pandemic!! People are dying still, this isn’t supposed to be fun!! 🤦🏽♀️ I’m very much still keeping my mask although I have all my shots, atleast for a little while still.. I’m so grateful I won’t be in food service anymore! No need to touch other people’s cups, that they clearly put their mouth on, that they kept splattered on the table. Having my mask on, even though others won’t, feel more safe to me in a pet store atmosphere..
How was your week/month?
Did they also removed all procedures where you live already?