so i've decided to leave my (only recently acquired) receptionist gig. back to the salt mines of retail for me. i'm risking another bout of costochondritis, but at least i'll have health insurance. and i won't have to get up at six in the morning every goddamned day, after being promised afternoon shifts. and i'll have lunch breaks again. did i mention that the new job didn't allow lunch breaks for eight-hour shifts? or that they had compulsory hour-and-a-half lunch breaks built into the requisite twelve-hour shifts?

strange how the levels of respect given both to entry-level office workers and retail workers are precisely the same, and how both fall short of the basic respect one would ordinarily accord a fellow human being.