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I've been working at a local smoke shop for a little over a year and a half. My co-worker and I have both worked here the same amount of time. We helped to set up the store, and were here through all the transitions of it becoming a successful little business.

Over time I began to really hate the job, and have found another job thankfully. Tomorrow is my last day, and although I want to leave on a good note, because my boss is a really wonderful lady, part of me feels that she deserves the right to know what has been/is going on around here, You see she lives in another province, so we are fully in charge of the store. Now I am not an angel in this situation either, and I fully admit that. I leave early most days and still get paid for the full 8 hours..but with that being said in an 8 hour day I don't get a proper lunch, or any breaks and that equals the hour I leave early most days. My co-worker does the same thing by coming in an hour late. So really that is all explainable, but my co-worker is doing stuff around the store that I don't think is appropriate. His friend just got hired to take my place, and I found out that they have been drinking beer in the store..there are even empty beer bottles in the back room. In the whole time we've worked together he's been really disrespecful by not helping me out with any cleaning...he's taken out the garbage maybe twice, mopped the floor maybe three times, etc. Yet he got a raise and a promotion over me when he doesn't do any extra work to warrant this promotion. He brought his paintball gun to work and set up a target in the back room....there is now orange paint everywhere that he kind of half cleaned up (still finding orange paint after 2 months). I found out he was smoking cigars in the store, and now drinking beer too.

Part of me thinks I should leave this up to karma, but part of me feels like she should know, and it would give me some redemption as well. But I am torn....he is a nicy guy but can be vindictive, I imagine he would tell her about me leaving early then, and possibly make up stuff about me, and I want a good reference. Maybe I should just let it go, it won't be my problem for much longer, but I am not sure. Any advice?

So I will give you a little background on the situation first...I've been working at a tobacco shop for about a year and a half. I'm a non-smoker (I know weird), and I absolutely HATE my job. I've found something else luckily, and now I start in a week (gave proper 2 weeks notice). My coworker is part of the reason I am happy to be out of here, he's a nice guy but very lazy, doesn't help out with anything around the store (cleaning especially) and does lots of things that aren't really proper (playing with paintball guns in the back room and not cleaning up the mess, smoking cigars in the store when we're not allowed to and I'm allergic, etc.).

Well so my coworker has this friend that I really don't like that always comes in here to visit. Now that I've quit, he convinced our boss to hire his friend. Which is fine, I won't be here to deal with it, but my boss wants me to train this guy starting tomorrow morning. The morning shift is really easy, and I don't think he really needs to be in with me, so I tried to tell her that he should just come in for an hour to see how to open, but she wants him in for 4 hours! I would be alone with this guy that I really really don't like, and I don't want to do the training. I know that it's part of my responsibility to help train someone to take my place, but I really don't want to work with this guy for 4 hours alone, it will be really awkward. Is there anything I can do? Please help, he's supposed to start tomorrow, and I am even considering just calling in sick...that's how much I don't want to train this guy.

Ugh my wisdom teeth desperately need to come out, but at this time I simply cannot afford to go to the dentist for the procedure. At the beginning of summer I went in, and they said that my gums were so infected from the wisdom teeth trying to come in (my mouth is too small for them all) that I would need to go on a strong dose of penicillan to take the swelling down, and ease the pain. He said it would keep coming back until I could get the teeth removed. So here we are again and my gums are all infected. I'm going to try and get in to get another prescription for the penicillan until I can get the teeth out, but I am stuck at work all day until I can get to the dentist, can anyone suggest any ways of easing this horrible pain at work? I don't have many options since I am at work....I do work close to a grocery store and a pharmacy if there is anything there that will help?

Ugh I am so frustrated. I have had issues with my body since I was 13, and I am now 22. When I was younger I was told that I have a hormonal imbalance, and was put on birth control to regulate the problem. That stopped being an issue for years, and then I was plagued with bladder infections and yeast infections (sometimes up to 5 bladder infections in 1 month). No one could figure out what was wrong with me, until I went to a naturopath and they told me that it could be partially from birth control pills. I also heard that taking birth control for so long without a break can be really harmful to the body, plus I was losing my sex drive, being crazy moody, etc etc, so about 5 months ago I decided to stop taking birth control, and to use condoms instead. I feel much better, except that now my periods are completely out of wack. It came 2 weeks late the first month I was off the pill, then came on time the next month, and now I have not gotten my period for 2 months. There was some brownish spotting and I got worried that I was pregnant so I took 2 home tests...both negative luckily, and then went to see my family doctor. He gave me another pregnancy test that came back negative also. He thinks that my hormonal imbalance issues from a long time ago have returned now that I'm off the pill again, and his only solution was to go back on the pill. But I don't want to be on the pill, I don't feel that it's a good thing for my body, and I want to fix my problem some other way...I am getting really stressed out that I still don't have my period...it's been almost 3 months now. Help please! Sorry this is so long but I wanted to give some background info first. Any help would be really appreciated!

So I have been at my job for about a year and a half. Over time I have begun to absolutely HATE it. It got so bad that I came to a breaking point the other day and finally had decided to look for another job. The great news is that I found my dream job...finally got hired at a company that I've wanted to work at for 2 years.

So really everything is pretty great, but now I have given my 2 weeks notice and am stuck here for exactly 2 more weeks. But I can't make myself really care about the job now. I want to do a good job for moral issues, but I'm having an extremely hard time. I find myself ignoring customers, and not really trying to sell the products...mostly because I work in a cigar shop and don't smoke (weird I know haha but that's part of the reason I am quitting). I keep telling myself I only have 2 weeks to go and to do my best, but I can't be bothered. I want to just stop showing up for work but morally I couldn't do that to the other staff members, and also I need the money for the next few weeks. Can anyone suggest a way for me to stay focused and do my job properly haha. I know this is kind of a stupid question but I'm going a little crazy and the urge to just totally stop caring and to close up the store and go for a 2 hour lunch is taking over.... I hate this place!

I am wanting to purchase a cheap laptop just for checking emails, watching some online movies, and maybe doing very simple photo editing. I have a Future Shop credit card, and although I hear that FS isn't the best place to get a computer, it's my best option at the moment. So for just doing the very basics like I said above, what kind of cheap laptop can you recommend? I was thinking an Acer? Thanks for your help!

I work at a place where there are only 2 of us that run the store. We work together every day so we need to keep in each other's good books. The thing is my co-worker doesn't do anything to help me out with cleaning of the store, and actually makes huge messes and I'm stuck cleaning up after him.

We have worked here for 2 years almost together, and in the time he's taken out the garbage once, cleaned the bathroom maybe twice, doesn't ever clean the glass counters, leaves the garbage bins overflowing onto the floors, etc etc. Then he does crazy things like play with his paintball gun in the back storage room- splattering paint everywhere onto clean dishes, doors, cupboards etc and kind of half cleans it so there is still paint all over the floor etc.

I have kind of gotten over this stuff, I am actually waiting to hear if I have gotten a new job (will find out tomorrow), but now there is a new thing that is really frustrating that I feel that I cannot dismiss. I came in to open the store this morning (we run a tobacco store) and I don't smoke...am actually highly allergic to smoke but that doesn't matter since we obviously aren't allowed to smoke in the store. He knows how allergic I am but yet I come in this morning to open up and the store reeks like cigar smoke. It just clung to the air and had been locked up all night so it was also stale. I tried to spray room deoderizer, and then I noticed that he had obviously been smoking at the back table in the store (so right out in the public area) there was cigar ash all over the table, the garbages had ash and stuff in them, etc. and so I've been sitting here all morning smelling this and feeling extremely sick. The other cleaning issues I have whatever, but when things begin to affect my health and there is nothing I can do about it because I must be in the store, that's when I get upset. I need to stay semi nice to him because I don't know if I have the new job yet, and also he is my reference so I don't want to make him angry at me (I could see him being a little vindictive) but I feel that something should be said to him when he gets in today because this is really disrespecful and unfair. Does anyone have any advice on either what I can say or do? I would really appreciate the help! Sorry this is so long, I wanted to explain what he's like before just the one issue.

I feel like kind of a jerk for even asking about this, or being mad for that matter but I can't really help it. So I have a friend that I've known for a few years. We kind of go in phases of hanging out and not it's really weird. Well we haven't talked again for quite some time, her and her husband kept having to cancel plans with us, and a lot of time has gone by. Well the other day out of the blue after not talking to them or seeing them for probably 2 months they text my fiance and I asking if we can babysit for them that day (the text was sent really early that morning). We had plans and with such short notice also I said we couldn't. We were both a little miffed why they would ask us a favor when we haven't seen or heard from them in so long but that was fine just a bit weird.

So what I am actually mad about is we talked online today after again not talking for about 2 weeks. She was asking if I had gotten a new job yet (I've been looking for quite some time) and I said I was really excited that I had had an interview yesterday at a place that I have wanted to work at for 2 years. She then goes "Oh are they hiring?" and I said yes. And she goes "Oh I'm going to go drop off a resume there today". I know that she has the right to do so, but I kind of think that she should take into account that this is my dream job, and could have maybe asked me before just saying that she's going to go there today...she does a lot of things like this, and borrows money and doesn't pay it back, and a lot of other stuff. I guess that's why we're on and off friends, but I just want to know if I'm overreacting about the job thing. I feel mean being mad about it but I can't help it....

I am trying to print a 3 page resume. The document opens up fine on the computer, but when I go to "print preview" or actually print the document, it cuts it off on the first page and won't print the other 2 pages. Please help I have a job interview today and need to bring a copy of my resume.

I know there comes a time when we all hate our jobs. Everyone tells me that I should feel "lucky" that I at least have a job at this time where people are struggling with the economy etc. I fully understand that, and I try to remind myself of this fact but lately it doesn't seem to be working.

I feel like I am completely losing my sanity at my job. I have been working at a local tobacco shop for about a year and a half now. I took the job because it was a management position, and I only intended it to be a temporary thing. I don't smoke, and actually find it pretty disgusting, but I was willing to put my morals aside for the opportunity, then move on. So now not only am I fighting with my morals on selling people cancer causing products, there are so many other things wrong. The store I work in is downtown in the city, and our windows have to be blocked out for tobacco laws...and it isn't the safest area around, and I am a 22 year old female who works alone 5 out of 8 hours of her shift. I get the strangest people in almost every single day that totally freak me out. I have to kick out crackheads weekly. Also my co-worker isn't the easiest person to get along with. He acts like he owns the store (even tells people he does when I am not around because they come in later and comment about him being the owner), but doesn't do any clean up...we have both worked here the same amount of time and in this time frame he has NEVER taken out the garbage (which by the way is in a creepy back alley), he has cleaned the bathroom maybe 3 times, and now he plays with his paint ball gun in the back room leaving paint everywhere and doesn't bother to properly clean it up. Plus customers come in and are so rude to me "Oh, he isn't in, that's too bad" and some won't even deal with me, they call and ask for him and if I answer the phone they don't want to speak with me. Now I am not a rude person, I just don't put on airs that I know everything about all our products and am honest with people.

So with that all said I am going crazy. We aren't very busy either so I spend most of my shift sitting all alone in a small store that is like a cave since the windows are blocked out for 8 hours. I am trying like crazy to get another job, but I have gotten absolutely no calls back because everyone in my town is looking for work as well. I know something will eventually come up, but until then what do I do? I feel like I am losing my sanity. I cry, or get really angry or scared at least once a day. I have come home some nights and just cried and cried from the stress. I know it probably doesn't sound that bad, but even when friends or family come in and visit me they say "I don't know how you do this everyday, you need to find something else". I have tried putting on relaxing music, doing yoga, etc etc etc. But I am slowly losing it. Can anyone suggest anything to help me to cope with this until I can get out of here? Please help....

My boyfriend and I moved into a duplex a few months ago. Ironically we are both not real "kid people"...we like them but get impatient very easily. Our backyard does not have a fence and the kids upstairs play with all the neighbourhood kids in our yard and all the other yards on the street. We have no privacy since children are constantly peeking in our windows, even when we get mad and tell them to stop. Now the newest problem started yesterday: I had just gotten home from work, and 2 of the monsters (ages approx 3 and 5) were playing in the front yard unsupervised, and not even playing with the children that live upstairs. They were throwing rocks and dirt at my living room windows. I went out and told them to stop. They continued right after I went inside, and it was making my dog bark, etc. I then saw their Mother come into our yard so I went outside and said "Hi, could you please tell your kids to stop throwing rocks and dirt at my windows?" I've never met her before and she kind of just stared at me and said really casually to her kids "Oh you guys..." like it didn't even matter. Then I noticed that with them throwing dirt everywhere our front porch was really gross and dirty. So I looked at her and pointed to the ground and said "And this is kind of getting gross as well" and she glared at me and said really sarcastically, "Well a broom would work great for that." I got really upset after this, and just said "Gee thanks" and she even had the gall to reply sarcastically "You're welcome" then I went inside and slammed the door. About a 30mins later I hear screaming and something hitting my back door. I go outside and the same kids are picking fruit off our tree and throwing it at my door. I told them to stop it and go away, but things continued until I finally went out. This stuff happens every single day, and I can't stand it anymore. Obviously talking to the parents isn't the solution since she lets her young children run wild through the neighbourhood, and has no respect for anyone else, or their property. We are signed into a year lease so we can't even move away. I am going crazy, I don't even want to be home these days. Please help!