Day 8
When I left my job, it was not only without fanfare; it was cold as Ice, totally forgettable.
My doctor unloaded a ton of annoying tasks. When I asked management if maybe this is something an individual working for him in the future could finish, my manager said, "finish strong, don't. Don't let your patients or your doctor down."
Did they say goodbye, or great work or even thank me for staying late to ensure every task I was given even ridiculous ones finished? Nope,
When I got home, I was pretty sad. My girlfriend was like, what happened?
I told her no one even said goodbye or wished me well, she said most jobs treat people as useless. I said, I guess, but other employees when they left, either get a good job. Heck, when Zee, left she had everyone take a moment gather they wished her the best and the team even cracked open some beers and cheered her off. It was the doctor I work for who even bought the beers for the send off. Now, I may not drink, but the response was obvious when she moved on the team celebrated her when it was my time. The word was out the doctor I work for was angry, so ignore me to keep the peace with whom you will have to continue working.
My girlfriend said yeah, unfair treatment sucks, but that's why you're leaving. You should celebrate.
I looked at her and explained as an orphan, I always feel I am unwanted. Having people I worked with for months just be done with me because they can't exploit me anymore is harsh.
She then hugged me and said well we're going out to celebrate. You did a good thing. You should be happy.
I looked at her with tears and said no, I want to mope around unwanted forever. She hugged me and said, " Look, I'm going to get dressed, and we are going to go out so that you can make this easy or hard but staying isn't an option.
I wasn't the most excited then, but after her repeated insistence, I caved. We drove to a board game restaurant cafe about an hour away.
Oddly, she was excited to show me somewhere new, but a few years ago, I was randomly there one day due to a board game group I was a part of. Thus kinda in UNO it was a reverse surprise. However, I only had a chai tea; this time, we had the food, and I was impressed with a board game cafe; the food was actually top quality. We played five games. The first two were party games where you have a prompt and try to guess the same thing.
In medium you both put down a card, and you say, what's the first thing that can encompass both? For example, If I put down life and you put down a car, what would you get with those two words? I think of Transformers or Autobots. ( I am pretty nerdy)
Then we played a game called follow the heard also a prompt game it asks a question and you try to say the same answer. An example best job in the circus?
Three Two One Magician Did we say the same thing?
Then we played a dice-chucking cooperative game called fuse it is trash, a deck-building game about getting rid of artichokes which was decent, and ended on a bizarre game called abduction about aliens abducting ducks clearly.
She forced me to have fun and I did. Note we both collect board games I have roughly 70+ she has depending on how you look at it upwards of 200+ you think with both of us being huge into board games we would play them more often well you'd be wrong why who the eff knows?
I was the president of the board gaming club in college and she literally started an event held in a dungeon about nerd culture games and board games.
Yet we haven't been doing much as a couple. She's been stressed, and I've been bored and mildly depressed. .
We drove home, and I went to sleep right away. I genuinely was tired. My EMT job hasn't made my schedule for next week so don't even know when I am working. They were supposed to call me between 7 and 8 pm but forgot.
I guess I am just totally forgettable.
