Screwed.

I keep getting screwed over at my place of employment. I don't mean, like bearable, I can deal with this but I like complaining, I mean, really horribly screwed. So, here's the deal;

Issue one: Melissa [who is entirely innocent in this matter] is returning from her trip to Montreal this upcoming week. While she has been way for the past month I have been covering her regular shifts and my regular shifts. Sort of. Basically I went from work six hour days to eight hour days. While I admit, I don't need to work eight hour days, I cannot justify working a four hour day. So, Melissa is coming back on Thursday, and this upcoming week I'm working 40 hours, some at the regular store, and some at ML, [which the boss agreed would not happen, because I live so close to the other store]but whatever, I can deal with this. Then, the following week, I'm working 26 hours. WTF. I can't work 26 hour weeks and keep only one job. It's not logical. I can not work only four hours in one day. It does not justify the two hours of travel time to ML.

Issue Two: If you have talked to me lately you're well aware of the Rachel issue. For the rest of you, Rachel is the girl I work with. One of them. She is an ACAD student, taking Visual Communication. She does not work. She isn't the least bit inspired to help, assist, move out of the way, or offer any form of courtesy or respect to anyone in the store. She is lazy, does not need money [because her parents pay for everything, despite that she is 21.]She lives a life of privledged and luxury, showing up at work when it pleases her, doing whatever she likes, and generally making a nuisance of herself.

Now, she's a Taurus, I'm a Taurus. This is bad for several reasons, first, she does not treat me with an ounce of respect, simply pity, apathy, condescension, and the occasional mock-kind remark to kick me in the teeth. She is the passive aggressive type. I don't think she knows this. She has also taken to hover near me, so near that she is invading in my personal space! I covet my personal space. She has taken to hip checking me into the wall... Or floor, or boxes, shelves or customers. Again, I say WTF [how old are we here?] So, I meet all adversity on her part with adversity on mine. I am strong willed, I will not give in. I won't call her on the personal space stuff, but I will argue tooth and nail when I know I am right, [which is often, cause she is senseless.]

Furthermore, I'm pretty sure she's a lesbian, or at the very least Bi. She knows I am gay, or at least that way inclined, and she uses it to both attempt to seduce me, and attempt to mortify and attack me. The mortification is not working, however the attacking is slowly driving me insane. It's small derogatory jabs at me. "I do something because I'm a lesbain." That sort of thing.

And to finish this story of terror, the boss thinks it's hilarious that we literally start throwing things at each other and sulking in different corner of the store by the end of the evening, so she makes sure to put us alone together all the time. I just don't understand this logic at all!

Issue Three:

I have never been properly paid. I have been working there a total of seven months and never have I been paid the right amount, on time, in the right form. I don't even care what form it comes in, so long as Revenue Canada considers it legal!

Resolution:

I am going to finish applying for schools. I need to have this over with. I am going to revise my resume, have a good long discussion with the boss, and hopefully come to some sort of resolution. I would like to continue working there, despite all of the above, I do enjoy it. That being said, this is the most turbulent and challenging jobs I've ever had, [and I've worked with two year olds!]and I believe that I could be just as happy, working in a less controversial atmosphere.

Any advice? Right now I'm mostly just avoiding, ignoring and feeling overall cheated.