Keep your mouth shut

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Frustration in the school and workplace for college working students

Last week I was working at the restaurant and asked if I could go home early. 
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It was a Friday night and I had a paper due for my online class at midnight.  It was about 9:30 and there were less then 10 people in the entire restaurant.  It had been over a half hour before anyone had entered the restaurant and I was so bored that I was counting menus.  My boss walked by and I wasted the next three minutes of my life conversing with him.

“Sir, do you have an idea of when I will be going home tonight? It would be helpful if I left early.”

“I don’t think so Laura, we close at 11ish.”

“11ish? So that means I will be here till 11?”

“11ish.”

“Okay. It’s just that I have a 6 page paper to write and I only have 4 pages done so far.”

“You can do that when you leave.”

“Well, It’s due at midnight for my online class so that wouldn’t be possible.”

“You should have done it today then.”

“I woke up at 5 to substitute teach all day and then drove over here to work so that would not have been possible.”

“Well maybe you shouldn’t work so much.”

“Exactly, so can I go home?”

“Since you asked if you can leave I’m going to keep you here longer.”

About an hour after this conversation I asked again if I could leave and he finally said I could.  However, right when I was packing up the phone rang.  The customer wanted to order food to go so I had to stay at the restaurant past 11.  I left at 11:20, handing in my paper late.

Now I know to fake being sick to leave work early.
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