Hey guys, just wanted to tell you what happened today. It will kind of affect a few of you...

I have the day off and was planning on doing a bunch of stuff, going to church, ect. Well before I woke up, my work called. 'Wolfie' had called (scroll down on this topic until you see a long post I wrote to see who I am talking about. It starts with "Sorry for bringing up an old topic, but....") asking me to work a 9 hour day today. I have to work a 9 hour day tomorrow too (with him for most of my worktime too) so when Mom came home she said "Oh you had a missed call from work."

I said, "I really don't want to go in today.", and she said alright. I did a few chores and found out that he called three more times within the next few hours. Finally I called back and got one of my coworkers who is a nice guy, who said that Wolfie was at lunch. I told my friend to say that I'd be busy for the rest of the day (he said that one of my other coworkers called in sick today).

I've been working with this company for about 5 years, and quite literally 99% of the time when they call, I'll come in. There were only a few circumstances when I would say no. So they see me as dependable.

One of the few times I said no was Wolfie calling a while back, and he got infuriated with me that I wouldn't come in on my off day. "This is bull****! Why do I have to deal with this ****!", he said on the phone. And as my mom has told me before, "It's okay to say no, it's your off day"

Well anyway, today my mom was pretty appalled that he called our house four times. She said that I shouldn't be stressing over work when I've got more important things going on - my last year of college.

So she proposed that when I go in tomorrow, if Wolfie is angry at me for not coming in, to quit my job.

She said that she and my brother would help me with money, and that way I could focus on my school work for the next 8 months.

So I don't know what will happen. This might be my last week working with this store, but if so, then I'll be glad to be finally rid of Wolfie. However, it'll mean that I'll have significantly less money to spend since I won't be making any for 8 months.

That means that I won't be able to spend any more money on commissions and things from you guys. I hate to do it but I need to cancel the commission I ordered from Quamar, and it also means that I might not be able to order more prints from Trigger_Mortis (that's tentative because I may still do that and count that as my christmas presents).

But anyway I just wanted to let you guys know that today has been stressful and things might be changing after this week.

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Update -

Alright, mission accomplished. It worked out pretty well, too.

The store manager wasn't there today, but instead one of the other managers that I really like, so I told him that I was planning on quitting. I went ahead and mentioned to him that Wolfie was part of the problem, and said, "If I can't deal with him today, then I'm planning on walking out early, if that's alright with you."

My manager said, "No problem."

So I went to work, started cutting up fruit and stuff. Wolfie walked in and immediately started talking about yesterday. "We're playing catch-up today since yesterday was a fiasco.", he said, "And for the record, if you think you're in trouble about yesterday, you're not, knowwhati'msayin?"

Well, I kept my mouth shut. Any time he spoke (except a few instances when he asked if he was in the way or such that was work-related), I didn't reply to him.

One of my other coworkers walked in and had a box of green tea that he sat on a table. Wolfie later walked in and picked it up, asking, "Holy crap what is this?"

I didn't respond, and immediately he asked, "Hey what is this?" Same deal, I ignored him. "CHRISTOPHER!", he shouted.

I looked up and said "What?" "What is this?" "I don't know, it was something M--- brought in."

Then later on he blocked me into my little cutting area by putting one of our rolling carts in the way so he could prep some corn. That whole time he kept saying, "You really should be mad at [the guy who called in sick yesterday] and not me.", and "I was hoping I could listen to the Saints game while I was back here.", and "Hey you like that new age stuff, right? I had a neat dream I need you to interpret for me.", and a few other things.

At one point Customer Service called us, and since I couldn't get out due to Wolfie blocking the way, he walked over and answered the phone, mumbling a few F-words and other things as he stomped away. He hates it when people call our department.

Eventually he stopped cutting corn and I was finally able to get out of the cutting area I was stuck in. So I put out all the fruit I had cut up (which was a good bit of it), and then walked over and told my manager that I couldn't deal with him anymore. My manager nodded and said, "Don't worry about it, I'll tell him that I sent you home."

So I clocked out and came home. Never said a word to Wolfie that I was leaving. I worked for 3 hours and just could not handle listening to him complain all day.

Tomorrow not only will my produce managers be there, but the store manager will be too, so I will stop by work and let them know that I'm quitting. I have decided that I will give them two weeks if they need it, but I will make a stipulation that I don't want to work with Wolfie any of those days. (Wednesday I will see him but he should be leaving by the time I come in, and one of my managers will be there so it shouldn't be a problem).