Mood: Irritated 
Vaping: Vozol 12000 Cool Mint
Weather: 29°C, Clear
Location: Mont Fleuri, Mahe, Seychelles
I woke up with my phone ringing – it was this acquaintance of mine whose daughter is a casual worker at our store (E2). On Christmas day my sister received a call from E1, telling her that she’ll be going to the hospital and will most likely be getting sick leave for the 26th of December (yesterday) because of a teeth problem. So my sister and I woke up early yesterday to go to the store so we could open up the place and support E2 for her shift. Lo and behold as soon as we got there, the store was already open and I immediately saw E2 with a mop. I immediately assumed she got one of the landlord’s staff to open the shop, but when I asked her “so E1 isn’t here today right?” E1 replied behind the counter “no, I’m here” and proceeded to explain that she has an abscess in her gums. I thought it was quite funny though because it’s obvious the doctor didn’t think it was good enough for her to get a sick leave. Thank you Seychelles hospital doctor for seeing through the B.S. this time! Normally, you won’t find parking at the stadium car park by 8:30am but yesterday the parking lot had so many slots available, so I can only imagine how many sick leave notes were issued yesterday.
Anyway, while my sister and I were at the store and I was busy with reconciliation, my sister called E2 to go out onto the balcony for a small chat. She asked E2 if she might be interested in continuing with us until her school resumes (end of January) and according to my sister, E2 shook her head as if to say “hell no!”. I texted her mother to let her find out what is so unbearable about the job. When E2 got home, she told her mother to let me know that she would like to continue, but refused to tell her mother why she hesitated. So after prodding, E2 finally revealed the issue to her mother last night and that’s why her mother called me this morning. She said that if she were to text me everything and deleted the text messages, her daughter would still be able to retrieve the messages.
According to E2’s mother, E2 has issues with E1. E1 talks to her like she’s shit and one instance, E1 told E2 to organize items in a “square”. E2 didn’t really understand what E1 meant so she hesitated, and because E2 was taking time to figure out what E1 meant, E1 got mad and shouted “are you deaf?” to her colleague. There’s also the instance where E1 made a mess at the balcony and told E2 to clean it up. We can’t tolerate this kind of misconduct but we will investigate this further. E1 will receive a warning letter nonetheless for how she dealt with several customers last week, including a regular customer who complained via FB messenger.
It’s already almost 2pm, I actually left this blog and was preparing baozi.
Christmas Eve was spent at my older sister’s place and Christmas day was spent at my brother’s place. Everyone’s got issues taking pictures now so it’s like a hush-party of some sort, lol.
I woke up in the middle of the night with a bit of a sore throat, after feeling cold last night, and then woke up this morning with it feeling worse. But now it’s better. I don’t know what’s up. Am I vaping too much? Is it the beginning of some kind of flu again?