I swear, this new job is just causing me more stress than my last one! I am so worried about making a good impression, but I feel like I'm not.

The reason I say this is because NO ONE wants to take their shift at work. Two to three days don't go by without someone saying "Hey, I need you to cover my shift". No one wants to work. I did call into my old job a lot but they are making me look better. I would call in like, 2-3 times a month. That's bad but them asking weekly and daily is horrible. Even I know that's not a good thing.

But, it works out, because if someone can cover for them, nothing happens. They just get less hours.

But, it's starting to effect me. They always ask me first. I assume because I am new, but my life does not revolve around work. I am a college student. I have classes, I have homework and I have a social life I need to keep up with.

If I have plans I cannot break, I will not just drop everything I am doing to go and cover for them, because they don't want to go (or another situation, where this girl keeps asking for someone to cover for her for things that she knew about BEFORE the schedule was made, so she should have told our boss to not schedule her those days).

I do take shifts when I can, even though it just turns out no one needed htem covered because they just don't want to go. But it's making me not want to take their shifts anymore. I have a life, as I said. But I worry with how much I have to say no, it's going to make me look really bad.

My boss called me yesterday, but I was gone the whole day ice skating for my sister's birthday today. I told her I couldn't, and someone that morning asked me to take his shift as well. I had to tell them both no. I wasn't about to go "Hey, let's cut your birthday celebration short so I can go to work". My sister even said she would have been really upset if I had decided to go to work instead of spending time with her on her birthday.

But again, I worry that I'm going to make myself look horrible. I don't want to look bad, I want them to think I"m a good employee.

I just feel horrible.