Short Story

Last night, my schedule became conflicted when my sorority required me to be at a finance committee meeting while I was scheduled to work.  Juggling my job while in school with a nursing major and holding an office in a sorority takes a lot of planning and organization.  Yesterday was just one example of when things get jumbled together.  At my work, we have to submit availability requests 2 weeks ahead of time, and I was notified about the finance meeting with less than that time needed for me to request off work.  Nevertheless, i was still expected to attend otherwise I would be fined.  Our financial officer planned this meeting in accordance with having full attendance of members, me included.  I am the Event Director for my sorority, so I am on this committee in order to discuss my plans for our spring formal, and other socials I plan.  The members of this committee meet to discuss each officer's budget. So, I had to overcome this challenge and reach out to my coworkers for help to get the last two hours of my shift covered, but no one was about to.  While at work,  I overcame the scheduling challenge and switched shifts around with the other sellers on the fly.  I worked with my manager to see if the other sellers scheduled would be able to switch some things around.  We managed our team together and figured out a way things could work without me there, and I was able to leave early and still attend my finance committee meeting.  This way, I wasn't fined, and my store still had the required amount of sellers working to maintain wonderful customer service.   I also brought my coworker that switched with me Starbucks to let her know how much I appreciated her being flexible.

Commentary Topic

One topic I am interested in doing a commentary on is the new Deadpool movie.   I think it is interesting for a movie to be geared towards the other end of the the superhero spectrum.  It broke the record for highest grossing R-rated film in North America during on it's opening weekend.   This proves that many people are being drawn to this film and also are responding very positively to it.  The reviews on it are also pretty positive.  It received an 84% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and 95% of viewers liked the film.

I think it's pretty cool to see a film about a superhero that's not actually all that good.  I think it would be interesting to follow the reactions to this film.  Ryan Reynolds in this role is an especially talked about topic.  Apparently, his humor is what gives this movie and his character the extra comedic punch it needed.  I myself am not familiar with the X-Men series, and this film is the 8th installment of the film series.  I would have to do more research into the the previous films as well, but I think this topic is all around very popular right now, and would be interesting to find information and opinions on.