the end is nigh...

i must tell you about it before it happens because it gives me a chance to spell it out in front of me before I act rashly, which I have been told I do. So yesterday Claire was fired and sent home so very promptly, gone before we got home from work. It really needed to happen, she was just not getting it. Not picking up a job that the most simple of people would have no trouble with and generally being a slacko. Anyways, so because she was so swiftly flown away, we remaining girls were stuck with just the 3 of us on a 9-7 shift for Thursday late night shopping. Ergo, we all work for 10 hours straight. I might mention at this point that I am sick as a dog with a bark very similar to. Also chest congestions and a stuffed nose. Not the best. Today was it. Today was the last of the last. The straw on the camels back so to speak. Sabrina stinks worse than ever and is just so strange that Tegan and I (who we would both class as a little on the weird side) appear quite normal. She's just so darn creepy and not in a good way. Ahhh...I dread going back to the unit. Found out today that we are stationed in Cairns for an entire MONTH! Are you friggin' kidding me? So now we're stuck with stinky in a cramped apartment that has very minimal services ( y'know the basic cooking, washing machine stuff) I'm going crazy already and this is only the first week!

I'm going to have to tell her she stinks. How do you do that without hurting feelings? We've tryed hints, like " I'm going to have a shower, you want to go first?" or the more obvious: "You've really got to be careful about the humidity up here, you sweat a lot more..." I'm thinking that the direct approach is the only approach. There's really no other way to go about it. I just wonder what the company was doing when they hired her, I mean it's their image they're about to destroy with her as the face of it out there. It's just wrong. I guess they don't care about that. Anyways so I went home an hour earlier today because I was so sick and could barely stand up. It's the end I think. I can't do this anymore. Great job but crap people. I can't work in this kind of environment with someone who has no social awareness. Probably 80 per cent of this job is people skills, so I'm kind of left in the dark as to why they hired someone who has none of those. I think that's mostly what I'm upset about is a feeling of being cut of from knowing what's going on...where we are going next, when our days off will be etc. I'm going to call it quits. I seriously miss mum and dad. Just not being able to be there for mum on her treatment days. It's just annoying because I love the job, love the travel and the opportunities I get to do all the touristy things of Australia and see a bit more of it. I'll talk with Justin and Jesse and see what they can do. Otherwise it's two weeks notice...