.. I wouldn't have taken the job in the first place.

So, after returning to the wonderful country of my birth, and getting back into a job market that requires me to be able to speak English quickly, I am longing for the sweet simplicity of a job where all I have to do is be Western.

But, I'm working night audit for a hotel now, and at least the money is good.

30 days into my new job, I'm working happily away at balancing imaginary money on a spread sheet. I hadn't been at work for two days, and the last time I had worked, I'd worked with A. A has 10 years experience at this particular job. The person I replaced had 4. My boss has 12. Everyone seems very long-term to me.

Part way through the night, my boss comes up to me.

"Trouble," he says, "Did you and A do the Folio Retention Tape the last shift you worked?"

I think for a moment. I'd been working the back part of the audit, and she had been doing the front. The tape would have been done by Front Audit.

"I'm sorry, I don't remember."

My boss suddenly started yelling at me out of nowhere.

"What do you mean, you don't remember? This is a job, not a game! I don't remember isn't good enough for an excuse! You need to do that tape, it's very important! It's done every 45 days!"

Please note... I had been working there for 30 days at this point.

My boss continued to tirade at me, until I was finally able to get the words in: A had worked the Front Audit that day. I remembered her putting a tape in the basket for Accounting. I hadn't worked there for 45 days, so this would have been the first time that I had been required to do the tape. I still had no idea what he was talking about.

He finally calmed down enough to actually go and check to see if the tape had been done -- it had. But I never got either an apology for his outburst (during which he called me stupid and immature), an explanation of how to do the damned Folio Retention Tape, or even an acknolwedgement that I had no reason to know about something that happened every 45 days when I had only worked there for 30.

Yeah. Because mind reading is something they should have put in the job requirements.