Well isn't that wonderful? Upper management has been threatening for three whole months now that people are going to start getting written up. I never thought in all of my craziest dreams that I would be the first person to get written up. My work is practically ALWAYS done perfect, when there is a mistake, it's something pretty small, and I have no problem admitting that I was wrong, and I take whatever steps I need to in order to correct it.
Today, my boss got pissed off at me because I have clocked in almost 30 minutes early every day this pay period. Even though the store manager always asks me to do stuff for him and I have a very strict policy that I will not work off the clock, apparently I'm not allowed to do anything before 9 a.m. Fine. I just won't be at work until exactly 9 a.m.
At my preformance review, they said that my attendance was an issue. I've only ever not been to work 2 days in 4 months, once because the power went out where I live, and without power, my phone doesn't work. The second time, I actually went to work, stayed until the next shift came in at 11 just because I knew I was going to be the only cashier there until 11, and once the other girls came in, that's when I went home. Only because I didn't have a baby sitter.
I've tried my best to make sure that I'm doing my job, I always tell my boss where I am at all times, with the exception of today because she went to lunch. When I tried to talk to her, she kept walking away and said "didn't I say I was on lunch?" I had been trying to get this stupid address list done for the General Manager, only because the damn list has been sitting on the counter for 3 days, available for ANYONE to look at. I didn't feel that it was a good idea, so I took it upon myself to make sure the list got done so it could go straight back to GM, away from everyone's prying eyes. Damn me for doing that, because I got yelled at for it.
What really pisses me off, is that damn near everyone in that building can get away with just about anything... from doing shady deals with customers and constantly lying about crap, to arguing with management and doing whatever the hell they want. The other cashiers pretty much take turns on being late, someone calls each and every day to say they are going to be late, paperwork is always an issue, keys to the tills get left out on the counter, people stay logged into the system even when they are away from the computers, dress code violations, you name it. Do they get written up for any of this? No. I get written up for not only being on time every damn day, but for being early. And, on top of it, I get yelled at for taking the initiative and making sure that shit gets done, gets done right, and gets done on time.
From now on, fuck them all. I guess the only thing at that company I need to be worried about is myself.
Here it was, I thought this was different from every other job, that this wasn't a dead end job. Apparently I was wrong. Apparently, there is no future in this company for me. Good thing me and my brother came up with a good business idea today. Now it's a matter of sticking to it.
December 09, 2005
December 05, 2005
Long Time, Eh?
Damn! I didn't realize how long it had been since I had been on here. It's definitely been awhile.
Well, I've had this blog for a little over a year now, and a LOT has changed in the past year.
My little man is walking, talking, and getting himself into a LOT of trouble now. He's a climber, and no matter what, if I think that there is no way he can get on top of something, trust me, this little guy will find a way!
Jennifer is in Pre-School now. She is so funny, she's so smart--she already knows everything that they would teach her in pre-K but we enrolled her just so she can get used to the social interaction. Her first day in Pre-K, she came home and asked me, "I thought I was going to school!" I told her that she was, and she just simply shrugged and responded with "Well, I didn't learn anything. All we did was color and play and the teacher kept talking about colors and shapes." Hehehe, she's so cute.
LeeAnna is in the top of her class, doing really well, she's actually above her grade level in a few areas, and I'm thinking about enrolling her in some gifted classes.
Adam is doing okay, he could be doing a lot better though. He's smart and he's not having any problems with his school work for the most part, it's mainly his behavior. We found out that he's been secretly throwing his meds away, so his ADD has taken control again. We now have to watch him swallow his pill in the morning. There is also a kid in his class that has been a bad influence. He knows that he should stay away from this kid, as this kid almost got Adam suspended from school last year with the whole fire incident in the bathroom, but the temptation seems too great for him to resist. Me and the teacher discussed the issue at parent teacher confrences and we are both going to submit to the school that from now on these two should NOT be in the same classroom.
We went and got our annual pictures taken yesterday, and they look great. LeeAnna didn't smile in any of the pictures because she says she hates having her picture taken. But they look good nonetheless. I will add them to here when I'm done with this post.
Things between me and Dave haven't been that great lately. I'm not exactly sure what the problem is, or where it lays, but I think it's a bad sign that I've really wanted to say "screw it" and go back to being a single mom. At the same time that I want to be single again, I also remember how hard it was on me when I was doing it before, and when I was doing it before, my parents still lived in town, my cousin was living with me, and I had an awesome support circle. Now my parents live out of town and they have way too many of their own problems right now to help me, and my cousin is living in Colorado, and the guy who was kind of like my nanny is living in Florida now. So it would really be hard for me to do it again. But at the same time, I wasn't really working when I did it before, but now I am working, and I have an awesome job, with excellent job security, the two youngest are in day care, and my babysitter lives two doors down from me, so I don't know. I think I could do it, but at the same time, I'm not too sure. The thought kind of scares me, because of the uncertainty.
I've recently had quite a revelation about myself.
My whole life I have been very uncomfortable in my own skin. I've always felt like an imposter, like I was living someone else's life. Like this really isn't where I'm supposed to be. I've started putting two and two together, and started asking a LOT of questions. Like, I realized that there are absolutely NO pictures of my mom when she was supposedly pregnant with me. I don't doubt that we are related somehow, but I just started thinking about some things. Like, my mom's sister who is considerably younger than my mom. I used to get along with this woman, when I was really young, but then she had kids, and she neglected them terribly. She got into the whole drug scene, and at one point she even took her kids to a crack house. The state got involved and took her kids away, but during one unsupervised visit she took the kids and ran to Wisconsin. Once there she tried to sell her kids to the highest bidder, but she was caught by the authorites and they were taken away again. Wisconsin had a law at the time that if the kids were taken away from a parent, then the blood relatives couldn't have access to the children for the risk of the family returning the children to the parent. When the state of Alaska had taken the kids away, my mom was in the process of trying to adopt the boys. But once she ran to Wisconsin with the kids that whole plan was shot down the toilet. For this, I have always hated this woman. Plus the fact that back in 2000 she came up for a visit and while here she slept with my boyfriend who was living with me at the time. Needless to say, I will never refer to this woman as my aunt.
Thanksgiving weekend, my grandmother had to go in for knee replacement surgery, and she needs someone there to take care of her while she recovers. My mom's sister has moved up here to take care of her. I was quite upset because no one in my family felt brave enough to tell me this, and I had to find out from the vile evil woman I once called my mother-in-law. And now, my mom's sister seems to be extremely interested in what's going on in my life, and she's trying like hell to get me to forgive her for all her sins in the past, and she seems way too interested in how my kids are doing.
I can't explain why, but lately I've started thinking about how I'm really not anything like either of my parent's and how I've always thought I don't really look like them. I recently found out that my parent's moved to Alaska because they had to leave New York because they were being investigated for what my mom says was something to do with drugs and they wanted to get out of that scene and get me away from it all. This was when I was less than a year old.
I don't know if I'm being paranoid or what, but sometimes I think that maybe I was kidnapped and that's why they came up here. But at the same time, lately I've been thinking about how much me and my mom's sister are alike. I kind of think that maybe my mom's sister got pregnant at too young of an age, and so my mom took it upon herself to adopt me and raise me as her own. I don't know, but it certainly would explain why my whole life I've felt like an imposter. Why I've never been comfortable in my own skin. I'm not going to push the issue, because to be perfectly honest, I don't really know if I want to know the truth. With everything that I've been through in my life, I don't think I could handle a blow like that. That would be the one thing that would really push me over the edge. I love my parents to death, they mean the world to me, and I really wish I could do more for them, but if I was to find out something like that, and find out that my parents have lied to me my whole life, I wouldn't be able to handle it.
I can hear some people saying something about how I just look for drama and that's all this really is, but trust me, I have had enough damn drama in my life, I look for ways to keep it locked out.
Onto other topics not so heavy, my job is going good, for the most part. I love the company, I love practically everyone I work with, with the exception of a select few. There a few people at work that I like as people, but can't stand to work with. Like our Sales Manager. He is by far the most incompetent asshole I have ever had the displeasure of working with. There are few sales people that I like as people, but I hate working with. Most of them are in the bedding department. There are some sales people that I absolutely LOVE working with, one of whom quit the other day due to some huge mess and bullshit caused mainly by the sales manager, and it really ruined the rest of the day. Saturday more than half the store was ready to walk out the front door due to all the shit that was happening. But the next morning there was a large meeting in which the salesman who quit attended, and he's back with us now. Which I am SOO happy about!
My other favorite salesperson is fed up with all the bullshit and he could walk any day now. I'm really going to hate to see him go, he makes my day all that much better, but I understand the situation and I've always felt that if you aren't happy with your job, find a new one. The money is not worth making your life miserable.
There are two girls that work back in the warehouse, Tia and Danielle, and I love them both SOOO much! These girls truely rock, and they help me make it through the day when everything seems to be going to shit. When I have issues with some of the people up front, I find some excuse to walk back to the warehouse and vent with these girls. Tia always makes me laugh, and I honestly think of her as one of my best friends now. I just really wish she lived here in town so we could hang out outside of work more. Danielle is just a great girl! She seems so innocent, and she's been going through some rough times recently in her personal life, and she's the type of girl that you just really want to hug and protect and beat up any person that tries to hurt her. She is such a sweetie!! And if she moves to Colorado like she's talking about, I am going to miss her way too much!!!! She would be someone that I would actually take a vacation just to go visit, and I would definitely keep in touch with her, and talk to her regularly the same way I do with my cousin.
The Customer Service manager is a great guy, he's really fun to work with, and I've hung out with him a lot outside of work, especially lately. He's a good drinking buddy that's for sure, and he knows how to have fun. I'm just glad that I really haven't pissed him off, even though he doesn't really hold a grudge. I had a little "crush" on him for awhile, mainly because he reminds me of all the really good things in my first husband, and none of the bad things. My "crush" kind of went away when things between me and Dave started getting better, but now that things are bad again, my "crush" has kind of gotten worse. But then again, I've always had a problem with being attracted to someone at work.
I really like most of the warehouse guys, they are fun and great to pick on. One of the warehouse guys is the brother of a guy that used to work with Dave, and I feel so bad for him. He's such a pushover and his brother, who one of the biggest assholes I've ever met, takes advantage of him and walks all over him. And this guy is nothing but a big ol' teddy bear that you just want to squeeze.
The girls up at the front counter that I work with are cool. I have issues with them sometimes, and I really want to go off on them at times, but I have done an excellent job at holding my tongue and making it through the day. They are really cool to hang out with too. One of the cashiers is going through a really rough time with her family, so I really haven't had much of a chance to hang out with her, with the exception of the one night that I had to rescue her when her mom dumped her on the side of the road and went schizo on her. One of the other girls is going through kind of the same shit with her boyfriend that I am, and when we all went out the other night for drinks, we kind of sat there and compared stories. I was really happy to get a chance to hang out with her away from her man, because he kind of gives me the creeps. The cashier that I work with that is dating the Asst. Store Manager is really awesome, and we have an awful lot in common. We went to lunch together one day, and while we were sitting in the restaraunt, we started talking about our marriages, and she went through a lot of the same things with her first husband that I went through with mine, with the exception that they never had kids, so I really understand her now.
There is another girl up at the front, she supposed to be a receptionist, but she fills in as a cashier occasionally. There are times when her and I really butt-heads and I can't stand being around her, but then after work, or if we've spent enough time away from each other, we get along great. I just get frustrated with her sometimes because she's only 18 and new to the workforce so she's still fresh. I've done an excellent job at hiding my irritations, and most of the time I don't think she knows when I'm frustrated with her. She's another good person to hang out with outside of work, because when we are away from work we have alot of things in common and we can bullshit and joke around and get along great.
One of the other cashiers is from Hawaii, she's up here for college, and she's just a great person. She is sooo fun! She's wacky, she knows how to joke around, and she never takes ANYTHING too seriously. She can be a joy to work with, and one of the things that I really like about her is that when she makes a mistake on something and I have to point it out, she doesn't get all defensive, she really knows how to take constructive criticism. That, and she knows when to ask for help.
My immediate boss, I absolutely love working with her. She never takes things too seriously, except when it's absolutely needed. She has a great sense of humor and makes my weekdays so much easier. I've never had a boss that I felt I could really go to with problems until her. She is very understanding and takes everything in stride. Like last week when I was trying to get all my day care assistance stuff take care of, and get the applications for the day-care/PreSchool in, I had to take a really long lunch and I didn't know how long it was going to take (2 hours and 15 minutes is what it turned out to be), but she was very understanding and didn't get onto me about it. And you can "bribe" her with snacks, especially chocolate!!
I love the finance girls, one of them is the owner's daughter and she's a riot. She's one of those people that sees the world strictly in black and white, and I'm grateful for that because she will tell you when you mess up, and she doesn't make it difficult and she doesn't hold it against you and never really holds a grudge... not that I've seen anyway. The other finance lady is wonderful! We have a lot in common, and I think she understands my personality more than anyone else in that whole store, and she doesn't judge people. I think we have almost the same thinking pattern and our personalities are so much alike. She appreciates jokes and humor the same way I do, and she never really gets offended by stuff with the exception of when someone does something so stupid and there is absolutely no excuse for the mess up other than laziness.
The Asst. Store Manager is cool too, he has a great sense of humor and will work with people on their problems as much as he can. I tend to think that he's a little over worked for his job, and he doesn't like to ask for help or tell the powers that be that he's a little over worked, but he's got the type of intelligence and work ethic that even when he gets over worked, he handles it like a pro. I sometimes think he strives off the energy. He can be an asshole at times, but for the most part he's pretty cool.
The people I can't stand, I don't like them and don't like working with them mainly because they are self-centered and lazy. I have a problem with people who KNOW the procedures for their job, but claim ignorance and don't do it. Having been in sales myself and I LOVED it--I hate seeing people who call themselves salesmen, but don't take care of the customer. All they care about is their paycheck and how much money they can make with these people. I hate it when salesmen don't do their jobs right--they don't give accurate, or all of, the information that the customer needs, they don't do follow ups, they make promises that they know can't be done, and when shit hits the fan and it's the salesperson's responsibility to be the go-between with the store and the customer, they completely shuck all responsibilty and hand it off to whoever they can. When there is a problem and the customer needs to be called, they will find whoever they can and get them to make the call. Most of the time it's either one of us cashiers or they just leave it until be until it gets to the point that either a manager or the customer service guy has to handle it. There is NO excuse for their actions other than sheer laziness. They know it's their job, but they just don't do what they are supposed to do. I get so tired of having to remind certain salespeople about what their job entails, what they can do, what they can't do, what they need to do, what they should do, and what they should NEVER do.
There is one woman at work that EVERYONE hates. We call this woman "bobble-head" because she does this really annoying thing with her head. I think that what she's trying to do is toss the hair out of her face without really moving the hair. She's trying to pretend like she wants the hair out of her face, but she really wants it to stay where it is. Or she does this whole thing where she shrugs her shoulders and moves her head from side to side. She puts her hair up in the back but has these huge clumps hanging on each side of her face. It looks horrible, but she thinks it look good. Maybe she's trying to come off with the appearance that she's working really hard. She has this whole attitude that she is waaay too good to be where she is, that she is way better than everyone else there. And she is so fake. She will be the sweetest person to your face, but as soon as you are out of earshot, she is talking so much shit about you. To top things off, she filed two sexual harrasment claims against two men at work. The claims where the most bullshit stories I have ever heard. In one case, two of the salesmen where talking and she walked up and asked "So, what's for lunch today guys?" to which one of the salesmen turned and told her point blank, "It doesn't matter to me what you eat, because I'm not buying your lunch anyway." to which she replied with a stone serious face "You know, I do not appreciate sexual remarks like that." (This woman is craaaaaazy!) In the other instance, she was standing in between some furniture, kind of blocking the way through, and the sales manager needed to get past her but she wouldn't move. So he kind of turned to the side, squeezed past her, and in the process, his hand lightly brushed against her butt. Perfectly innocent situation, and it was an honest accident, but she claimed that he full out grabbed her ass. Both of her claims have been investigated, found to be completely unfounded, and the cases closed. Why this woman still works here, I have no idea. Other than the fact that we are short staffed on salespeople, I don't see any reason why she is still there.
I guess that's enough for this post. It's big enough already. I still have a lot of other co-workers to talk about that I didn't mention yet, but I will get to them later. There's only about 3 other sales people that I have big beefs with, but they are for another time. I'll try to remember to get on here a bit more regularly now and keep all of you apprised of what's going on with me and my little world.
Until later,
Ciao Baby!
Well, I've had this blog for a little over a year now, and a LOT has changed in the past year.
My little man is walking, talking, and getting himself into a LOT of trouble now. He's a climber, and no matter what, if I think that there is no way he can get on top of something, trust me, this little guy will find a way!
Jennifer is in Pre-School now. She is so funny, she's so smart--she already knows everything that they would teach her in pre-K but we enrolled her just so she can get used to the social interaction. Her first day in Pre-K, she came home and asked me, "I thought I was going to school!" I told her that she was, and she just simply shrugged and responded with "Well, I didn't learn anything. All we did was color and play and the teacher kept talking about colors and shapes." Hehehe, she's so cute.
LeeAnna is in the top of her class, doing really well, she's actually above her grade level in a few areas, and I'm thinking about enrolling her in some gifted classes.
Adam is doing okay, he could be doing a lot better though. He's smart and he's not having any problems with his school work for the most part, it's mainly his behavior. We found out that he's been secretly throwing his meds away, so his ADD has taken control again. We now have to watch him swallow his pill in the morning. There is also a kid in his class that has been a bad influence. He knows that he should stay away from this kid, as this kid almost got Adam suspended from school last year with the whole fire incident in the bathroom, but the temptation seems too great for him to resist. Me and the teacher discussed the issue at parent teacher confrences and we are both going to submit to the school that from now on these two should NOT be in the same classroom.
We went and got our annual pictures taken yesterday, and they look great. LeeAnna didn't smile in any of the pictures because she says she hates having her picture taken. But they look good nonetheless. I will add them to here when I'm done with this post.
Things between me and Dave haven't been that great lately. I'm not exactly sure what the problem is, or where it lays, but I think it's a bad sign that I've really wanted to say "screw it" and go back to being a single mom. At the same time that I want to be single again, I also remember how hard it was on me when I was doing it before, and when I was doing it before, my parents still lived in town, my cousin was living with me, and I had an awesome support circle. Now my parents live out of town and they have way too many of their own problems right now to help me, and my cousin is living in Colorado, and the guy who was kind of like my nanny is living in Florida now. So it would really be hard for me to do it again. But at the same time, I wasn't really working when I did it before, but now I am working, and I have an awesome job, with excellent job security, the two youngest are in day care, and my babysitter lives two doors down from me, so I don't know. I think I could do it, but at the same time, I'm not too sure. The thought kind of scares me, because of the uncertainty.
I've recently had quite a revelation about myself.
My whole life I have been very uncomfortable in my own skin. I've always felt like an imposter, like I was living someone else's life. Like this really isn't where I'm supposed to be. I've started putting two and two together, and started asking a LOT of questions. Like, I realized that there are absolutely NO pictures of my mom when she was supposedly pregnant with me. I don't doubt that we are related somehow, but I just started thinking about some things. Like, my mom's sister who is considerably younger than my mom. I used to get along with this woman, when I was really young, but then she had kids, and she neglected them terribly. She got into the whole drug scene, and at one point she even took her kids to a crack house. The state got involved and took her kids away, but during one unsupervised visit she took the kids and ran to Wisconsin. Once there she tried to sell her kids to the highest bidder, but she was caught by the authorites and they were taken away again. Wisconsin had a law at the time that if the kids were taken away from a parent, then the blood relatives couldn't have access to the children for the risk of the family returning the children to the parent. When the state of Alaska had taken the kids away, my mom was in the process of trying to adopt the boys. But once she ran to Wisconsin with the kids that whole plan was shot down the toilet. For this, I have always hated this woman. Plus the fact that back in 2000 she came up for a visit and while here she slept with my boyfriend who was living with me at the time. Needless to say, I will never refer to this woman as my aunt.
Thanksgiving weekend, my grandmother had to go in for knee replacement surgery, and she needs someone there to take care of her while she recovers. My mom's sister has moved up here to take care of her. I was quite upset because no one in my family felt brave enough to tell me this, and I had to find out from the vile evil woman I once called my mother-in-law. And now, my mom's sister seems to be extremely interested in what's going on in my life, and she's trying like hell to get me to forgive her for all her sins in the past, and she seems way too interested in how my kids are doing.
I can't explain why, but lately I've started thinking about how I'm really not anything like either of my parent's and how I've always thought I don't really look like them. I recently found out that my parent's moved to Alaska because they had to leave New York because they were being investigated for what my mom says was something to do with drugs and they wanted to get out of that scene and get me away from it all. This was when I was less than a year old.
I don't know if I'm being paranoid or what, but sometimes I think that maybe I was kidnapped and that's why they came up here. But at the same time, lately I've been thinking about how much me and my mom's sister are alike. I kind of think that maybe my mom's sister got pregnant at too young of an age, and so my mom took it upon herself to adopt me and raise me as her own. I don't know, but it certainly would explain why my whole life I've felt like an imposter. Why I've never been comfortable in my own skin. I'm not going to push the issue, because to be perfectly honest, I don't really know if I want to know the truth. With everything that I've been through in my life, I don't think I could handle a blow like that. That would be the one thing that would really push me over the edge. I love my parents to death, they mean the world to me, and I really wish I could do more for them, but if I was to find out something like that, and find out that my parents have lied to me my whole life, I wouldn't be able to handle it.
I can hear some people saying something about how I just look for drama and that's all this really is, but trust me, I have had enough damn drama in my life, I look for ways to keep it locked out.
Onto other topics not so heavy, my job is going good, for the most part. I love the company, I love practically everyone I work with, with the exception of a select few. There a few people at work that I like as people, but can't stand to work with. Like our Sales Manager. He is by far the most incompetent asshole I have ever had the displeasure of working with. There are few sales people that I like as people, but I hate working with. Most of them are in the bedding department. There are some sales people that I absolutely LOVE working with, one of whom quit the other day due to some huge mess and bullshit caused mainly by the sales manager, and it really ruined the rest of the day. Saturday more than half the store was ready to walk out the front door due to all the shit that was happening. But the next morning there was a large meeting in which the salesman who quit attended, and he's back with us now. Which I am SOO happy about!
My other favorite salesperson is fed up with all the bullshit and he could walk any day now. I'm really going to hate to see him go, he makes my day all that much better, but I understand the situation and I've always felt that if you aren't happy with your job, find a new one. The money is not worth making your life miserable.
There are two girls that work back in the warehouse, Tia and Danielle, and I love them both SOOO much! These girls truely rock, and they help me make it through the day when everything seems to be going to shit. When I have issues with some of the people up front, I find some excuse to walk back to the warehouse and vent with these girls. Tia always makes me laugh, and I honestly think of her as one of my best friends now. I just really wish she lived here in town so we could hang out outside of work more. Danielle is just a great girl! She seems so innocent, and she's been going through some rough times recently in her personal life, and she's the type of girl that you just really want to hug and protect and beat up any person that tries to hurt her. She is such a sweetie!! And if she moves to Colorado like she's talking about, I am going to miss her way too much!!!! She would be someone that I would actually take a vacation just to go visit, and I would definitely keep in touch with her, and talk to her regularly the same way I do with my cousin.
The Customer Service manager is a great guy, he's really fun to work with, and I've hung out with him a lot outside of work, especially lately. He's a good drinking buddy that's for sure, and he knows how to have fun. I'm just glad that I really haven't pissed him off, even though he doesn't really hold a grudge. I had a little "crush" on him for awhile, mainly because he reminds me of all the really good things in my first husband, and none of the bad things. My "crush" kind of went away when things between me and Dave started getting better, but now that things are bad again, my "crush" has kind of gotten worse. But then again, I've always had a problem with being attracted to someone at work.
I really like most of the warehouse guys, they are fun and great to pick on. One of the warehouse guys is the brother of a guy that used to work with Dave, and I feel so bad for him. He's such a pushover and his brother, who one of the biggest assholes I've ever met, takes advantage of him and walks all over him. And this guy is nothing but a big ol' teddy bear that you just want to squeeze.
The girls up at the front counter that I work with are cool. I have issues with them sometimes, and I really want to go off on them at times, but I have done an excellent job at holding my tongue and making it through the day. They are really cool to hang out with too. One of the cashiers is going through a really rough time with her family, so I really haven't had much of a chance to hang out with her, with the exception of the one night that I had to rescue her when her mom dumped her on the side of the road and went schizo on her. One of the other girls is going through kind of the same shit with her boyfriend that I am, and when we all went out the other night for drinks, we kind of sat there and compared stories. I was really happy to get a chance to hang out with her away from her man, because he kind of gives me the creeps. The cashier that I work with that is dating the Asst. Store Manager is really awesome, and we have an awful lot in common. We went to lunch together one day, and while we were sitting in the restaraunt, we started talking about our marriages, and she went through a lot of the same things with her first husband that I went through with mine, with the exception that they never had kids, so I really understand her now.
There is another girl up at the front, she supposed to be a receptionist, but she fills in as a cashier occasionally. There are times when her and I really butt-heads and I can't stand being around her, but then after work, or if we've spent enough time away from each other, we get along great. I just get frustrated with her sometimes because she's only 18 and new to the workforce so she's still fresh. I've done an excellent job at hiding my irritations, and most of the time I don't think she knows when I'm frustrated with her. She's another good person to hang out with outside of work, because when we are away from work we have alot of things in common and we can bullshit and joke around and get along great.
One of the other cashiers is from Hawaii, she's up here for college, and she's just a great person. She is sooo fun! She's wacky, she knows how to joke around, and she never takes ANYTHING too seriously. She can be a joy to work with, and one of the things that I really like about her is that when she makes a mistake on something and I have to point it out, she doesn't get all defensive, she really knows how to take constructive criticism. That, and she knows when to ask for help.
My immediate boss, I absolutely love working with her. She never takes things too seriously, except when it's absolutely needed. She has a great sense of humor and makes my weekdays so much easier. I've never had a boss that I felt I could really go to with problems until her. She is very understanding and takes everything in stride. Like last week when I was trying to get all my day care assistance stuff take care of, and get the applications for the day-care/PreSchool in, I had to take a really long lunch and I didn't know how long it was going to take (2 hours and 15 minutes is what it turned out to be), but she was very understanding and didn't get onto me about it. And you can "bribe" her with snacks, especially chocolate!!
I love the finance girls, one of them is the owner's daughter and she's a riot. She's one of those people that sees the world strictly in black and white, and I'm grateful for that because she will tell you when you mess up, and she doesn't make it difficult and she doesn't hold it against you and never really holds a grudge... not that I've seen anyway. The other finance lady is wonderful! We have a lot in common, and I think she understands my personality more than anyone else in that whole store, and she doesn't judge people. I think we have almost the same thinking pattern and our personalities are so much alike. She appreciates jokes and humor the same way I do, and she never really gets offended by stuff with the exception of when someone does something so stupid and there is absolutely no excuse for the mess up other than laziness.
The Asst. Store Manager is cool too, he has a great sense of humor and will work with people on their problems as much as he can. I tend to think that he's a little over worked for his job, and he doesn't like to ask for help or tell the powers that be that he's a little over worked, but he's got the type of intelligence and work ethic that even when he gets over worked, he handles it like a pro. I sometimes think he strives off the energy. He can be an asshole at times, but for the most part he's pretty cool.
The people I can't stand, I don't like them and don't like working with them mainly because they are self-centered and lazy. I have a problem with people who KNOW the procedures for their job, but claim ignorance and don't do it. Having been in sales myself and I LOVED it--I hate seeing people who call themselves salesmen, but don't take care of the customer. All they care about is their paycheck and how much money they can make with these people. I hate it when salesmen don't do their jobs right--they don't give accurate, or all of, the information that the customer needs, they don't do follow ups, they make promises that they know can't be done, and when shit hits the fan and it's the salesperson's responsibility to be the go-between with the store and the customer, they completely shuck all responsibilty and hand it off to whoever they can. When there is a problem and the customer needs to be called, they will find whoever they can and get them to make the call. Most of the time it's either one of us cashiers or they just leave it until be until it gets to the point that either a manager or the customer service guy has to handle it. There is NO excuse for their actions other than sheer laziness. They know it's their job, but they just don't do what they are supposed to do. I get so tired of having to remind certain salespeople about what their job entails, what they can do, what they can't do, what they need to do, what they should do, and what they should NEVER do.
There is one woman at work that EVERYONE hates. We call this woman "bobble-head" because she does this really annoying thing with her head. I think that what she's trying to do is toss the hair out of her face without really moving the hair. She's trying to pretend like she wants the hair out of her face, but she really wants it to stay where it is. Or she does this whole thing where she shrugs her shoulders and moves her head from side to side. She puts her hair up in the back but has these huge clumps hanging on each side of her face. It looks horrible, but she thinks it look good. Maybe she's trying to come off with the appearance that she's working really hard. She has this whole attitude that she is waaay too good to be where she is, that she is way better than everyone else there. And she is so fake. She will be the sweetest person to your face, but as soon as you are out of earshot, she is talking so much shit about you. To top things off, she filed two sexual harrasment claims against two men at work. The claims where the most bullshit stories I have ever heard. In one case, two of the salesmen where talking and she walked up and asked "So, what's for lunch today guys?" to which one of the salesmen turned and told her point blank, "It doesn't matter to me what you eat, because I'm not buying your lunch anyway." to which she replied with a stone serious face "You know, I do not appreciate sexual remarks like that." (This woman is craaaaaazy!) In the other instance, she was standing in between some furniture, kind of blocking the way through, and the sales manager needed to get past her but she wouldn't move. So he kind of turned to the side, squeezed past her, and in the process, his hand lightly brushed against her butt. Perfectly innocent situation, and it was an honest accident, but she claimed that he full out grabbed her ass. Both of her claims have been investigated, found to be completely unfounded, and the cases closed. Why this woman still works here, I have no idea. Other than the fact that we are short staffed on salespeople, I don't see any reason why she is still there.
I guess that's enough for this post. It's big enough already. I still have a lot of other co-workers to talk about that I didn't mention yet, but I will get to them later. There's only about 3 other sales people that I have big beefs with, but they are for another time. I'll try to remember to get on here a bit more regularly now and keep all of you apprised of what's going on with me and my little world.
Until later,
Ciao Baby!
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