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I rage at living in the middle of fucking nowhere. It's nice and quiet, like I like it, but man. Staring at fucking leaves all day is for the birds. That and I can't get decent internet out here at all. Fuck you, 3G Wifi.
I remember, involve me and I
learn.
-Benjamin Franklin
While classes are going on, I tend to have jobs that I consider somewhat meaningful (for a college student anyway) that have a decent bit of responsibility and management associated with them. I'm going after a business degree too, so management is without a doubt something I enjoy.
While summer is here, I'm working a clerk position at a pharmacy I've been at for 5 years now doing the most basic, not-exactly-difficult duties. My current manager knows nothing about management, but has let her position go entirely to her head, using excuses to deny any ideas I offer forth with, "I'm the manager, we're not going to do that because I said so." She takes every opportunity she can to flaunt this around, as if to make it quite clear everybody else is below her, despite the fact that this position is likely the apex of what she'll be doing with her life to come.
I show her numbers to back up some info for how to maximize profit on items we're stocking, get shot down with that reason. Bring in a textbook from a retail management (hi, exactly what she's doing) class that has some neat ideas, get told she's the manager, she knows what she's doing, and doesn't need any help. The same manager that's lost 3 employees over the last year as a direct result of not wanting to work for her.
HNNNNNNG. tl;dr going from a meaningful job you were satisfied with and could grow from to one absolutely opposite in every sense of the word blows big 'ol unicornsing unicorns. Inept management too. /Fliptable
Any time I think I'm having a rough time with work (much less now that I have an actual career) I just remember the time I was a grave digger. It always seems better in comparison to a grave digger.
PS: I still want my gangster rap
Give up.
We're evil.
the way she tells me I'm hers and she is mine
open hand or closed fist would be fine
blood as rare and sweet as cherry wine
The government will see that we get paid out for as much of that as possible, but that might be 6 months from now.
So I've been calling around and I'm confident I'll be working somewhere new by next week, but I'm still short close to ten grand, with rent due tomorrow and wherever I start I won't have any holiday pay so I can't take time off for the baby.
Right now?
Fuck everyone. Is how I feel.
...wtf is voluntary administration? Is that like declaring bankruptcy?
I remember, involve me and I
learn.
-Benjamin Franklin
When things get bad enough, it becomes illegal (fraud) for a company to continue trading. Sometimes they do anyway and get in trouble, and sometimes they do anyway and manage to trade out of it.
In this case, my boss informed the appropriate government department and an administration company was appointed to take over. They now direct the company. Sometimes they choose to take a risk and try to trade out of it, in which case there is no bankruptcy (assuming they succeed). They aren't big on risk taking though, and in my case they've closed the business and are now selling off the assets and taking the people that owe money to court to try and get as much as possible.
After a month, they then begin the process of divvying up the money among creditors. Employees are the first on the list to receive anything, but the process is so convoluted it makes bureaucrats cry.
>_> I can name my fair share of 'evil' women.
Me: "Hey, you know what would be great? Having more than 1 low horse locomotive on each yard job. Because, you know, handling more than 4 cars at a time is actually more efficient. Plus they can actually stop when and where they intend to instead of being pushed down hills and through intersections by the loads of soybean oil they're pulling!"
Morons that have no business in business: "That's not in our current business model."
Me: "But, we're a railroad. We need locomotives because rail cars are not self-propelling."
Morons: "That isn't in our current business model."
Me: "So you're saying our current business model is to run a railroad without moving cars because we have no locomotives?"
Morons: ... ignore.
God I love my job...
This comes two months before we're supposed to move back to Vermont and right after I just used the rest of our savings to replace my transmission. It's looking likely that we'll have to move in with his homophobic mother who insists that she has better things to do with her time than clean up after her dogs who piss and shit everywhere and have for years. She has zero boundaries and is just infuriating in general. I mean, the rent's cheap so that's nice (I guess?).
"To be awkward or unkempt, to talk or move wrongly is to be a dangerous giant, a destroyer of worlds...any accurately improper move can poke through the thin sleeve of immediate reality." - Erving Goffman
1. Play Aetolia
2. Work on Commissions
3. Do anything with any of my friends
4. Repair important relationships
5. Relax
You'd think this wouldn't be so much of an issue, being hired on as a part-time worker as a CRS in a gas station (one that is open 24hrs). Nadia, one of our two assistant managers, has been trying to get our main manager to hire on more people, because we -need- more. We don't have enough to cover shifts. We're stretching our current people out. We have 2 leads, 2 assistant managers, and 6 other regulars CSRs. I've been working full-time hours for the past couple of months now - do you think I get full-time benefits offered to me? No, of course not. Nor do any of the others.
Why is this a problem, and subsequently a rage of mine? We're open all the time. We have one person who is -just- graveyard, 3 other people who are trained and capable of working it but do not want to always work it. (Because they like to have lives to, and go to school, and other stuff). One of our regulars, the girl who never does more than a single 7 hour shift every week, got a new job, so her schedule is now 'locked' with only that one shift that she can work, and that's a mid-shift that we don't necessary need to have to run the store. So you can say we actually only have 5 regular CSRs, 4 of which are usually daytime. (During the week only one person works night). So in total, 9 people at a 24hr store. This coming Saturday is at the point where if someone called out, there is no one who could replace them because.. everyone else is working that day too. That's partly because one of our workers is on vacation for this week and half of next. (So right now we have 8 available people to work).
Now, I was saying I was going to be getting my time back, my freedom back, in the coming weeks. Nope, not anymore. Because the girl we had hired on and trained (I didn't include her in any of those numbers) was fired yesterday. I found that out when I came in at 5am and someone who was going to be back to work at 2pm that day was there working the last half of her shift she called out on. That was the second time in her first week she called out. Just next month, we have two of our people going on vacation back to back. Everyone who tries and does their job has gotten tired of trying because no one else is doing their jobs properly either, or being taken advantage of because of the situation. My 28 hour week next week is now a 37 hour week, but at least the scheduling manager this time had the decency not to continue the trend of 'work five days, have one day off, go back for another five days, one day off'.
tl;dr - we lost our new hire, our manager isn't hiring enough people to cover all the shifts, we're overworked and short on staff, the free time I was going to get back I no longer have.
Second. I am so livid right now. I had stayed a friend on Facebook with an ex from over ten years ago. We still meet for coffee/dinner whenever he visits Oklahoma. The last week or so, almost all of his posts have been anti-Muslim, using it as a derogatory term. I called him out on it finally, he apologized and said he should have worded it differently.
Then tonight, he posted some bullshit story about wanting to become a truck driver so he could run over any Muslim he sees. I said I was done, unfriended him.
His response?
"not my fault you chose a bullshit religion that terrorists use as an excuse"
It took all my willpower not to respond. Simply because doing so is being just as bad. I would say not nice things.
It's okay, he kind of takes himself apart:
"I despise your violent religion and intend to do violence on every person of this religion I see, even though they're mostly not-violent and represented poorly by a few deluded individuals."
... Huh, that could be said about a lot of groups, actually.
I'm just mad that my mouth and body constantly ache from coughing. I didn't take the Advil today, because I don't want to keep taking it, but seriously. Stahp.
On the bright side, I did buy a blender, make a smoothie, and bake a lasagna tonight. And RP'ed. And wrote 400+ words into my novel. And PK'ed Plato.
... I'm terrible at this Mad thing.
the way she tells me I'm hers and she is mine
open hand or closed fist would be fine
blood as rare and sweet as cherry wine
Side note: I'm a waiter at a semi high end asian joint, and we had a twelve top of all Muslim women come in day before yesterday. I noticed they were speaking Arabic and so on the way out I told them thank you and goodbye in Arabic and they were super surprised. I live in WV so there aren't a whole lot of times you hear 'ma'asalama' on your way out the door somewhere I'm guessing.