I Am the Terminator

Well it just seemed like an ordinary slow night at work. Everything was fine, midnight came and I closed the store. Then an idiot I had as a closer kept moving slower. I did most of his work and then went into office to start my own. When he finally finished his close he came to me to complain about our other closer. Well I just shrugged my shoulders and closed the office door. I finished my work and looked up through the window in the office. Well I saw two yelling at each other. I stood back for a few seconds hoping they would sort it all out. Next thing I know the idiot is threatening to beat up the other.

What do I do? I start yelling at the both of them to shut up and get over it. The idiot yells and me and says how I'm always against him (which is true). I am usually a little more calm than this, but my personal rule is if you yell at me, I yell back. It is childish but it is what it is. Of course if you yell and scream at your boss you should know what will happen next. I fired him. Yeah me. When I called into work this morning to explain the situation and I was pretty much complimented on firing him. So one more is added to the long list people I've fired, but this one really deserved it.

My Fabulous Day Off

Well Saturday I was on my way to work and my mom called me. She wanted to come up for a visit. We both thought that her coming up on Sunday afternoon was a good idea. Well I had it all planned out to got to church on Sunday morning and then come home and clean. Everything was going well, I was finishing cleaning and had walked in my bedroom when it happened. The mother of all crashing sounds came out of my closet and slammed the closet door shut. After I crawled off of the ceiling I opened my closet door to look at the horror. An entire shelf in my closet had ripped itself out of the wall and spilled my clothes, half of my comics, and a ton of plaster everywhere. Of course this was a half an hour before my mom got to town.

So when mom got to town we went around looking for some shelves to hold my comics, since I obviously wasn't going to use closet shelves again. I wasn't really paying attention to how large the shelf was and it barely fit in my car. I then had to wait for a half an hour until Winter got home to help me carry it up and put it together. Not being the "handy" one she really did most of the assembly. Ah the shame. I love my days of they suck.

Promotions and Plots

Well work has been a battle lately. Monday I came in and I had only two out of six people actually show up. One called off, one was in the hospital, one had a friend who committed suicide, and one person was scheduled when they went home for spring break. I called Laura from our store on the other side of town and we met up to talk after we both got off. After talking and complaining until almost 4 we both felt better.

Tuesday we had our manager meeting. It was then that they dropped a bomb, our co-manager had been offered the GM position at another store. The biggest shock was that he turned it down. You see this manager doesn't exactly hide the fact that he to be General Manager, in fact he seems power mad at times. It turns out the major reason for him turning it down was that it was over a 45 minute drive each way. Now my first comment when I heard this was to shout "I'll go, I'll go." like I was a little kid. I am so willing to drive nearly a half hour everyday to make an extra $7000 a year.

Yesterday I found out that he also turned down the position hoping that our GM would be sent to the other store and he would be our new GM. This does mean I would move up the ladder and make $2000 more a year, but I would answer directly to him and that could be difficult. I like the guy just fine, but as it is now he is my boss but he isn't the main person in charge. I just find that I enjoy the freedom I have with our current GM and am not quite ready to give that up no matter how much money I get. This job sucks.