Learn to Shut Up About Your Damn 99%

I am so close to unfriending an old friend on facebook.  I have known her for 12 years and she is currently divorcing my best friend.  My biggest problem with her is her recent shift in politics.  Now I am conservative and I don't really talk politics often unless someone asks me my opinion.  My friend has become more liberal which is fine because I don't believe that you have to the same political beliefs to maintain a friendship.  What really offends me is her constant posting of links that are about her political beliefs.  She has already done so many things that don't agree with lately that this is just the last straw.  I know that one day soon she will be off my friends list so maybe I can still be my friend.

Demoted and it feels good

Well the time since my last post I have had some big changes. I was moved to a different store that had even more problems than my old store had. It didn't help that my boss kept using word "craphole" when talking about the store. My first day at the new store I was told that I could be fired because of the numbers my old store ran my last week. I knew that those numbers had been faked, but I have no proof and my boss didn't believe me. After 2 days of not knowing if I would still have a job the next day, I told my boss I was demoting myself. I have hated this position as long as I had had it and couldn't do it anymore.

So two weeks later I was demoted officially, although I was the last to know. I was moved to the store I started at and I am so much happier. I actually have days off. For the last year I worked at least a few hours of everyday. The first week I was in heaven, I only worked the 48 hours I was scheduled instead of the 70 plus hours I have been doing. I have returned to working under my old boss who is very hands off instead of the micromanaging that I have had for so long.

Steph noticed the difference right away. I am not this stressed out beaten down wreak anymore and I feel good about my life again. I am still looking for a new job, but I can at least live with one I have now.

Job, Wedding, and General Bitching

So how long does it take before your blog is considered inactive? I would say that the year plus since I have logged on to my blog would have been more than sufficient. I just reread my last post. Update on the promotion, the job still sucks. Now I have managers who don't listen to me instead of just crew. At the moment I am looking for another job. This week I have worked 40 hours in three days and managed to get one of my managers fired in less than two weeks after getting assigned to my store. Another one of my managers had his mother die suddenly which makes for a bad start to my week. I have finally got to a point where I know that I will never be happy doing this job. Once I realized that I at least feel good about my decision to leave.

On the personal front Steph and I are engaged. I asked her on her birthday at the end of this last year. Getting married this next April and all the planning is underway. I really don't have a lot to do with most of it, by my choice. I care about the when and the where and who will be there, but do I care about the flowers? Heck no. Steph has her binder and appointments and I show up when necessary to give my opinion.

To link to two things together I think that why I hate my job so much right now is because my personal life is really good. When the rest of my life sucked I don't think I realized that my job sucked. It just used to seem all the same so I didn't really notice. Now that I am happy at home I guess the fact that I am never happy at work stands out more now.

After a post with too much reflection on life I have to bring back the geek. This is the summer of comic book movies. Thor was release in May and Green Lantern last week. I have yet to see Green Lantern but the reviews don't look so good. Thor was really goaskod, not wonderful but good. Now I have people asking me questions about comics. I wouldn't mind but they are dumb questions sometimes. I have a Facebook friend who messages me every time I am on to ask me stupid shit. I know way to much about comics, but really I am not your on call source for comic related information.

Well until next time true believers.

Hello There

Well after several months of not blogging I felt it was time for an update. Well the biggest news is that I got promoted since I my last update. Actually I am about to be updated a second time on this coming Tuesday. This means I will finally be in charge of my own store. I am excited and kind of nervous. I am even more nervous since I can't tell anyone at work, even my boss until after it has already happened.



It all started Tuesday when my district manager's boss came in to talk to me. This got me in a bit of a panic because the idea of a big wig at our company coming to talk to me was not good. First thought was that I had done something really bad. He sat me down and asked me if I was ready to run my own store. Then I heard the situation, to make a long store short it involved criminal charges and an electronic monitoring braclet.



The good news is a 10% raise and more autonomy at work. The bad news is I can't tell anyone until they make they fire the guy on Tuesday. What makes this harder is that my boss knows something is up because my new district manager came to talk to me at work while she was there later that night. So my boss and my crew keeps asking me what is going on and all I can say is that I can't tell them.



Naturally not being able to tell anybody at work made me have to tell everyone else in my life as soon as posible starting with the girlfriend and moving on down the list. That night I was so excited and nervous that I could barely sleep. Now I just what the time to pass faster so I can just get it over with.

This Is My Life and It May Suck

Well I have not even tried to keep this thing up lately. I just don't have to a lot to say. Work has been a real chore. The sexual harasser at work has been sent to another store after giving a girl at work a lap dance in the office. We were sent a manager from another store as a replacement and he kind of sucks. I have been around this store long enough to see what all the problems are, but I have no real power to make the changes to fix them.

I just realize how much I miss my friends back in BG. I love my girlfriend, but I have no real friends of my own. When we aren't spending time together I am alone or at work. It really sucks. I know I could spend time with my girlfriend's friends, but I always feel out of place. I just miss being a half hour or less from my closest friends, because three hours is just to much. We're planing to go to visit next month so that should help.

I am now living poorer than I was my first year away at college. I am almost at the point of choosing which bills I can pay every month and eating ramen three times a day. I exaggerate, but only a little. It is sad that I am making the most I ever have and still have less money than I did a year ago. Oh well there isn't much I can do about it.

My Parents May Be Insane and A New Job

This weekend I had my parents visit for the holiday weekend. The problem is that I had told them not to come up, but they came anyway. The Monday before my mom called me to say they were coming for a visit. I asked them not to come because I had to work the whole weekend. They came anyway, so I had to come up with some time to see them. My girlfriend and her mom decided to have a cook out and invite them for the fourth. This was the best we could all come up with on short notice.

So Saturday comes and I a just getting up for my parents who were coming at noon only to hear my parents at my door. I freaked out. I was so mad that I just basically told them to leave and give me at least an hour to get ready, and by told I mean screamed. This isn't even mentioning the fact that I wasn't alone when my parents showed up three hours early without even calling. That made things even more awkward. That I think freaked my girlfriend out more than me standing outside yelling at my parents at 9 in the morning.

After my parents came back I told them in no uncertain terms that the next time they invited themselves or showed up hours early, I wouldn't even answer the door. Later still we had lunch with my girlfriend's parents. It went alright, but I wasn't looking for them to meet anytime soon. My girlfriend also meet my brother for the first time since he came along for the ride.

Later I found out that I pissed off my girlfriend's dad by having them meet my parents. I understand and agree that it was too soon, but it also wasn't my idea. So great, my family really sucks.

I finally have a new job since this one is the worst one I have ever had and that is saying a lot. I am actually only working for a different franchise of the same company. This company doesn't seem retarded like the current one and has a lot of perks like better vacation time, bonuses, closer location. Meanwhile I have had to suffer through some really awkward conversations with my current employer since I had to talk to them before I could interview with the other company. Worst conversation of my entire life. I mean how do you tell your boss that you hate your job and are looking elsewhere. I was so glad after that to be able to put in my two weeks notice since I kind of burned my bridges there. Now I am just serving out my time and trying to not just get fired in these last few days. I love my life.

Life In a New Town

Well I thought that the moving would be the hard part, and it was hard. I am still unpacking because even though I had five full days to finish it I totally didn't. Things are mostly put away except the pile of 8 boxes in my bedroom. Oh well I will get that done on Saturday.

I started my new job on Monday. It is probably the most horrible job I have ever had. While it is almost the same job I had before, it is far worse. I knew that some things would be different, but I just didn't think that it would be this bad. I know I can be overly dramatic sometimes, but now isn't one of them. I have never been "corrected" for doing things that I know for a fact are right before in my life. These people have no clue how to run their business and it drives me insane. To top it off I feel like I have no one to talk to there. All of the people there are just irritating. I have this weekend off work so I am spending it applying for new jobs and fine tuning my resume.

Other than the job part of my life, I am actually doing pretty well. The move went smooth enough, the girlfriend is happy to not have a long distance relationship again (as am I), I forgot how much I missed about living alone, I have a washer and dryer that don't take quarters for the first time in 7 years, and I got my internet installed and it costs me half as much as it has for the last 3 years. I can't think about the last one too much or I will realize how much money I wasted (just did $720). Except for the money thing those are all good things.