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May 24, 2005

so anyway... it'll settle down when it settles.

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bleh. 

oh, the good times are good
and the bad times are pain
It's getting harder
to stay in my lane





go, lemmings, go!

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May 20, 2005

My cilia yearn for you
unmolested in the darkness
free from light and sound
they curl in anticipation

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May 13, 2005

ARG! 

apparently this has become my "complain about work" page.

my day wasn't good from the beginnning. it got better for a while, and then worse. I show up at work at 8:55, and at 8:57 I hear a page- "I need all department heads upstairs." Right, today is the day we all (meaning every store in our division) gets onto a conference call and does our "cheer."
In the middle of the conference call, there's a page that's hard to understand. I think MAYBE it's "Erik to customer service" but apparently it wasn't. I start to pick up the phone, and our Butcher Block Manager says "I can get the phone by myself, Erik." He has this condescending smile on his face that makes me want to say something snappy and sarcastic back. Dick.
"I thought maybe I heard a page for me," I say.
He mumbles something about being able to run his own department, but I'm already heading back in to listen to the conference call.

4 hours later, at around 1 P.M., Brent calls me on the redline. He says he needs to talk to me upstairs. Fine.
I walk into the upstairs office, and Brent has a strange, confused look on his face. Something's up. I sit down in one of the chairs around the store director's desk, and say "what's up?"
"Did you tell Rex (my brother) that you were going to fire [another butcher block clerk] for not doing her job?"

I'm shocked. Fire? no, I've threatened to write people up, but never threatened that anyone be fired. I've suggested, and on good reason, ONCE. and that once someone WAS fired. but I've never threatened to fire anyone, especially not to another associate.
"No!" I immediately say. "i'm shocked that anyone would even think that!"
Brent leans back in the chair, satisfied that the issue is almost resolved. "Well, [The Butcher Block Manager] told me that [The Butcher Block Clerk] told him that Rex told her you'd fire her."
In my experience, if you can say "Billy told me and Samantha told him," you need to recheck your information. That is, if you've got more than one person in the chain, you'd better doublecheck. unless the source is very reliable.

Which our butcher block isn't. talk about a rumor mill. Christ.

So I say, "No! I didn't say that at all. and even if I had--- even if I had, rex wouldn't have told anyone." which is true, he's my brother. Then, "[The butcher block manager] told you that?"
Brent has this mystified look on his face. "Yeah, he said that you were trying to run his department."
I sit back in the chair, totally totally surprised, and perhaps a little upset. What the HELL! So I say "What?" and shake my head. A fraction of a second passes and then I add, "I'm not even back there that often."
Brent says "okay." I can tell he's satisfied that the situation is resolved. I, however, am not.
"What did he say, exactly?" I ask.
"He said that one day you went back there and told him or [the assistant manager] to come out and help customers, and you needed to let him run his department."

I'm writing this NOW, and my opinion is basically a sneer and an "eh. how stupid and petty," but then I was surprised and bugged.

Well really what it is, Brent, is that Erik is tryin' to run my department.

Well, that's great. Just great.

"What?" I say
"Yeah," Brent says, "Which I don't understand, that's exactly what I would have done, too."
"I don't get it. why would he think I was trying to run his department? I was just trying to help."
Brent nods. I was just doing my job, and we both know it. "I'm going to go ask [the butcher block clerk] what was said," Brent says.

SO APPARENTLY, Rex had told [the butcher block clerk] that I could fire them both if they didn't do their jobs. He wasn't exactly talking to her, he was talking to a customer, and they were all joking around. That's what she had told [the butcher block manager,] but that's NOT what he had told Brent.

What the hell? the stupid guy is mad that I was trying to HELP his customers? Maybe the stupid position the just gave me is meaningless, then. Maybe being a Person-In-Charge is a piece of shit title not worth anything, who knows? He's mad because I asked either him or the Assistant to help customers? They were cutting in the backroom, obviously he had NO idea what was going on, or the line wouldn't have built up to SEVEN deep.

People are so, SO so stupid. and this guy? He's so shovanistic and condescending it's amazing. sometimes I hate my job.


And what I REALLY hate about this albertsons, and maybe ALL jobs- things get so totally blown out of proportion that it's ridiculous. My brother put in his two weeks notice because he was tired of the atmosphere in the block. the supervisor does a SUPERB job, let me tell ya. puts out expired product (well, she tries)... Always wants to blame others...

It's not only the block, though. The block is the worst...

Oh yeah. I'm definitely getting in contact with Sammie from Associate Relations. she needs a call.


I'm not sure I care if you're reading this, Bart.

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May 12, 2005

I saw a billboard advertisment I'd have to politely disagagree with- It said

"The weather doesn't stop me from doing my job.
--Billboard"

Now, I've seen a lot of these billboard ads to encourage people to USE billboards- some of them read "I never call in sick" or "I never get stuck in traffic" and those are fine, but this one- I just don't agree.
If you get hit by a tornado, it doesn't matter how many overlapping sheets of paper you're made out of. You're not going to be standing. THIS IS OKLAHOMA! Tornados happen. Frequently.

Dumb billboards.

We had to fire a cashier yesterday. She stole something close to 900.00 over the last two or three weeks, and she didn't even TRY to cover her tracks. Jesus Christ. how FUCKING stupid do you have to be?!!? You don't think someone is going to notice? IDIOTS!
She was even whining about being "all the way over in register 1 [where customers can't see me].I just don't understand why they put me down here by myself!"

OH really? seemed OBVIOUS to me, You've been isolated, bitch. Did it not occur to you that no one else is in that damn register? Ever? Just you? Oh no? yeah, she stole 150 bucks that day, too.

This reinforces how much I HATE PEOPLE. I'm losing count of the number of people who've been fired while I've been working there- is it EIGHT now? Maybe NINE? TEN? In almost 8 MONTHS? I have no idea. but you know what might bug me the most is the fact that FOUR of those people were fired out of Customer Service.

A couple months ago I caught one of my employees doing fraudulent refunds- and it AMAZES me that she was doing it the way she was- I had told her the week before that someone else had been caught doing the same thing. She'd been there for THREE WEEKS! OH MY GOD. IDIOTS. I HATE PEOPLE SO MUCH.

Let's see... what else is going on? Right- I found a beer I can actually drink! It's called Harp, and it's brewed by those good folks who brew guiness. It's a light beer, though- A lager. pretty good- if you drink beer give it a shot.

Wes moved out, that was a fairly quiet event...

I got DOOM 3 and I've pretty much played it into the ground. It's freakin' awesome, but I have some major complaints about the AI in the game.

Things are going excellently well with Tracy, who is of course the sexiest woman I know. :) I love her- and that's pretty awesome. Talk about highs and lows.

GROWL! there's got to be something else, considering I haven't posted in at least a fortnight.

AH! There's a band called Kings of Convenience- check them out! Ben had an away message up that had a link to a music video by them, and damn if it didn't KICK. ASS.

Went to another Wilco concert a couple weeks ago, it was freaking awesome.

Work is going well... I'm all through with PIC training and onto runnin' the store my way. That is, getting things done.

AND FINALLY, I hope no one from Albertsons knows I have this. because Damn, I could get fired. Or maybe not. I don't know.

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