Not totally great about it yet, but I did have one of the kiosks freeze and need to be rebooted. Happily there is no crazy, jerry-rigged way of having to power down the corresponding printer when rebooting the kiosk, like there in Philly. (yay for correctly hooked up machinery!) It was especially silly. I can find my way around a computer, I ( Read more... )

Today, I'm grateful for Dilbert.

And coworkers that keep me sane in spite of coworkers who want to drive me batty. Oh. My. God.

Laure brought home a bottle of Ryan's Irish Cream (because I just don't *like* Bailey's, which is fine since Ryan's is way more affordable, the way we go through it) and tonight we will get tooted. Have been driving myself sick all day, plotting the ways I would take care of people who would try to do that with one of my animals. We will snuggle ( Read more... )

Never mind that it was raining when I got up to go to work on a day I rarely work, because in the last week we've lost 5 employees. Never mind that I was the only cashier there from 7am to 12pm. Never mind that it was 1pm before I got my break. Never mind that I started out with a candy bar and it got worse from there. Never mind any of that ( Read more... )

So, I'm sick. Do I call out on Truckday, even though I 1) woke up late enough that I had to rush to work, despite it being already 77F outside and like soup, at 4:30am, and 2) had to be there at 5am. No, I do not call out ( Read more... )

Actually, I suspected I'd have today off. I'm scheduled to do plan-o-grams (basically, rearranging the shelving and displays, which is technically a manager's job, but not at our store, oh no!) and my working today (and tomorrow) is entirely dependent upon our getting our plan-o-gram in the mail. So I called today, and lo, the mail they needed ( Read more... )

Even though I have one more story to write and another to seriously overhaul for the devotional. No *way* can the Medusa one stay as it is, for public consumption ( Read more... )