How is it Sunday night already?!
Weekends are entirely too short. I feel like I barely did anything, and now it's time to go back to work tomorrow. I did get to go to the movies again today (that's one theater visit every week this year so far! I haven't seen this many movies since I quit my job at Cinemark), and we went out to dinner afterwards, which was nice. We saw Gran Torino which was amazing (but oddly difficult to spell). I have a bunch of thoughts about it, but they need to percolate more before I actually review it. At dinner they were showing the NFL playoff games (the Eagles/Cardinals game was on when we got there, and the Steelers/Ravens game came on soon after), so we had to deal with a bunch of really loud, obnoxious sports fans, including parents at the table behind us who instead of taking their crying kid home, told him to stop crying. Yeah, like that helps, morons. I couldn't care less about either of the games, but I did get some amusement from the whole thing when they played Panic at the Disco during one of the instant replays. Could they have made a more bizarre musical selection? Somehow I doubt it.
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I'm kind of worried about my job right now. I work in customer service/sales for a major corporation, a job I just started a few months ago. My supervisor talked to me on Friday about how I'm not meeting the numbers I'm expected to, and how they are going to be observing me. This month is the first month where our sales have counted, so we've only been really doing this for a little over two weeks, and they're already up in my face. Honestly, I'm trying very hard to do my job, but I have a really difficult time selling things to people who owe us several hundred dollars. When people haven't paid their bill in five months and we still have to sell them something, well...that's why the economy's in the toilet.
I'm making every effort, but when no one wants anything, how am I supposed to sell anything? I don't know. The hilarious thing is that on Friday, they asked me if I think this job is for me, as if me not really liking it is why I'm not performing as well as they'd like. I'm definitely not really happy there, but I need the money so they are going to have to fire me if they want me to leave. I told them there was no way I was going to quit, that I'd just do better. Hopefully, that will happen for me next week. On the plus side, we are back to being open from 8AM to 6PM. That means that we are going to be getting out at 6PM, rather than 8PM. Dinner at a reasonable time, FTW! I'm not happy about the fact that our overtime is going to continue, and that I'll basically have to get there at eight every morning, but I'll deal. The extra hundred bucks or so before taxes every week is certainly nothing to sneeze at.
Oh, speaking of the schedule, another thing I loved (ha!) about our talk on Friday, is that when I complained about all of the overtime, and not knowing that we were going to have it until the first time it showed up on the schedule, they acted like "well, of course you're getting overtime, duh!". If you knew that all along, why the fuck didn't you tell us that during the training?! Ugh.
I guess I will see how things go this week. I am going to try my hardest to do well, especially since I just got insurance back for the first time in over a year. I really need to go to the doctor, and refill my prescriptions. I really wish they'd brought these issues up on Thursday, or tomorrow, since all I did this weekend was think about it and feel vaguely sick.
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In happier news, I just finished watching the last episode of Burn Notice. I saved it when it was first on to watch later, but since the rest of the season starts back up on Thursday, I figured it would probably be a good idea to finally watch it. Man, I love this show! If you don't already watch it, you should really give it a try. There's a marathon some time this week on USA, so check it out!
I have to say I'm glad I waited to watch it until now, though, since I hate cliffhangers.
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So, hi new friends! Sorry about the depressing nature of my recent posts. Hopefully things will turn around for me soon and I'll be back to squeeing about fandom things in no time. I would link you to a post with some basic info about me, but I don't actually have one. Not surprising, considering it took me over five years to actually do a profile. Well, my profile does have a bit of basic info about me, and this post gives you a little more of my fannish history. When I have a few moments, I may do one of the random questions memes that I have bookmarked, but I've been so busy that I haven't had a chance.
I am going to steal this meme from exsequar, though. I'd love it if new and old friends could fill this out. Don't feel like you need to put it in your own LJ if you don't want to, though. I am not really into tagging people for things, so no pressure!
1. Name:
2. Date of birth:
3. Where you live:
4. What makes you happy:
5. Currently listening/the last thing you listened to:
6. Do you read my journal?:
7. If yes, what makes it especially good or bad?:
8. An interesting fact about you:
9. Are you in love/do you have a crush at the moment?:
10. Favourite place to spend time:
11. Favourite lyric:
12. The best time of the year:
RECOMMEND
1. A film:
2. A book:
3. A band, a song, or album:
PLUS
1. One thing you like about me:
2. Two things you like about yourself:
3. Look at my friends-list and tell what you like about one of our mutual friends:
4. Put this in your journal so that I can tell you what I like about you.
Now I'm off to put some more clothes in the laundry and see if I was able to get the stain out of my jeans. Later, y'all!
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I'm kind of worried about my job right now. I work in customer service/sales for a major corporation, a job I just started a few months ago. My supervisor talked to me on Friday about how I'm not meeting the numbers I'm expected to, and how they are going to be observing me. This month is the first month where our sales have counted, so we've only been really doing this for a little over two weeks, and they're already up in my face. Honestly, I'm trying very hard to do my job, but I have a really difficult time selling things to people who owe us several hundred dollars. When people haven't paid their bill in five months and we still have to sell them something, well...that's why the economy's in the toilet.
I'm making every effort, but when no one wants anything, how am I supposed to sell anything? I don't know. The hilarious thing is that on Friday, they asked me if I think this job is for me, as if me not really liking it is why I'm not performing as well as they'd like. I'm definitely not really happy there, but I need the money so they are going to have to fire me if they want me to leave. I told them there was no way I was going to quit, that I'd just do better. Hopefully, that will happen for me next week. On the plus side, we are back to being open from 8AM to 6PM. That means that we are going to be getting out at 6PM, rather than 8PM. Dinner at a reasonable time, FTW! I'm not happy about the fact that our overtime is going to continue, and that I'll basically have to get there at eight every morning, but I'll deal. The extra hundred bucks or so before taxes every week is certainly nothing to sneeze at.
Oh, speaking of the schedule, another thing I loved (ha!) about our talk on Friday, is that when I complained about all of the overtime, and not knowing that we were going to have it until the first time it showed up on the schedule, they acted like "well, of course you're getting overtime, duh!". If you knew that all along, why the fuck didn't you tell us that during the training?! Ugh.
I guess I will see how things go this week. I am going to try my hardest to do well, especially since I just got insurance back for the first time in over a year. I really need to go to the doctor, and refill my prescriptions. I really wish they'd brought these issues up on Thursday, or tomorrow, since all I did this weekend was think about it and feel vaguely sick.
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In happier news, I just finished watching the last episode of Burn Notice. I saved it when it was first on to watch later, but since the rest of the season starts back up on Thursday, I figured it would probably be a good idea to finally watch it. Man, I love this show! If you don't already watch it, you should really give it a try. There's a marathon some time this week on USA, so check it out!
I have to say I'm glad I waited to watch it until now, though, since I hate cliffhangers.
***
So, hi new friends! Sorry about the depressing nature of my recent posts. Hopefully things will turn around for me soon and I'll be back to squeeing about fandom things in no time. I would link you to a post with some basic info about me, but I don't actually have one. Not surprising, considering it took me over five years to actually do a profile. Well, my profile does have a bit of basic info about me, and this post gives you a little more of my fannish history. When I have a few moments, I may do one of the random questions memes that I have bookmarked, but I've been so busy that I haven't had a chance.
I am going to steal this meme from exsequar, though. I'd love it if new and old friends could fill this out. Don't feel like you need to put it in your own LJ if you don't want to, though. I am not really into tagging people for things, so no pressure!
1. Name:
2. Date of birth:
3. Where you live:
4. What makes you happy:
5. Currently listening/the last thing you listened to:
6. Do you read my journal?:
7. If yes, what makes it especially good or bad?:
8. An interesting fact about you:
9. Are you in love/do you have a crush at the moment?:
10. Favourite place to spend time:
11. Favourite lyric:
12. The best time of the year:
RECOMMEND
1. A film:
2. A book:
3. A band, a song, or album:
PLUS
1. One thing you like about me:
2. Two things you like about yourself:
3. Look at my friends-list and tell what you like about one of our mutual friends:
4. Put this in your journal so that I can tell you what I like about you.
Now I'm off to put some more clothes in the laundry and see if I was able to get the stain out of my jeans. Later, y'all!