Might as well write
It has been a while since I've written a substantial post... probably because there hasnt been a whole lot to write about. I've been working full time, nutso hours... I closed lastnight, I'll close again tonight, I'll have Monday off then I open at 5:30 on Tuesday. I just wish they'd keep me ALL opening, ALL closing or ALL midshifts... seriously it is confusing my system. I guess work has been tolerable. The paint department finally has a department head... whom I loathe. He's young and immature, he will not listen to his associates *as he knows little about paint* but he wants us to listen to him. He will disappear for hours following other managers around like a little puppy with his lips planted squarely on their rears. He is the first department head the paint department has ever had that cares about how many mistake paints there are - and he pays attention to who makes them. Ya know what... they have me open fairly often. Ya know what the opener is greated with? Returns from the night before. Ya know how on the label it says "not returnable" after we tint it? Yeah... we'll people put up a big stink and the managers bend right over backwards to keep that customer happy... so they return the paint. But ya know what happens when the opener comes in and has a returned can of tinted paint in the returns cart? He or she has to "oops" it and put it in our marked down mistake paint pile. When you "oops" a can of paint, you have to put your initials on it. So Shane looks at every can and keeps track of people's initials. Oh yeah and here's one I like... you have a customer who comes up to you... she says "I want this color..." so you go and make that color for her. After you get it out and put the sample on the top of the can she says "Oh... I want it darker than that... like this" and it turns out that the color she wants is something that cant be made in a pure white base *of course.... it would be too easy to retint the one you already had* it has to be made in a pastel base. That means that you have to oops the origional thing she asked for. The customer is not obligated to take the paint we make... however once they buy it they're stuck with it... we can retint but they cannot *should not* return or exchange... its our policy. Too bad policy means nothing except for when they want it to mean something. So Shane has lectured both me and Tammamie about oops paints. He made one last weekend and told Tammamie to clean it up. Uh uh, not after you lecture us buddy about our initials being on too many oops paints, I dont care how good you want to look for the managers, you make a mistake you own it buddy. He said "but I dont want to deal with it" and I told him you have to, you made it, we aren't taking care of it. You have to clean it up and oops it out. After about five minutes of arguing I told him what he had to do *cause he didnt know* and he finally oopsed it out. He disappears for hours, when it seems that another person could be useful at the desk. We get slammed, hes no where to be found... unless hes suctioned to the posterior of another manager. He'll bring customers over to me cause he doesn't know the answer and rather than listening to the answer I give to the customer he walks off and does something else, so far away he couldn't listen to what I am saying if he'd tried. He assigned us all aisles to keep clean... however with the amount of work we already have to do... I dont know how we're supposed to keep the aisles clean... we have to clean tints and do the packdown list... I don't commonly get those done... or done in enough time to do something else. He wont keep the tint machine clean. I have found dobs of red in the blue and red in the black and blue in the yellow... he doesnt understand that if you're messy adding the tints you contaminate them with other colors and it makes our paint mixing off so the colors dont match what is on the cards. I left notes in each tint machine saying something like "Keep the machine clean, contaiminated colors = more oops paints, more oops paints = more department markdown" he had Tammamie throw the notes out and he didn't really acknowledge them. The tint machine still gets messy... who cleans it? Not Shane. After his brother reemed him out for not praising us... he started telling us how much eh apprieciated what we did in the dpartment, how hard we worked and what not. Thanks Shane... I would have liked it better had you been sincere and not just done it cause your brother yelled at you. Shane might look good to the management... and how could he not... who doesnt liek having their butt kissed? But hes definately not creating a happy atmosphere for his associates. None of us like him.
Anyway enough ranting about shane... he isnt worth the words or the time I just lost writing them.
I worked on the guest room a couple of days ago. I painted the ceiling, the door, the window and the trim. It looks ok, but the color was definately not as creamy or ivory colored as I had hoped. My mom says that it looks like bright white. I kinda agree. I can tell its more yellow than the primer, but really once the primer is covered the paint is REALLY white still. I waited until the door was dry and closed the door so the ceiling could dry with the window wide open and so the house wouldn't get too cold. Well problem... apparently the door wasn't as dry as I'd thought and when I opened it the next morning some of the paint stuck and now there are gouged places on the top and sides of the door. arg... I might prime/paint the walls on Monday... but since its supposed to be a wash out I might wait til Friday when it migiht be drier.
Last week my engine light came on. It stayed on for two or three days and then I finally called Jax Auto to get it fixed. I called Jax on my lunch break. Right after I hung up the phone I had to leave to go back to work. I got in my car, turned it on... and the light didn't come on. ARG. So anyway. I took it to Jax on Friday. My dad thought that my battery would have to be replaced and that Id have to have engine work done. Turns out all they ended up doing was cleaning some coroscion off my battery and running a check through the comptuer in my car. They said that the car runs periodical scans of its system to make sure that everythign is working correctly. Something might move a little too slowly one time and it will catch it and your engine light will come on. After so many key entries the car will scan its system again. If it doesn't see the problem again the light will go off. He said if the light comes back on, he'll replace the part that he things moved too slowly the first time around... he said however, it seems to be working fine right now. All i ended up paying was the 55 dollar labor charge and 1.65 for the cleaning of my battery lol. Jax is awesom.
I have found a new show I like. Its called Man vs. Wild with Bear Grylls, a former British Special forces person. He travels to different places around the world *the alps, the moab desert, Hawaai's volcanos... ect* and teaches you how to survive if you got lost touring these different places. Its really interesting. I love his voice lol. Yeah and well he isnt bad to look at either... *shh you didnt hear that from me* but its a new favorite. Its on Friday nights at 9. Hmm so is what not to wear. It causes such a dilema. HA HA... no cause the same What Not to Wear episode can be viewed again at 11! :-)
Other than what I've already talked about... life is pretty routine. I work 40 hours a week, talk to Ken almost nightly, visit him every other week or so or more often if I can, I read little cause I'm too tired. I play games on the computer, I visit facebook every timeI check my email... I'm an addict. Really life is routine. I wish I could see Ken more, that we were closer. He doesn't like talking on the phone... he can't come up with stuff to say as well. I don't like talking on the phone when Im the only one talking. I don't have a fix for this right now. *sigh* oh well. Life goes on.
Anyway enough ranting about shane... he isnt worth the words or the time I just lost writing them.
I worked on the guest room a couple of days ago. I painted the ceiling, the door, the window and the trim. It looks ok, but the color was definately not as creamy or ivory colored as I had hoped. My mom says that it looks like bright white. I kinda agree. I can tell its more yellow than the primer, but really once the primer is covered the paint is REALLY white still. I waited until the door was dry and closed the door so the ceiling could dry with the window wide open and so the house wouldn't get too cold. Well problem... apparently the door wasn't as dry as I'd thought and when I opened it the next morning some of the paint stuck and now there are gouged places on the top and sides of the door. arg... I might prime/paint the walls on Monday... but since its supposed to be a wash out I might wait til Friday when it migiht be drier.
Last week my engine light came on. It stayed on for two or three days and then I finally called Jax Auto to get it fixed. I called Jax on my lunch break. Right after I hung up the phone I had to leave to go back to work. I got in my car, turned it on... and the light didn't come on. ARG. So anyway. I took it to Jax on Friday. My dad thought that my battery would have to be replaced and that Id have to have engine work done. Turns out all they ended up doing was cleaning some coroscion off my battery and running a check through the comptuer in my car. They said that the car runs periodical scans of its system to make sure that everythign is working correctly. Something might move a little too slowly one time and it will catch it and your engine light will come on. After so many key entries the car will scan its system again. If it doesn't see the problem again the light will go off. He said if the light comes back on, he'll replace the part that he things moved too slowly the first time around... he said however, it seems to be working fine right now. All i ended up paying was the 55 dollar labor charge and 1.65 for the cleaning of my battery lol. Jax is awesom.
I have found a new show I like. Its called Man vs. Wild with Bear Grylls, a former British Special forces person. He travels to different places around the world *the alps, the moab desert, Hawaai's volcanos... ect* and teaches you how to survive if you got lost touring these different places. Its really interesting. I love his voice lol. Yeah and well he isnt bad to look at either... *shh you didnt hear that from me* but its a new favorite. Its on Friday nights at 9. Hmm so is what not to wear. It causes such a dilema. HA HA... no cause the same What Not to Wear episode can be viewed again at 11! :-)
Other than what I've already talked about... life is pretty routine. I work 40 hours a week, talk to Ken almost nightly, visit him every other week or so or more often if I can, I read little cause I'm too tired. I play games on the computer, I visit facebook every timeI check my email... I'm an addict. Really life is routine. I wish I could see Ken more, that we were closer. He doesn't like talking on the phone... he can't come up with stuff to say as well. I don't like talking on the phone when Im the only one talking. I don't have a fix for this right now. *sigh* oh well. Life goes on.