"I bite my tongue everytime you come around cuz, blood in my mouth beats blood on the ground"
OK, so I'm finally gonna update. woo freaking hoo.
Friday-Got off work, called some friends, nothin was goin on, so me and my Dad went out to Smokey Bones for dinner. Ribs are so fucking good. I drank lots of beer. I ordered the 22 oz, my Dad got the 8 oz I think and I was fone with 2 of mine before he finished his one. And I still got 3 more after that. Needless to say I was a bit tipsy, which was fun, me and my Dad discussed music and politics and all sorts of shit. I was pretty drunk but it was wierd being that drunk in front of my Dad so I tried to act sober, which didn't do go so well. meh. Went home, had a desperately needed cigarette, then played some LOTR:TAA the rest of the night and watched some movies, Mars Attacks and Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and talked to the Jennie., then sleep
Saturday-Played LOTR:TTA all day, beat it, ending was pretty lame as I actually had to fight the Eye of Sauron. LAME. Then played some GTA:SA, talked to people, and watched movies, Bride of the Monster, Ed Wood and half of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind but fell asleep half way through as I was uber tired.
Sunday-More GTA:SA and more movies, finished the other half of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and High Fidelity, talked to people, sunday night TV, sleep.
Monday-Work, uploaded more of those CDs, John told me he needed a dub made of a tape, so I did that, then put it on his desk, this was like 1pm or so. Then at 5 he freaks out cuz it wasn't sent out yet. Not once did he even tell me to send it out, just that he needed a dub. SO he bitches at me about not sending it out and blah blah blah, so I go deliver it, then home and I dunno what I did, I think I just watched TV and talked to some friends then sleep.
Tuesday-Work, actually had some shit to do, Wendy from SCAT had more shit she needed fixed on the website. Shit that couldn't really be fixed cuz it's all stuff that's going to depend on your resolution size, so I try to explain that to her and John. Wendy is confused as hell, and John thinks I'm making up excuses to why I didn't fix it the first time. GUH. Then we also need to make a website for his cousins flower store or somethin, she needed it done for a convention, so we start working on it and we have to DL this template for somethin, it's asking her info and so I automatically fill it out for her including hr e-mail, assuming it'll ask for a web master email later. Well, no, it doesnt, all the info will be sent to her email. OK, no big deal, right? I ask her her password so we can get the info from her mail and shes "um, I don't know my password" and she says she can get it from her store but she has to go there and get it cuz no one is there for her to call so she says it may take a while and I ask when the site needs to be done and she's "well, yesterday". WTF? She is soooo definately related to John. God, that whole family is retarded. So I get as much set up as I can, then John tells me Mike(the other boss) forgot some lenses for the shoot so I need to take them to him. This company is so fucked, I don't see how shit gets done ever. So I do that, then head back to work, assuming Johns cousin will be back by then so we can start on the site, well, she never shows so at 2 I go on break, went to Best Buy, bought new Mae and Eminem as well as Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. There was 2 versions of the Eminem album, a special editon, with 3 extra songs and some pics or somethin, for $25 and a regular one for $11. I decide to go for the $25 one, whatever, I have a huge wad of cash in my pocket so whatever. I get in line to pay and get to the cashier, shit took forever cuz she's a trainee, so she rings up my stuff when it gets to Eminem it beeps and the girl training the cashier says it's cuz it has a parental warning sticker and to normally check ID when that happens, so she hits total and is "that'll be $63". So I'm thinking that sounds wrong, but I'm uber tired and maybe somethin was on sale, I dunno, so i pay, leave, then check my receipt, and Eminem never rang up. Fucking sweet. Then I stop by McDOnalds right quick to get lunch, get back to work and open my food and realize I ordered a #6 as opposed to a 6 piece nugget meal. FUCK. Luckily I like the grilled chicken sandwhiches, but I was so craving nuggets.
Anyway, Wendy sends me a jillion faxes about the website explaining what needs to be fixed and the majority of it is spacing shit, which again is a resolution prob, which is going to change for pretty much every computer. And if it isn't bad enough to get literally about 70 pages of faxes saying to fix spaces, she actually wants to go over every page over the phone. GUH! So I continue to work on that the rest of the night and actually stay till 6, which I'm proud of seeing as John left at 4 and I had a new videogame waiting to be played. So at 6 I leave and go home, play some Metroid Then Jess calls and we make plans to go to JDs later. Get some food right quick, watch some TV then head down to JDs. Nothing spectacular there, just beer and chatting. after the day I had I so needed some drinks, Jess got pretty smashed, it was funny. Eventually we all left and I went home and went to bed.
Today-I wake up for work, get ready, yadda yadda, go to leave and my car won't start. No fun. I try for a little and nothin. I was feelin a bit shitty from last night so I decide to give up and go back to bed. But first I call and leave John a voicemail which basically said "hey John, it's Steve, my car won't start and I cant find a ride, so I don't think I'll be able to make it in today, if you have any questions or desperately need me to come in, call me back, if not I'll see you tomorrow". That was at 7:30am. Duncan called me at like 10 to say john was talkin shit about me all day, walking around the office just mumbling shit about me. So wtf, I said to call if i was needed, so why just walk around talking shit? Anyway, noon comes around and my phone rings and it's John and he basically tells me "this car not starting thing isn;t gonna work, what about a plan B? you mean to tell me you couldnt find a ride anywhere?" I explain my parents are at work and my sister left for school, I called Duncan in the morning but got no asnwer, and since I didn't have an over abundant amount of work to do and I know everyone else was ral busy I didnt wanna bother anyone there. He goes on to say how people need to be dependable at a job and etc etc etc, shits not working out. So I'm "so basically you're going to fire me cuz my car wont start?" and he says it's not just that, my attitude isn't the greatest and i dont work to my potential, which is BS, I bust my ass there, for the most part, yeah, I slack a damned lot too, but I get was shit I need to get done in the proper time. Hell, they thought it'd take a few months to do all the web shit we had to do and I did it in like 3 weeks. Anyway, long story short.... well, shorter, John thinks I'm very smart and very talented but I need to be mroe assertive and work a bit harder. Its 's just so rediculous cuz when he mentioend assertive he said "I bet if I didn't ask you about HTML we never would've knwon you could do that" and I said "well, no, iI had it on my resume I gave you when I finished my internship" and he said "oh, well, I didn't even look at that". wow, thanks. But yeah, as everyone says when firing someone, JOhn says "Its's not that I don't like you, I think you're a great kid and your smart and have talent, but you just need to our more effort in" i took all the strength I had to not just go off on him and tell him how much of an idiot he is and how he has no clue about how to run a business or any idea what so ever about anything related to film and video. But, alas, I will need a reference for my next job. bah. whatever.
Anyway, that was his story. I think what really went down was basically we hired some new people, I finished the work I had to do in a few weeks even though it was supposed to take me months, so now all I really have to do is shit work, and we don't have much of that to do. So john realizes they gave me a raise and I'm back to just doing shit work, so it's like they gave me a raise to do the same job, plus we have a new intern and some other guy we hired, so why pay me to do shit work when we can have the intern to do it free and since we hired a new guy and arepaying him $10/hour we need to cut costs. "hm, well, I don't like Peterson much anyways, and he doesn't really have much to do here since he finished everythign already, lets wait for him to make one small fuck up then he's gone". So yeah, I think that's what REALLY went down.
To be honest I really don't care. I mean, yeah, the job was cool for the most part, but it was way disorganized and hectic and John and Mike are idiots and they were starting to come down on everyone for everything. And not to mention as web deisgner I'm suppsoed to be making a minimum of $15/hour, so maybe this is a blessing in disguise so that I'll go out and find something new that pays more and is better run. But it'll suck so much not working with Duncan anymore, dude has become like my best friend and I will miss him like crazy. So although alot of shit sucked it is kinda sad to lose the job, It was somethin somewhat in the industry, I just got a raise, most the people there were cool, so it sucks and i was in a pissy mood all day but then Jennie texted me and we chatted all day and I can't help but to smile like a fool when i talk to her, shes so great and totally flipped my mood around. Thank you Jennie! But, anyway, since I didn't work I just played Metroid all day, literally all day. Started at like 11am and just turned it off around 1:30am. Fun times. For now I'm gonna go have a smoke, then go to bed. I have a big day ahead of me tomorrow, I need to get a resume updated, put together some sort of demo reel, and find places to apply. Needless to say tomorrow night I will need beers, so whoever wants to go out gimme a call. out for now.
Friday-Got off work, called some friends, nothin was goin on, so me and my Dad went out to Smokey Bones for dinner. Ribs are so fucking good. I drank lots of beer. I ordered the 22 oz, my Dad got the 8 oz I think and I was fone with 2 of mine before he finished his one. And I still got 3 more after that. Needless to say I was a bit tipsy, which was fun, me and my Dad discussed music and politics and all sorts of shit. I was pretty drunk but it was wierd being that drunk in front of my Dad so I tried to act sober, which didn't do go so well. meh. Went home, had a desperately needed cigarette, then played some LOTR:TAA the rest of the night and watched some movies, Mars Attacks and Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and talked to the Jennie., then sleep
Saturday-Played LOTR:TTA all day, beat it, ending was pretty lame as I actually had to fight the Eye of Sauron. LAME. Then played some GTA:SA, talked to people, and watched movies, Bride of the Monster, Ed Wood and half of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind but fell asleep half way through as I was uber tired.
Sunday-More GTA:SA and more movies, finished the other half of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and High Fidelity, talked to people, sunday night TV, sleep.
Monday-Work, uploaded more of those CDs, John told me he needed a dub made of a tape, so I did that, then put it on his desk, this was like 1pm or so. Then at 5 he freaks out cuz it wasn't sent out yet. Not once did he even tell me to send it out, just that he needed a dub. SO he bitches at me about not sending it out and blah blah blah, so I go deliver it, then home and I dunno what I did, I think I just watched TV and talked to some friends then sleep.
Tuesday-Work, actually had some shit to do, Wendy from SCAT had more shit she needed fixed on the website. Shit that couldn't really be fixed cuz it's all stuff that's going to depend on your resolution size, so I try to explain that to her and John. Wendy is confused as hell, and John thinks I'm making up excuses to why I didn't fix it the first time. GUH. Then we also need to make a website for his cousins flower store or somethin, she needed it done for a convention, so we start working on it and we have to DL this template for somethin, it's asking her info and so I automatically fill it out for her including hr e-mail, assuming it'll ask for a web master email later. Well, no, it doesnt, all the info will be sent to her email. OK, no big deal, right? I ask her her password so we can get the info from her mail and shes "um, I don't know my password" and she says she can get it from her store but she has to go there and get it cuz no one is there for her to call so she says it may take a while and I ask when the site needs to be done and she's "well, yesterday". WTF? She is soooo definately related to John. God, that whole family is retarded. So I get as much set up as I can, then John tells me Mike(the other boss) forgot some lenses for the shoot so I need to take them to him. This company is so fucked, I don't see how shit gets done ever. So I do that, then head back to work, assuming Johns cousin will be back by then so we can start on the site, well, she never shows so at 2 I go on break, went to Best Buy, bought new Mae and Eminem as well as Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. There was 2 versions of the Eminem album, a special editon, with 3 extra songs and some pics or somethin, for $25 and a regular one for $11. I decide to go for the $25 one, whatever, I have a huge wad of cash in my pocket so whatever. I get in line to pay and get to the cashier, shit took forever cuz she's a trainee, so she rings up my stuff when it gets to Eminem it beeps and the girl training the cashier says it's cuz it has a parental warning sticker and to normally check ID when that happens, so she hits total and is "that'll be $63". So I'm thinking that sounds wrong, but I'm uber tired and maybe somethin was on sale, I dunno, so i pay, leave, then check my receipt, and Eminem never rang up. Fucking sweet. Then I stop by McDOnalds right quick to get lunch, get back to work and open my food and realize I ordered a #6 as opposed to a 6 piece nugget meal. FUCK. Luckily I like the grilled chicken sandwhiches, but I was so craving nuggets.
Anyway, Wendy sends me a jillion faxes about the website explaining what needs to be fixed and the majority of it is spacing shit, which again is a resolution prob, which is going to change for pretty much every computer. And if it isn't bad enough to get literally about 70 pages of faxes saying to fix spaces, she actually wants to go over every page over the phone. GUH! So I continue to work on that the rest of the night and actually stay till 6, which I'm proud of seeing as John left at 4 and I had a new videogame waiting to be played. So at 6 I leave and go home, play some Metroid Then Jess calls and we make plans to go to JDs later. Get some food right quick, watch some TV then head down to JDs. Nothing spectacular there, just beer and chatting. after the day I had I so needed some drinks, Jess got pretty smashed, it was funny. Eventually we all left and I went home and went to bed.
Today-I wake up for work, get ready, yadda yadda, go to leave and my car won't start. No fun. I try for a little and nothin. I was feelin a bit shitty from last night so I decide to give up and go back to bed. But first I call and leave John a voicemail which basically said "hey John, it's Steve, my car won't start and I cant find a ride, so I don't think I'll be able to make it in today, if you have any questions or desperately need me to come in, call me back, if not I'll see you tomorrow". That was at 7:30am. Duncan called me at like 10 to say john was talkin shit about me all day, walking around the office just mumbling shit about me. So wtf, I said to call if i was needed, so why just walk around talking shit? Anyway, noon comes around and my phone rings and it's John and he basically tells me "this car not starting thing isn;t gonna work, what about a plan B? you mean to tell me you couldnt find a ride anywhere?" I explain my parents are at work and my sister left for school, I called Duncan in the morning but got no asnwer, and since I didn't have an over abundant amount of work to do and I know everyone else was ral busy I didnt wanna bother anyone there. He goes on to say how people need to be dependable at a job and etc etc etc, shits not working out. So I'm "so basically you're going to fire me cuz my car wont start?" and he says it's not just that, my attitude isn't the greatest and i dont work to my potential, which is BS, I bust my ass there, for the most part, yeah, I slack a damned lot too, but I get was shit I need to get done in the proper time. Hell, they thought it'd take a few months to do all the web shit we had to do and I did it in like 3 weeks. Anyway, long story short.... well, shorter, John thinks I'm very smart and very talented but I need to be mroe assertive and work a bit harder. Its 's just so rediculous cuz when he mentioend assertive he said "I bet if I didn't ask you about HTML we never would've knwon you could do that" and I said "well, no, iI had it on my resume I gave you when I finished my internship" and he said "oh, well, I didn't even look at that". wow, thanks. But yeah, as everyone says when firing someone, JOhn says "Its's not that I don't like you, I think you're a great kid and your smart and have talent, but you just need to our more effort in" i took all the strength I had to not just go off on him and tell him how much of an idiot he is and how he has no clue about how to run a business or any idea what so ever about anything related to film and video. But, alas, I will need a reference for my next job. bah. whatever.
Anyway, that was his story. I think what really went down was basically we hired some new people, I finished the work I had to do in a few weeks even though it was supposed to take me months, so now all I really have to do is shit work, and we don't have much of that to do. So john realizes they gave me a raise and I'm back to just doing shit work, so it's like they gave me a raise to do the same job, plus we have a new intern and some other guy we hired, so why pay me to do shit work when we can have the intern to do it free and since we hired a new guy and arepaying him $10/hour we need to cut costs. "hm, well, I don't like Peterson much anyways, and he doesn't really have much to do here since he finished everythign already, lets wait for him to make one small fuck up then he's gone". So yeah, I think that's what REALLY went down.
To be honest I really don't care. I mean, yeah, the job was cool for the most part, but it was way disorganized and hectic and John and Mike are idiots and they were starting to come down on everyone for everything. And not to mention as web deisgner I'm suppsoed to be making a minimum of $15/hour, so maybe this is a blessing in disguise so that I'll go out and find something new that pays more and is better run. But it'll suck so much not working with Duncan anymore, dude has become like my best friend and I will miss him like crazy. So although alot of shit sucked it is kinda sad to lose the job, It was somethin somewhat in the industry, I just got a raise, most the people there were cool, so it sucks and i was in a pissy mood all day but then Jennie texted me and we chatted all day and I can't help but to smile like a fool when i talk to her, shes so great and totally flipped my mood around. Thank you Jennie! But, anyway, since I didn't work I just played Metroid all day, literally all day. Started at like 11am and just turned it off around 1:30am. Fun times. For now I'm gonna go have a smoke, then go to bed. I have a big day ahead of me tomorrow, I need to get a resume updated, put together some sort of demo reel, and find places to apply. Needless to say tomorrow night I will need beers, so whoever wants to go out gimme a call. out for now.