...and now for something completely different ( a blog NOT completely about soccer or politics)
For those of you I haven't told, I have taken a job with Home Depot as a Merchandiser for some stores in the SATx area. It's a couple more bucks an hour which is nice. it's not superdy duper but it's better. it took me a few years to make as much as i do at borders and it wasn't nearly enough still.
Is retail something I want to do forever? No. Could I? Depends on how much i make but i would rather not. i don't think that i'm doing what i want to do with my life if i do that. Should i go back for my teaching degree or grad school? yeah, i think i should try both. will i? don't know, can't predict future, but ima try.
What can i say about my damn near three years with borders? It was an interesting experience and except for the beginning and the end, a pretty shitty one. Lemme 'splain. I started working for Borders in Buffalo with a group of people that were just fucking awesome. They were lovely people inside and out. Even the ones that people weren't really keen on, i still really liked them alot. We all got along splendidly. Sellers and inventory, managers and supervisors, supervisors and employees---not EVERYONE but we sure made the effort and got along best we could. When I had to transfer back home, it was a COMPLETELY different environment. High stress, fast paced, short fused, high maintenance, hostile. Most people didn't get along with each other, managers and supervisors hated one another, no one respected or liked most of the supervisors, and the different teams just really didn't get along. We were always ALWAYS understaffed in some form and when we weren't, the people we were staffed with were dipshits or douchebags. If we got anyone good, they didn't stay that long but they stayed long enough. People would just stop showing up or would just quit without notice. I myself was saddled with two supervisors who had no business interacting with people in public. One had NO people skills and was a bitch, the other was just nuckin futz who nice enough to work with but not for. Not to mention i had to work with a guy who attacked me (then they tried to peg it on me and then us instead of him) and a guy who is the example of what is wrong with this country for the past 8 years. I've had two other supervisors over me that i just adored working for too but still, it was the thin silver lining to a really dark cloud. But here's the rub, I had spent the past year and a half wanting to work for the GM from the Forum and her staff. She got transferred over to our store maybe a couple months ago. I LOVED WORKING FOR HER AND HER CREW!! WONDERFUL PEOPLE. and it showed in our store, stuff got better, the environment was better, everything was just better. The team i was a part of was happier, not as happy as we would have liked, but happier. Yeah we were getting hammered with product and understaffed but i mean, we were still pretty happy. she treated everyone better, did her job better, and actually was an active part of the store. a shining example of someone starting from the bottom and working their way up---they know what it's like and they do the job better. She did the job probably as one of the best. So, right now, yeah, i am sad to leave when i was finally FINALLY able to work for her and the others. I'm going to miss seeing my team and some others alot but i'm not going to miss that store. will i ever visit it? hell if i know, i'm not gonna lie and say 'oh yeah, i'll come by all the time' because i fucking hated that place before i started working there. a couple great memories but i don't like to think about them all the time. the quarry has a karma about it that just, well, it's not good for me. not good fo most people. I really wish everyone the best of luck that I DON'T keep in touch with, even the people i really don't like. And the people i plan to try to keep in touch with, well, i hope i can keep in touch with you. I hope you make the same effort.
i keep trying to get things going with this poetry group but it's not easy. it's hard to get people's schedules down and whatnot. but i don't want to give up on it, i need it and so do others. if you are interested, please call or email or message.
I hate sarah palin for who she is and i hate john mccain for who he's become. I really pray to god that they do not win this election. the country can not take much more of this. it just can't.
I'm very upset by FCD's inability to win a game during a time they need to. They've been playing excellently but they just can't win these need to win games. I doubt they will make the playoffs this year but even with cooper probably going to europe this off season, i'm really optimistic about next year. i trust where hyndman is taking us.
USA was VERY impressive tonight against cuba. maybe because it was against cuba is why but I think it was nice to see adu, altidore and torres get some playing time while kljestan got the start again and showed why he is a part of this roster. we have qualified for the final qualifying hexagonal, way to go guys. let's play harder, better and even more in sync.
Is retail something I want to do forever? No. Could I? Depends on how much i make but i would rather not. i don't think that i'm doing what i want to do with my life if i do that. Should i go back for my teaching degree or grad school? yeah, i think i should try both. will i? don't know, can't predict future, but ima try.
What can i say about my damn near three years with borders? It was an interesting experience and except for the beginning and the end, a pretty shitty one. Lemme 'splain. I started working for Borders in Buffalo with a group of people that were just fucking awesome. They were lovely people inside and out. Even the ones that people weren't really keen on, i still really liked them alot. We all got along splendidly. Sellers and inventory, managers and supervisors, supervisors and employees---not EVERYONE but we sure made the effort and got along best we could. When I had to transfer back home, it was a COMPLETELY different environment. High stress, fast paced, short fused, high maintenance, hostile. Most people didn't get along with each other, managers and supervisors hated one another, no one respected or liked most of the supervisors, and the different teams just really didn't get along. We were always ALWAYS understaffed in some form and when we weren't, the people we were staffed with were dipshits or douchebags. If we got anyone good, they didn't stay that long but they stayed long enough. People would just stop showing up or would just quit without notice. I myself was saddled with two supervisors who had no business interacting with people in public. One had NO people skills and was a bitch, the other was just nuckin futz who nice enough to work with but not for. Not to mention i had to work with a guy who attacked me (then they tried to peg it on me and then us instead of him) and a guy who is the example of what is wrong with this country for the past 8 years. I've had two other supervisors over me that i just adored working for too but still, it was the thin silver lining to a really dark cloud. But here's the rub, I had spent the past year and a half wanting to work for the GM from the Forum and her staff. She got transferred over to our store maybe a couple months ago. I LOVED WORKING FOR HER AND HER CREW!! WONDERFUL PEOPLE. and it showed in our store, stuff got better, the environment was better, everything was just better. The team i was a part of was happier, not as happy as we would have liked, but happier. Yeah we were getting hammered with product and understaffed but i mean, we were still pretty happy. she treated everyone better, did her job better, and actually was an active part of the store. a shining example of someone starting from the bottom and working their way up---they know what it's like and they do the job better. She did the job probably as one of the best. So, right now, yeah, i am sad to leave when i was finally FINALLY able to work for her and the others. I'm going to miss seeing my team and some others alot but i'm not going to miss that store. will i ever visit it? hell if i know, i'm not gonna lie and say 'oh yeah, i'll come by all the time' because i fucking hated that place before i started working there. a couple great memories but i don't like to think about them all the time. the quarry has a karma about it that just, well, it's not good for me. not good fo most people. I really wish everyone the best of luck that I DON'T keep in touch with, even the people i really don't like. And the people i plan to try to keep in touch with, well, i hope i can keep in touch with you. I hope you make the same effort.
i keep trying to get things going with this poetry group but it's not easy. it's hard to get people's schedules down and whatnot. but i don't want to give up on it, i need it and so do others. if you are interested, please call or email or message.
I hate sarah palin for who she is and i hate john mccain for who he's become. I really pray to god that they do not win this election. the country can not take much more of this. it just can't.
I'm very upset by FCD's inability to win a game during a time they need to. They've been playing excellently but they just can't win these need to win games. I doubt they will make the playoffs this year but even with cooper probably going to europe this off season, i'm really optimistic about next year. i trust where hyndman is taking us.
USA was VERY impressive tonight against cuba. maybe because it was against cuba is why but I think it was nice to see adu, altidore and torres get some playing time while kljestan got the start again and showed why he is a part of this roster. we have qualified for the final qualifying hexagonal, way to go guys. let's play harder, better and even more in sync.