Waiting for a Flight to Silithus
And let that be the first and last time my entry's title has to do with World of Warcraft. *sigh*
While waiting for this flight, though, I decided I could blog. I'm at home this weekend, and spent only a little time outside today. My parents bought a bunch of plants for the side of the house near the garage, as well as the front, and then my mom proceeded to plant a bunch while it rained in and out and the sun came out then disappeared all day. Altogether pretty nice, though. I watched, enjoyed myself by relaxing, eating far too much junk food and playing my DS. Last night we watched two movies and were up until 3am. Today, of course, Kris and Dan Jr. came over and surprised me in the AM, so I wasn't completely awake or coherent originally. They came back later this evening and we had steak from the grill, potatoes, huge salads and baked beans. A fantastic summer dinner, that's for sure.
I'm happy to have such a good time after a really crappy day at work on Friday. It actually started off very well...and my interview was fantastic! I met with someone for about 40 minutes and we discussed the several management positions that will be readily available in the coming weeks, all of which sound great, but one that sounds amazing! I almost don't want to go into detail about it until I know if I'm going to be doing it, since I've already told a few people and I don't want to get too excited. Basically, though, I believe the job is a salaried position, it's management of an entirely new section of the store, and you won't be only involved with in-store activities, but also with local community services. It sounds so great! Becky seemed very impressed with me and scheduled me an interview with Don, the store manager, for next week Tuesday (also the day Sims 3 comes out). I'm going to do my interview, immediately go downtown and pick up my game, and hopefully be excited about the possibility of a new job! Becky's advice for Tuesday was to bring some good questions, so I've been brainstorming since Friday afternoon and have a pretty good list so far. Yay!!
After the interview, I came back to work and was much happier for the remainder of the day, until Eugenio started acting like his usual self, but angrier. Wonderful. He was skipping putting information on vehicles into the computer, he wasn't calling customers when their vehicles were done, and he was mopey and rude, and slacking on doing practically anything. He was clearly angry at me for something that happened earlier in the week, when I left an angry note for Matt since Eugenio slacked all night on a night I had to close and deal with a bunch of even angrier customers. I understand that what other people do is not my business, but when it affects my personal job performance and customers believe I am not performing my job properly, then I have to say something. I know Matt is aware of Eugenio's slacking, but I wanted to make sure he said something (finally) so I left a note. He obviously showed Eugenio the note, who came up with the impression that I was backstabbing him, saying he doesn't deserve his job, and wanted him to be fired. While all those things might be true, that was not my intention by writing the note. Hopefully, I won't have to deal with any of them for much longer, so why would I be out to get Eugenio like that?
So later in the evening Eugenio was not paying attention while pricing up a belt, and had priced up the incorrect labor and part, and told the customer we had the part and it would take about 15 minutes. Really, though, the belt was twice the price and took about an hour to finish. I got angry and while trying to call Weaver for the part, Eugenio was angry with me over my shoulder. I turned to him and snapped, "You know what? If you can't do this, then get away from me." Then I finished the phone call. He got upset, went and sat down, and didn't talk to me at first. Then he started mumbling mean things over and over and finally I just got angry. Instead of embarrassing myself, getting worked up and yelling, I decided to leave. It was 5:30 anyway, and usually the time I head out if I work with Eugenio until 6:30, since we get about 2 customers for that full hour. I got changed, grab my stuff and was just on the way out when I hear Eugenio on the phone...with Matt. Asking him if I got the go-ahead to leave early. I was so upset I turned to him and just said, "you know...never expect to leave early again, Eugenio. Never. Don't expect any sympathy from me anymore. This is done." And I left. I stewed the entire way home, calling Victoria, my dad, Luis (at East Towne) and finally Eugenio, who I apologized to for my behavior. But I tried to explain to him how frustrating it is to be happy someplace where I don't enjoy the job, where people don't always do their jobs, and where I can't do anything about it. We didn't end on the best note, but it wasn't terrible either. Basically he explained that he didn't think we were friends anymore, and that he feels I'm against him. Whatever. He can continue to be paranoid about everything and slack off at work; one day it's going to bite him in the ass and he's going to get fired for his crappy performance.
That brings us to today, where I feel better, and am just hoping that my interview goes so well I have a new job in two weeks. I was honest with Matt and asked him what kind of notice I'd need: he explained a few days would be fine, since he has people "lining up" to take my job, but he has no reason to fire me, and simply cannot, obviously. This is just all so strange. Ugh.
So now we're watching Boondock Saints, I'm playing WoW, and tomorrow I'm going to get some studying in for the FSOT and Chinese, eat a great cheeseburger for dinner, and probably play my DS some more. I'm having a great time with Trauma Center 2: Under the Knife, it's not too bad! It's got a much better design and organization scheme than did the first, but it's also got a fairly intriguing storyline. Meh.
Here's hoping I can impress some people next week, I get just a little luck, and I can survive through next week.
While waiting for this flight, though, I decided I could blog. I'm at home this weekend, and spent only a little time outside today. My parents bought a bunch of plants for the side of the house near the garage, as well as the front, and then my mom proceeded to plant a bunch while it rained in and out and the sun came out then disappeared all day. Altogether pretty nice, though. I watched, enjoyed myself by relaxing, eating far too much junk food and playing my DS. Last night we watched two movies and were up until 3am. Today, of course, Kris and Dan Jr. came over and surprised me in the AM, so I wasn't completely awake or coherent originally. They came back later this evening and we had steak from the grill, potatoes, huge salads and baked beans. A fantastic summer dinner, that's for sure.
I'm happy to have such a good time after a really crappy day at work on Friday. It actually started off very well...and my interview was fantastic! I met with someone for about 40 minutes and we discussed the several management positions that will be readily available in the coming weeks, all of which sound great, but one that sounds amazing! I almost don't want to go into detail about it until I know if I'm going to be doing it, since I've already told a few people and I don't want to get too excited. Basically, though, I believe the job is a salaried position, it's management of an entirely new section of the store, and you won't be only involved with in-store activities, but also with local community services. It sounds so great! Becky seemed very impressed with me and scheduled me an interview with Don, the store manager, for next week Tuesday (also the day Sims 3 comes out). I'm going to do my interview, immediately go downtown and pick up my game, and hopefully be excited about the possibility of a new job! Becky's advice for Tuesday was to bring some good questions, so I've been brainstorming since Friday afternoon and have a pretty good list so far. Yay!!
After the interview, I came back to work and was much happier for the remainder of the day, until Eugenio started acting like his usual self, but angrier. Wonderful. He was skipping putting information on vehicles into the computer, he wasn't calling customers when their vehicles were done, and he was mopey and rude, and slacking on doing practically anything. He was clearly angry at me for something that happened earlier in the week, when I left an angry note for Matt since Eugenio slacked all night on a night I had to close and deal with a bunch of even angrier customers. I understand that what other people do is not my business, but when it affects my personal job performance and customers believe I am not performing my job properly, then I have to say something. I know Matt is aware of Eugenio's slacking, but I wanted to make sure he said something (finally) so I left a note. He obviously showed Eugenio the note, who came up with the impression that I was backstabbing him, saying he doesn't deserve his job, and wanted him to be fired. While all those things might be true, that was not my intention by writing the note. Hopefully, I won't have to deal with any of them for much longer, so why would I be out to get Eugenio like that?
So later in the evening Eugenio was not paying attention while pricing up a belt, and had priced up the incorrect labor and part, and told the customer we had the part and it would take about 15 minutes. Really, though, the belt was twice the price and took about an hour to finish. I got angry and while trying to call Weaver for the part, Eugenio was angry with me over my shoulder. I turned to him and snapped, "You know what? If you can't do this, then get away from me." Then I finished the phone call. He got upset, went and sat down, and didn't talk to me at first. Then he started mumbling mean things over and over and finally I just got angry. Instead of embarrassing myself, getting worked up and yelling, I decided to leave. It was 5:30 anyway, and usually the time I head out if I work with Eugenio until 6:30, since we get about 2 customers for that full hour. I got changed, grab my stuff and was just on the way out when I hear Eugenio on the phone...with Matt. Asking him if I got the go-ahead to leave early. I was so upset I turned to him and just said, "you know...never expect to leave early again, Eugenio. Never. Don't expect any sympathy from me anymore. This is done." And I left. I stewed the entire way home, calling Victoria, my dad, Luis (at East Towne) and finally Eugenio, who I apologized to for my behavior. But I tried to explain to him how frustrating it is to be happy someplace where I don't enjoy the job, where people don't always do their jobs, and where I can't do anything about it. We didn't end on the best note, but it wasn't terrible either. Basically he explained that he didn't think we were friends anymore, and that he feels I'm against him. Whatever. He can continue to be paranoid about everything and slack off at work; one day it's going to bite him in the ass and he's going to get fired for his crappy performance.
That brings us to today, where I feel better, and am just hoping that my interview goes so well I have a new job in two weeks. I was honest with Matt and asked him what kind of notice I'd need: he explained a few days would be fine, since he has people "lining up" to take my job, but he has no reason to fire me, and simply cannot, obviously. This is just all so strange. Ugh.
So now we're watching Boondock Saints, I'm playing WoW, and tomorrow I'm going to get some studying in for the FSOT and Chinese, eat a great cheeseburger for dinner, and probably play my DS some more. I'm having a great time with Trauma Center 2: Under the Knife, it's not too bad! It's got a much better design and organization scheme than did the first, but it's also got a fairly intriguing storyline. Meh.
Here's hoping I can impress some people next week, I get just a little luck, and I can survive through next week.