2008 a time for change ?!
Wow it's been like forever since I have posted anything on here. Well you can say 2008 has been a strange year so far. First my dad who I haven't had any contact with in 7 years has came back into my life. He came up to Erie(he live sin the Harrisburg area) the first weekend of the year. I went to my Uncle's to watch the football playoffs with him, my uncle and my cousin. Also my dad and mom might be getting back together after 30 years of being divorce. They have been talking on the phone almost everyday since he left, so about a month now.
He is going to being moving back to Erie in the next couple of months. He has even showed interest in wrestling, which last time I saw him he was putting down big time. I guess after almost dieing last year from a massive heart attack has changed him for the better.
Now for the bad news. They announced last week they were closing our 12th & Powell Quality store, which means ppl getting bumped in our Erie area stores. Well I got a call yesterday I was going to be bumped to the Liberty store which would be a good thing since I'm planning on moving only a few blocks away from it. I was pretty happy and my gf was to since she lives only a few blocks away from the store and works across the street. Well I was pretty happy this morning and then BAM !!!!! I get a call saying they had a problem with someone's seniority date so I had to got to our Grandview store. This sucks cause I really don't have a way there and the buses only run like everyone hour & half and they stop around five o'clock. Then their stocking shift or "third" shift , whatever you want to call it starts at 6pm to 2:30am. The shift will really suck I couldn't really do anything plus I would have to take the bus there I would have to leave like 2-2 and half hours before.
I was so happy and then bam my happiness is taking away in minutes if not seconds. My whole life changes. Today I ask myself I have busted my ass off 15 years (17 years if you count my time with Loblaw's) and I get screwed.
I got to spend 13 years at my first store of Eastway and now this is my second store in 4 years and 2 months. Even though I only spent 4 years at 6th street most of the ppl feel more like my friends or even family then they did at Eastway. I miss the ppl at Eastway , some more then other's but I will really miss most of the ppl at 6th st. There are lazy ppl and pain in the asses at 6th street but we usually watch each other backs and we don't think we are better then another perosn( well most of us don't). At Eastway we had cliques and 6th street we really don't. In 4 years I have probably done more out of work activities with ppl form 6th street then I did in 13 years at Eastway.
The ppl at 6th street are making it hard to leave to cause they keep saying "we are going to miss you", "It won't be fun around here without you", " you are a good worker" " you take pride in your work" , " you are family". Only a couple ppl told me that at Eastway. Also the look on my manager Don's face when I told him I got bumped meant alot, it was like "you are fucking kinding me" , "I can't lose you." I have done alot at that store, I have helped get deadstock down by ordering good, and I have worked weird hours and a strange schedule, working sometimes 5am-1:30pm, 1:30pm-10pm, 9am-5:30 am, so I basically was an opener and a closer. I also worked grocery, dairy, frozen, and produce, once all of them in one day.
So now I pray everything will work out for me at Grandview.
He is going to being moving back to Erie in the next couple of months. He has even showed interest in wrestling, which last time I saw him he was putting down big time. I guess after almost dieing last year from a massive heart attack has changed him for the better.
Now for the bad news. They announced last week they were closing our 12th & Powell Quality store, which means ppl getting bumped in our Erie area stores. Well I got a call yesterday I was going to be bumped to the Liberty store which would be a good thing since I'm planning on moving only a few blocks away from it. I was pretty happy and my gf was to since she lives only a few blocks away from the store and works across the street. Well I was pretty happy this morning and then BAM !!!!! I get a call saying they had a problem with someone's seniority date so I had to got to our Grandview store. This sucks cause I really don't have a way there and the buses only run like everyone hour & half and they stop around five o'clock. Then their stocking shift or "third" shift , whatever you want to call it starts at 6pm to 2:30am. The shift will really suck I couldn't really do anything plus I would have to take the bus there I would have to leave like 2-2 and half hours before.
I was so happy and then bam my happiness is taking away in minutes if not seconds. My whole life changes. Today I ask myself I have busted my ass off 15 years (17 years if you count my time with Loblaw's) and I get screwed.
I got to spend 13 years at my first store of Eastway and now this is my second store in 4 years and 2 months. Even though I only spent 4 years at 6th street most of the ppl feel more like my friends or even family then they did at Eastway. I miss the ppl at Eastway , some more then other's but I will really miss most of the ppl at 6th st. There are lazy ppl and pain in the asses at 6th street but we usually watch each other backs and we don't think we are better then another perosn( well most of us don't). At Eastway we had cliques and 6th street we really don't. In 4 years I have probably done more out of work activities with ppl form 6th street then I did in 13 years at Eastway.
The ppl at 6th street are making it hard to leave to cause they keep saying "we are going to miss you", "It won't be fun around here without you", " you are a good worker" " you take pride in your work" , " you are family". Only a couple ppl told me that at Eastway. Also the look on my manager Don's face when I told him I got bumped meant alot, it was like "you are fucking kinding me" , "I can't lose you." I have done alot at that store, I have helped get deadstock down by ordering good, and I have worked weird hours and a strange schedule, working sometimes 5am-1:30pm, 1:30pm-10pm, 9am-5:30 am, so I basically was an opener and a closer. I also worked grocery, dairy, frozen, and produce, once all of them in one day.
So now I pray everything will work out for me at Grandview.