A long overdue update, complete with a promise of less whining in general, and the usual fangirling
Hi, I know it's been a while, and have to be honest that I'm far behind on my flist, its been so busy. I'm actually getting ready for college, went to take a two day orientation for it, and getting all my books ready and everything. Oh, I'm taking English, Japanese, Math, Psychology, and Cardio Kickboxing. I'm mostly excited about the psychology part, that's what I'm majoring in and I'm going for an associates degree in it, then I plan on transferring to a University that specializes in psychology, and go for a masters in clinical psychology at the least. I want to eventually go all the way and get a doctorate, but we'll see. This week I'm going to have to go up to the campus and make sure I'm taking the right classes to get transferred properly, and then buy a bus pass, and maybe go swimming, it'll be great.
I don't know what else I can really put in that would be new that's not completely boring, oh yeah, there's stuff at work too. New GM, love her, she's great, no problems with her so far,learning what her expectations are and so on. I have one of the managers trying to get rid of me, possibly because he just plain doesn't like me. My mother tells me that they're not supposed to cut or give you hours based on if the like or dislike you, which is how it should work, but in this case its not so. I know I haven't done anything *that* bad, and there are people around me who've done worse generally (and I honestly wouldn't care if it didn't effect how I work) that he seems to turn a blind eye to, and these people are just fine. But the reason why the thought that he would want to get rid of me would cross my mind, is because, I got cut all the way down to 13 hours (which is really bad, even if "labor" is bad), and at first I was thinking about how they keep saying that labor is bad right now, but I'm sure it's not that bad that they can't even the schedule a little bit more, the only people that were in the same realm as hours were trainees. So, does that make me paranoid that the fact that I'm the only one who shares the same amount of hours as trainees might be a sign that somebody wants to get rid of me? Since he has no actual reason to fire me, he's doing this thing (that I've seen numerous times over people he didn't like)where he cuts my hours until I decide to quit.
I refuse to give in and quit, and I went to talk to our General Manager, about how I felt I was seriously messing, I needed help to improve, I had no idea what I did wrong exactly (in reference to the schedule). She figured out that I was upset that I thought they wanted to get rid of me, and reassured me of how I did nothing wrong and that the schedule wasn't my fault, and was upset about what the manager(s) who made it had done. And then she told me little things she expected if I was working blank position, and she was just really great about everything, and really doesn't want me to quit. I guess that manager can just shove it, I'm not going anywhere for a while. But I do have to be extra careful though, because I have the feeling that some of his favorites (who I don't get along with very well) might be watching me very carefully from now on.
And that was Fast Food Drama with Deb, brought to you by Lipton Iced Tea and Starbucks Frappuccinos, mmm mmm, drink them! (Sorry I couldn't resist, but a random note about coffee, hazelnut ice brewed coffee is one of the best things ever)Now about that promise with the whole less whining thing, after generally reading amusing blogs of people whining about some things and then following up with what I'm going to call a 'oh, wait that got fixed' post, I've decided that I'm not going to continue that. (I've also learned some people have short attention spans too, one week a 'my girlfriend broke up with me and cheated on me, it's the end of the world' post, two weeks after that a 'I give up on love and I'm going back to my player ways and life just sucks' post, and then a few weeks after that a 'omgosh I met the most wonderful girl ever and we're going to be together forever' post, approximately four weeks after that 'my girlfriend cheated on me, life is so hard', and then less than 4 weeks after that 'I met another girl, and it's true love', you get my point?) My promise to my journal and everyone involved is I'm going to try not to stick my foot in my mouth as much, not complain about how lonely I am (I know that one will eventually get fixed), or about people at work (after this post) or nit-picky things I hated about blank show/movie/book, I can't guaranteed that I'll keep these things whiney-free, but I'm going to try, because it's just pointless, I can't tell you how many times I've gone back and re-read my journal and went 'D'OH!', so I'm done with that.
About that fangirling thing, Tek War is awesome by the way, I watched it for Torri Higginson, (who was gone after the fourth episode) and fell in love with the whole series. There were cops in the future, and robots, and future weapons and future stuff, a pretty Spanish woman, oh and the really neat totally 90s sci-fi opening theme music. And there were nice storylines too. I want to read the books and watch the tv movies that came before the series, but I have to track those down first since the books are out of print, and the movies are VHS only. And then there's Bad Girls. It's this really interesting prison drama about the lives of the inmates and the people running this women's prison. And it's just been really interesting, there's drugs, violence, and all that good stuff, lol. Seriously though, there's lots of different characters, and they all have really interesting stories, and I just love it so far.
Well this has been fun, but I should probably go so I don't ramble on and on any more than bearable, peace out.
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I don't know what else I can really put in that would be new that's not completely boring, oh yeah, there's stuff at work too. New GM, love her, she's great, no problems with her so far,learning what her expectations are and so on. I have one of the managers trying to get rid of me, possibly because he just plain doesn't like me. My mother tells me that they're not supposed to cut or give you hours based on if the like or dislike you, which is how it should work, but in this case its not so. I know I haven't done anything *that* bad, and there are people around me who've done worse generally (and I honestly wouldn't care if it didn't effect how I work) that he seems to turn a blind eye to, and these people are just fine. But the reason why the thought that he would want to get rid of me would cross my mind, is because, I got cut all the way down to 13 hours (which is really bad, even if "labor" is bad), and at first I was thinking about how they keep saying that labor is bad right now, but I'm sure it's not that bad that they can't even the schedule a little bit more, the only people that were in the same realm as hours were trainees. So, does that make me paranoid that the fact that I'm the only one who shares the same amount of hours as trainees might be a sign that somebody wants to get rid of me? Since he has no actual reason to fire me, he's doing this thing (that I've seen numerous times over people he didn't like)where he cuts my hours until I decide to quit.
I refuse to give in and quit, and I went to talk to our General Manager, about how I felt I was seriously messing, I needed help to improve, I had no idea what I did wrong exactly (in reference to the schedule). She figured out that I was upset that I thought they wanted to get rid of me, and reassured me of how I did nothing wrong and that the schedule wasn't my fault, and was upset about what the manager(s) who made it had done. And then she told me little things she expected if I was working blank position, and she was just really great about everything, and really doesn't want me to quit. I guess that manager can just shove it, I'm not going anywhere for a while. But I do have to be extra careful though, because I have the feeling that some of his favorites (who I don't get along with very well) might be watching me very carefully from now on.
And that was Fast Food Drama with Deb, brought to you by Lipton Iced Tea and Starbucks Frappuccinos, mmm mmm, drink them! (Sorry I couldn't resist, but a random note about coffee, hazelnut ice brewed coffee is one of the best things ever)Now about that promise with the whole less whining thing, after generally reading amusing blogs of people whining about some things and then following up with what I'm going to call a 'oh, wait that got fixed' post, I've decided that I'm not going to continue that. (I've also learned some people have short attention spans too, one week a 'my girlfriend broke up with me and cheated on me, it's the end of the world' post, two weeks after that a 'I give up on love and I'm going back to my player ways and life just sucks' post, and then a few weeks after that a 'omgosh I met the most wonderful girl ever and we're going to be together forever' post, approximately four weeks after that 'my girlfriend cheated on me, life is so hard', and then less than 4 weeks after that 'I met another girl, and it's true love', you get my point?) My promise to my journal and everyone involved is I'm going to try not to stick my foot in my mouth as much, not complain about how lonely I am (I know that one will eventually get fixed), or about people at work (after this post) or nit-picky things I hated about blank show/movie/book, I can't guaranteed that I'll keep these things whiney-free, but I'm going to try, because it's just pointless, I can't tell you how many times I've gone back and re-read my journal and went 'D'OH!', so I'm done with that.
About that fangirling thing, Tek War is awesome by the way, I watched it for Torri Higginson, (who was gone after the fourth episode) and fell in love with the whole series. There were cops in the future, and robots, and future weapons and future stuff, a pretty Spanish woman, oh and the really neat totally 90s sci-fi opening theme music. And there were nice storylines too. I want to read the books and watch the tv movies that came before the series, but I have to track those down first since the books are out of print, and the movies are VHS only. And then there's Bad Girls. It's this really interesting prison drama about the lives of the inmates and the people running this women's prison. And it's just been really interesting, there's drugs, violence, and all that good stuff, lol. Seriously though, there's lots of different characters, and they all have really interesting stories, and I just love it so far.
Well this has been fun, but I should probably go so I don't ramble on and on any more than bearable, peace out.
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