Customers...not always right

 Come into 'my' store and then get irritated that I am simply asking if you are finding everything/doing okay.  As with so many things, people are afraid of being pitched or sold something to the point that when an associate of THE STORE YOU ARE SHOPPING IN says hello it is easier to be rude than simply acknowledge the greeting and or say thank you.  This is the worst when the store is busy, and I take the time to check on 'you' and get rude attitude.  I am sorry the store is busy, I am doing my job and while I appreciate your business so I have a job to do, typically nobody is forcing you to shop in 'my' store; so buck up relax and be nice or go somewhere else.

Interview Day

I have an interview today. In my "reluctant time off"" I have done a lot of things and applied for a lot of jobs and had several interviews. I have gone into some of those interviews with confidance and not been chosen. Todays interview comes on the heels of what I feel was a great phone interview from a corporate recuriter. I said a lot of things on the phone that I feel were "buzz worthy" and things that the recruiter would have included as qualities or attributes that would have been listed and what the company was looking for. I am truly excited about this interview this afternoon.

On the other side, I have a former employer that has been amazing enough to give me work over the last month or so and I feel a bit guilty. My former employer is an amazing person and when I called to say hi and that I was unemployed looking for something, anything, he did not hesitate to say come on in, I will see you Monday.

where do i go, what do i do with me

what do i do? i got a job a little over three months ago, and thought it would be a great move, something new, challenging and an opportunity to learn a different industry.

i guess it should start something like i had to get a new job because i was fired. i was fired from a job that i loved, with a company that i enjoyed working for.

why was i fired? that is a tough question. i think i was fired because it was an easy way out for management (management being a former room-mate of another associate who needed "designation"). i openly admit that i made mistakes, but nothing that was against store policy or violating any rules. whatever, i was fired and it was heartbreaking. It took me almost five months to even be offered something that i thought would be a good fit. i took this job and it has turned out to be nothing like the job that was offered in the interview, and the company is dark and shady. there is no support from area managers, no training to speak of, I have been with the company for just over three months and the only real training i have recieved is a refresher course for training that has not even been offered to me. i am only helped when i have made a mistake and not trained on actual policys because nobody seems to follow any of them.

the first assistant manager i worked with transferred to a new location with a promotion only to be fired for unethecial behavior. i don't care that someone was fired, i get that, what i have a problem with is that people were upset about how the old employee got caught, not that they were caught at all. i am expected to sell, be positive and gracious when the people i work with cheat, break rules and make things work in their favor without regard to others.

the office itself is nasty! i can not imagine people coming in and feeling good about working with this compay. everything is filthy and no care is taken for any kind of creature comforts. there is a cleaning crew that comes once a week, but the only scratch the surface, take out the trash and clean the toilet. the branch manager will not even make water available to the branch unless it is under the guise of having it available for customers. the water filter/cooler that is there is dirty, in ill repair and the manager refuses to buy cups for it so that water is available.

Overtime is expected, and from what i can ascertain that comes to the tune of 11 hour days with no questions. there is no room for anything else and no room to improve because the burn out is inevitable. the people i work with are self centered and insensitive with little to no regard for the acutal customers who help run their business. Call the body shops the business, sure they initiate the call to action but it is the person renting the car that needs the care and with almost every interaction i hear about how awful the customers are. racist remarks, insults to demographic groups, lewd gestures and comments about people while they are on the phone or on their way into the location....i would never give my business to this company nor would i tell any of my friends, this is not who i want to learn and grow from and these are not the people i want to have to spend my days (11 hour days) with.

the bachelor

i don't get it!!!!! how many women all dating one guy at one time....it really just seems kind of unsanitary. i mean all of these girls living together and spending time with one another, getting to know each other and dating the same guy.....then at the rose ceremony....they pat each other on the back when each gets a rose. i gues any chance to be launched into thier 15 minutes of fame....i just don't get it. and geez...that stupid final rose how utterly sad. women crying because this guy did not choose them while dating like 27 other ladies and have to walk away. i sure hope abc offers counseling for these girls, or maybe they are just looking to be the next bachlorette.
ugh, why am i still watching this, this train wreck.

choc. chip cookies

i am making chocolate chip cookies and really really want to try to dough! so far i have not...i even walked away to start this blog to avoid temptation to lick the beater! i will try ONE....but am going to try to wait until they are done. i feel pretty confidant that even if tried the dough before baking i would have no idea how to fix them if they did not tatste right....and because my unpredjudice love for cookie dough i would probably not know that it was missing or needed anything.

it is a W...

i fought the twc.... and i won (that should be sung as if singing "I fought the law..."). it is really not even a big deal, i appealed what i thougt was a bad decision...waited, had my hearing and what was right prevailed. in my recent but seemingly endless search for a new job it was a victory that i needed. i am not even sure why i am blogging about it, maybe just to put it out there. if there is something you can do about a situation, even if you don't think it will help or turn things in your favor....do it, most simply because you can. the worst thing that can happen is you can be told no. when you don't have anything to lose and something to gain isn't it worth it?

post office receipt

i go to the post office locate something close enough to what i need, wait in line, read all the "important" messages posted all over the place, get called up, purchase one cushioned envelope and postage for a grand total less than five dollars and get a receipt as long as my arm!
no wonder the price of a stamp continues to rise....if our own postal service does not see the value in all of the paper they are wasting to give me badly formatted information (that has been posted on all the walls around me) that i am going to wad up and throw away (or recycle) then why wouldn't the price go up. i think i am going to only use internet or kiosk postal services from now on....at least i am in control of weather or not i get an erroneous over verbalized receipt or not.