Schedule

T: off
W: 5 - close
R: 4 - 10
F: 5 - 11
S: 12 - 8
N: 11 - 8
M: 5 - close

Mr. Porno

I thought it was called OUCH. There was other plastic on it.

no slaughter, but evil grins

Here's a blurb about a potential in meat "manufacture", where meat is grown, not extracted from killed and slaughtered animals. So where, you might wonder, does evil plan to venture? The article states only using beef, but what if sociopaths took command and introduced, say ... human meat. If you think that isn't a possibility, then you haven't read the rare, but actually times fast food has had fecal matter, balogna & weiners have other parts. Humans introduced into the diet would be, well, certainly a possibility. I can predict soylent green sooner than you think.

Father's Day

Well, my father isn't here right now, so there's not much I can do. Some friends have lost their fathers, so today is either -- lacking or has changed due to their role as the father. I think it would be nicer for Father's Day to be on Monday and then 'Father's' could take off the day. Now, by "Father" I mean (as noted in many posts) that a Father is one who raises you -- not just sires you.

Insects don't have fathers, but genetic donors -- and so that should ring true with the many polygenic familes who have fractional siblings, but no permanent father-figure.

So, for Father's Day, I type, "Thanks for participating in who I am now, without you -- I'd be someone different!"

Hello ... tech support

I was at work and a guy there posed a question to me, starting from a statement of failure when installing new RAM in his desktop. After installing it, his monitor went kaput! Huh. Not seeing his computer, I thought of the many possibilities for the plug & play feature of the monitor to fail. Now, it could be that the monitor indeed failed at this curious time, but that is highly unlikely. It is likely that the memory, despite claims, wasn't compatible with the computer.

Now, as far as it disabling the monitor -- whereby eliminating the computer's functionality, I don't find it likely that the installed then removed RAM would disrupt the computer in such a fashion. Now, not seeing his computer, though he had a (rhymes with SMELL) -- I have a laptop from them, I know squat about their desktops. I made a few suggestions and we'll have to see if they work.

If so, I can then also be the "turn to" guy, as in, "turn to" [my name] for tech issues.

Midday run

No, not my fat fanny, but rather two sleek deer were running across a field, likely frightened by the tractor-riding farmer driving in his field. They didn't look like typical white tail deer, which is what Indiana has, but rather taller with a black ring around the white tail. Anyway, 10:40 a.m. seemed like an odd time to see deer.

Candyman

Well, at work I picked up some candy by request for a woman I call, "naughty". Then ... I got a, "Hey [my name], I like licorace." So, the list began and I have some shopping to do. Who can take a sunrise ...

I also have to find out how to rig cords for a fan in the kitchen in a spot not directly near an outlet. I could call maintenance, but then I could wait for the sun to engulf the Earth* which would take the same amount of time. The area nearly completely melted the two ladies working there last night.

* millions to billions of years

Corn hole?!

On the radio, one prize among the blister pack of prizes awarded to call number whatever was, "corn hole". It was not sexual, but rather a corn-filled bag (like a bean bag) game where the goal is to pitch it and have it drop through the hole on a ramp-like plank. This game was introduced by Cerpicio. Thanks to Dave for reminding me.

We're all related

Arizona marriages with kin come with retarded consequences. Now, I can imagine Kentucky or Georgia, but Arizona? I guess if you're out there and there isn't a wide selection, you do what you gotta do.

joys of work

I got to pick up puke today! I also did a fartload of paperwork for a closing m, but he'll likely not return the favor for me.

My word ... it was better today, but for all I did, I appear to have accomplished little, for the paperwork is time-consuming for no good reason.

Why Indiana means hillbilly

Well, a new law hit citing the limitations of firework firing. Locally, explosive fireworks are limited to 15 or so calendar days annually. Now, as much as the late night noise makers from the hillbillies upsets me, I find it aggrivating that law makers regulate those and not shotgun firing that seems to go along with fireworks celebrations.

Let's better regulate hillbilly things like ... NASCAR events may not be held for more than 15 calendar days, nor shall NASCAR numbers, flags, etc. Shotguns may not be fired during any public event or in celebration of anything. Beer may not be sold to hillbillies at any time of any year. People who use a butane grill lighter to ignite cigarettes inches from their face may, at no time, be party to firework use or purchases.

In good ol' FW, I hear blasts from celebrating hillbillies all the time, mixed with country grammar of "them thar", "big ol'", twangy country and NASCAR afficianados knowin' how dem cars werk. D'ya see dat race? Shore did ... called in sick ta do it. Plain near Jeff Gordon, Jr. Jr. Jr. drove might purdy round dat ol' track. I like him! He drive all pretty. He got skill.

No, it isn't Tennessee (Fred Thompson), or Kentucky, it is sadly Indiana. There is a great bit of hillbilly growth in the area, unlike the job market which is dwindling. I'm really surprised I don't see more tobacco chewers at work. There will be a day though, when I will see more pouch tucking for "smoking is gross", quoteth the brown saliva drolling imbecile who's looking for a spit cup, previously mistake for someone else's drink.

odd job

Pet Sales

Pet Counselor

Petland has Full and Part-Time Pet Sales Counselor Positions open. Weekdays, Evenings and Weekends. Friendly, Customer Service Enviroment. Full range of pets and supplies. Sales experience preferred.

Schedule, corrected

R:  4-10

F:  5-11

S:  12-8

N:  11-8

M - close

token payment

I was asked to run an errand at the home office. My payment is ... [drum roll please], a half-hour of pay, as I was directed to adjust my clock data an additional half hour for my trouble. Let's see, last time I didn't get a thanks for running around a couple places in town for stock they didn't have. This time, while I'm in town, run to home office and pick up stuff for a "quarter" essentially. So, I get no "thanks", but "okay".

There is no equitable trade here, for what do I get in return ... little/nothing.

I'll trade my half-hour pay for each of the "uppers" to do 30 minutes of work at my pace, more especially the pointless paperwork that tends to keep me there late at night. For that, I'll be happy to run to home office on way to work more often. The migratory humpbacks don't swim like dolphins or sailfish. I, myself, work and move like a sailfish (or related species Marlin). I dare them to pick up their pace!

I'm still looking for another job, as I spend too much time venting.

soon to be re-re-re-released (otherwise a sequel)

This is a sequel with the same lines. The returning product has less and, dollar for dollar, isn't nearly the bargain people claim, but people do like it. The [my employer] pot pie, for that's close to what it is, is due soon. It takes less more time on one end to make it. It is a money maker -- shake it.

Meanwhile, I was late to a meeting today as I read the wrong schedule. The sales reports were in and the company itself showed unhappy turnouts in profit, labor percentage, sales.

I would have offered the comment, 'if you aren't the cheapest, which we aren't, we need to be the novelest and more innovative.' I find the same-old, same-old probably doesn't sell well to people, but convincing the dinosaurs there that although 'we've always done it that way', doesn't make it the best way, is a challenge I haven't won.

There was a bit of a pit fight between two people today, but it went nowhere. As the young pup, having two old dogs fight it out and grow weaker, would naturally make me stronger by default. At the end, I was no stronger for the fight.

What's wrong, he asked

He wasn't going to accept a, "nothing". My GM cornered me today and probed why I was silent with people over the course of the last weeks. He considered it odd that since I had got my rank that I was talking less. Sure, it may have been timing, but it was aligned with more typical reasons ... symptomology clearly leading to the cause.

$ I was told that there would be more expected out of me
$ I was given control over more crap with less personnel -- I was filling in for people rather than directing people, rather counter to the role I assumed
$ When I relied on superiors (next level people) to do things ... they didn't

So, I responded that I did indeed become more quiet and my experience taught me that stopping to talk or smell the roses put me so far behind it wasn't worth the effort, I was told to direct people to do these other things so that I didn't have to put in, what I termed, n percent.

So, I have to make friends with Lazy-Inferior, Lazy-Posterior, quick-to-bite junkyard dog, yeah ... that'll be just simple. Another "upper" is lame-dog who is slow, and can't do physical things. So, I go home tired, sore, overworked, and unappreciated, why?

I wanted to say, "Hey! When I see work, I do it. Does someone have to say ... you know that pile of paperwork you walked around to get to your chair? I wanted you to do that." I feel that if you see work and walk around it and leave it for the next guy, don't be shocked when the next guy disrespects you and finds you to be a lazy jerk.

"n" percent was greater than 110 -- arbitrarily chosen

poles of life

little tadpoles swimming around
I'm not sure if whether they were introduced or if they were born there. It is near a lake.

whacked out rentals

I saw an apartment today ... $550. The apartment isn't bad, but the neighborhood -- two blocks away is rundown. You'd think that the average per capita there was $55,000 with prices as they are, but nay, nay!+

Perhaps I can find a possibly survivable bartending job.

+ thanks Jon Pinnet

I'll work hard, so you don't have to

Man, oh man, do I have to find a different job.

I was matched up with Lazy-Inferior and Lazy-Posterior.

LI tried to find ways to complain and still do little but talk. LP put in what looked like work, but followed by hours of talking and sitting. I think I should take up smoking so that I could have 60 minutes extra to do absolutely nothing but smoke and talk.

Now, where will I go? I'm still looking for a job, so if anyone knows of one ... please email me.

local story

I overheard that there was a child rapist who killed his victim when she wouldn't stop crying. He was taken into custody. I hope the other statement was true that he was in bad condition after court appearance. Typical ...
he kept falling out of the car on the highway ... we don't understand it.

it'll add up to the same

The computer glitched and the totals were being summed on the wrong day. The response from -- we don't take calls on Saturday head office was ... 'it'll add up okay'. The transactions were being posted on the previous day, on top of the other transactions. I guess it was nothing to wake up the super-chiefees for, right?

Here we have the laziness I mentioned and the neaderthals at the obolistic.

[cut to jawbone weapon being weilded instead of pen on desk or keyboard attached to conputer]

comfortably ill

Unsightly and gross. There are the posse' of assistants who feel just fine and dandy free to use the restroom for library time -- you get my meaning. Now, I, on the other hand don't. The only tine I use public bathrooms for such is when I am ill. These other guys use typical eupheisms like making deposit at [toilet company or plumbing company name], or whatever -- too gross to mention.

What they don't get and I do, is who wants to see a mgr stepping happily and lighter out of the bathroom, hopefully washing for minutes in the sink after making walking easier? Now, I know people have to do it, but doesn't that smack of gross? Dude ... you're handling food now? You just let loose something long-since dead -- so much so that CSI would seek archeological help.

germinator

There were six in the party at first, then there were party-crashers coming in ... now, more like American President (like American Idol) these would be, ahem -- cough, choke, 'talents' must match wits and talents with each other to win the title of President of the United States.

In the end, it is performance, for the most charismatic wins -- always. Gore's, bore you to death with ineptness didn't match points with Bush's hard stance on 'stuff', intentionally stated due to his poor improv speaking.

On the tickets you have the seven dwarves plus more -- like the cast of Lord of the Rings and Under the Rainbow gathered into a little spot in the sun. The polls are noteworthy because there are exactly flathead vs fathead, giving the voter a chance to put into office Dum or Dee, both named Tweedle.

You could have (Dee) deceitful -- Clinton is a good example, or (Dumb) Bush who pushes forward bills that no one wants to sign or agree that they have. Gore is Dum, while others are DeeDum, like a song -- lie with face one and coninive with face two.

Somehow the dandeloins of politicians are a little thick this year. I should have called a law(n) serive to fix it before it was a problem.

verboten, with exceptions

Well, the county's smoking ban and ordinance went into effect, but there are, surprise ... loopholes. Look, I just think that smokers should pay for the following and then the issue is done:

1. forfeiture of one lung
2. denial of government or employer-paid medical services to smoking related illnesses (including cancer)
3. no-cap on insurance premiums on smokers' houses, vehicle, etc.
4. x multiplier for smoking related fires
5. no-cap on cigarette tax
6. logorithmic scale payments on government services related to smoking including, but not limited to:
a. trash removal
b. restoration of materials (including art, walls repainted, etc.)
c. ALL second-hand smoking issues, including, but not limited to:
A. child development
B. asthma, etc.


As a nation we should 'crap or get off the pot' on smoking. If it is bad, terrible, addictive, unhealthy, deadly, cancer-causing ... then we taxpayers should not be subsidizing it. There is no doubt smoking causes cancer in people. There is no evidence to support that smoking is healthy at all, and causes otherwise avoidable or postponable medical issues. Therefore, why are taxpayers on a national level paying for the tobacco industry?

Stop now.

If some hillbilly farm has a 1.6 acre plot to grow tobacco and he would otherwise be out of a job ... well, that stinks for him, for strawberries might have a good price too. How about pumpkins --- whereas the South has no Northern-typical heavy frost, generally.

schedule; hopefully will change

M: 5-close
T: off
W: 2-10
R: 5-close
F: 5-11:30
S: 12-8
N: 11-8
M: 5-close

I will try desperately to re-negotiate off Saturday to go to Westfield

short end of the stick ...

I took the deal ... I got a check for the money I was missing and am working still for the company. I am, however, still looking for other employment, despite my raise.

Another day at work and the mgr whom I greatly dislike was there ... prowling like a caged cat, he wanted to pounce on anyone who wasn't doing what he wanted them to do. Perhaps his hell will be a work camp where either he is a prisoner or conversely a controller for persons who will never obey and continually plot against him.

be sure to vote for Ovaltine

I watched this ... however interstesting the frequency of which some of these speakers use the same words -- especially Rudy ... it ends with, "be sure to vote [name here] in '08". After all the speeches, it's nothing more than a common sales pitch.+ Really, the ending theme is that (these people here are warmongers) is over-over-over stated, it doesn't segue into vote for someguy who's perspective you don't know.

+paraphrased from Die Hard

a smile

The "eyes" girl, whom I'm written about at work is ... terribly young. That dismissed apart from her cuteness in an uncle or father sort of perspective now ... yes, clearly I'm old enough to be her father. There's another girl at work, I'll have to discover her age too. She's nice, but likely young too. Oh, well, I'm not supposed to be inter-store dating anyway.

My good deeds were not in vain at work. I made a couple of things possible and that didn't hurt anyone and it didn't backfire.

Still, at work, I feel like I'm digging instead of filling. It's difficult to claim you're climbing when you keep going deeper.

ruined

A one-time neighbor popped by ... he was not in a good way. He had a bad father and was diagnosed with manic-depression in middle school. This was the 70s ladies and gentleman and I believe chemistry has changed since then. Anyway ... he's on and off again with medications and has ballooned to a large weight now. He, at least, has found some highlight in music and church.

I hastily opened the door -- still groggy from getting to bed at close to four am, not yet wearing a shirt. He remarked to me that I was athletic -- pah! I am lighter, to say the least, in contrast to him, but athletic I'm not. On exercise, he remarked that people should knock themselves out working out or exercising. Huh. He doesn't like exercising and he's heavy and had McDonalds for breakfast, complaining about the long line at the drive-thru. It all sounds like a self-fulfilling prophesy to me.

His "dad" is a winner, in that he was married for years, had kids, then discovered he was gay. Bull ---! I really don't think that's an excuse to also be a crappy father to your kids. You're gay, okay ... still be a father, as you started a family. His father is a bad influence on his son with a weak personality.

With this licence

I doth bartend

I went into work and ...

Okay ... The GM misunderstood what my original note was. Upon hearing that the DM and I agreed to a pay structure ... $2000 raise, he was shocked and asked if I had signed a statement about it. I already thought of this and no, I didn't. I have no documentation regarding the pay structure.

The GM said, call the DM, for the GM would not grant a raise for a level change, but rather only on merit.

Now, I see his point on merit, but to give more responsiblity and more shit and no pay and the hassle of pestering me of when I moving to Warsaw for the job I'm disliking more and more, I believe I've already made my decision.

I called the DM expecting a flat denial of my raise ... no, he said, "yeah, we'll get that in. Hey, do you work tonight (a very stupid question for I work each and every flippin' weekend), I'll talk with the GM and I meet you there."

So, I'm still in limbo. If I don't get the raise tonight, I walk, handing a premade resignation letter to the GM. Again, I like him, but ...

$40 (about) weekly is what we're arguing about and this is a cheaper raise. The review is abiguous regarding: expecations, time ... I don't like the ambiguity, or the carrot on the stick.

Tonight, I'll know. Last night, the GM in our short talk said that he can't give raises, but rather suggests them to the DM who either approves or denies them. It's a bad night for them for me to leave -- Fridays tend to be busy and I am supposed to be there until 11:30.

early

I moved my stuff off my shelf at work, thinking it wasn't a big thing and no one would notice -- planning on today being a potentential last day. Well, last night I saw that someone already put crap on that shelf. Huh. I wonder if they know something that I don't. Perhaps I won't have to quit ... maybe I'll be fired for the first time. Now that would be a change! Either way, quitting or fired, it will be interesting for them.

In God's own way ... I'm sure that nothing like that will happen and things will be nothing like I predict, for that is the mystery of the future -- it is unknown.

So ... who's blaming who

I don't own the computer and the IT person is not in the building, but rather responsible for six buildings. Meanwhile, I have a class for a few days and do some relevant searching and pop, pop, pop ... porn ads appear. Now, the prosecution states that the teacher visited sites that enabled the ads to come up. I'll throw in my bit here.

1. Any use of the computer and web searching can be researched, therefore the case was started either with credible evidence that she did indeed use the computer for porn searching or ... the police did not do any investigation on this at all

2. Substitute teachers may not bring in software to "fix" computers for union rules state that persons directed to use computers have that exclusive job and right. This includes anti-spyware and anti-virus software.

3. Typical use of sites may lead to any number of ads that are unsavory, such as DATE1, which may include a butt shot of a woman, lifting a G-string with her high heel shoe. This is a "dating service" that matches people seeking people. Now, this is a banner on some sites, so is that porn or just inappropriate advertising?


I'm normally all for hanging perpetrators, especially child molesters, rapists, those who ellicit children, so on, but here I'm on the side of the sub teacher for the news article has described no such cause either through ignorance, neglect, nor intent to expose children to such material. It was a bad call for the prosecution.

In hindsight though ... if these ads kept coming up, then I would have denied access to internet until the spam and ad issue were fixed by the school's IT person(s).

Shall the Western world stand up and cheer?

Iran cheers anytime there is disaster in the US, be it weather or other calamity. Should the US return the favor and jump up and cheer with joy that Iran might suffer?

Yes, I'm venting. I can still remember Iran cheering with joy on September 11th. I still remember Iran decrying the US attack Iraq and Iran laughing at our defeats, including in Somalia. To Iran ... I don't trust you.

Today a rare winter storm hit Oman and is heading toward Iran.

standoff

Well, I'm going to work today and meeting with GM. I didn't get my raise. I don't know what he'll say, but I suspect he'll say I'm not yet getting my raise. So, today is either the day they fix my raise or I simply quit.

I've had job offers without mentioning Pizza Hut experience, so I may indeed be okay.

... today is a good day to die

I got a few leads

Well, I still have to patch up my resume', but I have a few leads on jobs. They are per diem teaching -- tutoring. Another one is teaching full time, but that would still allow me hours to tutor after school. I'm thinking I'd like those hours better than those I have no -- and far less BS, but there is no job without some crap with which to deal.

"The sad thing is, I like my boss."+ Da boss-mon dere iz a good un. He treat uz reel nize. We be good workas, ya. Alwayz workin' for de boss-mon. I don't think ending a day with, "tally me banana" would fly well ... especially as I would have to explain it.

+ Fight Club, both the book and the movie. Sadly, in the book, the boss is blown up with a fuel-filled monitor that is sparked and explodes. I have no interest in doing that, nor striking myself repeatedly to get paid to not be there.

G thing

Shot into the sun ... cold beer, 80s music ... but then again it was German beir, so .. G (as in Guten) thing.

MR and I went one day early, light crowd, met a guy we've not seen in 18 years. He wasn't as gay as he was back then. MR's impression -- "he's redneck", complete with mullet.

More critique about Newsweek

Gee, I wonder if they have some political side, "After Bush: How to Restore America's Place in the World". Also, world population water usage and access to safe water.

Other countries use less water than we do ... really? Do you think the desert regional Africa (generally equatorial non-metro) has water? What schmutts! Other countries don't use flush toilets. Do you suppose, just maybe, that the water usage would go down?

more interesting than your average

There's a woman at work -- fairly professional despite her position, and I found her looking desperately through the phonebook for a number. "I can't find Slick Kitty. It's a lingerie shop. My friend is a stripper and she needs a black lace lingerie for the audition."

Whoa! Here, the quiet one is worth watching, right? Hey, [her name here], I also understand you have a couple of lesbian friends, right? Sweet, why don't you and all of your wonderfully interesting friends pop by, smoke, drink, and fool around?

We don't need any consulting dolls

We have people who can walk, talk, and take an order. We don't need any consultant help.

Uh, yes you do. Now, while I'm there, why don't you start moving from using that computer as a paperweight to something like a tool -- which it is. You mean, "square stone"? Yes, neanderthal troglodyte, the rectangular plastic lump with things attached to it like, "stingy squid thing".

You mean you can write whole words on paper, not just single letters? Og never taught that! Og will go home and sleep in cave, dream about it. Might be bad omen -- bad voodoo.

Look, all I'm trying to do is make things better, not restructure the world here ... if you have a knife, use it rather than a hunk of rock or a spoon.

scene from Glory

An Irish drill sergeant is really tough and drills the Black troops, as really he would any group training to fight. In one scene he is seen harshly showning a new recruit front and back and right (steps hard on his foot) and left.

"How many of you do not know your left ... from your right?"
Ninety percent of the recruits raise their hands. The sergeant takes Christ's name in vain.

How many ladies and girls are pregnant or single moms? Ninety percent of hands go up.

So ... uh ... I have nothing to say that is helpful.
There's a girl at work who's pregnant and has cohabitated with boyfriend for three years. Now, last night she was whining that he was being a [tip of a needle], thinking about kicking her out of the house. I told her that I could be Dr. Ruth and Dr. Phil only when I had time. In the three minutes I spent not hauling butt to do daily paper chasing, I put myself fifteen minutes behind.

I'm hating work more and more. Yes, I'm looking for another job.
I found out that I didn't get my raise. I'm to speak with the GM on Thursday, suredly to have a sit down about ... well, you see blah, blah, blah, not ready ... blah, blah, blah, show this ...

So, I took a test, got more responsibility, but no extra pay. Okay, that is pretty typical, gotta show that you are worth it. Why then did I take the test? I guess so that I could "legitimately" close the store at night, saving an assistant manager from doing it.

Of all the crap that I have to do ... the needless and I mean needless paper-chasing is the most obnoxious. If I could strike out that -- that would save 60-90 minutes easily. Closing would be almost breezy.

The other thing, working with others, is dealing with generalized laziness and stupidty. Gosh, does it matter that this paper that looks much like another be separated from the pack? I mean, I've been working here for years, surely I can go ahead put this new guy behind by being stupid -- continually. It's alright if I wonder around and chat about people eating me in a jovial kind of way, while accomplishing Jack Squat, right?

Any time that I am at work, closing or not, I bust my hump -- for naught. It's the place, where when you put in 120 percent, that becomes your baseline and you are never really acknowledged for it, for ... that's what you do, right?

On leaving

View from the back ... leaving work

I can do math

I got my pay statement and found ...

they docked my pay

Okay, so I get a promotion and get a reduction in pay? I'm checking it with the GM today. They won't really want to deal with me if they docked my pay. I can be a cruel man when I am angered.

I'd make enough of a stink that it would be cheaper to pay me not to work, that is on a corporate level. The wonders of accounting -- scanning my paystubs will add veracity to my statements.

Pepsi Obama

I'm looking on the internet and all I can see are ruddy Barack ads. Hey would you like some to drink, a Barack, diet Barack, wild cherry Barack? No, I think I'll have a water or Root Beer if you have it.

I don't want to get blinded by any ads, but Obama-mama drinks? Now, drinking during election for Hillary, that's certain for you have to be drunk to vote for her. Were she to become President, you would need to be drunk to tolerate it.

Into the hodge-podge of candidates we have "now enters Fred Thompson". Senator turned actor turned President-hopeful? It's like California spill over with Gary Coleman vs Arnold. Why not throw in Tiny Tim and show the world how fudged up our politics really are? Tip-toe through the bull!@#. I guess we have have Outkast join the debate for the PhatRap party (Purple is the color), 50Cent for the Gudespellars Par-tay and Jane Fonda for the Wacked-Out Self-Interest Party.

Cut the commercials -- "I don't want to see no more"+

+ Three Dog Night, "Mama Told Me Not to Come"

Restating myself on wealth distribution

While some people are narrowly focussed into one thing -- like "put bolt on wheel" and unlike G.M. don't earn $23 per hour + to do that. I was rather writing about people who can do seventeen jobs and qualified to do with well. Those persons should earn more, because of (training, experience, skill) regardless whether they are used to their potential as they generally are not.

The bonus structure, if mishandled like communist socialism, where one person works like a horse ++ gaining nothing from another person doing little, would be wasteful. Rather, persons should be eligible for bonuses as well as the management acknowledging people with more than an attaboy or token "good work today". Management only may receive bonuses -- okay, that's fine. I also don't agree if bonuses are slanted to cut labor (at any possible expense) including salary caps for talented people who, by age, are not eligible for management training, or who are skilled in many different positions making them very versatile. Now, I agree with salary caps, but declination of raises period for those persons is bad management. After a while, I would not care if I got fired if I felt I hit a wall on salary and position ... making the same as a person who could do just one thing.

To simplify things, the bonus structure is fine, but the application of much of it is poorly applied and management relying on those bonuses should be re-trained on the utility of personnel as well as the value of persons working "for" them. This is especially true of middle management who use people and I chose the word "use" specifically. The middle managers are not only to blame if they are not responsible for offering/doing raises.

+ with benefits included to add up to around $23 per hour
++ Animal Farm, "I will work harder" and later sold to glue factory

truncated salary

While the hours are long, it appears to many at work that they have a truncated salary -- missing a zero to the left of the decimal place. Granted, I understand that a few of the people there are in year n* without a raise, earning the same rate as after 90-day probationary period.

Now, if they stayed, the job isn't bad, but I'd have to say that the company or individual store should financially acknowledge people for expanding their abilities and being a hard and versatile worker. That may not be the case at work.

Now I see from where the bonuses come -- shafting the employees.

If that is the case, which will become clear when I am more vested into the next level of training, I will have to double my efforts to get out of that place. Already, I feel a conspirator in fabrication or a willing deceiver.

* one person is year 2 and another -- around year 4

another schedule

T: off
W: 2-10
R: 5-1am
F: 5-1130pm
S: 12-8
N: 11-8
M: 5 to close

orgasm

BBC ... okay, whatever reporting, but better than Anna Nicole Smith.

Researchers had couple engage in sex while scanning their brains ... huh, and there might have been difficulties in feeling comfortable or "in the mood", go figure. What the research did show was that women who weren't fearful, according to the researchers' analysis, achieved orgasm.

Men, needed to feel that they would be stimulated.
Huh ... guys are pretty simple, as guys have mentioned so many friggin' times.

Well, I think there are many more things that go into a woman orgasming, but making her comfortable was a "duh" as well as her not feeling scared. Guys are much simpler.

When it's hot

Germanfest is this week and looking at a ten-day forcast, Thursday is going to be in the nineties with thunderstorms. How painfully rotten! Well, I guess Thursday isn't the best possible day for going then, right?

work business

Steady, rock steady ... not terrible, not slow by any means. Last night -- we all got bloody noses. One fool, and by that I shall stand, said, 'Yeah, but it was nice". What a stupid, stupid man!

wing

That's all I found of what was once a bird, young and flightless. I suppose I thought of this because I saw a young girl, half-naked in short-shorts and lots of other flesh showing -- teen. I see this girl getting a lot of attention from all the wrong people.

Gee, I don't understand why guys are trying to molest me -- showing flesh and being cute. Granted, I'm not absolving the men's clear disregard to inhibitions or aggressive tendencies. She's okay for now, but I think she's walking a dangerous line. A little bird, wings not clipped, yet cannot fly ... this girl. I hope I don't see only the remnants of her, having bad experiences, namely due to poor planning and "dressing" in this case.

In comparison and contrast to her there were two ladies from work who were "going to get drunk", but were still cute. They needed some attention ... one more than the other. Man, oh man, older than the teen -- they were needin' some luvin' perhaps. Cute, sweet, and one is trashy.

For rent?

It appears that this is the place I'll get for what price I want. Hmm... back to the old drawing board.

local birds feed others

Sadly, the four robin chicks in a nest are no longer there. Two of the four were found dead. It was unlcear whether they fell in "first flight" or were victims of a cat (or the like). Anyway, two new robins are now in the area. I hope to see more little critters soon.

In referring to critters, I saw a bandit last night -- or rather an animal dressed as one. A raccoon was lurking around the backyard and stopped to look at me when I flicked on the light. It slowly walked away, still unsure.

No, I didn't get a picture through two levels of glass at night with poor lighting.

I did txt message friends and family about the lovely orange moon last night. While I was driving, the orange moon was quite visible. In town here, it was obscured and hidden by clouds and somewhat murky humidity.

Watch how "we run the shift"

I saw how the shift was ruined. What a poor performance! Busy as anything and sending people home for the day. Sure ... saves on payroll, but low morale and poor service. That's no way to really run a shift. I was happy to see the superchiefies, for they saw people run ragged and stuff really a mess from poor staffing. I wonder if they saw what I saw.

Mock Ness

Loch Nessie on film? Hasn't this been done before? I would like to see the man's bank account to know if Scotland's government is paying him to be a fool for tourism. I mean to write, bring in tourism, even if based on a lie.

Reading, or something like it

Well, I was with Monkeyjack and family last night. The dogs reverted back to naughty behaviors and were wild. Charlie wanted to play Mario Party 8, but that game, if not set correctly, can last for 97 hours. Anyway ... had fun and Charlie was looking for Wii Sports. He found "Avatar", which he 'read' and Wii Sports. At least he's associating printed words with meaning -- steps to reading.

Charlie, sleep well -- thy school's education is calling thee . . .
tick, tock, tick, tock

This Fall he begins

Bond

Casino Royale: perhaps I missed some dialogue, but there are parts that just don't make sense in this movie ... anyway, a good deal better than "Die Another Day", but overall, not so good of a movie and not a great way to continue the Bond movies. He was a ruthless Bond, to say the least.

Man stands no chance against a jury

The prosecution could put on the stuttering lawyer from "My Cousin Vinny" and still win, for a spammer is just about as nasty as a man who throws animals from a moving car.*

* actual case where man is videotaped throwing a dog from a moving car while in traffic

trashy note

There's a tease at work:

"I wanna F _ _ K you all night" is what she wrote for me.

She also told me that she doesn't have enough sex. The sad thing is, everyone disregards it all, so if she were ever serious, no one would know. They don't believe her now.

Muscles you can see

Well, they're mussels you can see. Yeah, like you'd be able to see my muscles under the protective fat I've got.

drive happy

I got a few things done and so on the way to work, I was happy. When I got there ... phletttt!

crappy day

It was turning crappy and so, I sang a little tune of 'it's a (rhymes with "witty") day.' I was right. It was a day like that. I had something to do, but was delayed, delayed, delayed. I think they all have lost their touch with predicting business. They saved money sending people home, only to get busy and patrons get worse service. Stupid, in my perspective.

Note of thanks

I work with a guy on some days, who's leaving his town for the booming metropolis of FW to attend school here. He already has plans/apartment near the school, but no job. I asked around and found the MR knew of some jobs where he works -- manual grunt work, but work nonetheless.

While this guy isn't guaranteed anything, it's nice to know that there is opportunity here and that he might get "lucky" early on while here.

Thanks MR for helping him, for what it's worth.

Unlike my nephew here in FW who needs work, I asked about this other guy who has strong work ethics and who will do the job very well -- perhaps.

Thanks again!

I asked Monkeyjack, but ... summertime is phase out time for his hires, so no luck there ... bummer.

Freedom to fly

baby chick with others to be hatched -- robin

government protected aviary for hawks and falcons

funny note left for me one day

Accussed

Iran charges an Iranian-American with espionage. Yeah, she was selling the US secrets on Iran's technology ...

ha ha ha ha ha

Yep, after 700 years, the "religion" is still corrupted and corrupt, and her attempts to sell the secrets of subjegation, mistreatment, violence, ignorance will not go unpunished.

waving ham in his hand

a poorly cut chunk of ham was much like half a [male member's more notable external part], but it raise a great deal of humor as apparently, it was a "smart" thing to wave it as groin level. He also shook it and called to people to see his discovery. 'Playing with his ham at work' is not how you'd like to be remembered.

I've got a nickname, thankfully it has nothing to do with playing with his own ham.

tides ebb

At work, when the business will eventually pick up, the teens are leaving like migratory birds. Well, no wonder! Anyway, I was thinking about the actual "management" side of things and have some ideas on retaining quality persons for as long as possible until they go do something real with their lives. In one case, a great guy is leaving for college. I certainly wouldn't postpone that, but I would try to find a way to get him work where he's going. He's coming to my hometown. After two years with the compnay, he discovered the disparities in persons and the somewhat ambiguous promotions and salary increases and caps. For this reason, he was certainly disinclined to seek re-employment with the company at a FW branch.

He's a good man, sad to see him go. It will be great to see him accomplish his goals, even if they change from what he wants to do now.

I see things at work in terms of efficiency, and more utilization of personnel. I have also seen the too-laborsome process for inventory and cash control. While it may be the one, "best" method, it's too long and stupid to be efficient. I will submit in writing, on a time when I can/am willing to dedicate hours to inventory strategies. I still plan to seek another place, but will get at high on the ladder as I can before I go.

* written intentionally with many ambiguities

Thanks, honest

In respect and thanks to all those who have served, anywhere. Memorial, thankfully to those who've lived too.

Work shows

what I'll be having for a while --- crap. Since that is the case, I have to decide whether to take it or to start looking again. I'll do both, methinks.

What's red?

Blood on food .... bad idea. I cut my finger, deeply and noticed seconds after that, despite my best pressure on the wound, bloop

pitch that one.

I patched it up and then donned a glove and found a new cut activated when I did other cleaning.

Today's word was, "ouch"!

caught out on a walk with a friend

Sunset at the lake

*-cellphone

Schedule

Crappy day today ... I hope it isn't followed by another crappy day.

N: 11:00 - 8:00
M: 5:00pm - Close
T: off
W: 11:00 - 8:00
R: 11:00 - 4:00
F: 4:00 - 10:00
S: 12:00 - 8:00
N: 11:00 - 8:00
M: 5:00pm - Close

Event

Germanfest, I have off only one day a week. I'll be there on that one day.

Angry again

Well ... I'm trying to find housing closer to work -- with no success. I found one place, but at $625 for 2 bedrooms and no carport --- that's too much money. The internet is not especially helpful this time.

quick note

still don't have connection, but passed test and review getting new rank

Finals week

I lost highspeed, hopefully to reaquire it next week and I got a sinus infection. To top it off ... finals week, as it were for me as I am trying to move up in rank at work. I do the test and verbal discourse next Wednesday. I'll need all the luck I can get.

hotel stay

I got a room at a hotel -- midway between work and "home". I had some studying to do. It was both a good and bad choice. I caught a cold and feel unwilling to study and didn't need to spend the money, but ... I can leave later from here to get to work on time. I'll decide how good or bad of a decision it was later.

high-speed connection

my "sampled" one is lost to me now. In 2 weeks, I'll have another one, but until ... my visits and posts will be scattered. I tried to patch together (grimance) dial-up, but nope ... that was not working either. So ... It was dead.

I'll try to get a chance Saturday to zone and do some more work, until then ...



linenoise

for a friend

okay ... if you are intersted (prices listed are value (o.b.0)

Blazer, green 1996; 180,000 miles, no radio, minor electrical issue (hazard light makeshift fix); $4,000 (greatly negotiable)

Chevy S-10 pickup; tan 2000; coated truckbed; Air conditioning; factory CD player; 82,000 miles; $9,500 (negotiable)

House for sale, rent possible; Bourbon, IN
2-story, 3 bedroom, 1 bath, unfinished basement
small, quiet community

109 E. North St., Bourbon, IN


If intersted, email me or post a question and I'll send you a contact name and number.

Thanks!

Metropolis woman

Hey! I was wondering if you all have any specials?

Yeah, we have a special running on pulling metal out of your face.

Yuck! So, you put enough metal in your face to deflect bullets and you do so to attract attention and expose your wonderful beauty?
That's so gross. The stereotypical mid-desert African tribespeople don't look as freakish, despite those peoples' preference for bizarre wonders like elongated necks, expanded lips and lobes, charcoal and feces impregnated tattooing aren't quite as side-showish as some of these piercing nutjobs I see.

If found dead, they could be recognized without the flesh due to the one pound of odd assortments of facial metal. There's a trend that I'd like to see vanish.

Rain, rain down on me now

Phil Collins is to blame ... well, maybe not.

The rivers are high and are going to get higher. The lowland areas are going swimming next week. I again refer to my entries regarding the poorly-named, hundred-year flood.

It holds as much water as a functional gutter.

ill-planned, ill-advised

So, when you spent $5000 on this ad campaign for new Finnish Sauna, did you really say, outloud to yourself, "ethnic cleansing"?

"Come join us now for this great ethnic cleansing" has yielded bomb and death threats, vandalism and destruction of the store. What can I say, "you're fired". Great thinking there, bucko!

But, I ...

look up, mouth closed

Was that why I was later wearing a "white" shirt?

Wayne guy ... I think he was some sort of commander

Yes, he was a general "Mad Anthony", but I don't think he was quite this tall, but was as reserved and stoic.

When you absolutely, positively have to die overnight

This is not the most effective way to communicate a message by the way.

She must have run out of post-it notes

I left a note for you on your van. Oh, really? Yeah ... I don't think you'll have a problem finding it.

cute and pretty

I just missed an snapping turtle. I stepped two steps too many and it dove into the water out of sight.

other spots in FW

Freiman Square
under the tracks (squatters live here)
eat at "famous" Coney Island
visit the Firefighter's Museum
wander through the Grand Wayne Center
enjoy the new public library
see, what is called art
get a window washing job (note brass statue visible)
eat at a fancy, however overpirced, diner

MR's favorite local restaurant

While a gas house sounds neat, the Takaoka of Japan is where MR likes to eat. They serve grilled food at the table -- display, art, food, fun. I think it holds memories for many people who've been there, some more than others.

Ain't no half-steppin'

Big Shoes
Originally uploaded by MDH, II.

Mighty big shoes to fill are these.

Last year, Mastodons and this year ... shoes, large artistic, but not nearly as many.

Still, it's nice to see art downtown that isn't wrinkled metal.

Man in Black, revisited

Hours later ... still, no fingerprints, but my skin has finally softened and isn't leather as it was yesterday. Tip, while watching Fight Club, be sure to ("Drink your Ovaltene") watch what happens when a basic chemical (not acidic) meets flesh. While not lye, it was basic and removed layers of skin.

Fun, avoidable.

Mormon Bates

PBS did a show on Mormons, so here's my take on the "religion".

Worshiping the constant and intangible, yet mostly viewable makes sense. There are phenomena that go beyond explanation for you lack enough knowledge on why it happens, so ... you develop the best understanding of what you see, hear or in any other ways experience. So, I understand completely why early history peoples were polytheists and worships the sun and many other non-entities.

In the 19th century, there were enough developments to know that there was no 'spontaneous generation' and that infection caused illness as well as curiously unseen pathogens caused illness and death. In this same time, there were no Western culture religions practicing polytheism or polygamy. So, I guess the gross thousand or 144,000 refers not only to the polytheists (gods themselves) but also their multitudes of kin and "wives".

So, while the US is battling gay rights and gay restrictions and legal haggling of the definition of marriage -- man and woman, you have a Mormon who's trying to enter the race. Boy! If you thought Clinton or Bush were messy, wait to you see this guy. He could make inroads to Islam being that his concept of multiple wives (or so-called) would ring true with Eastern cultures and the pimps of the world pushing the women to do the work while "the man"+ "sits at home with his *@$& so hard, looking for a freak to call"++.

I'm sure the pedophiles and molesters of the US, rampant in some areas, as well as the Appalacians would rejoice with laws written by the Mormon prez legalizing marriage to children and their children and abolishing tabboo restrictions like, say ... incest.

Mit, I'm sure has some skeletons in his closet, if not the taxidermed body of some person, whose persona who now takes on or imitates. Mit ... she's a filthy whore. You know what to do with her.

So he marries her and her daughters. Doesn't this sound David Koresh-ish? He could have the branch romnedians.

+ genetically attributed only, for real men do things and take responsiblity, and work to achieve
++ 2 Live Crew, "Me So Horney"

pity sakes

Little Bo Peep, as I shall call her, called me again ending my hope that the ripple wouldn't come back. She wanted to talk and was full of stress ...better to dump it on someone than address it, right?

After talking, I found that she has few people to assist her, even emtions (lack of support from friends and family), hence why I'm the shoulder. She does and doesn't want more and therein is neurosis and the Florida swamp of befuddlement and confusion.

I volunteered to help Little Bo Peep to sell a few things she needed to sell. So, if you know anyone who's interested... she's got two vehicles to sell. (will be posted later)

All in all, she's out of luck, spinning her wheels, and looking for Superman to save her.

I'm not even Clark Kent, let alone Superman -- so I'm saving no one here, m'am. There's so much there like my "ex" that it's just plain friggin' scary. Need, need, need, want, want, want.

She's lost her sheep, but I'm not going around to help her find them. Somehow, I'm not feeling too bad not helping.

hot 'n' not

There are some cuties at work, but ...
I'm half a generation away ... 10 or so years

Oh, well ... ocean front property or at least near a lovely park, where you can look and see flowers, though they aren't really yours and never will be.

Hope lies in wait

A guy at work is in training but is disappointed. "Patience. Perhaps for Jedi master, it is dinner too." I cannot teach him, he has no patience.

He, another guy at work, and myself were doing slimy work today and he confessed to me that he detested work's lack of training him. The "other guy" noted that he got about 30 mintues total training since he's been there.

So ... why am I special?

I have received training, but, ya know ... manuals are nice. I'm making one more for me, but it would serve others.

Man in Black

I wear black at work and came home, after some cleaning with toxic chemicals without fingerprints. I'll favor being Agent P (Pain-in-the-ass).

I no longer exist as who I was, right?

Disappointed

"You got to change your evil ways ... baby."

I believe that one fellow m persuant will falter and be out, for ... that person is, well, moody (bad attribute according to the DM) and not well appreciated by many. I hope that person stays the course, but there is always the chance it will not pan out.

As for me, I hope to find something else and bow out. It's not bad, but there are enough things with it that I don't like that I can see them chaning or getting better -- even if I had my own store. The people making some decisions aren't in a position to know. Well, we've always done it that way, seems to be a periodic mantra.

rethinking

Well, it's almost been 3 months now and I'm waxing nostalgicly on the days of hours of job-posting reading. The trials of working there and just dealing with it are taking a bit of a toll.

I will begin again with more dedicated working, with the exception of being bugged with projects not of my own making that will interfere. Anyway ... I've put a dent in debt and now have to find something else ... not favoring to drop this old hat without a new one.

Seventh job of a seventh job ...

"of all ..."

"Of all the new people, you're one of two I like", said the guy with the best outlook and jovial personality there. If there's a happy guy singing or playing or having fun -- he's that guy. I guess it's nice to be someone other than the cynical tyrannical monster.