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.