August 23, 2006

If it’s not one thing it’s another.

rmiles7721August 23, 2006Site News

Anyone who has read the blog for longer than two weeks knows that I bust my ass at work most of the time. It has to be longer than two weeks because I have spent so much time there the last two that I have hardly had time to blog. I ended up finishing out this fiscal operating period exceeding ALL of my targets, as well as having the highest sales in my division, which is normal. I don’t normally hit my payroll target because I believe in having plenty of well paid help. It makes it easier to sleep at night.

I exceeded them so well that the auditor is going to be in my store tommorow or Friday. Hah. Fuck them. No matter how good or thorough you are, there will be stuff that isn’t right. Overrings that haven’t been handled correctly for example. The salespeople are supposed to validate the guest check, then RE-RING it for the correct amount. Occasionally the validations don’t show up legibly. No big deal. If I can check on the register tape that it was rung up, then immediately rung up again, no big deal. I let it slide. The auditor however, will not. I can just about guarantee that I will end up having to pay a fucking shortage anywhere from $50 to $200, which just pisses all over my wheaties. My immediate boss will end up eating about half of the shortage, so that should please her as much as it does me.

Tommorow after work I have to drive to Anniston for meetings, so I will probably be home around 9pm tommorow evening.

PC Stuff

rmiles7721August 23, 20062Technology

I know I have been pretty quiet the last couple of weeks. I have to go back to work today after my two days off. I ended up working somewhere around 70 hours or so this week, and most of my off time was spent working on PCs, a few of mine, and a couple for other people.

I’ve spent the better part of the last 24 hours in a data recovery “operation” trying to pull some movies and pictures off of a defunt NTFS drive, and finally have had good results with it this morning. Couple with the fact that I am using Stephanie’s computer to post, things are going a much more smoothly than they were. It’s not that I don’t like my laptop, but it is slow and a bit of a pain in the ass. I am used to being able to have six or eight programs open, with it, I have to stick with one, maybe two, or it starts to crawl.

I actually have lot’s of stuff to write down, but no time today. Maybe I will have some time this afternoon. The next few days at work don’t look to be any easier than the last few before my days off. Right now I am just looking forward to September 8th. Another vacation. Having taken my last one so early in the fiscal year, I should be able to sneak an extra one in this year, which will be nice.

Next Tuesday though, is the Queensryche concert, that will be cool. We are taking Christopher to his first concert. I am sure that he would like it to be someone much more cool from this decade, but I am pretty sure that he will have a good time. I have managed to “infect” him with a liking for classic rock and metal, which is definately a good thing considering some of the music coming out now.