April 20, 2007

1. Make sure that you let the person that you are using KNOW that you are using them as a reference.

2. Tell them whether they are a personal reference or professional reference.

3. Don’t give people’s phone numbers out without performing step #1.

4. If you don”t follow steps 1-3 expect to not get a good reference or none at all.

5. Don’t call and be rude to the person that didn’t give you the reference when you don’t get the job because you don’t have the common fucking courtesy to follow steps 1-3.

This is a fictional example. In no way is it meant to resemble the stupid horses ass that might have worked for me fifteen years ago (It’s been so long I can’t remember) and woke me up fifteen minutes into my nap wanting to know if I would call them back and give them a good reference. Yeah, I see that shit happening.

I had originally planned on coming home and working on some posts as well as a couple of other things that I have going on, but today just plain kicked my ass. The wife is picking up all of the kids today so I think I am going to snooze for awhile. Maybe I can post later when I am a bit more coherent.

Even with going to bed early I still feel like stomped on dog poop and that’s a pretty bad feeling. I can’t be too mad at the guy. He is going to have to drive (or at least ride) immediately to Florida when I relieve him in an hour or so and I really appreciate the fact that he came in to work at all. I guess I might have had to call in myself, so that was pretty darn dependable of him.

I just hate having my schedule get screwy all of a sudden, particularly when my other cook has decided it is in his best interest to quit.

I can already tell it’s going to be a long day. I am pretty much just writing aimlessly now so it’s time to shower and get ready to go.

…but I managed to get out of bed nevertheless. Now if I can just wake up a bit I will be alright. Coffee. check. smokes. check.

I awoke to several text messages this morning, for a minute I thought that maybe work had called and I missed it. Three of them were from youtube sending confirmation for videos I had uploaded from my phone. Crap, that was three weeks ago. They must have a serious backlog of video processing or something. When I check out my account though, nothing shows up. That’s pretty damned irritating.

The last one was from my cook that has the pending sexual harassment claims against him. He has decided to resign. Although that is a major pain in the ass right before race weekend it is for the best. They will still do the investigation though because if it is decided that he was doing that stuff, they will put him on a company-wide discretionary hire list. That doesn’t mean that someone couldn’t hire him, but his paycheck would tap the division manager directly if someone put him to work. It’s a quick retardant to keep people from working that shouldn’t be.