August 20, 2007

…take a dump that felt so good it was like a mystical experience and tears streamed down your face?

Me either. Just wondering.

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I hate my employees at times. I am at my busier store today and tomorrow and usually the people there are pretty good about showing up for work and on time. Quite a few of the ‘veterans’ there I have trained over the years or they know how I am about people that are late or don’t show up, so they have kind of spread the word.

It’s not that I don’t doubt that the guy is sick, but as far as I am concerned, you don’t call in two hours prior to your shift unless you are on the way to the fricking hospital. 90% of the time that I wake up feeling like crap byt the time I am at work or at the very least halfway through my day I don’t feel as bad as I did. I guess that’s just the hourly mentality in this guy. “Oh, I can’t come in, I have a cold sore wah wah wah”.

I’ve been in a pretty foul mood all weekend and it has sort of carried over to today if you couldn’t tell.

I was already pissed off because I had to sit in a meeting until five this evening because the food cost is out of line at two of my stores. I am having a hard time tracking it because my managers aren’t doing their job, so I get to sit in this damn thing every Monday for awhile.

I received a Twitter about this earlier in the afternoon and then watched it on CNN on my cell phone but I realized that I didn’t have my iPaq or anything to post on. Not that everybody probably doesn’t already know anyway. Here is some video on the news from Reuters

I’ve spent most of the morning working on site templates. No changes here, just tweaking of a few sites and adding in Google sitemaps. I recently started a blog strictly for HTPC enthusiasts and had to add the sitemaps to Google. No real content there, I’ll link to it later on.

Hopefully today won’t be too terribly long. Unfortunately since a couple of my managers aren’t doing everything that they should be I am going to be stuck in a meeting this afternoon for at least an hour after the day shift. I am going to try and wheedle my way out of it though. It’s mainly for the folks that aren’t doing everything that they need to. Neither of these guys are too happy about having to go but there is a solution for that too.

As we are winding down the summer it’s starting to slow down a bit and that will give me a couple of months to work on getting these people trained and getting staffed for the holiday season. Not only that but there are a couple of things going on the next two months that I am looking forward to such as going to the boy’s graduation ceremony next month as well as the blogmeet in Helen in October.

By now I am at work, I have to leave the house at 6:15 or so, but wanted to get a couple of posts up and scheduled before I left the house. Cross your fingers that I will get home at a decent time.