October 1, 2006

Another Day in Paradise

Damn, for such a slow store I am tired as hell. I only worked about 10 hours today, so it could have been worse. Some asshat hit a power pole this morning and I got to operate without power for about an hour and a half. That’s always fun. There are only a few things that can’t be served, so we operate business as usual. I had to prop the doors open, since the exhaust fan doesn’t work without power and it stinks, and very quickly gets extremely hot. I don’t know what it is. I could be the only fucking building without power, and people start streaming in like cockroaches.

It took forever to get the mess cleaned up. The manager who will be taking over the store after I am gone finally finished her training classes and is back there with me now, which should make it a bit easier, if only she could cook. I have two weeks to teach her the shit that they skipped during training and improve her cooking skills to the point where she can handle it by herself.

I started this morning by telling her all of the stuff that is sure to piss off my boss, like they can’t mess with her days off and to not take any shit about it, and to turn her cell phone off on her days off, and don’t let our boss come in and manipulate numbers to make herself look better. Off to a good start already.


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Eerily quiet…

…is what it has been around here for the last few days. I have been working a bit more this week and really have not had much to say here. What with getting ready to open the new store I have had quite a bit more on my plate than normal, thus I am not able to shoot out of work in quite the hurry that I was for awhile.

They poured the parking lot on Thursday, so I will start spending some afternoons up there for awhile, taking applications and interviewing. The good thing is that we have several people hired already and in training. The last time I opened a store was in ’98 and they gave me twelve days to get everyone hired and trained; needless to say it was a goatfuck.

I haven’t even had time to do any surfing at my normal haunts. I have a few minutes before I go to work today so will try to visit a couple of people after I check the news and weather. If I don’t end up working another 14 hour day I will probably be back online this evening.


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