October 2006

I posted earlier that I had changed my days off to stay at home with my daughter earlier this week. They are going to be pretty screwed up over the next few weeks, culminating in having to work my ass off until after Christmas probably. Since I was off Tuesday and Wednesday this week, I should be off Wednesday and Thursday next. No such luck. My boss is on vacation, so I am doing her job AND mine. Wednesday I have to be at work, if not actually productive on the grill. I have to close out all of my paperwork for the week, then our construction department is doing the turn-over for the new restaurant. I have to be there to make sure everything is OK and sign off on it. At that point we will be in and out until opening on October 26th. Thursday the 12th will be my only day off. I won’t have another day off until the 21st and 22nd. We are having my 8 year old’s birthday party, and my little brother and his brood are driving to Georgia to spend that weekend with us. Should be pretty cool. Then I go to work on Monday and take Tuesday off two days before I open.

It won’t really feel like I am working because I check out of my current store on the 17th and from that point forward I mainly have to set everything up in the new store and get the rest of the folks hired and trained. I may end up working eight or ten hour days, but it doesn’t feel like work unless I have spent the day on the grill busting my ass.

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I read this little blurb somewhere on the ‘net, don’t remember where, probably some news site.

Chicago, IL) — An immigrant rights group is calling for a boycott of two national companies. Martino Unzuerta of the Chicago Workers Collaborative says Dunkin’ Donuts and Applebee’s are discriminating against illegal immigrants whose names don’t match their social security numbers. The two companies are accused of firing illegals who use such phony numbers to obtain work. Federal law requires employers to match their employees with social security numbers.

OK, here’s the deal you fucking clueless morons. It is illegal as a business owner for me to put someone to work that has a phony, or no SS#. It is also illegal for me to keep working them after the government sends us the letter informing us that they do not have a social security number. The key works in the paragraph above are “ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS”. They are fucking illegal, I cannot work them for fear of being closed down. If you want to boycott something you bunch of fucking morons, boycott paying your fucking taxes to the IRS until the federal government changes the immigration laws. They have been “accused” of firing “illegals”. Since when is it an accusation that you are following the law?

Now here’s an idea. We all join the boycott against Dunkin’ Donuts, until they go out of business and put more LEGAL AMERICAN CITIZENS out of work, then we do the same to some other AMERICAN company, until we have a whole bunch of unemployed people, and we descend on , oh… say CANCUN and protest over beers. Fuck them.

Damn, I could use a couple of jellies right now. Hold the alcohol and ludes.

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Damnitall Redneck, you never showed up for your interview today.

I am of course in the process of hiring folks for the new restaurant. In what little remains of my free time, I have been doing interviews and 2nd interviews. The good thing is that I like my new boss, having worked for her, and vice versa back in the ’90s. We decided awhile back that EVERYONE had to go through both of us for approval, particularly if they have worked for us before. I don’t want a bunch of retarded retreads working for me that I will just end up replacing anyway. In some cases we are sending them on a third interview with my Human Resources Manager as well. Luckily she is pretty nice, and gets paid the same as I do, so we are not at odds.

I interviewed this one chick the day before yesterday. She was pretty hot, but she had some of those oriental characters tattooed about three inches above her chest. I am sure that they were designed to keep me from looking there, but it really didn’t work all that well. That and the metal ball sticking out of her face a half inch above her lip just set off red flags. Normally I would cut the interview short and just blow them off, but she actually ended up turning out to have a half a brain. I explained how things work with interviews and that although I don’t have a problem with ink and piercings, most business people DO, then I scheduled her a 2nd interview with my boss. She showed up without the piercing and had her chest covered. Hired her dammit. While I like looking at a nice chest as much as the next guy, that’s not what I am selling, so they have to be somewhat modest.

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I have purposefully kept myself out of the news loop over the last week or so. No blogging, no reading CNN or FOX, just farting around pretty much.

I noticed earlier about the fuss with former congressman Mark Foley, and just a few minutes ago saw a story where he admits that HE was molested by a priest. AH, so that explains why you are a fucking pedophile. Jeez, I suppose we are all supposed to nod and say how said it is and just let bygones be bygones now. Hell, he’s been molested by a priest! Let’s re-elect his ass.

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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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