April 2007

…and it damn sure isn’t because of summer. I did get confirmation of my promotion from my AVP today and found out who my replacement is going to be. One of the district managers from Alabama who has been there twice and stepped back twice will be taking my store. This is the guy that was trying to get transferred back to Georgia to that district. They told him that he could either honor his commitment and stay in his current position, or take a demotion. He does have the potential to be a great operator, and is much better with the customers than I am, but he doesn’t have the stability and commitment to stay in the job long term. I think that they are looking to fire him anyway, but that’s just my own opinion anyway.

I spent a couple of hours with one of my new managers this afternoon and all I can really say is that I have my work cut out for me. It looks like at least a month or two of twelve hour days are ahead of me and it is probably going to take me six months to get all three stores right. What a PITA. Then I find out that we probably have an outing coming up in May or June, which means spending the weekend at some bullshit retreat with all of the upper management. Woopee. That should be interesting.

I haven’t had a chance to go to a baseball game in a few years now and it would be really nice if the wife and I could have a night out to go see the Braves play before the season is over. I usually try to get tickets through a guy that works in our corporate office but have also found that I can usually get a good deal on baseball tickets online as well. It’s faster and definitely much more convenient, and even if they are a couple dollars more expensive, the time savings makes it that much more worth it.

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Tuesday is my last day in my current store. Six months there. I am taking Wednesday off and picking up three stores in my general area on Thursday. It should be interesting. Out of the three managers that I will be getting, one has already given his notice and Tuesday is his last day, one of the other two is very shaky and in need of a lot of direction and tutelage and the other knows what he is going and will be the only thing keeping me from pulling out all of my hair.

The meeting didn’t last quite as long as I thought it would so I did manage to get home for awhile. The wife is napping and I have to be back at work around sevenish so I thought I would relax for awhile and post a couple of things.

My current boss is f’ing pissed off. Not necessarily at me, but they may be leaving her without a manager as well, so she is fit to be tied. It should be a fun four days with her before I check out of the store.