May 2007

Hawaiian Vacations…

I’ve been writing a lot about vacations lately and posting pictures of some neat places as well as the exotic. I have some vacation time coming up in July and am very much looking forward to it. It probably won’t be this year, but with my son leaving for boot camp and my daughter starting…Read more

A Rose By Any Other Name…

A Rose By Any Other Name… Originally uploaded by rmiles

Screw that Double Noise…

I had scheduled myself to work a double tomorrow in order to save on payroll at my slowest store. I had a manager trainee work yesterday (he gets prorated between nine stores) and I am making the store manager work on on Saturday. Today is my tenth day straight with two more to go. It…Read more

Introductions…

One of the things that I am required to do as part of my new job is to make a stop at one of the nearby businesses before I show up at every one of my stores, every time I go there. It’s called stop & recruit and is something we have done for a…Read more

Up Early…

…or at least I tried. I managed to get up about half an hour ago, which is fifteen minutes later than normal. I have to be in one of the stores in about forty-five minutes. Normally we have one of the waitresses in at six am every day, but the one store I have been…Read more

Needing a New Car…

I am crossing my fingers and hoping the Oldsmobile makes it through the rest of the summer with all of the driving that I am doing. It is 13 years old and has over 200k miles on it, needs a serious tune-up, and the Auto air conditioning doesn’t work. That is the only part I…Read more

It’s Shaping Up To Be One Hell Of A Summer…

My AVP just picked up nine more stores in the Atlanta area and one of the managers was promoted to the same level that I am. He deserves it and it’s a good thing, but the store he was running is my old one, the busiest in the division, so they are giving me a…Read more

It’s going to be a long one…

One of the stores had me up shortly after 1AM. One of the waitresses was apparently sick and wanted to go to the emergency room. I did manage to get it covered, but it was about 3 before I could get back to sleep. I am seriously dragging here folks…

Four More Days…

I have had to give my manage that is having a hard time some very specific instructions, and now at the end of the day he is required to bring me several pieces of paperwork that he has not been doing. Rather than going to his store to verify it, he has to bring it…Read more

More Work…

I am getting ready to rebuild my entertainment computer (HTPC) pretty soon and I may need to get some el cheapo EMI shielding. One thing that I have noticed with all of the RF stuff that I have going on in the house is that I am starting to get a bit of interference, believe…Read more