Once I get my expense reimbursement this week I need to go by the office supply place. I have three stores and the last District Manager was so damn cheap there are no tape dispensers on the office desks, cheap staplers, two of the stores are using $1 calculators rather than decent desktops, and no coin sorter or change rollers whatsoever. The change rollers and calculators have to be the worse though. There’s nothing more exciting than having to count out $32.67 in loose change.
May 2007
I need to remind myself…
…to stay out of my old restaurant for awhile.
I hired a new girls for one of my stores, but rather than training her there I sent her to MY old store in Temple. I am trying to replace some of the shit that I have working and my the girls that are doing the training in my old store will insure that she gets trained properly.
I stopped in for a visit this morning after I had blood drawn and I thought that two of them were going to kick my ass before I left. Either that or tie me down before I could get out the door…although that might not be such a bad thing.
Anyway, apparently they don’t particularly like the new manager, but I knew that would be the case when I heard who it was going to be. Sometimes being a good manager and being a person that everyone wants to work for are not mutually inclusive. This guy will run great numbers. Better numbers than I ever have in that store, but he will also lose a lot of people, and his standards for everything are a lot different than mine.
They can’t all be as good as me I suppose 🙂
Monday Manboobs
You can’t forget about the #1 Monday Manboobs star…
Much Too Early Weekend Open Track-Back
This is my Open Track-Back Post for the weekend of 5/12-5/13
I darn sure didn’t want to get up at 4:30 this moring. The Boy has to be at the recruiting station in 45 minutes so I guess I need to get myself moving and get ready for work. Just wanted to put up a quick post before I go to work. This is my last day of work for this week and I actually managed to get two days off.
Back at Home…
I didn’t have to work quite as late as I thought I might. My body has just about had it though. I am aching all over so it’s telling me I need a couple of days rest. I almost thought that my boss was going to try and tell me that I couldn’t be off Sunday when I spoke with him earlier this evening. Apparently he is taking the weekend off and we aren’t supposed to overlap. I hate it for him, but he’s had at least one day off in the time that I have worked over the last ten days, possibly more. There is no way that I am working past tomorrow. My attitude has started sucking and another day like today I will be lucky to wake up on time. I told the third shift crew where I am spending the day tomorrow that if they don’t see me by 6:30 someone had best call me and make sure I am up.
ZoFunk iPod Cases
Sponsored by Zofunk.
These iPod cases from Zofunk are pretty nice from what I can tell. They are specially for the iPod Video and are very slim, only 1mm thick. They also allow you to put your iPod on the universal dock without removing it from the case, which is an issue I have with my iPaq as well as my wife and daughter’s current iPod cases. Check out these screenshots.
They have the cases in red, blue, and pink and they are only a little over $25. Not a bad deal at all to protect your iPod and keep it free from scratches and scrapes. They allow easy access to the sync port and also come with matching earphone caps as well.
So Ready For My Days Off…
My eyes hurt and my head hurts and my legs are killing me. This is my ninth day of work after having only one day off the week before. I suppose I should just quit whining about it and deal with it, but this is a nice outlet. Tomorrow is my last day for the week and I only have one store to run thank goodness.
Tonight I have to go back in for drawer change and we (the division and district managers) are working part of third shift. My boss says he will let us go by ten, I certainly hope so as I have to get back up around 4:30 tomorrow morning. We have to have the Boy at the recruiting station for a mandatory training exercise. They are busing the boys out to Dobbins AFB where some Drill Instructors are going to have a bit of fun with them for the day.
I think I would rather be at work myself…
MOCOspace
This is Sponsored by MOCOspace Mobile Communities.
I used to hang out in Chatrooms a lot on AOL back when it was the cool thing to do, and on IRC quite a bit. I have pretty much moved away from that because I am usually so busy that when I am at home I try to stay productive on my sites. If I could take a decent app with me then I might use it more often.
In steps Moco, a mobile chatroom which you can use on your phone. You can access MocoSpace on your mobile phone’s web browser by going to www.mocospace.com Here is a screenshot.
It’s a pretty cool little app which requires no installations and can be used wherever you go. My browser is somewhat limited since Verizon lags behind the rest of the world in web access, but I did connect to it on my iPaq. I can use it here or in the yard on my wifi connection, or away from the house using bluetooth to dial up through my phone. I enjoyed using it and the response time was also pretty quick for me, which was nice because occasionally my iPaq-Phone combination can be quite laggy..
I’ll tell you one thing…
…all this work stuff sure can get in the way of blogging…
…or a social life with the wife and kids.
Two more days until I get a couple of days off.
Quibblo: Reviewing a Poll Site
This review has been sponsored by Quibblo.
Before I sat down to review Quibblo I decided to take the site for a little test drive to see what they were all about. Quibblo is a fairly new site that lets you set up polls, surveys and quizzes and publish them to your MySpace or Facebook page (or any other web page for that matter). I’ve used a couple of survey sites here before so I figured I would check it out and see how it does.
Sign up is certainly a snap. You enter your info as well as some captcha text, which I got on the second try. I hate captchas but sometimes they are necessary. I may even be re-implementing them here again pretty soon as I am getting tired of the comment spam. Anyway, after that they send you a confirmation email where you click the link. Pretty standard stuff. After that you have to enter your real name, birth date, and where you live.
Before creating a quiz I figured I would take a look around. You can find existing quizzes by searching, getting a random pick, browsing all of them, or by tag. They have a little tag cloud with the popular keywords on the main page. They also list the most popular quizzes there as well. Here’s a pic of the main page.
OK, time to create a quiz. Actually after looking through the popular quizzes I decided to snag one of the existing ones. There are options to publish these to your site as well. They have code that includes Javascript, plain old html (for non-myspace), HTML for MySpace sites, and just the link. And since it fits in quite well with my site and the posts I have been putting up over at Eric’s site while he is overseas, I decided to use “Am I going to Hell?“
The site also lets you customize the style, so if that is working it should fit right into the theme of my site. I didn’t bother looking up the exact color codes from my style sheet, so they may be off slightly. Over all I like the site so far. The quizzes are certainly much more customizable than previous ones that I have used where I hoped that the widgets would fit into my site design. Most likely I will be using Quibblo.com again.