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It was a pretty tough day at work today. It shouldn’t have been difficult but I have worked so many days over the last month that I am just mentally and physically exhausted. I had two cooks with me and this time of year it’s very slow anyway but by the time I finished and got out of the door (five minutes after the first shift was over) I felt like I had worked twenty hours. Just dealing with people and not snapping on them has been a major feat. Some woman called me trying to sell small business phone systems and I ended up referring her to the corporate office. Not that we will use them in the stores but maybe it’s something that can use at the office.

I can always tell when I’ve worked too much because my attitude sucks. Looking cheerful and like I want to be at work so that it rubs off on the employees is quite a challenge when I don’t feel that way.

Being as how it will be late tonight before I get home I thought that this would be a good opportunity to share a bit of space. If you have posted something that you would like to share with the rest of us and get your site noticed, feel free to send a ping this way and the link will show up in the bottom of this post. If it doesn’t appear within twenty minutes then it may have gotten caught in my spam filter and I will have to fix it tonight.

For some reason I have been a day ahead all week. I guess because of the holiday. I didn’t realize until a minute ago that I had posted my Thursday Thirteen on Wednesday evening. Heck, when I put it up I thought I was late 🙂

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I can think of several different things I would like to be doing today other than going to this meeting tonight. This is my long day and it’s not likely that I will get to come home until around ten tonight. Personally I think I would rather have my nails ripped out than have to sit through this thing. My numbers are particularly ugly coming out of the holiday and I have about six days to get them right. The only saving grace is that most of the rest of the folks that will be there have just as ugly numbers as I do.

The meeting is in Oxford, Alabama this week. Why? Because that store has the best profits right now out of the 37 stores in the area. It should. I trained the manager. Now if I could just get the three that work under me to start doing their job the meetings will be on our side of town. In all fairness, one of my managers does actually listen and do what I ask, she just needs to tweak her payroll a bit. I am going to start working with her on the weekends whenever I get the chance to help bring down her numbers.

I have the feeling that we are going to see some changes in the area pretty soon. Not necessarily in my end but you never know. I believe that they are going to be realigning the districts and I may end up with a different store or two. That would be fine if they were to take the one store that I have so many problems with. I would make just as much money with a two-store district without that one as I do now. Maybe more since I have lost so much money out of that store over the last couple of months. Have to be careful what I wish for though, as with two stores I don’t get a car allowance and that’s a large chunk of my check as well.

Up until the last few weeks things have been looking up as far as my profits and I may still be able to pull things out over the next few days. I am still planning on putting in for promotion in the middle of February. We will see how it goes between now and then. Who know, this time next year I could be living near the Outer Banks with ten stores. Stranger things have happened. I think I will end up on a development plan though once I actually turn it in. That normally last for six months to a year, although a good friend of mine has been on one for about three years now and it doesn’t look likely that she will ever get a division, although I think she would do a good job.

I am a horrible husband. I am so busy at work and then working at home that sometimes it’s several days before I peruse Holder’s blog. I see tonight that a few days ago she posted some wonderful pictures of the moon in response to a couple of other eloquent ladies who have written a bit of witty prose in honor of the lunacy that hangs over us all.

Not to be left out I figured I should post my favorite moon photo as well…clicketh if you will…

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I’ve been thinking today about the vacation. Now that I have bought the plane tickets I am seriously looking forward to the trip to Nassau. It was a fairly stressful day so vacation even looks that much better. One of the bonuses that the store managers get is basically ‘gimme’ money. They have to get each days sales into the bank by 2PM two days later. Very simple and easy. They get a $200 a month bonus just for making it to the bank on time. Occasionally it can be difficult because on Wednesdays they get produce in and on holidays they have to buy a bunch of change because the banks are closed. Since there are occasional glitches like that the company gives them four mulligans. The have to make 24 out of 28 deposits on time in order to get the bonus. AND they get an extra day. Saturdays sales don’t have to be in the bank until TUESDAY because Sunday is pay day. In 21 years I have never missed a banking bonus as a store manager or a district. See, I get a banking bonus as well. All of my managers have to get theirs. If one misses, I lose my bonus, which is $250.

Out of the last 21 days the guy that transferred in from another store has had 11 late bank deposits. In three short weeks he’s lost me my employee retention bonus for the next two months and my banking bonus for this month. That’s about $1200 all total that I won’t be seeing over the next month or so. I am not particularly happy with him right now as a result.

He’s a pretty nice guy but he has a hard time staying focused so I am going to have to stay on him over the next few weeks to get him in the habit of doing the things he needs to do. I think I can get him trained but he may not like it in the meantime.

Thanks to Becky over at Tall Cool Drink of Water I get the info I already knew…

You Are 100% Burned Out

You are extremely burned out. You work too hard, and you’re not getting the results you deserve. It’s time for a life change, as soon as you can manage it. You’re giving away most of your energy to something you don’t even enjoy.

Are You Burned Out?

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