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The drama queen

Originally uploaded by rmiles.

Oh so very true

…for the day if not the entire week. This whole week has just been completely FUBAR and I feel like ranting and cursing so for those with delicate ears, don’t bother reading the extended entry.

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1. Make sure that you let the person that you are using KNOW that you are using them as a reference.

2. Tell them whether they are a personal reference or professional reference.

3. Don’t give people’s phone numbers out without performing step #1.

4. If you don”t follow steps 1-3 expect to not get a good reference or none at all.

5. Don’t call and be rude to the person that didn’t give you the reference when you don’t get the job because you don’t have the common fucking courtesy to follow steps 1-3.

This is a fictional example. In no way is it meant to resemble the stupid horses ass that might have worked for me fifteen years ago (It’s been so long I can’t remember) and woke me up fifteen minutes into my nap wanting to know if I would call them back and give them a good reference. Yeah, I see that shit happening.

I had originally planned on coming home and working on some posts as well as a couple of other things that I have going on, but today just plain kicked my ass. The wife is picking up all of the kids today so I think I am going to snooze for awhile. Maybe I can post later when I am a bit more coherent.

Even with going to bed early I still feel like stomped on dog poop and that’s a pretty bad feeling. I can’t be too mad at the guy. He is going to have to drive (or at least ride) immediately to Florida when I relieve him in an hour or so and I really appreciate the fact that he came in to work at all. I guess I might have had to call in myself, so that was pretty darn dependable of him.

I just hate having my schedule get screwy all of a sudden, particularly when my other cook has decided it is in his best interest to quit.

I can already tell it’s going to be a long day. I am pretty much just writing aimlessly now so it’s time to shower and get ready to go.

…but I managed to get out of bed nevertheless. Now if I can just wake up a bit I will be alright. Coffee. check. smokes. check.

I awoke to several text messages this morning, for a minute I thought that maybe work had called and I missed it. Three of them were from youtube sending confirmation for videos I had uploaded from my phone. Crap, that was three weeks ago. They must have a serious backlog of video processing or something. When I check out my account though, nothing shows up. That’s pretty damned irritating.

The last one was from my cook that has the pending sexual harassment claims against him. He has decided to resign. Although that is a major pain in the ass right before race weekend it is for the best. They will still do the investigation though because if it is decided that he was doing that stuff, they will put him on a company-wide discretionary hire list. That doesn’t mean that someone couldn’t hire him, but his paycheck would tap the division manager directly if someone put him to work. It’s a quick retardant to keep people from working that shouldn’t be.

I’m feeling pretty blah tonight. Very tired. I ended up staying late last night when I went in for the shift change so didn’t go to bed until after midnight.

It still looks like I will be picking up the three stores at some point soon but I have no idea when. I am just sort of playing it by ear right now and doing my job.

Tomorrow is going to be a pretty long day. I am slightly shorthanded due to one of my cooks being accused of sexual harassment. I’ve pulled him off of his shift and the only time he is going to be able to work for awhile is if I am there at least until the investigation. Even after that he may need to go somewhere else, I just don’t think I have anyone on the night shift that will work with him should the company decide to keep him. That’s a decision I pretty much have no control over right now.

My other night shift cook had his Aunt pass away today. He was calling to let me know, and that he would still be at work tonight but has to leave for Florida at five AM. I told him I appreciated it and am getting ready to go to bed. It takes me awhile to wake up so if I have to be there by 4:30 I need to get up by 3 or so. I’m pretty tired and boring tonight anyway so sleeping shouldn’t be a problem.

Sorry about the lack of anything cool over the last two days. Maybe I will talk about the time I duct taped my children into a trash barrel and rolled them into traffic some other evening.

But if you don’t want to listen to people making fun of your Christianity don’t click play. I just thought that they were so appropriate. I guess if I were a true Christian I wouldn’t find them so funny, but they are SO true. There are several parts, I am going to torture you and embed them all.

This is part two (duh)

part three

part four

I particularly like the tongues of fire in the last one.