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Damnitall Redneck, you never showed up for your interview today.

I am of course in the process of hiring folks for the new restaurant. In what little remains of my free time, I have been doing interviews and 2nd interviews. The good thing is that I like my new boss, having worked for her, and vice versa back in the ’90s. We decided awhile back that EVERYONE had to go through both of us for approval, particularly if they have worked for us before. I don’t want a bunch of retarded retreads working for me that I will just end up replacing anyway. In some cases we are sending them on a third interview with my Human Resources Manager as well. Luckily she is pretty nice, and gets paid the same as I do, so we are not at odds.

I interviewed this one chick the day before yesterday. She was pretty hot, but she had some of those oriental characters tattooed about three inches above her chest. I am sure that they were designed to keep me from looking there, but it really didn’t work all that well. That and the metal ball sticking out of her face a half inch above her lip just set off red flags. Normally I would cut the interview short and just blow them off, but she actually ended up turning out to have a half a brain. I explained how things work with interviews and that although I don’t have a problem with ink and piercings, most business people DO, then I scheduled her a 2nd interview with my boss. She showed up without the piercing and had her chest covered. Hired her dammit. While I like looking at a nice chest as much as the next guy, that’s not what I am selling, so they have to be somewhat modest.

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I have purposefully kept myself out of the news loop over the last week or so. No blogging, no reading CNN or FOX, just farting around pretty much.

I noticed earlier about the fuss with former congressman Mark Foley, and just a few minutes ago saw a story where he admits that HE was molested by a priest. AH, so that explains why you are a fucking pedophile. Jeez, I suppose we are all supposed to nod and say how said it is and just let bygones be bygones now. Hell, he’s been molested by a priest! Let’s re-elect his ass.

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Damn, for such a slow store I am tired as hell. I only worked about 10 hours today, so it could have been worse. Some asshat hit a power pole this morning and I got to operate without power for about an hour and a half. That’s always fun. There are only a few things that can’t be served, so we operate business as usual. I had to prop the doors open, since the exhaust fan doesn’t work without power and it stinks, and very quickly gets extremely hot. I don’t know what it is. I could be the only fucking building without power, and people start streaming in like cockroaches.

It took forever to get the mess cleaned up. The manager who will be taking over the store after I am gone finally finished her training classes and is back there with me now, which should make it a bit easier, if only she could cook. I have two weeks to teach her the shit that they skipped during training and improve her cooking skills to the point where she can handle it by herself.

I started this morning by telling her all of the stuff that is sure to piss off my boss, like they can’t mess with her days off and to not take any shit about it, and to turn her cell phone off on her days off, and don’t let our boss come in and manipulate numbers to make herself look better. Off to a good start already.

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Since I was going to be leaving my store next month anyway, and we already had my replacement trained, “they” decided to put me in another store for a month that needs fixing. Damn, but it’s slow as shit here.
They have spent the last 20 months running off all of the business and have done a real good job of it. The store has basically been left to a bunch of 16-20 year olds to do whatever the hell they want.
I’ve already managed to run off a couple of people, and am bringing on a couple of my former employees. There are about five others that I am going to try and replace before I leave as well.
All I know is that I am working even harder here doing half the business.It’s a complete goatfuck here.
But it does give me the occasional minute to blog.

This next month is going to be harder than I thought. It is a much slower store, so should be like a vacation. I can only wish. A couple of poorly trained employees, a couple with bad attitudes, and a couple more that know everyfuckingthing. Damn. They have a few good ones, they are just in need of someone to give them directions. In my first two days there I’ve pissed off at least four of them, taken two off the schedule completely. On the bright side though, I haven’t noticed any with pill issues, at least not at work. Bonus.

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I have to go back today. It’s going to be a long one. I start at my old store, have to close the weekly payroll, do audits and inventories and such checking myself out and the new manager in. Then I head to the new store that I will spend about three weeks in, and check IN, doing more audits and inventories. I’ll spend part of the day cooking, then have a couple of interviews to do for the store I will be in next month. Damn. Then I have to drive out to the damn Galleria for a meeting at 3:45 this afternoon until 6:30. Cool, I get to go home in rush hour traffic in Cobb County.

Something is still weird with my site. I can get to it, then I can’t. I am starting to gt pissed off. It was up for a little while yesterday, but this makes the better part of a day that it has been down. Guess I will just save this post until I get home tonight. Then I can bitch about what a long day it HAS BEEN 🙂 rather than how long it is going to be. It’s all the same anyway.

Damn, the site was down this morning. I wrote the above this morning about 5am. Just got home after a 16 hour day. Don’t think I will do any posting other than answering a few comments.

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Damn that was irritating…

…enough so that I won’t even host the damn thing on my site. I’m warning you. DON’T CLICK THIS LINK unless you have already had something to dull the pain. I’ll never be able to play Half-Life again.

Thanks to Dragon Lady for keeping me up all fucking night with that music in my head.

Damnitall. My site is down again. Twice in the same day. Now that pisses me off.

Back up again. Whatever.

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I found this pretty interesting. Why is it that when I go to CNN to see what those Islam fundamentalists guys are doing, the stories that are top news are stuff like “Updated on Space Station Status” and “First Female Space Tourist Blasts Off”. I have to scroll way the fuck down to the bottom of the page just to find anything even remotely related to them, or the reaction to the Pope.

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Everyone at work gave me a going away party after 1st shift. They really didn’t need to do that. I know that they are going to miss me, but I have managed so many of our restaurants that it is just no big deal to me. I tend to compartmentalize my life so that it and work do not intrude upon each other.

It was pretty cool though. They got me a little cake, so we all sat around and ate cake and chatted.

Here is the card that they gave me

They also gave me a Chia Homer, but something is screwed up with attaching it right now. Maybe I will post a pic of it later. Got a T-Shirt that says “Stop Looking at my Shirt”.

I will miss some of them, but not all. Mostly it’s just another place to work to me.

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This has to be the longest day I have ever had. Damn, I want a smoke.

I did find out that Sunday will be my last day in this store. I will run another, slower one temporarily while I am hiring and training for the new one.