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bwahaha. I think I need to hire this teacher who resigned from Delta High School to handle some of the attendance problems in my three stores.

Check out the video.

So this teacher makes his students do pushups and situps if they are tardy. Good deal. Apparently this one student could not do them so the teacher told his students to BEAT HIM. Holy shit! What a reTARD!

If it were my kids I guess I would have gone up and kicked the motherfucker’s ass, but then again, I expect my children to be on time. Actually I insist upon them, and my employees being on time.

That of course fits right in to my afternoon at work. Shift change is at ten minutes until the hour, regardless of the shift. That way you have ten to fifteen minutes of overlap and any remaining work can be completed, waitresses can let the oncoming servers know what’s going on, etc…

I get a phone call at 1:30 from my cook. She’s waiting for her ride and babysitter and will be late. OK, kind of irritating but at least she called as soon as she found out. I did try to cover her shift anyway but was unsuccesful. Five minutes till two (five minutes AFTER she should have been there) the waitress calls and says “I’m up here at the red light, I’ll be right there”. I stood at the window and watched the light change several times over the nect five minutes before calling another waitress in. At fifteen minutes AFTER two (25 minutes late) the waitress shows up and she’s pissed off because I replaced her after she called. Fuck you, how was I to know you meant the red light two towns north you stupid bitch? I sent her ass home. She called me back in tears a few minutes later wanting to know if she was still working tomorrow. I told her yes, as long as she’s there by ten ’til. Actually I could give a rat’s ass because I will be at one of my other stores making them happy tomorrow 🙂 Thus far nobody has jammed a cigarette in my mouth but I see that shit coming soon. Two more days and I get a day off…

Happy April Fool’s Day you foolish folks. No fooling around here, at least not right now. Everyone left me alone at work today as well which is probably a good thing because I pity the fool that messes with me today. It’s been exactly five days now and all I am thinking about right now is having just one smoke. Only one. Not two or three. Just one and that could be my last one.
Bullshit.
That’s the thing about smoking, just like drugs for drug addicts or alcohol for the drunk. One is too many and a thousand are never enough.
Doesn’t mean I won’t bum a smoke from someone later tonight but it’s been enough to keep me from buying any up until this point.
So it’s April Fool’s Day and of course across the web different sites have their form of April Fool’s jokes up. I thought about redoing my template but it just seemed like too much work. Since I don’t have anything up, here’s some links to various sites I have come across or had emailed to me.
Gmail has one up. Gmail Custom Time that lets you date your email with a prior time or date so that it shows up in someone’s inbox in the appropriate chronological order. You can even mark it as having been ‘read’. I can see how that would be a useful feature were it to be something they really had.
On the main page at Google.com they have a link for you to become a ‘Virgle” pioneer. Apparently Virgle is an open-source effort between Google and Virgin to colonize Mars over the next 100 years. Someone put a lot of work into getting this up. Wish I got paid to sit around and come up with cool jokes…It’s pretty entertaining stuff and if you are the geeky star wars crowd, almost believable. Check out some of the dorks in the message boards. Personally I think something along the lines of Open Virgin Assholes would have been much more entertaining but that’s why I’m typing this from prison my house. On to another subject.
Google Australia has introduced a way to search tomorrow’s web, today at Google gDay using MATE technology. Go check it out.
Half of the people I know use Twitter. Even Elisson is on occasionally! Darren Rowse, Problogger, has decided to cash in and is releasing PayPerTweet, as service that pays you to send tweets out for companies.
Michael Arrington has announced that he (TechCrunch) is suing Facebook for $25 million over it’s users posting ads using his image.
Here’s another one. TechCrunch has acquired Tiger Beat (magazine and website), is closing down the magazine and renaming the web site CrunchKids.

I didn’t sleep any better last night than the couple before. I guess it’s my body craving the nicotine or something. That or I’m just not used to sleeping by myself any more in combination with the other. I tossed and turned and finally managed to get to sleep after midnight. I woke up two or three times and looked at the clock.

I had intended to mention a couple of more things in that post about work but my browser crashed and I ended up publishing just what I had auto-saved at that point.

It’s pretty cool. Her (the manager I was writing about last night) is graduating from boot camp the last weekend in April. Good for her. He’s in the Navy and although he’s a squid I can’t disparage him too much for doing what he believes in. We need more young people like him to participate. Anyhow, the weekend he graduates is also Talladega Race weekend. Nothing to be done for it, I have moved her vacation so she can go to graduation. It will be a rough weekend because I have another manager off the very same weekend as well and it will be pretty busy that week. I will also have two of my managers taking back-to-back vacations and that’s going to be hard.

The only reason I really don’t like it is because I was going to make her take her vacation the week of the Rodeo. She is the owner and one of the organizers for the Waco (Georgia) redoe and always misses several days of work during the rodeo and even when she is at work is even less involved than normal. I know she’ll miss at least three days during the weekend of the rodeo in May, so I will just have to make sure she only gets one the week prior and count those days she misses as her days off. I don’t know why they just haven’t scheduled it that way before anyway. I need to find out the date so I can go ahead and get my itinerary finished and turned in pretty quickly.

It’s about time to go to work. Hopefully even with the bullshit today won’t be too long of a day. I want to try and work out this afternoon and have a bunch of stuff here at the house that needs to be done as well.

So I ended up doing nothing but lying on the couch attempting to nap and then went back to work this evening. I figured the nap would take my mind off of why I am having trouble sleeping in the first place, which is wanting a cigarette. I would kill for a smoke tonight but I didn’t go buy any. I didn’t even bum any. Normally one of the first shift waitresses keeps an extra pack in the filing cabinet but it wasn’t there tonight. Fucking foiled again!

I skipped the workout today, which is probably not such a great idea but I had originally planned on being productive and getting some work done here. I am behind the eight ball on some stuff. I’ve got taxes to file, not only for myself but for the Marine as well. He finally sent his W-2s and it struck me as funny for some reason. His Marine Corps W2 comes from Defense Finance and Accounting (listed as the company). I already knew that but for some reason it had slipped my mind and caught me in a minute or something. Rambling…fuck

Anyhow, if I didn’t have at least one incompetent under me I don’t suppose I would know what to do. One of my managers does whatever the fuck she wants. Literally. She doesn’t do her job and the last district manager she had couldn’t get her to do it either. MY last district manager before I got promoted, and she is good, so it’s not her fault. She has been in the store where she is at four weeks shy of five years. Holy cow, she got it right before I left the corporate office because they were talking about putting me in that store. Doesn’t seem like it’s been that long.

Anyway, she refuses to cook (part of the manager’s job description in a 24-hour diner), she refuses to come back and do shift changes when she is supposed to, she treats people unfairly and is generally pretty much high-maintenance, and needs to be replace. If she would take ownership of her problems and not just the successes and at least show she wants to fix things then the other stuff wouldn’t be a big deal but as it is she needs to be replaced. So eventually she will quit or they will get tired of her and offer her a position as a trainee again. Which means I will take her as a loss and lose $500 in retention money. It’s not yet worth it, but a couple more months of bullshit and then it will be. She left at 10:30 this morning because she was having an anxiety attack. This is apparently quite common with her. Now before anyone who really seriously suffers from anxiety attacks me, I just don’t give a fuck. If she can’t because of her physical/psychological makeup handle the job of running a 24 hour restaurant then she needs to find a new fucking career.

Anyhow, like I said, she just up and left at 10:30 this morning. The busiest shift of the week, she just up and leaves. She pulled her hostess off the door and put him in her place on the grill. I’m sure that went over like a lead balloon. No cash or commissary audits. No bank deposits. The waitresses have had the keys all day doing the drawer changes and pulling food to the floor when they needed it. No paperwork done this morning. They even paid themselves. No truck order, which should have gone in this morning. I had to run a $173 shortage on the woman last week as it is, which I really don’t like doing and it looks like chances are she’s going to eat another one this week. I was going to cook the next two days but I went ahead and called in one of the guys that helps me out now and then to cook tomorrow because I’m not touching any money or food tomorrow until I have had the chance to do a thorough audit of it, along with all of her paperwork.

I was there at 8:30 this morning and she was fine, so at least the paperwork (which should have been done at 7am) could have been done. My visit was probably the reason for her anxiety attack, because I expect her to do her job and have very quickly started being a dick about it. At least I consider it being a dick, I don’t yell at folks (often), I just don’t give her any alternative to what I want her to do. Her costs are way out of control and we have given her several ways to fix it. She refuses to implement any of them. I told her on Thursday after the meeting that I had to attend on my day off because of her food cost that if she couldn’t get it fixed this week that she would have to let someone go and that if she couldn’t figure out who was stealing, I would just start firing people randomly. Her biggest thieves are working 1st shift with her anyway, so that should be easy. I’ll start by letting the newest folks go and when the food cost drops I know I’ve gotten the right one. Every single one of them has had more than enough cash register shortages over the last three months to where I have reason to fire them anyway.

There she is, calling me on my cell phone, finally. 9:35pm. That’s what fucking voice mail is for.

Did I tell you I needed a cigarette. Just damn. Three days, four hours.

This is the first week in about six that I will actually have two days off in a row and I had really planned to enjoy it. I made an appointment to have my car serviced this morning out off of Thornton Road at around 8:30 or so and I figured once I finally get out of there I would come home and work in the yard, then nap for a while.

Unfortunately my boss has other ideas. I am going to be stuck in a meeting from 3pm until around 5 or 6 tonight. On my day off. Needless to say I’m not particularly happy about having to go to a meeting on my day off but there’s nothing to be done for it except to suck it up and go.

Anyway, that’s about it for now. Just felt like posting before I have to go.