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It wasn’t terribly busy today but I have come home particularly stressed out. Just got here a few minutes ago and I have to go back out to pick up one of my employees in about an hour and a half.

Apparently my Area People Director (recruiter/human resources) is meeting my manager in the morning to speak with her and try to talk her into staying. Hopefully he won’t succeed as I have already lost several employees and there are several more who are going to give their notice if they bring her back tomorrow. She’s already lost most of their respect as it is and has at least one or two legal investigations that are supposed to take place between now and Christmas, not to mention the fact that she needs to sign a shortage from about three weeks ago in her food as I’m not going to pay it.

Just the thought of them not letting her quit has me pissed off and my blood pressure is going up. Right now I’m listening to the girls arguing in the kitchen and it’s not helping much.

Each shift we change out the cash till for the new shift. The drawer is supposed to be taken back to the office in the company of at least one of the waitresses, that way we have a witness if the drawer is short. It only takes about ten minutes. It used to be a shorter deal but with the addition of credit cards a couple of years ago it stretched it out a bit. Still, all you do is add everything up, subtract the shift sales and that should leave you with what the till went out at. Simple, no? The only problem with it is that she won’t do that. She counts it down herself right out there on the floor without changing the drawer, leaving them short rolled change and ones, and then runs cash register shortages on the girls that might or might not have happened. They are all pretty upset about it since most of them do not normally have shortages. I found at least one in the bookwork that she had double booked, claiming that she had mistakenly taken the 1st one out, which she hadn’t, which means that somehow I have to get my boss to sign off on another shortage on her because of that. Since she double booked it that should have left her cash over by the same amount, but the money’s not there.

I have a feeling that tomorrow is going to be a shitty day that I just want to skip out on.

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Well, I had planned on posting a bunch more anyway. I did manage to get tomorrow’s Photo Hunt up anyway but that’s about it. I watched about half of 28 Weeks Later and then it was time to pick up the girls. Friday is normally pizza night for them so I ordered and then Pete hung out with me watching the rest of the movie. She loves scary movies. It was a bit more gory than scary and certainly not even close to as good as the first but that’s the way it is with sequels most of the time.

We decided through mutual consent to make it movie night and everyone sat down to watch Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer after that. Not too bad, but very cheesy, like the comics. I enjoyed it (not to mention Jessica Alba, although she looks better as a brunette). The only problem with watching her is that it makes me feel like a damned pedophile. Yuck.

Anyway, I got a couple of calls this afternoon and apparently my manager in the shithole store is gone now. The store could be better if I could only run it with a couple of folks that care for awhile. Looks like I may get that chance since I may be running it without a manager at all through the holidays. Good thing she was already going to be off this weekend anyway. I means I won’t have to make any major changes to the schedule until Monday.

The only issue is that she is my second manager there in seven months and that doesn’t look good at all.

Tomorrow’s another day and hopefully it’s going to be a good one. Back tomorrow…

I posted the other day about how gleeful I was that OJ Simpson will be headed for a jury trial. CBS news has a bit of video up about it.

One thing totally unrelated to it that I found interesting…Check out the judge right at the beginning of the video. The dude has long hair and a ponytail. It’s not that I find it distasteful or disturbing in the least. I used to have hair halfway down my back, but it was surprising to me that a judge would. I don’t know, I guess maybe I am still stuck in the conservative age or something as I get older.

I am part of the business community and I believe that as such I should look and dress like the rest of them. If/when I get to retire I am sure that I will go back to not cutting my hair again, except that this time it will have more of a Gallagher look to it…Scary thought.

Just got a call from the guy that works as my relief manager. I asked him to work today at my problem store since I have had so many problems there on Fridays. Apparently the manager who has been there for a little under four weeks has decided to throw in the towel and quit.

With it being so close to the Thanksgiving holiday I am sure that they will try and get down there and save her but I just can’t bring myself to care. Personally it’s a blow to me every time someone quits or I can’t develop them successfully, but on the other hand if she does leave it will certainly stop some of the problems I have been having there.

I think maybe I will stop answering the phone today and enjoy the first full day off I have had in two weeks.

GAO investigators smuggle liquid explosives and detonators past airport security, exposing a dangerous hole in the nations ability to keep these forbidden items off of airplanes.

According to the TSA the investigators only got past one level of security out of eight. My questions why didn’t they try to get through the others, or what exactly are the other levels of security that would have caught them trying to sneak it in? I would be interested in hearing more details about the investigation as well as the security procedures myself.

The GAO has not detailed the weak points since it is sensitive information but says that they can be figured out from public information.

The TSA is spouting about new technologies and ways to detect more stuff. My main concern is whether it’s automated or human? Humans are certainly fallible and there are going to be mistakes. I see us heading toward the day where you have to be strip searched before you get on a plane, or maybe even given temporary disposable clothing for your trip. It’s not as far fetched as that might seem. Thank goodness I don’t have to fly often.

Just a group of photos put into a slideshow concerning the oil spill in San Francisco.

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One of my employees asked me today what we were going to do about Christmas decorations this year. My response was that we would put up limited decorations just as always. She started talking about how people have been acting the last couple of years about Christmas and how it’s not PC. I don’t particularly give a shit myself. I am not a Christian yet I still enjoy Christmas. It is on of my favorite times of year and you don’t have to be a Christian to enjoy the season and decorate. It really pisses me off that people cave in to that bullshit.

Back in the day my nickname was ‘the drug’. I’m not necessarily proud of it, but things are what they are. I got the nickname because I was the guinea pig. The dude that would try everything and anything to see if you could get wasted. Many brain cells were wasted, that’s for darn sure. One thing I never tried was Toad-Licking but I have heard of it. Apparently a Kansas City dude has as well because he caught one and started licking it. And got high. And got busted. hehe.

It’s illegal to lick toads? What’s up with that?

Here’s the news report from Newscom…

So did I ever tell you that my penis was hallucinogenic? No? Come on over and give it a lick…