Was I a little childish? I don't think so, you tell me...

Okay, here is the deal...

I was supposed to have attended a "mandatory" crew meeting for my part time job with Taco Time. I am already beyond frustrated with this job as it is, but last night when I was there for my shift, well, there were a few straws that finally broke the proverbial camel's back.

I checked the schedule for next week. I was scheduled Tuesday (my availability states I am not available on Tuesdays). I was also scheduled to come in at 3 pm on Friday (my availability states I am not available until 5 pm on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays). The same dumb manager who did this schedule has also scheduled me previously on Tuesday. I told him I CANNOT WORK ON TUESDAY!!! I also told him I CAN NOT WORK UNTIL 5 PM on M, W, R, and F. For some reason he just does not get it!!!

So I figured since he can not seem to figure out my "mandatory" availability, "Mandatory" must not mean the same thing to him as it does to me, so I would go by his definition, that meant I didn't have to go to the meeting, right?

So, then, when I go in for my shift tonight at 4 pm, I get asked why I wasn't there, I told them this (mind you the manager in question was not there). However, said manager left instructions to send me home at 5:30 pm, I suppose as "punishment" for not coming for the meeting. Also tells them that I must come talk to him at 10 am on Monday morning, HEL-LO, why am I not available until 5 pm, because I substitute, duh! This guy is a real creep, and to make matters worse, he's younger than I. I am thinking I don't care for him more and more.

My first impression of the guy was bad anyway, I went in to speak with him on his first day. I was actually hired by the departing manager and began working the weekend before this new one started. So I go in, well first I have to wait around, because he had gone to the bank. Then when he does come, he really doesn't have "time" for me and basically blows me off. ARGH!!! The second time I speak with him, I am coming in for a shift, I am a little early and I was getting a quick bite to eat. He sits down while I am halfway through my soft taco and asks how I am liking it... So I tell him, I am frustrated because I really do know what I am doing and do not appreciate being "babysat" so to speak by a manager who was in diapers when I had my first management position, because he is too busy "texting" on his rotten cell phone. I really could've gotten into more, but dufus manager here wants me to call him the next day to remind him that I have GJ the following week on Wednesday. I explain, I am busy Thursday, doing a wedding cake for a contest. He's all, well you have a phone don't you? I'm like, yeah. He says, so can't you use it, and refers to Thomas Edison as the inventor of the phone at which point I correct him and say no, it was Alexander Graham Bell (DUH!!!). He also invites me to make him a cake for his birthday which is on Friday (it did not occur to me until later that I should've said great, it'll cost 'X' amount of dollars). This is the second time I have seen him and he wants me to make him a cake. OH MY HECK!!!

Then when you figure in, it took like two weeks before I got a shirt and apron to wear for work. I still do not have a visor or a name tag. These people are making me crazy. I think there are actual health code violations in some regard in different areas of the restaurant, and then to top it all off, when I got there today, there's a flocked, fake Christmas tree, that evidently got wet and then MOLDED, the boxes the ornaments are in were molded as well, sitting on the counter. COME ON!!!!!!!!! The tree needed to be tossed as soon as it was retrieved from storage, sorry it got icky, but that can happen. I don't know if it was in storage above the walk in fridge and freezer or if it was down in the basement.

Speaking of basement, I believe that is where the grease trap for the store is... and it is in desperate need of being cleaned out and thoroughly flushed. It also could use some of those special enzymes that "eats" septic or sewer line "stuff." I've had customers complain to me about the smell. I even noticed it really bad the other day when I went in.

Okay, I've rattled on and on, but I had to get this out. You can tell me if you side with me or if you think my not going to his "mandatory" meeting was childish. Like I said I was trying to make a point.

Until next time...
(and hopefully I won't rant as much)

If Susie can so can I...

I figure if Susie can then I can too. That way maybe I can just type this once or so and direct people to the latest news, right. Plus, Ross on the Tonight Show blogs as well, and I can be at least as annoying as Ross if not more so (ha ha ha--that's a joke).

I was so excited to go to church today, yay!!! Without the pressures of I only get to go only so often and I am not racing trying to get something done on what may be the only day off I have feeling. It's been great.

For those of you who do not know, I lost my job on Monday, February 12. And while typically losing your job is a bad thing, I am not worried. In fact I am at peace, it's been like night and day.

Tomorrow I am supposed to go to a job interview. It's for Teleperformance USA--a telephone marketing company or something, they want me to take incoming calls for Sprint, I am hoping my dislike of Sprint and my telling not work for less than $12 or $13 an hour will make them say thanks but no thanks. So we shall see.

I really need to go check the dryer and start it for round two (nothing ever dries on the first time in our dryer--except the cheap blankets I washed recently) and James needs clean jeans to wear for work in the morning, plus the other load in the washer needs to have fabric softener and a second rinse. So I will try to get to this again tomorrow. I guess I'll use this to talk about some of the interesting things I come across as I look for a new job. Just pray I can find something more in line with my degree or something more service oriented. That reminds me too, or at least the news did, this Tuesday is Mardi Gras, I think mom and I need to have something Mardi Gras-ish for dinner, I'll have to remember to ask her. Hey this can be like my mental notebook too, I am thinking I like the sound of that, at least then I will know where my mental notepad is...