Showing posts with label work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label work. Show all posts
Monday, August 17, 2009
New Job
So I started my new job today. Maybe it was just because I was training, but it was wonderful. It didn't get busy like Kmart gets busy which was a nice change of pace. I got to meet Bob Soerens, the owner of the joint, and he's hilarious. I keep training tomorrow, which will be nice. I catch on pretty quickly though, so I hope I don't get bored.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
I Got A New Job
Working at a car dealership! It'll be so nice to get out of Kmart :)
In sad news, I just heard John Hughes died :(
Friday, November 28, 2008
Happy Late Thanksgiving
I hope everyone had an alright day.
I have to work at 5:45 this morning... if you're mean enough to shop at Kmart at 6 in the morning today, you sincerely suck. Basically, I'm trying to keep myself awake long enough to finish my energy drink and get out the door this morning.
Fun fact: name your kid after something that you and your sweetheart have bonded over. Yes, Theron, that means that someday when we have a boy, we can name him Tuvok (or a girl, Seven). I like how Pete says no one knows the real reason behind the name... kinda weird, but he married into the Simpson family, so what do I expect right?
Well, I hope everyone enjoys their Black Friday... and that you're sane enough to NOT go parading around stores filled with way more people than the fire safety limit okays.
I have to work at 5:45 this morning... if you're mean enough to shop at Kmart at 6 in the morning today, you sincerely suck. Basically, I'm trying to keep myself awake long enough to finish my energy drink and get out the door this morning.
Fun fact: name your kid after something that you and your sweetheart have bonded over. Yes, Theron, that means that someday when we have a boy, we can name him Tuvok (or a girl, Seven). I like how Pete says no one knows the real reason behind the name... kinda weird, but he married into the Simpson family, so what do I expect right?
Well, I hope everyone enjoys their Black Friday... and that you're sane enough to NOT go parading around stores filled with way more people than the fire safety limit okays.
Friday, May 30, 2008
RIP Xavier
We seem to be having a string of bad luck lately at Kmart - really bad luck.
A few weeks ago on Monday, Nando's mom died of Pancreatic Cancer.
Just before that, my friend Nick cut off the tip of his finger at work, and thankfully they were able to sow it back on.
And heck, even though Judy 98 can be mean sometimes (okay, a lot), I felt bad for her on Wednesday when her husband (I think, at least someone close to her) went into diabetic shock and she had to call the paramedics.
But yesterday may just be the saddest point in all of our lives.
I'm sure that I've talked about Latonya on here before. She's the manager of the supervisors at Kmart and without her the whole store would go under. After school, her two big kids always walk to Kmart and wait for her to get off so they can all walk home together. We've all gotten to know and love those sweet little boys, some of us even taking our breaks to go spend time with them and talk about Spiderman :)
Yesterday morning, however, all of our lives were radically changed forever.
Latonya called in sick so that she could take Xavier to the hospital because he wasn't feeling well at all. Between that and when they reached the hospital, Xavier's asthma attack caused his bronchial tubes to close up, forcing him to go through cyanosis and he stopped breathing all together. Despite all the doctors did, they were unable to revive him.
As devastated as we all are, it's hard to imagine our Mama Latonya going through all of this. Just last week she was so concerned about Nando and how he was handling his mom's death, so worried that he would be okay after losing someone so close to him. I will not pretend to know what she is going through right now, but I'm sure it's worse than death itself.
If any of you know Latonya, there is a condolences card set up at Kmart for people to sign, along with sign-up sheets with things to help out their family. I think the biggest thing right now is helping out with meals and snacks for her remaining three kids.
She's done so much for all of us, both at work and in our personal lives. I just hope that we are all able to show our love and support for her, and that will help her cope with this terrible tragedy.
It's so hard to think that I won't be able to see his cute little shining face again, that I won't get to see more of his drawings or his coat and backpack left at the service desk.
RIP Xavier
A few weeks ago on Monday, Nando's mom died of Pancreatic Cancer.
Just before that, my friend Nick cut off the tip of his finger at work, and thankfully they were able to sow it back on.
And heck, even though Judy 98 can be mean sometimes (okay, a lot), I felt bad for her on Wednesday when her husband (I think, at least someone close to her) went into diabetic shock and she had to call the paramedics.
But yesterday may just be the saddest point in all of our lives.
I'm sure that I've talked about Latonya on here before. She's the manager of the supervisors at Kmart and without her the whole store would go under. After school, her two big kids always walk to Kmart and wait for her to get off so they can all walk home together. We've all gotten to know and love those sweet little boys, some of us even taking our breaks to go spend time with them and talk about Spiderman :)
Yesterday morning, however, all of our lives were radically changed forever.
Latonya called in sick so that she could take Xavier to the hospital because he wasn't feeling well at all. Between that and when they reached the hospital, Xavier's asthma attack caused his bronchial tubes to close up, forcing him to go through cyanosis and he stopped breathing all together. Despite all the doctors did, they were unable to revive him.
As devastated as we all are, it's hard to imagine our Mama Latonya going through all of this. Just last week she was so concerned about Nando and how he was handling his mom's death, so worried that he would be okay after losing someone so close to him. I will not pretend to know what she is going through right now, but I'm sure it's worse than death itself.
If any of you know Latonya, there is a condolences card set up at Kmart for people to sign, along with sign-up sheets with things to help out their family. I think the biggest thing right now is helping out with meals and snacks for her remaining three kids.
She's done so much for all of us, both at work and in our personal lives. I just hope that we are all able to show our love and support for her, and that will help her cope with this terrible tragedy.
It's so hard to think that I won't be able to see his cute little shining face again, that I won't get to see more of his drawings or his coat and backpack left at the service desk.
RIP Xavier
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Hate him back, it works for me
I had a terrible day at work. The schedule was so screwed up, and we had all the newbies who can't run registers yet on... I felt terrible leaving Sam there alone, but I know that Lucas helped him out quite a bit throughout the night.
To add to my horror, Pete Wentz married Ashlee Simpson this weekend... Oh god... *shudders*
I couldn't get the Brewers game on my radio, because apparently the am part doesn't work or something. It wasn't televised and every site I went to for play by play action was blacked out. So I heard everything second hand until about the 7th inning. Bored out of my mind and needing to see someone else cynical about life, I was glad to see that there was a House marathon on.
The episode was pretty interesting and one that I hadn't seen yet. There was a sick nun who was sure that she was being tested by God. At one point House came to talk to her about all nuns being liars, trying to get everyone to believe in some unseen, supposedly all-powerful being, and that it's not the idea of God that he doesn't like but more the idea in "forcing" other people to "believe" in things with you. Mostly, he hates the believing part... Seems to be because that means you have to open up and trust something/one you can't even see. She then made the comment back to him (of course, I'm paraphrasing a bit) that you can't hate something that you don't believe in, even a little bit. That got me to thinking...
Most people assume that I'm upset with God, that everything I've been through in my life has made me bitter and closed my heart, or whatever. But that's not the case.
Having been around and helped raise a lot of kids, I know that when s/he is lonely, a child will make up people so that they feel connected, important. I don't want to compare the majority of the world to children, but it seems to me more likely that our ancestors were a product of evolution and wanted a way to explain the things around them, wanted to feel connected to and a part of something bigger than themselves.
Q. So, the questions are going to start flying in... Why be a religious studies major if you don't believe in God? If you think the rest of us are delusional?
A. First off, I don't think you're delusional or crazy. You're just the product of thousands of years of believing in something that your families passed on to you, that you accepted as truth. Or, you felt alone in your own way and found a theism that matched what your core beliefs were and are.
Anyways, to answer the question, it's a form of sociology that is more personal than most sociologists are able to get in their studies. There is just so much to study when we look at the world around us, the only way to do it is to break it down into smaller chunks. Religion just happens to be fascinating to me, considering my ideas expressed above. It's fun, for me, to see and learn about the different ways that people interpreted events. That would also be part of why I'm majoring in history as well.
Q. So why do you buy into Buddhism?
A. Short answer? Because it doesn't deal with God at all. It just doesn't feel the need to address something that further back was seen as a philosophical idea, not a religious one. Plus, it's about bettering oneself, not getting redemption through appeasing someone that controls everything.
If anyone has any other questions, feel free to ask and I'll post my answers in the next entry.
To add to my horror, Pete Wentz married Ashlee Simpson this weekend... Oh god... *shudders*
I couldn't get the Brewers game on my radio, because apparently the am part doesn't work or something. It wasn't televised and every site I went to for play by play action was blacked out. So I heard everything second hand until about the 7th inning. Bored out of my mind and needing to see someone else cynical about life, I was glad to see that there was a House marathon on.
The episode was pretty interesting and one that I hadn't seen yet. There was a sick nun who was sure that she was being tested by God. At one point House came to talk to her about all nuns being liars, trying to get everyone to believe in some unseen, supposedly all-powerful being, and that it's not the idea of God that he doesn't like but more the idea in "forcing" other people to "believe" in things with you. Mostly, he hates the believing part... Seems to be because that means you have to open up and trust something/one you can't even see. She then made the comment back to him (of course, I'm paraphrasing a bit) that you can't hate something that you don't believe in, even a little bit. That got me to thinking...
Most people assume that I'm upset with God, that everything I've been through in my life has made me bitter and closed my heart, or whatever. But that's not the case.
Having been around and helped raise a lot of kids, I know that when s/he is lonely, a child will make up people so that they feel connected, important. I don't want to compare the majority of the world to children, but it seems to me more likely that our ancestors were a product of evolution and wanted a way to explain the things around them, wanted to feel connected to and a part of something bigger than themselves.
Q. So, the questions are going to start flying in... Why be a religious studies major if you don't believe in God? If you think the rest of us are delusional?
A. First off, I don't think you're delusional or crazy. You're just the product of thousands of years of believing in something that your families passed on to you, that you accepted as truth. Or, you felt alone in your own way and found a theism that matched what your core beliefs were and are.
Anyways, to answer the question, it's a form of sociology that is more personal than most sociologists are able to get in their studies. There is just so much to study when we look at the world around us, the only way to do it is to break it down into smaller chunks. Religion just happens to be fascinating to me, considering my ideas expressed above. It's fun, for me, to see and learn about the different ways that people interpreted events. That would also be part of why I'm majoring in history as well.
Q. So why do you buy into Buddhism?
A. Short answer? Because it doesn't deal with God at all. It just doesn't feel the need to address something that further back was seen as a philosophical idea, not a religious one. Plus, it's about bettering oneself, not getting redemption through appeasing someone that controls everything.
If anyone has any other questions, feel free to ask and I'll post my answers in the next entry.
I just need to vent
So work has been a total mess lately. It has nothing to do with carts or my employees being dumb or anything, but our HR person apparently isn't being able to keep a schedule straight.
She got this brilliant idea to print off a copy of the weekly schedule and have it up at the service desk. However, that one has been wrong pretty much all weekend... and so has the one in the back. But the daily one supposedly has who needs to be there right on. Today, for example, I'm on the schedule for the week (well, both of them) for the garden shop from 12-7. I've never worked back there, but okay, fine, I'll struggle through it I guess. Terry will be there to show me for a bit at the least. BUT on the daily schedule, I was supposed to be at the service desk from 8-230, with Nando there from 2-10. Originally though, Nando was working 8-4, with Latanya working 4-10.
I'm so confused right now, it's not even funny. Bob's pissed off majorly too. Like really, we can't call people once we change their schedules? Or we can't keep the schedule the same? What the fuck?
If they can't figure out how to take care of a schedule right, I'm just gonna find another job. I am so tired of this.
She got this brilliant idea to print off a copy of the weekly schedule and have it up at the service desk. However, that one has been wrong pretty much all weekend... and so has the one in the back. But the daily one supposedly has who needs to be there right on. Today, for example, I'm on the schedule for the week (well, both of them) for the garden shop from 12-7. I've never worked back there, but okay, fine, I'll struggle through it I guess. Terry will be there to show me for a bit at the least. BUT on the daily schedule, I was supposed to be at the service desk from 8-230, with Nando there from 2-10. Originally though, Nando was working 8-4, with Latanya working 4-10.
I'm so confused right now, it's not even funny. Bob's pissed off majorly too. Like really, we can't call people once we change their schedules? Or we can't keep the schedule the same? What the fuck?
If they can't figure out how to take care of a schedule right, I'm just gonna find another job. I am so tired of this.
Thursday, May 8, 2008
School's Out for Summer
So nice! Although I know that I'll miss it a bunch over the summer.
I spent this whole past week with Theron, soaking up the sun, playing catch, and playing this super awesome game.It was really nice to have off of work too. Needless to say though, I really haven't been on the computer since Saturday. It was really weird to drive to Carroll tonight and see how very empty it was. I'm sure it felt emptier knowing that Theron was home. Oh well, it'll be busy this weekend at least.
I've been debating what to holler when Theron is up getting his diploma on Sunday, but all I can think of is "Whoo!" It's lame, I know, but I'll be next to his parents, so I have to keep it a little closer to PG-13 than I'd like. Maybe "I love you!"? I dunno, that seems a little weird. Hmph.
Even though I asked Susan for this weekend off A MONTH AGO, she scheduled me. I talked to the store manager about it today though and she understands how important it is for me to be there for Theron. She's not super happy about it, but at least she is okay with me not being there and still having a job next week.
I'm a little upset that the Brewers keep losing. I'm sure that they'll be able to work themselves out of the slump at some point, but I'm really hoping that being back at home tomorrow helps. The schedule they've been on lately is pretty tough, so it's a little understandable.
I'll post more next week, but in the meantime, be sure to check out the fun links I have on my site. The comics are especially silly and enjoyable.
It is a really weird feeling to be home without Theron here after having him around for like five days. *sigh* Now to see how well I will sleep...
I spent this whole past week with Theron, soaking up the sun, playing catch, and playing this super awesome game.It was really nice to have off of work too. Needless to say though, I really haven't been on the computer since Saturday. It was really weird to drive to Carroll tonight and see how very empty it was. I'm sure it felt emptier knowing that Theron was home. Oh well, it'll be busy this weekend at least.
I've been debating what to holler when Theron is up getting his diploma on Sunday, but all I can think of is "Whoo!" It's lame, I know, but I'll be next to his parents, so I have to keep it a little closer to PG-13 than I'd like. Maybe "I love you!"? I dunno, that seems a little weird. Hmph.
Even though I asked Susan for this weekend off A MONTH AGO, she scheduled me. I talked to the store manager about it today though and she understands how important it is for me to be there for Theron. She's not super happy about it, but at least she is okay with me not being there and still having a job next week.
I'm a little upset that the Brewers keep losing. I'm sure that they'll be able to work themselves out of the slump at some point, but I'm really hoping that being back at home tomorrow helps. The schedule they've been on lately is pretty tough, so it's a little understandable.
I'll post more next week, but in the meantime, be sure to check out the fun links I have on my site. The comics are especially silly and enjoyable.
It is a really weird feeling to be home without Theron here after having him around for like five days. *sigh* Now to see how well I will sleep...
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