August 25, 2005

So the last few days have been ehhhhh……... Some people are work are so fuckin stupid. So, the last week I’ve been learning to drive the walkie (otherwise known as the rabbit….a small motorized forklift), so that means I have to go to the Let’s Get Bitched At meeting on Monday afternoon. There’s been too many forklift accidents lately, many of them costly, and Randy, the maintenance guy (Randy’s the fuckin shit), is gettin sick of it cuz he’s the one who gets reamed a new one, even though he’s not the one doing all this damage. Someone ran over someone’s toes the same day someone hit the gas line and everyone had to be evacuated from the building (not the one I work in, the other building). So everyone operating a motorized vehicle in the building has to go to the meeting, and that includes me. The other thing that’s been going on is just fuckin PEOPLE. Especially the ones who think they know everything about everything….UGH….. The trick is to shake it off….. We Got More Bounce in California

Scott’s (my boss) back tomorrow after having all this week off…then he’s got Monday then he’s gone the rest of next week….the week where we have 12 new stores coming out. There’s going to be a lot to tell him, there’s been a lot going on this week. One thing is Linda and the “holier than thou” attitude she carries about everything. She’s always fuckin talking to Rob (my boss’s boss)….she talks to him more than my boss does…she talks to him more than she fuckin works…while everyone has to direct themselve…..which isn’t good cuz we have so many new temps who don’t know what they’re doing. Linda’s job is to inform Rob about things, yes…..but more of it is training and directing people. We have a limited number of core people that have to be doing other things and people are spread very very thin…we’re losing so many people who know what they’re doing on the verge of a very busy week. I may or may not be over there next week, I don’t know what kind of work there’s going to be in my own department, but for the last few days I’ve been in the department that I don’t belong to and it’s really bad. You can nearly cut the tension with a knife it’s that bad. No wonder they’re losing so many people over there….no one can stand Linda….and a few others there. There’s a couple other people that don’t do their work and all the people who do work are getting pissed, naturally, because they have to pick up the slack. It’s unfortunate that the kind of places where I work get shitty people that work for them. There are some good people, but they eventaully leave for bigger and better things cuz where I work is a shitty place.

I don’t have to worry about gettting fired….my group lead talks to my supervisor about everyone and their performance…..and Ruth, my group lead, told me that I’m doing a good job and Scott (my boss) knows it. And Lise told me yesterday that I’m a good packer, she’s never found any mistakes made by me, so that makes me feel good.