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Monday, August 18th, 2008
11:21 am	new vehicle Last week I bought a 2006 Saturn Vue. It's black with a black and grey interior. It is a compact SUV with a 2.2L 4 cylander engine. I love this vehicle, it has power windows and locks, cruise control, an am/fm cd player that plays mp3s and is XM radio ready. it has controls on the steering wheel for the stereo and the rest of the controls are at an arms reach. There is a cargo storage assembly in the back and the A/C works great. The sound system is factory, but it sounds great. It is a dream to drive, it has plenty of power when I need it and the gas mileage isn't too bad. (Comment on this)
Monday, May 12th, 2008
4:33 pm	Nine Inch Nails Concert!!! Nine Inch Nails is coming back to town on their current tour. The concert is August 20 and I am going to go. The last time they came through they put on a really good show so I don’t want to miss this concert. I have signed up for the ticket presale through the NIN website and hopefully I will be able to get some good seats. They’re playing in the Scott Trade Center which is the arena where the St. Louis Blues play. It’s a good venue for concerts, they played there the last time and I had decent seats, but this time I want better seats. I asked this girl I work with and have known for a while to go with me. Amy said yes!!! So I have a hot date for the concert!!! I am saving up now for tickets and have 75 bucks put back. I don’t know how much tickets will be, last time they were around a hundred bucks for two plaza level seats. Those are the mid grade seats so I imagine I will need at least 150 dollars for tickets. It’s a lot of money, but for NIN it is well worth it. Amy worked with me at the Hut, and like me she got tired of the bullshit there and got a job at Imo’s. I have known her, although not too well for several years. She used to be a friend’s girlfriend. Now she is single!! And I do like her a lot. I don’t know how to explain it, but whenever I am near her I can’t help but smile. Something about her is just so… I don’t know… being in her presence is soothing, being near her is captivating, it’s like no matter what kind of mood I am in, if she comes around all of that is gone and suddenly I am just so happy. I am going to ask her out to dinner and hang out with her more to get to know her better. Hopefully something will come of it, even if it’s just a good friendship. Work is going well. Jesus, I am putting a lot of miles on my car! I changed my oil the day that I started. That was the last week of April, and already I have had to change my oil. I am keeping track of the miles I drive every shift and have set up an excel file to keep a tally of the miles I drive in one pay period. In the last pay period I drove 1146 miles at work alone, that doesn’t include the 50 miles that I drive to and from work. I already need new tires on the front and there is some other minor work that needs to be done. I am hopefully getting an economic stimulus check from the IRS soon. It should be around 600 dollars. I am going to buy at least two new tires for the front and do the minor work that needs to be done. I am going to put what I have left into a savings account and keep it there. I will try to add to it every chance I get so that when there is a problem with the car, I will have money in the bank to take care of it. I mentioned that I am keeping track of my mileage. The reason is for tax purposes. I am also keeping all of the receipts for gas that I use on the job. I am keeping any receipts for oil changes and any other maintenance or work that needs to be done on the car. Next January when I do my taxes, I will be able to take some good deductions because all of those expenses are expenses that I have as a result of my job. I am getting ok gas mileage, but it could be better. When I get that check, I’m going to do a couple of things that will improve it. I was told by a mechanic friend that if I replace the O2 sensor that my gas mileage will increase by a good amount. By then the air filter will need replaced, and if I replace the fuel filter all of that should give me better mileage. I worked 40 hours this past week, and am scheduled for nearly forty this current week. Hopefully I’ll continue to make decent tips. I figured it up today and I am making a little more money at Imo’s than I did when I was with Pizza Hut and I was in management there! I have a lot less stress and a lot less work. I am so much happier there. And I’m told that it’s just going to get busier as summer comes. That means more deliveries and more money! I have given a lot of thought about going back to college to pursue a degree in history, but I don’t know if that is what I really want to do. If I do decide to go back, it won’t be until next year. That way I can use my income from this year and hopefully get grants that will pay for everything. I have given thought to going to bar tending school too. I think that would be a great job. Most bar tenders make good money. It depends on where you work, but you get to meet all kinds of people and it is a fun job. I don’t know what I will do yet, who knows… maybe I can get into management at Imo’s and eventually open my own restaurant. If I were ever to buy and operate any franchise, it would be Imo’s. They have great food and the name is big arou (Comment on this)
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
9:37 am	Tip the pizza driver!!! There are some things that aggravate me about pizza delivery, first and foremost… people who don’t tip. Or people who tip less than two dollars. I am providing people with a service of convenience. I am bringing fresh hot food to their door so that they don’t have to cook themselves or so that they don’t have to go out and get food. That alone merits a decent tip. After all when people go out to dinner they generally tip 15 to 20 percent. Essentially I am providing the same service a waitress or waiter provides. I’m sure everyone who drives a car anywhere knows how expensive gas is getting. It is almost four dollars per gallon here! That is another reason to tip the pizza delivery driver. It costs me money to come to work, I get paid a base rate of less than minimum wage… show me that you appreciate what I have done for you and tip me at least what a gallon of gas costs. I have just saved you a trip to either the grocery store to or a restaurant. Hence, I have saved you some gas. I do work for tips and any tip is appreciated, but anything less than two dollars I consider a stiff, especially if the order is over ten dollars. I have heard this excuse “you would get a better tip but we’re broke” Well maybe you shouldn’t be ordering pizza delivery. I don’t give a shit if you’re rich or broke, I work for tips and I expect to be tipped. If you’re broke, maybe you should budget your money better, maybe instead of ordering pizza delivery you should be going to Aldi’s or Save A Lot and buying groceries. Maybe you should live within your means. Don’t order pizza delivery and stiff the delivery driver. The worst is when someone who works for tips stiffs you. They should know better, at least you would think. There is a lot of confusion about pizza delivery. Many people think that the delivery charge is a tip. IT’S NOT. It’s not an automatic gratuity. It is a way for pizza shops to try to compensate drivers for the gas they use and the added vehicle maintenance expenses they take on. Many if not most delivery drivers use their own vehicles, in the time that the average person changes his oil, a delivery driver will have changed theirs two to three times. We put gas in our cars every single day. We go through tires a lot faster, we put a lot of miles on our cars just to bring you, the customer food so that you don’t have to cook or go out and get food. That service should always be worth something. Another misconception is that pizza delivery drivers make 15 to 20 dollars per hour. Wrong!!!! We might average that on a good night, but the truth is that most of us are paid less than minimum wage. We depend on tips. Why do this kind of work you ask? Why don’t you find another job? Why don’t you find another job? I do this because I love it. I am happy with my job. Are you happy with yours? If you can’t afford to tip the driver, you cannot afford to order pizza delivery, just like you can’t afford to go to a fancy restaurant if you can’t afford the tip. There are certain circumstances in which I understand the low tip. For instance, senior citizens who live on a set income, there are those who’s only income comes from social security. I can let that slide. But if you’re not in that situation, then you best tip well. I don’t care if you have four kids and live on welfare. Go get a job and quit living off of the tax payers. Take the money you would spend on pizza and go buy food for your kids that will last more than a day or two. I don’t care if you’re unemployed, if you’re unemployed you shouldn’t be spending your money on luxury items. You should be spending it on only what is necessary. There are a lot of people out there who do tip well, and I genuinely appreciate every one of them. They know that I work for tips, they know how expensive gas is and they appreciate the service I provide them. I always smile. I treat every customer like they were my best friend. I always thank them and am always polite. Even to the rude assholes who stiff me. That doesn’t mean that you won’t get cussed when I am in my car and down the road. We drivers remember the customers who tip us well. We also remember those who stiff us and those who don’t tip well. Most of us if not all of us will treat those who tip well very well. For instance if you don’t tip well and you order and there is an order for a customer who tips well who orders after you do. Guess who gets their food first if a driver happens to take both orders on one trip. That’s right. The guy who tips well gets his food first even though he ordered last. If you don’t tip well and you expect great speedy service you got another thing coming. If you expect great speedy service, then tip accordingly. What is an acceptable tip? If your order is ten dollars or less and you live close, two dollars is okay. If you live a good distance from the store, then you should double it. If your order is over twenty five dollars, then you should always tip 20 percent. At the very minimum you should tip at least what a gallon of gas costs. If you live more than six miles from the store, tip at least five dollars. Tip well and you will be remembered and appreciated. Don’t tip well and you might end up with luke warm or cold food. I keep a detailed record of who I deliver to, what their total was and what they tipped. And it only takes a couple times of delivering to a stiffer or good tipper to remember them. If you stiff me, I will remember you and I won’t be in a hurry to get your food to you. Bottom line folks, tip the pizza driver. For more information... go to the following website. You can find out about all aspects of pizza delivery. www.tipthepizzaguy.com Now, as for the aspects of the job I like. I don’t have to do anything but deliver pizzas. I don’t have to wear a goofy uniform. I get to listen to the radio all day long, I can get on the internet when I’m not on a delivery, I make cash money, I have money in my pocket every day. I get a good discount on awesome food, I serve the best pizza in the area and I work with pretty cool people. The managers are all cool and laid back. (Comment on this)
Friday, May 9th, 2008
4:48 pm	the lap top is up and running It’s been a while since I’ve been able to use my lap top. The power cord/battery charger stopped working. So I couldn’t charge the battery on the lap top. I contacted Dell a few months ago and they wanted around 80 bucks for a new power converter/charger. I couldn’t really afford that. The other day, I called Radio Shack and they said that they had a universal power adapter for 119 and some change. Today I went in to the store and took my lap top to make sure that buying the converter would solve my problem. I know the one from radio shack cost more but it came with an ac power converter that I can plug into my car cigarette lighter. Also, it will plug into just about any lap top and I can buy a plug so that I can charge my cell phone with it too. I can also buy another adapter so that I can charge my lap top and cell phone at the same time. What I really like about it is that I can charge my lap top in my car! I don’t as of yet have internet service at home yet, but I can get on the net at work which is great. Speaking of work, I no longer work for Pizza Hut. At the end of January they fired the GM and hired someone outside of the company to take his place. At first I thought it was going to be a good thing. Good for the store and good for me. I was wrong though. I am sure this woman is a great manager but I don’t think she’s good for the company I worked for. She has her good points and her bad ones too. And for me the bad points kinda out weigh any good points. We turned things around, the store got a little cleaner and we did start making food and labor cost. But that is as far as it got. No other improvements were really made. They hired another assistant, this guy and the new GM worked together for corporate Pizza Hut years ago. To make a long story short I felt like the outsider and I have been with the company a lot longer and I knew how things worked there. She played favorites big time and it drove me nuts. I was closing three or four nights a week and if I wasn’t the one closing the shift manager was. The new assistant got all the gravy shifts. She wouldn’t schedule me the required 45 hours. She wouldn’t schedule me on the days that I needed to be there to do the food and beverage order. I was usually off or working later and I would have to drive all the way in and either come in early or drive up to do a half hours worth of work. On top of that, she wasn’t doing things the Pizza Hut way, her and the new assistant would tell the crew one thing, the shift manager and I would tell them another (which was the right way) so they were all confused. And of course… who did they listen to? Not us, the guys who have been there and know how it should be done. And there was no training going on at all besides what I was doing. There was no communication and I felt like I wasn’t wanted there. I was so damn miserable. I had asked the Area Supervisor for a transfer but pretty much got shut down. The new GM stopped it from happening because she knew she’d have to close if I wasn’t there. So when Imo’s called me and asked if I was still interested in a delivery driver position I said “hell yeah!” So I took the job and I am so much happier now. I am making about the same amount of money and all I have to do is deliver pizzas. I don’t have to do anything else at all! The only exception is that if I open I have to fold boxes. Shit, I’ll take that over all the bullshit at Pizza Hut any day. I was so tired of Pizza Hut, basically I was an underpaid baby sitter. We had a few good people, but most of them weren’t trained right and the others were dumb asses. I get paid three bucks an hour as a flat rate and I get two dollars per delivery plus my tips. I get paid a dollar per delivery after each shift and the other dollar comes on my pay check. The best part is that I have cash every day. Working for tips is a little different. I have to be more careful with my money now, but I am not ever broke. And as far as gas goes, so long as I take enough deliveries… I usually leave with more gas or the same amount of gas that I came in with. So really, all I am spending on gas is what it takes to get back and forth to work. When you work for tips, there are good nights and bad nights, you just have to take the bad with the good. If I have to I can always try and get a part job at a gas station working the grave yard shift, but so far I am doing fine as far as money goes. I am only on my fourth week, so I’ll see how it goes in the next few weeks. Saturday I made 80 dollars in tips, Sunday I made nearly 60 and both days I left with a half tank of gas. The bottom line is that I am way happier and now I can go back to college if that is what I decide to do. I also have more time on my hands I have moved too, it didn’t work out with the last place. I won’t go into why, but I had to move. I moved in with an old friend. I am renting a room in a 3 bedroom house that has a huge 4 car garage, a full basement equipped with a pool table and there is a huge lake in the back yard. I can go fishing anytime I want. It’s a little further from work, but it’s in the country and I am happy there. I still don’t have internet yet, don’t know when I will be able to get it. But I do like it here. And after all that’s what matters isn’t it? Being happy is the most important thing, it’s not money, cars, fancy gadgets… it’s being happy. (Comment on this)
Saturday, December 15th, 2007
11:00 am	Moving At the last possible minute we found a place to move into. A co worker mentioned to his land lord that my roommates and I were in a tight spot and would likely be homeless soon. They told him to tell us that they had a place open. Luckily we were able to come up with the money and we are moving in this weekend. They wern't finished getting the place ready to move in to, but since we were in the situation we were in they decided to let us move in right away. They will just have to finish up with us in there. We are moving into a 3 bedroom townhouse with a garage! The bedrooms are huge as is the kitchen. The living room is small but we have a garage and three bathrooms! We will also have a beer fridge!! Just before thanksgiving I bought an old fridge so I could cook a turkey and stuff for thanksgiving, It's about twenty years old and I probably wouldn't get much out of it but it will make a nice beer fridge for the garage. I'm also buying a car. One of my drivers just quit and is selling the car he used to deliver in, he said he'd sell it to me for 500 dollars. I gotta pay two hundred down and he'll let me have the car, then I just gotta make payments on the rest. If my brother will buy my tempo, I'll have 400 dollars to give the guy. The car I'm buying is a 1993 Mazda MX3, it's in great shape and will pass inspection. It gets 30 miles per gallon so I might check into driving for Imos, drivers there make damn good money. I'm not so sure I want to work at pizza hut anymore. This weekend has been real good, we found a place to live and I got a car! (Comment on this)
Friday, November 23rd, 2007
5:47 am	homefront Things have been going well at home. I found a place to live, a childhood friend of mine had friends who have a house that is being foreclosed on, the moved out because they couldn't afford it anymore. The house was empty so they said he could move in. He ended up working with me and I told him that I didn't have a place to stay, that I had been living in a hotel. He told me I could move in so I did. Anyway, the way it was supposed to go was that the bank was going to foreclose on the house in december, and they would have three months to move out. So that meant we had til march to find another place. Well, I don't know the whole story... but apparently they can't pay the bills on the trailer home they moved into... so the bank is just taking the house. We pay them six hundred a month, and that is what their payment on the trailer is... so my question is where did that money we paid them go? Whatever happened, we have a month to find a place to live. We have to be out by december 17 and whatever is in the house after that day belongs to the bank. There are three of us living here. After I moved in another co worker moved in. My old friend and I are going to look for an apartment and try to save some money... the third roommate won't be moving with us unless we can find a house with three or four bedrooms that we can afford. There is another co worker that wants to get a place, so maybe with four of us saving as much money as we can, just maybe we can find a house. With four people the bills would be a lot cheaper. And a house is way better than an apartment. But if it comes down to me and the one roommate getting a two bedroom apartment, we will. On another note, my car is fucked. It has needed some work for some time, but my asshole GM wouldn't give me sundays off so that I could get it fixed. My mechanic consistency of water. That means one of several things, either there is a cracked head, a cracked block or a blown head gasket all of which would allow water to leak into the oil. I haven't driven it in over a week and am without wheels. So not only do I have to find another place to live, I have to find another car... all on a very limited income. I'm going to focus on finding a place to stay, because my roommate has a vehicle that I can use anytime that he's not working and I can get rides to and from work. On a more positive note, I had my first thanksgiving dinner in my own home. Everything turned out great for the most part. I cooked a twenty pound turkey, stuffing, green beans, baked beans, corn on the cobb, glazed carrots, mashed potatoes and gravy and rolls. Everything turned out awesome except for the green beans. I don't know why, but they didn't taste right. But everything else was just fantastic. I cooked a twenty pound turkey and enough food to feed about 8 people, only four ate although I invited about eight people. We got lots of leftovers! I spent a lot of money on this dinner, but it was well worth it. As far as work goes, things aren't that great. The GM is an asshole and doesn't do his job nor does he have the dedication that it takes to run a restaurant. His priority's aren't straight and things are fucked up. I can't seem to gain any ground on getting things turned around and just end up getting frustrated and give up myself. But hopefully things will turn around once he goes on vacation and I talk to him and tell him how I feel. I'm so close to going over his head to get something done... but I will wait until I can talk to him. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, August 11th, 2007
2:32 am	no where to call Home I am in missouri and working for pizza hut, honestly I hate it. most days I wish I would have stayed in West Virginia, I had a chance to take a cooking job at Cracker Barrell making 9.50 per hour. Now they are short one assistan manager. I am staying with a fellow manager, but soon I have to find a place to live. I don't have the funds to get a place of my own and I have no where else to go. I don't know what I am going to do. I can't stay with my dad, as my brother is staying there, and besides I would rather sleep in my car. My step mom is a horrible housekeeper. (Comment on this)
Monday, July 9th, 2007
9:09 am	I'm back with Pizza Hut, I start today. I'll be working at the store I started at as an assistant manager. I'm sure when an opening for GM comes together... I'll be up for the promotion. Right now I'm staying with a friend, I dunno how long I can crash here though. I really hope that the people at pie squared decide to give me a decent severance package. I asked for one so that I can get back on my feet. This whole thing really pisses me off. I gave up a decent paying job (sure I wasn't too happy with things at the time) and I gave up a home, a place of my own to move all the way out there to take the job only to have them pull the plug in two months. Two months isn't enough time to turn around a bad operation. Sometimes it takes up to a year. I didn't have the tools I needed out there, I kept telling them I need a strong management staff behind me, I kept telling them I can't do this myself. Just when I finally found someone to become part of the management team, they just say fuck it and sell the place. I can't believe they gave up so soon. They spent all that money flying me out for the interview, they spent all the money getting me out there and putting me up for two months only to give up. I don't understand it. I know they were losing about three thousand dollars a month, but again they didn't give me what I needed to succeed. I didn't have a management team to ensure things were done the right way when I wasn't there. Oh well... It's something I don't regret doing. I do wish they would have given me some heads up. Things happen for a reason... so we'll see how this goes at Pizza Hut. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 1st, 2007
2:51 pm	The dream is over This morning at 10:30 I get a call from my assistant manager, he tells me that the owners closed the restaurant. Needless to say I was stunned and shocked. About an hour later, one of the owners calls me and tells me that they sold the restaurant and that the new owners have closed the place. So, I don't have a job. I am going to go back to missouri... hopefully I can get my job back at Pizza Hut.... both the Area Director and the Market Director told me that I could come back anytime I wanted... so hopefully I can. All I can say that is I'm angry and sad and dissapointed. This was my dream and now it's over. So, I don't know if I'll be on the net anytime soon. I don't even know where I'll be staying once I get back to missouri... so take care all. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, May 13th, 2007
9:43 am	no car as of yet I didn't get approved to get the car, they said I needed a co signer because I've only been on the job here less than a month. They are afraid I'll take off back to Missouri with their car. Valid fear I guess, as people have done this before. I was looking at a Nissan, but the payment on that was too high. So I test drove an 01 Saturn SL. I liked the saturn a lot better even though it doesn't have the power windows, power door locks and power moon roof. The Saturn has a lot less accessories, but it is a 5 speed, it has tilt steering, a good cold AC, a nice sounding stereo system with a cd player, it's bigger and more comfortable. It drives a lot better I think and over all I like it a lot more. It's two years newer and 1600.00 less and the monthly payments are a lot less too. The guys who own the pizza shop I'm working at said they'll co-sign for me so now I just gotta wait. I just hope the car I want is still there when I do go back. This place takes care of everything and I do mean everything. They take care of the taxes (included in the price of the car) they give me temp tags, all I have to do is go get the regular tags, they take care of the inspections (they guarantee that the cars they sell will pass the safety and emmissions inspections) and they can even get insurance! They take payments there at the dealership. And, if I make all of my payments on time and pay the car off in two years I could go right to the new car dealership and drive off with a brand new toyota. I just hope it works out and I hope I can get the car I want. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
6:13 pm	Lovin it in North Carolina I'm here in North Carolina and getting settled in. I love it out here, the weather is nice for the most part, the beach is only a two hour drive! I've been down to Wrightsville two times now. Spent all day down there on two different sundays. It was nearly paradise, the first time I went down there I got sunburnt in a few patches. I missed a patch on my knees and feet when I put sunscreen on. I lay there on the beach reading what is turning out to be a very good book. It's called Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown, it's the history of the Native Americans from the Native American point of view. If you like history, or are Native American or just want to know the truth, I suggest picking it up and reading it. Things are going good at work, I'm getting settled in and starting to change things up a bit, hopefully I can make improvements and start making more money. I'm getting ready to buy a new car. It's not new, but it's new to me... it's a 99 Nissan Sentra SE 4 door with a 5 speed transmission. It's got a sunroof or a moon roof, I don't know the difference really, it's got a cd changer... not sure how many discs... It has air conditioning, tilt steering, cruise control, not sure if it has power windows or manual. It's got 109,000 miles on it, which isn't too awfully bad. the interior is in near perfect contition and the body is in near perfect shape. There are a few minor things wrong with it... but overall it's a nice car. It will get way better gas mileage than my 93 ford tempo. Really, it's exactly what I want in a car, it's a stick, it's got AC, it's good on gas and has cruise control with a cd player. I will be getting it on either friday or saturday. If I can manage to take off for a couple of hours friday, I will go then and get it. I'm not sure if I will trade my tempo in or not... it really depends on what they'll give me for it. The trade in value is less than 200. My brother said he'd buy it for 300, but he has to come out here and get it and has to have all of the cash up front. I won't let him take it otherwise. If he don't buy it... I'll put it in the paper or something down here and sell it for 400, either that or I'll just keep it. (Comment on this)
Saturday, March 31st, 2007
10:33 am	My notice I gave my notice on thursday... my boss sounded really disappointed. I'm sure he's not happy about it but... I've gotta do what makes me happy. Happy is not what I've been the last two months. I took a pay cut, allthough it was unintentional on the company's part, how they handled it really made me angry. There is a law in Missouri to where the company has to pay overtime if my salary is under a certain amount. So, they changed the minimum pay for general managers and I got a 70 dollar a month raise. Not much right? no, not really... it's only about 30 more a pay period and now they don't pay me overtime. Well, because of that I lost anywhere from 60 to 100 a pay period. I made them aware of the problem and they told me that they would look into it. They did, and it took them the better part of two months to do so... all the while I'm making less money. That really set my mind to find another job, luckily this new job kinda fell in my lap A&D management can kiss my ass. (Comment on this)
Monday, March 26th, 2007
11:52 am	Dreams have come true!!! I traveled to North Carolina this weekend to formally interview and meet with the owners of the restaurant. I have as of 11:09 a.m. on March 26 2007, accepted the offer. I will be recieving more details later, but I will be making more money than I currently am and will have partial ownership! I will be moving out there sometime toward the end of April!!! I can't wait, seeing the ocean was so very awesome, I was in awe. The power and the draw of the ocean has taken me, and I will be spending every minute on the beach that I can! My dreams have come true!!! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, February 18th, 2007
3:22 pm	Dreams do come true update I talked with the primary owner today and it went very well!!! I am going to be flying out in a couple of weeks to meet in person with him and the other owners. I really hope this works out. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, February 16th, 2007
12:44 pm	Dreams do come true!! I may have the biggest opportunity of my life! There is a restaurant in NC that is looking for a manager/part business owner. It's a well established Pizza shop that has a good looking menu. If the offer is right I'm taking it! (Comment on this)
Saturday, September 30th, 2006
12:04 pm	Big changes Been a while eh? a lot is going on and a big change is just on the horizon. I worked the last day in my store last night. I have been promoted to General Manager and will be getting my own store very soon! I have to do some training first before I take over my store. The store I had been at has a POS system, the store I'm taking over doesn't. It's a manual store and I have to do some training on the manual system. I was a bit scared, but now I'm not scared so much. I have been down in Cape Girardeau training at a manual store down this way, and it's not so bad. I was mostly worried about not being able to do the manual system, but it's not too hard. I am a bit nervous and still a bit afraid, but I know I can do the job and I know I have the support I need. Along with this promotion, I get a good raise, I get to move! and best of all... I get to move!!!! I have been so miserable at home. My lazy ass brother is on his way to prison, he doesn't work... well he does but gets paid in cash and always says that he didn't get paid. For the last two months, I have had to pay his share of the bills. My dad has had to pay his share of the rent and I have had to foot the bill for food. All he does is sleep and when he's awake all he thinks about and cares about is getting high. I am so sick of him and his bullshit, I wish they would quit postponing his court date and just lock his ass up. It's sad to say, my dad feels the same way. It's a shame that someone has done that to their family. Soon, I will no longer have to worry about him and his bullshit because no way is he moving with me. I have enjoyed being away from home so much, it has been like a mini vacation. I still have a couple of days of training to do and will be staying down here until it's complete. I look forward to taking over my store and the challenges that lie ahead. Wish me luck, I'm gonna need it. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 9th, 2006
7:20 pm	it's been a long long time It's been a long time since I've posted here. I haven't had internet access from home until now. I'm on a wireless network for free! I don't know how long it will last, but for now I'm back. Really good news on the job front. I am getting ready for a promotion! I will hopefully get my own store in Cape Giradeau in september. They are building a Delco (Delivery/Carryout) and the new regional manager wants me to take it over. Things have gotten so much better at work since Kent came a long. Kent is the new regional manager, the old one Sheri was canned. I am no longer looking for a new job. Sheri didn't give me the training I was promised and she never gave me and Ray, the RGM the support we needed. Kent is always there for us and is behind us all the way. Things have changed for the better. I can't wait to get my own store and to move. I'm still living with my brother and it sucks. Moving in here was a mistake. This house isn't all that great. the yard is a big mud pit, and the grass that does grow is a pain to cut because it's grown over old truck tire and bob cat tire tracks. My brother is like a fucking sponge, he soaks up everything everyone else has until they got nothing like him. I can't wait to get out of here and get my own place (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
1:33 pm	I'm moved into my house, don't have the net there yet. Right now I'm sitting in my car outside Drury Inn. I'm using their free wireless connection. My new house is pretty nice, and things seem to be working out with my brother. He's working and all that. I am driving out to PA on the 6th of april to pick Melissa up. She don't want to ride the bus. Can't say that I blame her, greyhound sucks ass. Work is going fine, I just wish I could get a damn raise. I can't wait till Melissa gets here. I'm so excited. On the way back and out I'm gonna stop and see my mom for a bit. (Comment on this)
Saturday, March 18th, 2006
4:00 pm	She's coming back!!! She finally fucking called today, and we talked for a bit. I have to go buy her a bus ticket, but she is coming back!! I can't wait to see her! So, I guess that I was worried for nothing. I'm moving into a new house tomorrow, and she will be staying with me. My mood went from drab to happy as hell when she called. I can't wait till she gets here! (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 16th, 2006
3:02 am	We made food cost and labor for the first half of the month! our food cost keeps getting better and better. We are barely making labor, but it has gotten a lot beter. If this keeps up for the rest of the month, I'll get a good bonus. I hope on a more personal note, my new girlfriend had to leave town on saturday... I haven't heard from her since them. I keep thinking in the back of my mind that she's not coming back. She had to go back to PA to settle her divorce, and I'm afraid that she's not coming back. She did tell me that she had a reason to come back, me, and that she would be back. I know that she likes me a lot, and that she quit her job to be with me... but still I keep thinking the worst. I like her a lot, we have so much in common, and we click really well... I hope she does come back. This last week has been a week from hell, apart from the time I spent with Mel. I haven't slept much becausee of my hectic schedule at work. I need a vacation. these last seven days have been so long and have worn me out. (1 Comment |Comment on this)