Domestic Geek

Now I remember why I used to prefer making dough in the middle of the night--I was oblivious to the crap that goes on in the store between the people that work there. I've found out so much stuff this last week that I really wish I was still clueless about (all of a sudden I'm everyone's confidante). It makes my head hurt thinking about it all. Some of it also pisses me off, but there's nothing I can do about any of it. As long as the players are the same, the same dance will go on. I can honestly say that I'm lost any inkling of respect for anyone there. No wonder I've lost all motivation to do a good job. I must do well in school so that I can get away from all of those nut jobs.

I didn't get my project done before the deadline today in class, though. I guess that's what I get for blowing school off on Monday. I need to get a small portable hard drive so that I can bring my projects home to work on them. That so sucks that there is no way to do that now. I could've finished if I'd been able to work on it here. Oh, well. I'm doing so well otherwise that the points I'm going to lose won't kill my grade that much. The worst part was I found typos after I turned it in. There's no way to get an "A" with misspellings. Shit happens. I guess I've got a major case of spring fever or something, because I so just don't care about stuff right now that I should be caring about. I hate it when I get like that.

When I came home tonight (after work), I sat down here to read my email on the new ViewSonic monitor that I purchased this afternoon. Skippy was in my dark craft room whining. When I went in there, he started running back and forth between me and the front window. I looked and listened and couldn't find anything odd, so I chased him out and figured while I was up I'd go into the other room and check on the bunnies. Lo and behold, the door is open and one of the rabbits is missing. Guess where? You got it. She was in the farthest corner behind all the cabinets I've yet to get put back. What a pain it was to get her out of there. Of course, she didn't cooperate, either. I guess Marcus left one of the doors open last night when he cleaned their cage. Yay Skippy for alerting me to the problem!

Well, my body hurts, so I'm going to go to bed. I might read for a bit, though. That reminds me: We got our mid-terms back today, and my teacher marked a question wrong that said (true/false) "A bit is the same as a byte." I put false. I said, "Aren't there 8 bits in a byte? (There are.) So, they're not the same thing." He jokingly (I hope) says that I fail for showing up the teacher. Ha! He also didn't seem to find my comment amusing that I wrote in the margin about another question. It was a multiple choice that asked who provided the hardware for Apple computers. The three choices were a) Motorola, b) Dell, or c) Apple. Well, obviously it was c, but I noted that a was also partially correct as Motorola provides the processor. When I queried him later as to whether he found my comment humorous, he said the question asked about the hardware. Well, the last time I checked, a processor was hardware. It certainly isn't software. *sigh*

Man, the store got hammered last night and I was off. I worked tonight and need money and it was absolutely dead. I made a whopping $16 and went home at 6:30. *sigh* Of course, I had these plans of coming home, getting my homework done and going to bed early, but I got to messing around with my website installation stuff and here I am. I guess I better get to the homework :-(

Remember a while back when I wrote about the one manager that was cheating the female employee out of hours? Well, he was busted back to a driver to make room for the dude that was busted back from head manager at the other store. I guess on Monday he had been caught cancelling a couple of the orders he had delivered and pocketing the money. The dumbass was too stupid to pull the cancel tags off the printer and the manager saw them. Phone calls to those customers confirmed that the orders had been delivered and paid for. What a moron. He was fired on the spot. He said he did it because he felt he was getting screwed and he wasn't making enough money on the orders he was delivering. The girl that told me all of this was the same one who got her hours axed by this jerk. She was really pissed off about this: the head manager is considering taking him back because they're short-staffed. Tough shit, I say. Hire some other people. I know he's been stealing because the nightly cash reconcilliation has been off ALOT lately. The guy should've been fired for cheating the girl out of her hours and then he pulls this crap. Good riddance, I say. The sad thing is that I can't say squat because I really need to keep this job for a little while, at least. I can't wait for the day I walk out of that store for good.

This week's paycheck quote was:
"The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success."
-anonymous

So true, so true.

I was talking to the girl that has recently started doing some day shifts at the same store where Moron Manager (computer crasher) works. I remember a few weeks back where the head manager had posted a note about how he was the only one authorized to make time clock changes. I meant to ask him what that was all about, but since it really doesn't affect me, it slipped my mind. She told me that there was a period where she was working six days a week to try and make more money, but her paychecks were not getting bigger. She finally asked the assistant if she could see her payroll record. She noticed it was off, and eventually told the head manager about it. Moron Manager was changing her clock-out times to cheat her out of hours that she worked. He's never liked her, but that was criminal. Man, that creep should've been fired on the spot.