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work rant #427423
2006-07-26 11:30 a.m.

Yesterday, I did all the important household maintenance stuff, so today, I get to just enjoy a day off. Hooray! I had another TEN days o' work in row, and I was pretty burned out, but I forced myself to be responsible yesterday anyway, and now I'm glad I did.

The salaried managers get the same days off every week, so they never have to go through this nonsense. Of course, with Sun-Mon and Thurs-Fri already taken, I might not get a confirmed pseudoweekend every week anyway. It's just another small petty thing that I get bitter about when I think about it too long.

So, I had yesterday and today off, I work Thurs Fri Sat, then I have Sun-Mon off. Then Tuesday, I have another Success University. In Eau Claire. Dammit.

This one is called "Right People, Right Places." I'm guessing it's going to suck. See, I've been with the company for two years. I have practical, hands-on experience. I KNOW that there are some associates who are awesome on cash, but if you try and put them in the dining room, they suck. I even know that there are some associates you can say, "OK, this isn't working, go do this instead for a while" and some you can't. There is no earthly reason why I should drive THREE HOURS to spend four hours learning this.

K is also going to go to this SU. It makes sense for us to drive up together, but then we'll have to talk and stuff. I really don't know her very well. The only conceivable topic of conversation is "Who does HBL love more this week" and I just don't want to go there. Technically Tuesday is August 2, and thus, the end of the month HBL was going to spend watching us. Maybe HBL will have made a decision by then. Probably not, but maybe.

(It occurred to me the other day that HBL has had four months to convince herself she doesn't really need to promote either one of us. She's got two people making shit money, who can do all the things a salaried person does, and who will bend over backwards to please her. Rijid said in his experience, everyone in restaurant management is trying to get promoted, totally disconnected from reality, or both. He promised to tell me if I get truly insane about this. Apparently, so far I'm still cynical enough that he's not too worried.)
***
Enough of this. Let's talk about something else.

I found a new message board. Last week, there was a thread I'd never seen, from last December, in which everyone decided to write a short story. The moderator was going to collect all the stories, get them self-published, and split the (probably negligable) profits. Last week, the thread reappeared, because someone asked the mod whatever happened with this. I read the thread, and was inspired to write a story of my own. I sent it to the mod, just because I didn't know what else to do with it.

I haven't heard back from him yet. I would put the story in here, maybe, but then last night I got an e-mail from KC. I suck at e-mail, so I decided she needed a random story that no one else has read a lot more than you did. Maybe after she's had a chance to read it, I'll put it here for the rest of you.

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