I'm also having the whole "Help, I think I was trained in a parallel universe" issue again. If asked, I would probably describe both GM's as strictly "by the book." Somehow, though, they seem to have slightly different books. For Head Boss Lady, the bottom line is always going to be company profit. Mr J.'s main priority is guest satisfaction. I think my soul is slightly less tarnished working there.
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(I'm writing in WordPad, because I'm sick of the computer breaking my heart and crashing in the middle of an entry. It did it AGAIN last night. I'd basically finished that particular line of thought, but there were all sorts of other things I could have talked about. One of them was peripherially related to the printer, so while I organized my thoughts, I tried (again) to make the computer understand that the printer was not something to fear, and perhaps someday they would even be friends. Of course, the computer freaked out, and refused to even consider coming back on for the rest of the night. I hate this computer.)

(Can I even talk about printers and the printing of things? At the risk of again offending the computer, here we go:)

What I want to print is my r�sum�. Barnes and Noble is looking for managers, again. This will be the fourth time I've submitted an application for the same job in three years. That's a little disheartening. They can't just be throwing my r�sum� away, can they? Am I really that delusional, thinking I'm maybe qualified for a management job in a bookstore, when clearly, I am not? There's also the paranoid part of me, wondering what exactly is up with that Store Manager, that he can't keep a staff more than a few months. I don't know that for certain, of course. It's a big place, with numerous departments. Just because he has to hire two or three department managers every eight months doesn't necessarily mean it's the exact same positions every single time.

My old r�sum� and cover letters were of course on the dead computer. I found a paper copy of the cover letter I had written to this same guy last October. I considered just retyping it with a new date on the top, but it really wasn't a very good cover letter, so I modified it. I also found an old e-mail with a r�sum� attached, so I had a starting point there, too.

I e-mailed the r�sum� to Rijid. He will print it out at work, and bring it home to me. I will then see something obviously wrong, fix it, and e-mail it again. This is very silly and needlessly time-consuming, but I don't think the Fazuulian computer understands how the internet works. It does e-mail just fine, but I don't think I want to risk e-mailing my r�sum� there. If I don't have a decent hard copy r�sum� by Thursday, I'll ask Aaron and Chrys if I can borrow their printer. I should get some kind of bonus points for this round of "Jen wants to work at B&N," just because of all the extra effort I have to go through.
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There's still even more I could talk about, but this is a reasonable stopping point, and it's almost time for work. Tune in next time for even more stuff that's only really interesting to me!

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