It snowed out today. Nothing accumulated or piled up, but nonetheless, it snowed out. October 16th and it had to flurry. Actually I think we have a flurry or two every year by this time so it’s really no big deal, unless you talk to the old people. Because if you ask old man Clarence he’ll surely tell you that this is what it did back in 1925 and that was the worst winter on record and according to the way his knees are aching, he’s pretty sure we’ll have a repeat of that again this year. Actually today while I was at work I overheard these two old women talking and it went something like this… Lady 1 “oh my god did you see it snowing today?” Lady 2 “yes, I just can’t believe it”
Ok, first off it is the middle of October and we are in Wisconsin, somebody explain to me what the big surprise is. I would understand and totally agree with that conversation if it were say… July. But October just doesn’t cut it now does it, at least not those of us still in touch with reality.
Do you know what the coolest thing about this whole election is? It’s the fact that in my lifetime it’s the most active I’ve seen the general public get involved. Whether you are pulling for Kerry or Bush your views are totally represented in this election. Even in our little horseshit local paper in the letters to the editor I see back and forth about both of the candidates. I’m pretty sure it has to do with the war because things like that usually seem to suddenly politically motivate people. I do love how people seem to think that their measly opinion is going to change my mind on how I will vote. It’s like look, if George Bush can’t convince me to vote for him how in the fuck do you think you’re going to pull off the job skipper? You’re not, so put your opinion in your pocket and go the fuck home.
I’m getting sick of work. Let me rephrase that. I’m getting sick and tired of all of the stupid fucking bullshit that I have to put up with at work… yeah, that’s more like it. Our corporate office thinks that everything that we carry in our store needs to go through them first so they can download the prices to our store. That’s fine, except when I send the information to them and then like three weeks later the shit still isn’t in the system. There is also the instance of when we have items automatically subbed to us or we get shit that was ordered six to eight months in advance and that stuff isn’t in our system either. I actually emailed them last week and told them that it was ridiculous and that I was going to get my pricing gun out and start stickering everything. Apparently if you want to get people in a corporate setting excited, you mention something like that. It didn’t fix anything, just got a few empty promises out of people.
Now tomorrow at work there is going to be a new girl working at the service counter. When I say new girl I mean new girl. She has never ran the service counter before. There are a lot of things to know at the service counter so when I asked the Assistant Manager if this girl had any experience she said no, you’re going to have to show her how to open. Of course I had to remind her that I have clue fucking zero about opening the service counter since I have never done it and everything I do over there is based on the roughly 1 and 1/2 hours of total training time that I got over there. So tomorrow should be interesting to say the least and the mood I’m in I doubt I will be any help whatsoever because my main goal at that place is to just get the fuck out of there. In fact that is my new main goal… to get the fuck out of there. Permanently.