My Name Is…

Shake Zula, not Slim Shady. I finally got my Aqua Teen Hunger Force DVD’s almost two weeks ago and I’ve watched every episode at least once. The first few episodes weren’t quite as good as the newer ones, but they are still funny. Besides, whenever a show is trying to find their niche, it takes a while. I’ve got three shelves above my TV and entertainment equipment and when I first put those up I didn’t even have the bottom shelf filled with DVD’s. I had almost two shelves full, but the majority of items were old VHS tapes that I never watched. Now I’ve got both the bottom shelves filled up with DVD’s and I think I have about 4 DVD’s that have spilled over to the top shelf. My newest addition was Meet the Fockers which I picked up yesterday since I saw it in the theaters and knew I’d end up buying it.

I’ve been extremely busy doing shit at work and not doing some shit at work. Last Monday as you may have read, I kinda sorta blew up the master register. No big loss really, it was sick, it needed to be put down. Well, two days after that some big shots showed up in our store and since it was my day off I didn’t have to see them. They did however leave a nice long list of shit they wanted changed. Now I’ve bitched about Dollar Days before, but I’ll do a short review again. My gross profit is budgeted at 35% to 45% and the dollar shit is only getting me about a 25% margin. Now if I only have my little 20′ section it’s really not a problem is it? Well, on my notes I am told that I should get rid of my kitchen gadget section and replace it with dollar items. I am supposed to get rid of all my Rubbermaid containers and foil ware and replace those with dollar equivalents. All of my toys need to go away and I can replace them with dollar toys. My last remaining section of make-up which is Cover Girl has been given the axe. I was also told that I need to cut my light bulb section in half, as well as my pet section. Honestly, what in the fuck are they thinking? Gee, we’re not making nearly enough money here, let’s cut all the sections in half and see what happens.

The other fun I had is I quit doing price checks for my store. Here’s the skinny on that fun. Every week I would do a one page check. Once a month there would be a bigger list that I would have to go do, not to mention a monthly milk and bread check; these were all at competitors stores. Well, the monthly one was coming up on being due and I had asked our assistant twice when it was due, once on Friday and again on the following Tuesday. Both times I was told she didn’t know. Then on Wednesday, which just happened to be my day off mind you, I get an email from the assistant telling me that the list is due today and would I be able to do it. Well first off, I had asked when it was due and I never was told when it would be so if it was suddenly due today, too fucking bad. Second, it’s my fucking day off and there is no reason to even think to ask me to do anything for that bullshit store when I’m not on the clock; ever. I was extremely busy last Wednesday, doing yard work and doing some minor customizing on my car. Because I was actually busy I didn’t check my emails after I sent back the one to work telling her I wouldn’t be able to do that. Around 8 that night I did get back into the house and I checked the computer and there was an email from work. In the email it was telling me that someone else was sent up there and told me I needed to be responsible in the future and wanted to know if I could do that. Hmm, I’ll have to think about that later because I’m a little busy at the moment saying every swear word I can think of directed at my job. The first thing I did was print up the email and then Thursday I took it into work and showed it to my boss and told him there was no way in hell I was ever doing price checks for the store again. Then yesterday I was asked by the assistant if I did the price check for the week. I just looked at her and said I didn’t have any time for that. A little later the store manager asked me if I was sure I didn’t want to do price checks anymore and I said, yeah, I’m pretty sure and just walked away.

Today I went around and put in some applications. If they spaz that bad because I stopped doing price checks, what are they going to do when I tell them I’m quitting? Sure as shit if I don’t walk off the job immediately the most they will get out of me is two weeks. So if they fell apart because I quit doing price checks, what will happen when I abandon two departments, stop backing up the bookkeeper and am no longer available to give the service counter breaks? I can only hope I find out really soon.