October 9, 2007

  • This Morning

    I am rambunctiously silly at any other time of the day, but if I must get up before seven, you can expect me to be business-like and sometimes downright surly. In fact, unless I've stayed up all night to get to morning, it's best not to talk to me at all until eight or nine.

    Today was my day off, but I had to work. I actually volunteered... because the evil one couldn't finish the one thing she basically had to do from this week's merch assignment. Everything else that she does changes so rarely that she might as well not even do anything (doing nothing is actually something she's quite good at). I could have just let my GM come in to do it, but she does so much that I would have felt bad if I had. She hardly seems to sleep so as it is. So I went in this morning at 6 am, which means I got up at 5, and worked three and a quarter hours before we opened the store to finish what should have been prepped over the weekend. In fact, my GM told me the evil one was pulling the books for the sale and so I worked on other projects. Well, I've had enough of the evil one in her pointy highheel shoes and too pretty to work in clothes flouncing all over the store doing nothing but nitpick at my work. Have I mentioned lately how glad I am that the 12th is her last day? Three days to go! Wooooooooooooooo!

    And yet, she's still throwing her weight around. Every week I have to link what the head office sends us to a spreadsheet and reorganize it to make working from it easier. Every week I do it the exact same way and distribute it to the people who will work on it during the week, including her little toady. So she left the price change list on my desk the other day with a note to sort it in ascending, instead of descending, order. Whatever! Her little toady never complained to me, and I don't think that it's so hard to work from the last sheet any more than it is to work from the first. Yeesh, just swap the pages if it's such a trial. As if I should care what she has to say anyway. Three days and I won't have to even think about her any more. She doesn't even talk to me or return my emails. And I have a communication problem? I think not!

    But, back to this morning... I put in my extra hours. I will get overtime or I will get to leave earlier one night this week. As much as I might like to leave earlier, I wouldn't mind the time and a half either. As I was leaving, one of my coworkers asked why I was there, and I said "finishing J__ M's project" since everyone knows she can never be bothered to finish anything she starts, or if she does, it takes her twice as long as any normal person. Yeah, I've been snarky about her all week. I was ecstatic that she gave her notice, but I would have been just as happy, if not more so, if she had just walked out and never returned.

    The thing is, when I got out to my car, I had a flat tire. I've never had a flat tire in my entire life. I wouldn't even know how to change it. Luckily, there is a Sears Auto center in the same parking lot and I could drive my poor car over and get a new tire (because it was REALLY flat) without worrying too much about bending the rim. It cost me nearly $90 to replace the tire because there was no way it could be fixed, even I could tell that much just looking at it. But to make a long story short (which I really haven't, have I? lol), I kind of felt like I was being punished for being snarky about the evil one. I should just be happy she's going and stop sniping about her. She just brings out the worst in me. Maybe it's because she has the same name as my sister, and the same arrogance. I don't know. I just wish it was Friday already.

    One of my coworkers, J__ D, is going to apply for her position. I hope he gets it. He's a good guy and a hard worker. He told me that only two people are applying so far as he knows. The other person, M____ W is a nice enough guy, but he's also friends with J__ M and I don't think he'd do as good a job as J__ D. M___ W is the cafe supervisor and to be honest, he seems a bit overwhelmed by that job, let alone a managerial one.

    So anyway, that was my morning. I went to the gym while they changed my tire. Boy am I sore. But I like it. I think I'll stick with it. The only thing I don't like is how loud they have the music in the "girls'" gym. Maybe it's because the girls' gym is a smaller area and it just sounds really loud.... but I'd really rather listen to my IPod than whatever station they tune into. Some of the songs are okay, but I'd like to be oblivious to my surrounding while I workout (so I can pretend to be alone and not be self-conscious), and their music is kind of distractingly vanilla compared to my own eclectic tastes.

    So, anyway... that was my morning... oh and then I went shopping. It's never too soon to do holiday shopping. People who work in retail will know what I mean.  Hope everyone had a better day than mine.