7 posts tagged “blogging from work”

I got to my store this morning at 9:15.  I was feeling pretty good about myself for being early, until I went to fish my keys out of my pocket to open the door.  The keys weren't there.  *facepalm*

It turns out that I had left them in my backpack last night after I had changed clothes to go contra dancing.  Fortunately, my amazing, lovely and darling fiance was home, and she was willing to drive my keys down to me.  God, I love her.  I was able to get into the store by 9:45, and walked in to find my manager already in the store sitting at his desk in the office.  He had been there for an hour or two already, even though he wasn't on the schedule for today.  He would have been able to let me in if I had just called ahead.

*facepalm*

I looked back at my accrued benefits today, and it looks like I have an additional 1.5 - 2 weeks of vacation to use up this year.  It's use-it-or-lose-it, and it has to be used up by October 1. 

This is a quandry that I do not mind contemplating.

So apparently my boss has five weeks of vacation this year.  Compounding this is the fact that we are not allowed to take vacation from October to December, and that my boss has already had to cancel one attempted vacation earlier this year. 

What does all of this mean?  Yeah, you guessed it...  He's off for a week again.

Fun, fun, fun...

Telerib FTW!

Now THAT'S a good cup of coffee!

Heh...

So, the one time this week that I've actually been able to get to bed early, what happens?  Yeah, you guessed it... Someone called me an hour after I fell asleep.  *le sigh* 

It's ironic, really.  I'm always up until 12 or 1 every night anyway.  I'm just a night person and most nights I just don't get tired until I've been puttering at the computer for several hours.  Calling me at 11:30 is just fine, most nights.  It's just that no one ever does.

In addition to that, the person who called me was returning my call from earlier in the evening.  (This was *SO* not her fault!)  What makes it funny is that by all rights she should have been too busy to return my call at all.  You see, I had completely forgotten that she's on a working vacation out west somwhere this week.  Had I remembered this, I wouldn't even have bothered her while she's out having fun.  You know, this friend of mine really ought to have a website or something where she announces what's going on in her life so that people know when she leaves town like this.  Oh wait...

Have any of you ever gotten one of these phone calls?  I love how no matter how hard you try to sound coherent, it never comes out that way.  I really tried to say "Hello" in a charming and lively manner, and her first words to me were something like, "I just woke you up, didn't I?"

Anyway...  Back to work!

So those two megaphones that I went hither and yon for last night so that I could have them in time for the immigration rally this morning?  Yeah...  It turns out one was missing a part and I didn't know about it until I tried to deliver them.  All of that extra effort for nothing.  grumblegrumblegrumble...

You know, I wonder why no one's ever noticed before that retail sucks.