Monday, October 27, 2008

Pretend there's an interesting title..

Here's what happened in the last week.
Weather:
It only gets into the 50's during the day and gets down into the 20s at night. The wind is cold, and the leaves are starting to fall off the trees. One weather Report said it might snow sometime in that first week in Nov.So the weather is pretty nice right now.
The Pets:
Well our hamster shit stain died. She was an older hamster when we got her, and they don't live long either so we knew she wouldn't be around long. We got a new hamster this time a regular sized one with long hair.we named her 13. shes our 13th pet in the last 6 years.We also got a new turtle a little pastel red eared slider. we named her XY, because we call zelda "Z" for short so now we have XY&Z.The pics below are shit stain,13,and the last pic is of XY&Z
Work:
Work is going about the same. Still avoiding the calls to go register. yesterday they came and got me to go up and register guess they knew i was just going to keep ignoring the calls to go up there. so i had to do that for a few hours. The last couple of days they have been pulling to go help out in other departments. yesterday i worked in the grocery aisles..fucking hated it. i gave up 4 and half hours later when i hit the canned vegetables and went back to the toilet paper and chemicals..the day before they had me help out in the Halloween aisles.. what a mess that was.. i don't know why they cant just leave me alone to work in the department they hired me for.they started to give me more hours. i'm now up to 29.50 hours a week..i dont know why they cant give me that 10 min and make it an even 30 hours .Another week down in Hell-Mart.
Other Stuff:
Below is a couple of pics taken the other day at this pumpkin patch thing we all went to.oh fable 2 for xbox360, good game!.Thats about all that happened in the last week.

Colors

Below is some pics of the trees in town that changed colors.just click the pic below. if you cant click it in the email, you have to go the blog itself to click it.
Fall Colors

Sunday, October 19, 2008

ramblings

so let me wrap up week three in hell-mart for you ...BLAH!... only bright spot was payday(damn its been so long since i had one of those..lol.)found out that another toad(Lurch) of ours in California escaped the tank and our brother stepped on him..so now lurch and fire crotch are dead..there's only two left now.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

fire crotch

got a phone call from home last night. one of our toads(fire crotch) that we left behind died last night.... r.i.p fire crotch....
in the picture below he is the one sulking on the rock in the middle of the pic

Monday, October 13, 2008

week 2--hell mart

so week two is done and over with. i went ok i guess. one day they called me to register so i decided when in Rome do as the Romans. i played dumb and called the people over who are in charge of the cashiers( i don't remember what they are called) over to my register almost for every transaction. made it look i didn't know what the hell i was doing..lol..told people in line you might want to go to another register this is going to take awhile..the last time i called them over they just shut my register off( the store was still packed of people..its always that way.lol.) and told me to go on break..lol..they didn't call my name the rest of the night to register..lol..so i guess my plan worked..then an other night the lady that is in charge of the overnight stocker's had a cow because i didn't make a cardboard bale..don't know if you know what that is but there's this huge machine that you throw cardboard in and it compresses it and makes a bale of it to put on a pallet and take it out of there. thats a two man job and she expected me to do it. plus i was never shown how to do it. she made one of the night crew guys show me how. well we get that done,and I'm walking by her and she gives me this look. well i stopped and told her you know if this company where to actually train their employees on how to make a bale maybe that would have gotten done. she told me well the floor people have a tendency to leave their cardboard and my guys wind up making the bales..shes like well i didn't mean to sound bitchy to you and i told well you did and walked off...I'm still not going to make the bales.. fuck that..I'll hide the cardboard first..lol..think i'm going to have to make this job a game..get out of doing the register,, hide the cardboard, me against them...judgment: do i like working there...not really...I'm i going to keep working there?..what other choice do i have.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

bigfoot

Gina goes into the pet store the other to buy crickets for the fire bellies. they had another fire belly toad. except this one is a little off. it was swimming in circles and had this weird head tilt. and he was huge. so of course we brought him home named him Bigfoot. pet store let us have him for free. guess they didn't think they could sell him with him swimming in circles like that. hes in the tank with the other toads. they seem to like each other none of them have tried to kill each other yet. We noticed that besides the size difference one of Bigfoot's hands is smaller then the others. we are thinking he was a birth defect or something. thats ok with us, hes kind of fun to watch, swimming the way he does and he looks at you with that funny head tilt of his. I'll try to get a pic of Bigfoot up here later.

3,4,5

day 3: of work they had me come in and learn the cash register. i get up there and they put me with this girl and i watched her register for a few minutes and she turns to me and asks me do you think you got it. i said sure. i get on the register, and took to it quickly and a the girl said wow in the 5 years i've worked here you are the only the 2nd person to catch on that quick...so they made me cashier for the next 6 hours. ugh, i hated it. then they made me do the 20 items or less line. i almost slipped and said the f word too. this guy comes up with what looks like a tree root to me and i turned to the girl training me with root in hand, and almost said what the fuck is this..lol.i caught myself..apparently it was a ginger root.so that was day 3.
day 4: they finally let me work the floor( the job i was hired for).they had me work with the department manager. she gave me the rundown and i went and did what she explained we had to do.i finished pretty quick everything she had me do. she told me your doing a great job and catching on quickly, she said that she gets a lot people who work there that are basically dumb as dirt( this whole town is dumb as dirt, its kinda scary too..lol.)i told her i noticed that with this town, told her i was from California. she said that explains it.lol...so she showed me how to do the inventory gun and pick merchandise from the back and stuff the department manager does..lol..that was kinda cool.
day5: this was Saturday night and i was on my own. there was on one else working in my department. which i liked i didn't have to answer to anyone. so i go in and restock the toilet paper( it amazes me how fast the toilet paper goes, there must be some big shitters in this town). clear the aisles of stuff that doesn't belong, break down the empty cardboard boxes, turn in damaged stuff.When i went to turn in the stuff that doesn't belong in my department i ran into these three girls that just gave me shit when i asked what bin does these items go in. they were like figure it out, if you cant just scan it and it will tell you ...well i said fine and i started to put the stuff away my way..lol..i put spray paint in the toy bin, toys in the food bin, food with the apparel.. as i was leaving that area i was thinking to myself have fun sorting that shit..they called for registered trained associates to come cashier like every ten min. i ignored every call. fuck that I'm not cashiering.until they actually call my name over the intercom to come up to cashier i'm not doing it..lol.whats cool is i don't have to be back to work until Wednesday.
Judgment: do i like the job?, yeah i guess. there's a lot worse jobs i could be doing i guess.week one went ok, wonder how week 2 will go.