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A hell of a night

April 18, 2009 | 2 comments

I have heard a rumor that makes me happy! Supposedly, Valarie, the gal I am filling in for, will be coming back to our store in four days. If that is the case, I will be back on nights in about a week. I sure as hell hope so — I am really freaking tired of second shift. I don’t get any support from management — in fact, sometimes it seems they are intentionally trying to keep me from making sure all my shit gets done.
I am supposed to have 8-12 people a night. My entire crew is six people, and they all want days off so I don’t get all of them at once. I have been trying for about two months to get management to let me hire more people. They finally let me hire four about a week ago. Three of them passed the drug test and background check, which came as a shock to me, as normally one in ten passes. Two of the new people started tonight.

Tonight we had two trucks. We normally have one a night, so that is already a pretty tough night for us. I usually borrow people from other areas of the store when I’m short handed, but tonight I had a total of five people and they didn’t see any reason I should have to borrow anyone. However, new people aren’t quite good enough yet to count. They don’t know what they’re doing. And worse, they keep asking the experienced people what to do  and how to do it. That means that once you balance it out I really only had two or three people tonight. We are supposed to have all our shit off the truck(s) and on the floor when third shift gets in at ten. We didn’t finish unloading the trucks until 9:30, then we had to take lunch. So needless to say, it was a hell of a night.

I am really, really, really looking forward to going back to night shift.

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Self Censorship

April 5, 2009 | 4 comments

I have been starting to realize one of the problems of social networking. Until recently, I hadn’t gotten into social networking, as I don’t have many friends to follow, or who would follow me, and it made me feel a bit like a loser. However, after finally catching the point — to make friends — I now have accounts at MySpace, Facebook, Identi.ca, Twitter (which I don’t really use… Identi.ca cross-posts there for me auto-magically), and a few other sites. In addition, I have the Glue add-on for Firefox. Glue is awesome enough that I am going to have to write an entire entry detailing it. For now, though, I would just recommend you install it.

The problem, however, is that some of my friends are coworkers. I have never had an issue complaining about work, but as I am a supervisor, I now have to be careful about what I say. While none of my online friends so far are people I have had issues with, I don’t know who will find me through them. And if I post the wrong thing, I’m sure I could wind up in quite a bit of trouble. I have always censored myself to some degree, watching what I say about my family and friends, at least the ones that knew where my site is. I have made exceptions a few times, and I have always wound up regretting it. However, I have always felt free to complain about my job, and now I feel like that is another area I have to watch what I say in.

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Daycare

March 9, 2009 | 2 comments

I am technically a third shift supervisor at work, but our second shift supervisor, Valorie, is at another store for a while helping them remodel. She will be there for three months, and while she is there I am filling in for her on second shift. I am about a month into it.

The second shift team works 4pm to 1am, and our basic responsibilities are unloading the trucks and getting the pallets of freight pulled out to the sales floor before the third shift guys show up, so they can start working it as soon as they clock in. It isn’t the easiest job ever, but it isn’t paticularly hard either. The problem is that most of my crew has the maturity level of ten year olds. And considering my brothers-in-law are eight and ten, I know what I am speaking of.

I can’t wait to go back to nights.

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Catching up

March 5, 2009 | 1 comment

I know I haven’t posted in almost two years… it has been a busy two years. I am going to try to get into a schedule of posting at least twice a week from now on… if a week goes by without at least a post feel free to email me and demand that I write something!

I have switched my blog from TextPattern over to WordPress. I like TxP but WP 2.7 was just too sweet to pass over. I changed my theme in the process, but may port my LCARS theme over to WP at some point in the future. We’ll see.

Things with the wife are going well. We had some issues early in our marriage, but I think all married people do. We’ve gotten past that though. Yay!

I am not working at Home Depot anymore… I haven’t since June of 2007. Since August of 2007 I have been working at WalMart. I am an instock supervisor there now, which means that I am in charge of the people who unload trucks and stock the shelves. It has it’s challenges but overall it is a job that I do quite well (I am told) and enjoy most days.

I haven’t had an internet connection for the last two years, other than on a crappy cell phone, and am finally getting involved in some of the sites I have been reading about. You can now find me on identica, last.fm, twitter, facebook, and myspace (which is really retweets of my identica posts). I don’t have much under any of these accounts as they are all fairly new but if you want to follow me, feel free.

For Christmas my wife got me a new laptop. It is a low-end Compaq, but is the first new computer I have ever owned, and after installing Ubuntu on it, I have had no problems with its speed. It is nice being able to click the Firefox logo and have the window open without having time for a coffee break. I still don’t have internet (because I refuse to do business with the only company that provides broadband in my area) but am stealing borrowing my neighbor’s wifi.

Hopefully I will remember to use that borrowed wifi to post another entry within the next few days.

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