Dang old stuff...

Anyone else want to napalm toaster strudel commercials ? Especially the latest ones, with the two cutesy-tootsie girl actors and their cutesy tootsie facial expressions regarding the ORGASMIC flavor of the toaster strudel ? It's not that i dislike toaster strudels... but their advertising is quite slanderous. Between the two, i find that the strudels tend to be soggy more often than not (even when toasted, rather than nuked), and that there's really no wrong way to do a poptart. Oh and there are generic poptarts.

I have to (well, get to...) go to work in 28 minutes. My shift doesn't actually start for two hours, but i have to be there a half hour early, it takes a half hour to get there, and i'm giving myself a half hour to be safe. I'm stressin... because i don't know *exactly* the work i'm going to be doing, and therefore cannot be confident in my first day performance. I have a general idea, but that's not enough. Additionally, their policy is "Exposed body piercings must be removed or covered with tape or a bandage." I've worked at a place with this exact policy before, and they made no requirement of me, because my plugs are such that noting can "catch" on them, and they cannot simply fall out. It's not a big deal to me, as long as it's not a big deal to them. Then again, walking around with tape on my ears won't be fun. But i'll do it if they want me to. I'm bringing 3 kinds with me. Plus bandages.

OK OK i gotta take off now.

Get it ! Got It ? Good... ?

Well, I've filled out the W4 and direct deposit, and gotten my security and time-badges. That means i have the job. For now. I hope they don't back out... I honestly don't think they will. I had two interviews with them. They didn't seem phased at the idea of me leaving OTC without notice for my epilepsy, as well they shouldn't have. They seemed equally unconcerned about me leaving Premier because my truck broke down. That, combined with my having given OTC a one week notice before i quit the first time, and that they hired me back, so i must have been on good terms.

Alot of crap. 99% true, but alot of crap, too.

That said, It's 25 miles away, and there may be some fiddling with my piercings to be done. I'm not sure what days i'll be working, or how many hours a week. I find that out in a few hours. The pay will start at 8.85 and could go up to about 13. I'll take it ! :)

Yeah... No go.

I didn't get the Hy Vee job. My backup plan, seems to have helped, at the very least. I redid my Resume and made a cover-letter. Woo woo. That, and pursued some "alternative job listing" websites... careerlink and omaha.com just weren't cutting it anymore. I'd applied with a certain staffing agency before, but they just said "meh, you quit your last job." Well, they held a recruitment thing today, so i went in and impressed them. Most individuals had poor/inapplicable work history. Most had criminal backgrounds. I have 2-3 years experience (6 year work history) and no crimes. I was the 2nd best dressed of the crowd. One of 2 with a resume/coverletter. I was the only one who had *all* needed documents. I'm going back in tomorrow to (hopefully) fill out the rest of the paperwork, pick a job, and start. Annnnnyways, there's nothing to say i get there, and they just toss me out on my bum for the same reason they did last time. But i feel better about this situation than the last.

Job Update, Random Rant

I'm pretty sure i have the job. I've talked to the "hiring manager" twice now, and the "shift manager" once. They both appear to want me. According to the hiring manager at our "interview"
(his words) he would have hired me on the spot if he could have. However, the decision is not entirely his, and he has no access to any of the HR... um... Resources. And the HR lady is on vacation. Soooo... that means i need to call the HR lady on Monday (unless someone else gets ahold of me first). I feel good about this job. Here's why:

• It is a medium sized store, i'd be working with about 15 people. (too few means drama, too many means politics... 15 is a good medium...)
• It is right across the street from our apartment. This would save oodles of gas money.
• It pays as much to start as Target did when i quit.
• I will be getting oodles of hours to start, as they are behind in their stocking.
  
• They KNOW about my school goals NOW.
  
• Probably more... I'll think about it tomorrow.

Nevertheless, i haven't gotten the call yet. I have an understandably eggs-in-the-basket feeling right now. I haven't done much as far as job-search goes since my interview there. I know exactly what it is i will do if i don't get this one though. That is, if i don't go whacko and splatter my brains.

Now then, on to the rant. It's a lame one. I'd like stuff to go back to how it was... 5 weekdays and 2 on the weekend. Ya know ? Have stuff open on the weekdays, closed on the weekends. OK, have grocery stores and gas stations open on weekends. MAYBE restaurants. BUT THATS IT.

OR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EVERYTHING OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK.

ONE OF THE TWO.

All of this grey area crap is annoying. Too much of this monday-saturday, or one set of hours for m-f, another for saturday, another for sunday. GOD ITS ANNOYING. Yeah business as usual. Mmhmm suuuure. Screw that. I say, do it old school or just be open 7 days a week, same hours, one of the 2.

That and the whole "You can't buy beer from 2am-6am" thing. THAT IS MY TIME. I'm writing this at 3am, ok ? Think about it. If i get up at 4pm, and go to bed at 8am (approx), that puts 2-6am cleanly at the end of my night. I mean, i'd like to be sipping a beer right now, and slip into bed in an hour or so. But i don't have any. OK, what now ? Grape juice ? Yeah, that's gonna get me a bit drowsy. Oh ok warm milk then. Freakin commies. Yeah sure, go buy the sh*t before 2am uhhuh ok. WHY SHOULD I JFNJFGNJK-ING HAVE TO ?!?!?!??

One more thing and im done. How do you spell grey ? I've always spelled it with an e. Always will. Shoot me.

Pray for me !

I think i just got a job. If you read this, pray for me. I need this job.