Am I Wrong For Feeling this Way?

This morning I did not wake up in a very good mood. I think the heat has a lot to do with it. I ended up running late this morning. Not good this seeing as I had a ton of work left to do from yesterday.

I left my house at 7:45 a.m. and I am supposed to be at work at 8:00 a.m. Well I got here at about 8:15. My excuse, because I needed, no, wanted to feed my caffeine habit and get an ice coffee.

So I stopped for my usual morning ice coffee and as I am leaving there is a guy outside with a gas can. (I stopped at 7-11, there is a gas station at this location) He looks like he hasn’t had a shower and not very kept up. He sees the cash in my hand and waves his gas can at me and asks “Could you spare some money?”

Ummmm…..what ever happened to can you spare some change? I guess I should not have expected anything less, seeing as I did have cash in my hand.

“No, sorry.” I replied as I looked at the $2.25 in my hand. So he gives me a little glare and walks back to where he was leaning up against the dumpster. I get in my car, start it and put my seatbelt on. Now I have another bad habit and that is smoking. So I grab a cigarette, light it and look up. I swear this guy must have been grillin me because then he signals for one of my cigarettes. Give me a break pal, shook my head no, rolled my eyes and tried to drive away. Well I was so perturbed that I put my car in drive when I should have been reverse. I thank god I didn’t step on the gas, I just rolled forward and hit the curb in front of my car. If I had hit the gas I would have ran his ass over!!

Now, I have no problem with charity. We make enough money to live and donate to a worthy cause. Usually I make donations to the school my son goes to. I help sponsor trips for students that maybe less fortunate. I think that is a pretty good cause!

So I really do not feel the need to give money to someone who doesn’t work. If they do, they have a such a bad habit that it requires them to go out and hang around a gas station begging for money to fuel that addiction or the need to eat. I was born at night but it certainly was not last night. I know that gas can was a cover up. Well, I didn’t know, but I assumed especially after he didn’t ask anyone else going into the store or the people coming out. I think he thought I was an easy target because I already had the money in my hand. Shame on me, next time I will put the money away before I leave the store..

Today At Work It's Review Day

yea..(can't you see the enthusiasm)

Once a year I am evaluated on job performance and if I have been a compliant employee I will receive the "standard across the board" 3% wage increase. The last two years I have received that bonus with a 1/2 assed smile and tried to show how grateful I was even though inside I wanted to bitch slap them into next year. Sitting in front of a firing squad with a smile is not pleasant when all you feel is sheer disappointment.

This year there will be no smile. I get the 3% it will barely cover the increase on my my medical insurance. 4% would cover the increase and 5% would be start on showing how that they thought I was doing a great job.

I will be back later with either a rant or a rave. Time to go an get ready for work!!

Happy Blogging!!

Support Our Troops

Many of us have helped support our troops with care packages and letters of encouragement. During my morning surf session and coffee I came upon another Support Our Troops website.

We all have DVD's we don't watch because we bought it or received it as a gift and we don't like it. Or it could be that you just watched it so many times that you really can't watch it again. So instead of throwing it away or letting it sit in your DVD rack collecting dust why not donate them to Operation DVD? There is a mailing address where you can send them. The also have a telephone number to call if you would like to drop them off at a collection box and need to locate one. If you don't have any DVD's you want to donate you can donate money (yes, it is tax-deductible) that will help pay to ship these movies to the troops, you can do that as well.

What Does Your Company Pay You To Do?

What do you get paid to do at work?? What I mean is - What is your company paying you to do when you are actually not working on job related things? Come on you can tell me, I won’t tell!

Me: I get paid to blog. I try not to but it is really hard not to. Some day’s I have a ton of ideas and a whole lot to say. Other days not very much but I still have the need to blog!!

Officemate #1: She gets paid to sleep! She is the inspiration behind this post is and I dedicate it to her!! Personally, I think it is time for her to retire, at 70 years old if you are falling asleep at work at 11:00 a.m, either you need to see a doctor, just in case something is wrong or you are just so physically tired and need to sleep a little later.

Today was extra special because she got caught by a lead person #1. Lead person #1 actually thought it was so funny, he had to leave the office. Officemate #1 has HUGE and I mean HUGE breasts. So she is sitting in her chair sleeping and her chin is on her chest. It kinda looked like a pillow….. LOL

Officemate #2: He gets paid to surf the Internet and write long ass emails that NOBODY ever reads. BTW, he doesn’t sleep or have huge boobs!!

So tell me your secrets…What does you company pay you to do????

Happy Anniversary To Me!

Today I have been at my job for 3 years! Not to bad, not the longest job I have ever had, but none the less, it is an accomplishment. Seeing as when I started here, there was absolutely no one to train me on the job. I knew the basics because I have been in Quality Assurance for ever! So 50% of it was a cake walk.

As for the other 50%..well that was a little less than desired. There was no one to train me on parts of the job that were new to me. There was no one to say these are the reports you need to take care of.

I can remember being in this position for 2 months and I get a call from the VP of Sales asking me why I hadn’t done the RMA Charts for June, July and August. The same person wanted to know where my end of fiscal year report for RMA’s was. HUH?? The fiscal year ended in June, it was now the end of August.

Then 3 weeks after that I received a tag team call from the Purchasing Manager and the Finance Officer wanting to know why I had $150,000.00 in the nonnettable stock location for RMA’s & MRB’s..Ummm

About the same time I was supposed to be closing and authorizing the closing of these said RMA’s. I’ll tell you I was lost and no one was there to help me. I came from a Heat Treating Facility, we offered a service, we didn’t make anything. So the RMA’s were a new thing for me.

I can say that it has been an interesting 3 years, some good times and some bad times. People come and go, one day they are here, the next they are gone! Well, here is to another year!!!

(I hope :0)