The Diet Coke of Evil
Things are looking up.
12:24, Tue 1 Apr 2008
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I actually had a pretty decent weekend. Things at work have been kind of rough for a couple of weeks. In short, we weren't any busier than usual, but we have had an inordinate number of very large and/or complex jobs that put us WAY behind (behind MY standard, not the stores. We were still okay by the store's standard). Anyway, this weekend I got EVERYTHING done. 100% caught up. Which made me feel like a total hero. Today I just came in, did the couple of frames that arrived and spent a good part of the day trying to figure out what to do with myself, because I forgot all the things I was planning to do before I got too busy just keeping us afloat to think about improving things.
I ended up working on a project I'm doing for Tim and the store. It's pretty cool. It's an egyptian motif-ed hawk carving. I'm doing a WAY over the top design for it because I figure it's for display in the store, we oughtta show off a little right? Besides, it's fun to try outlandish shit once in a while. This is a creative job. It's SUPPOSED to be fun, right? Anyway, I got the first part of that done. I'll take pictures and post them when it's done. But I was happy that I got to work on something beyond just trying to beat a deadline.
Finally, my manager, who usually doesn't have two meaningful words to say to me, and I mostly figure he assumes I'm a slacker and an idiot, because he has no idea what really goes on in our shop, actually came up to ME and suggested in pretty strong terms that I'm probably going to get a shop of my own sometime in the near future. His emphasis was on how I need to start learning the management side of the frame shop (parts of which I'm doing already) because there are going to be opportunities for advancement soon. He said that several times... that there were going to be vacancies soon. Later on in the evening, he mentioned a new store being opened up across town, and made a point of telling me that the framing department is right up front. I get the impression that I might be getting put in for that position which would be AWESOME. On the one hand, it would suck, because I'll lose my team, and I have a really good team right now, and with the way Michael's hires people who KNOWS what I might get if I have to start from scratch, but still, it's my own department, and you can bet it's more money, which I kind of need these days. So that will probably mean moving out of the ghetto. Or at least into a one-bedroom apartment in the ghetto, instead of sharing a house with six strangers, and maybe I'll even get a kitchen, so I can actually keep stuff in a fridge and make things at home and not have to eat out every damn day, because it's getting expensive, and if I had more money, and didn't have to walk a couple miles every day, I'd be getting fat.
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12:59, Tue 1 Apr 2008 .. Posted by pd
How about I chase YOUR tail, and YOU chase MINE?
:)
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10:26, Tue 1 Apr 2008 .. Posted by thedietcokeofevilHa ha. If you weren't so involved with your man, I'd think you were flirting with me. More's the pity.
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