Looking for an on-going topic

Now that this has been up for a while it seems as though it is time to get a focus... a main idea to write about and discuss with everyone. But focusing on one topic never really appealed to me that much and unless something comes to mind really quite easily then forget about it - its not worth the effort.

It is kind of embarrasing in a way though - I go around to look at other blogs and they all have topics: Animals, cars, books in progress, games etc etc... Maybe I'm just not interesting enough? Who knows. But my main goal here was to keep an open journal about nothing and that's what it's going to be.

BTW everyone, Merry Christmas! I'm jewish so it really doesn't mean anything to me but a load of free stuff and good food. That and everything is closed except for a few gas stations - but even that ticks me off.

Here we go - let me pose a question: Is it so hard to give people to day off now adays that the poor guy at the gas station needs to be at work? What ever happened to treating everyone equally? Oh, and all you idiots who went shopping yesterday and purposly held up the cashiers and attending staff because you hadn't finished your shopping yet - reivaluate yourself. These people don't care about the money they get for staying later, they have no ties to their place of business except for a paycheck. But every year some asshole clings on to the last second because they hadn't shopped for anyone on their list yet and they expect the retailers to be sympathetic. Well we never are stupid, how would you like to be inadvertantly told that you mean jack shit to your customers. You are so low on the food chain that they don't even care if you miss out on some of your Christmas so that assholes can finish up buying Auntie the CD she never wanted, but gets because of her inconciderate nephew who forgot she existed until the night before the holiday.

Those people make me ill.

48 hours of Hell left!

And now we are down to the last 2 days of torture... then no more Best Buy! I couldn't be happier - well, I don't know about that, (someone could buy me that Hybrid I've been looking at longingly for the last 2 months!). But as for today the countdown continues and the only thing between me and a one week vacation is this dumb job that I couldn't be more fortunate to have found a way out of.

Take it easy everyone, and if I don't write have a happy holiday!

Boredom

So everyone at work is now calling me a "short timer". Never heard this before... hey at least I'm not getting "traitor"or other wonderful terms of endearment. But damn its boring here now that I don't give a crap. At least before I would roll up my sleeves - so to speak - and run around like a lunitic. Now, well, I don't care enough to bother and I sit at the computer all day and do things like this.

Does anyone else have this problem?

Happy Chunuka Everybody!

So if you missed yesterdays post then you can blame the holiday, but that doesn't mean I feel at all guilty. No, no, no, in fact I had an excellent time and posting to this was the least of my concerns.

The only problem with having the party is that my boyfriend and me ended up in the same car for over three hours - both back and forth - yesterday. And if any of you have been in a long term relationship before then you know how this one ended up...

Me "Could you check the map to make sure that route one is at this 93 junction?"
Him "Well, route one is here, but if you go north the highway ends - south it goes on for awhile."
Me "Sure about that?" - I had lived around here and thought I needed north, but if it ended within a few miles then I've just got to be losing my mind right?
Him "Yup." I should know by now that he can't read maps to save his life.

15 minutes later

Me "Where in hell is this highway taking us right now?"
Him "Norwood" Innocent - always playing innocent
Me "What the... Norwood?! We need Saugus not NORWOOD!"
Him Fliped through the index - "Saugus isn't in the index."
Me "Fine, Lynn, Lynnfield - find them... where are we?" Breaking and turning around on route one and getting back on 93 to go somewhere else - anywhere else but here.

The Sep Notice

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To whom it may concern;

This letter is to officially give my two week notice to Best Buy, effective on December 11, 2004, in order to pursue a job opportunity with Citizens Bank. I would also request that all unpaid personal hours are paid into my final paycheck. I also feel as though I should explain the reason why.

The first is the store's unfair treatment of women. This can be illustrated simply by the ratios of women on the sales floor, in operation and in leadership. While I cannot agree with {the general manager} on everything, at least he attempted to move women foreward in this truly masculine environment.

Secondly, it seems as though I was promoted to supervisor as a place holder for another candidate that needed to be given time to relocate. I do not feel it is fair to put someone in a position and not train them adequestly enough and then give them an ultimatum where they either lose their status or their job entirely for no clear reason. I chose to step down not because I didn't think I could handle the job - the numbers clearly show that - but because if I had stayed in position I would have been terminated for things I could never control. Between this and the treatment I recieved from a small part off the managment staff, I did not feel safe continuing here.

The third and final reason is my family. There have been a countless number of times that I have had to choose work over my family due to work not letting me have the appriopriate time off - even with plenty of qualified people to "fill my shoes" in my absence. I understand this is retail and that the hours are tough, but for a company that claims to have such high ethis, it is this piece that saddens me the most.

However, even with these low points it should be made clear that I did enjoy most of my time here at Best Buy. There are many here that will be missed - included a good part of the management staff, and I do thank them for time well spent.

Sincerly, ME
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Now translation for everyone out there whose wondering:

In management I like:
Erin
Rob
Pete
In management I hate:
Marc
Jeremy

And in general I would love to blow the place up!

Do you guys think I was too whinny? See you tomorrow!

Link

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Here is one of my Beardies, Link. And its a girl, not a boy... I know I know I know, but whose going to waste their breathe trying to explain boy names and girl names to my wonderful boyfriend? I'm not. But the problem is she knows she's cute - a little too much possing for the camera.

Signed up for Flickr today

So there's bad news and god news - the bad news is that I'm going way too far with this blogging thing then I ever thought possible. The good new is that I opened an account with Flicker.com and therer should be photos gracing the pages Apartment soon. Not today because I have to go into work - but even that has it's positives. Today I hand in the seperation notice! (BTW if people are interested, I'll be posting a copy here sometime tomorrow with managment reactions.)

In other news, I went looking at the Dodge Magnum yesterday with Nick. He fell in love with the car at the first commercial he saw months ago... he kept pausing and rewinding our TiVo for a good 5 minutes before I hit him over the head with a pillow and the night continued if I remember correctly. The car is okay. I like it in some respects but in others it makes no sense. Why does Dodge need to capture some of the station wagon buyers? What's the point? Oh.. I know... it has a Hemi! ::eye rolls::

All right guys - tomorrows going to be a big day for Apartment... hope your ready!

Day two and things are looking up already

So, as you may have already read, I was in search of a new job. Best Buy just wasn't cutting it anymore so I though it time to say goodbye and move on. Well, while the blog doesn't mention this I have spent the better part of two months trying to escape from that place.. and not for lack of trying... but nothing ever came up. But good news! I'm out. Effective on January third I can burn my blues and get to working behind the counter at a bank. Now this may not seem all too exciting to the outside observer but I finally have a chance to get weekends to myself, I'm getting paid more, have a more constant schedule AND I don't have to wear a stupid uniform. Ha ha! I feel liberated and have already written my seperation notice. For those of you who have experianced the leaving of a longterm job that you hated it's like being on drugs isn't it?

Anyway, other then that not much has been going on - I do get my laptop back today. Stupid emachine piece of crap. Whenever I put the darned power plug in the dumb thing smoked. Yeah, you read that right, the inside sodder was BURNING! How fun. :-( Well, the good news is that they've been quick with it - only 4 business days as promised and it's already coming back home. Using the boyfriends computer all the time just isn't the same. I miss all my own stuff... (maybe I'm just a little wierd). So, let's hope that it doesn't come back with the same problem. Knowing my luck it will - but god things happen in three's so maybe I'll luck out this time around.

Okay, here's to another one down!

First Blog Ever!

All right - so I've kept personal journals in the past.. but they get no one anywhere. Heck, I don't even want to look at them because the handwriting is so bad it gives me eyestrain. Besides, there is something about a diary when your twenty-three that screams immaturity. Can you imagine me turning to my live-in boyfriend, (whose name btw is Nick), and saying.. "oh excuse me honey while I sit here and put all of my most personal thoughts and feeling in this meaningless book and don't tell you any of it,".... ?? No sense what-so-ever.

Regardless of that, I just wanted to take the time to introduce myself and possibly give some reason why I'm doing this. This has always seemed odd to me; to post personal day to day happenings or random thoughts on life for the public to gaze over and comment on - but it is in this light that I begin my experiment on blogging. Who knows, maybe people will love the pictures I post, or I'll have some sort of dillerious rant that facinates me and I end up with a new book idea out of it. Any way that you look at it, it seems like a good time right now, (and its given me a good way to kill at least a half hour of every day).

So without any more excuses, without any more pretenses, (because I could go one forever and a day), my name is Jessica Lebo, I live in Massachusetts, and this is my web blog!