smokingpen | March 29, 2009
I am watching Twilight. I didn’t like the book and made it to the point where Erin told me it would get good (and then some) and discovered that it was about on par with reading road signs as literature and I have to tell you road signs are not literature and in some world [...]
smokingpen | March 24, 2009
My life seems to be upside down. As the world goes to sleep, I am awake and heading to work. The human body was not designed to be awake all night and to sleep all day. And yet, there are jobs, like stocking at “this place” that require all night work. I guess I can [...]
smokingpen | March 21, 2009
I spent the last week working the graveyard shift. I get to do that for the foreseeable future. This is not something I am interested in doing long term, or something that I would change given that I am not fond of “this place” as an employer. I think if I have to work for [...]
smokingpen | March 18, 2009
And, “No,” I am not talking about me or this site (though I am sure both need changes).
When I voted for President Obama, I expected he would do exactly what he has been doing, working the Democratic party line. In fact, I expected him to work the highly liberal line. Hilary Clinton would’ve done the [...]
smokingpen | March 13, 2009
“This place” has an interesting argument about unions. The company is opposed to them. Rightfully so. Unions are bad for business and would negatively affect the bottom line for the shareholders. As the “this place” family owns the majority of the publicly traded company and the company wants to make as much money as possible, [...]
smokingpen | March 13, 2009
Today marks the second day at the retail chain I will call “that place.”
It was an interesting day. For starters, I learned that working without being paid is illegal and could potentially result In termination. Taking gifts is bad. Personal prejudice is wrong. And a whole bunch of other things. To say the very [...]
smokingpen | March 12, 2009
Well, today marks the first day of a new job. That’s a good thing. The problem is not the job as much as it is the company. I got to listen to a rather protracted video on unions. One would think me pro-conversation in a clearly anti-union place, but I’m this context I am very [...]
smokingpen | March 11, 2009
Yesterday was, at best, a pretty stressful day for me. I ended up driving with my brother-in-law to Upper State New York to pick up a bunch of his stuff. We were betting it wasn’t going to be there, but at some point between when it was decided we could/should go and actually heading out, [...]
