You know you've been fired when.........

yes it is offical, I was "released from my duties" yesterday from job #1. Over some bullshit but the strange thing is that I'm not really as upset as I should be. Yesterday I went to work like normal and received an email around 9am, which stated that Eric Meyers(THE SUPERVISOR) wanted to have a meeting with me at 10am. So I accept the meeting and for some reason something told me to just get all my stuff and put it in my car. Especially since I was in another building because of the project I was assigned to along with a fellow co-worker we had to work in a different building.

So I gather all my stuff and put it in my car and drive over to the towers location. I get to Eric's office and he is in there with the same H.R. rep that was there in my FINAL WARNING meeting back in June. Some woman named Julie. So I get in his office and close the door. I still have the same look that I had back in the June meeting like I wish I could just kill him. The H.R. lady is making me laugh in my head because she still has that same scared shitless look on her face.

So Eric informs me that my attendance had come into question and I explained to him that I was told to report to work between 7:30am to 8am. He tells me that's not what he heard and tells me that he's leanin towards terminating me. He said he had to do more "research" into it and then would give me a final decision. I told him I'm not stupid and know that people have it out of me and he cocks this PATHETIC look like I have NO IDEA what you are talkin about. He says it's strictly on your job performance which I thought was just a crock of bull. I did my job damn good, point blank he just wanted to get rid of me just like he did 2 previous co-workers.

So I leave the towers location and go back to where I'm doing this damn project and you know what I did, I went on the internet and updated my resume, double-checked my area to make sure I didn't leave anything, and just did a few more work pans. Oh and did I mention I took my userid and password off my phone especially since I had voicemails....ooops. So needless to say i get an email from Eric around 11am stating that our follow up meeting would be 12pm and to "Bring all personal items", well all I do is just log out of my cpu and drive BACK over to the towers.

I get back in Eric's office along with the H.R. and point blank they said that thru their "findings" they don't believe me. I just said fine and is there anything I need to sign for they stated no and I give them my badge and key for my locker. They asked if I had anything to say and I informed them anything i have to say is in the letter with the badge. Since I just HAPPEN to keep a copy of the letter on my cpu I've furnished a copy of it below for your reading pleasure.

To Eric,

I wish I could say it has been a pleasure knowing you but unfortunately that would be lie. My opinion of you changed drastically in December and has been downhill of you ever since, with the release of Juanita and Chanel. The way you released and the reason being to me really showed me what type of character you have.

Throughout that time your attitude towards me has been more characterized as TOLERANCE, more than anything else. I honestly must say this termination is more a blessing than you realize. You questioned my commitment to my job. I enjoyed my job, unfortunately I did not enjoy some of the people that I worked with or for. If there is one thing that I despise are people that are 2-face and in my opinion don’t have any morals.

For example when you let go of Chanel and Juanita, when you came over to stand by Misty’s desk with your arms folded was anything BUT professional. The look on your face, to me, was “I’ve got them now”. After you let them go, I end up having to take a surprise Random Drug Test the next day. Which I personally think you orchestrated.

What really bothered me was that, the situation that went down with Misty against Juanita, Chanel, and myself was to me a bigger issue than the reason you let Juanita and Chanel go. We came to you as you so instructed and told you our issues with them at the time. I assumed you talked to Misty but what was said, obviously did not having a lasting effect to the point that she would dare disrespect us. So when we inform you of the latest episode you “flip the script” and get rid of Juanita and Chanel over lunch compliance when you KNOW you could have given them a written warning or a final. Yet you say Tracy Pingel said otherwise, AGAIN another issue I have trouble believing, I wonder if you brought it up to her to begin with or just arranged it to your benefit that they both were terminated ASAP. I prefer to believe the latter.

Not to mention they did inform that you told them that they could use you as a reference and they believed you. Yet when recruiters from the jobs they were interested in called you to verify employment you gave them negative reviews. And as such, they did not end up getting the jobs. That really showed me that you only have loyalty to yourself and to those that POINT BLANK, will kiss your ass. Well I’m not going to apologize for not being one of those people. Juanita and Chanel were not of that caliber either. In my opinion you are not high enough up on the chain for me to pull the Carmex out of my back pocket.

I must say that this experience has taught me a very valuable lesson. I am definitely not going to end up like your sidekick, Penny. Stuck at a dead end job, shuffling boxes from one building to the next with nothing to look forward to but the latest gossip and checking PeopleSoft everyday to check how much PTO I have available. I do plan on going back to school and getting my degree and pray that I never have to work in an environment such as this one ever again.

As for your super sidekick, I must say that Chanel was right on point about her. She knew it was going to be trouble the day Susan was demoted and Penny was put in her place. She warned me of Penny’s double-crossing nature and I saw it myself plenty of times. You both definitely are made for each other.

Also to inform you, I do know that you assumed that you “chin checked” me on June 6 in regards to the document I was typing. I’m pretty sure that you told everyone about it because everyone’s attitude towards me changed. So you could feel important and puff out your chest and actually think you did something important. Yet I didn’t let that stop me from doing my work or getting upset or agitated. If there is one thing I’ve learned is not to let people whos opinions I don’t care about bother me. I’m more mature than that and I’m not going to let whispering or any other childish act get to me. I thought I worked with adults but unfortunately some of them happen to still act like children whether with children of their own or not.

If there is one thing that I believe in is Karma, what you do will come back around and believe me you both along with some of my other co-workers are long over due. You will get your’s in due time. Not by me personally, but by other devices.


Not Sincerely,



Jasmine

P.S. – Don’t worry; I definitely won’t be calling you for a reference. Unlike your pet Misty, pretty much any and all credentials I have are verified and true.


So after leaving that sorry ass excuse for a check I get a call from Mina and informed her of what happened. She asks me if I'm okay and in all honesty...yea I am ok. I wasn't happy there for the longest time I just wish I had another gig setup in time to tell them to go to hell. But things happen for a reason and for the best. Unfortunately this week has been a trying one at best. My cellphone is busted, I have court TOMORROW, and oh did I mention I lost my job? So I guess things do happen to you in sets of 3's.

So as I'm talkin to Mina, Danielle calls Mina and then Mina calls Danielle back on 3-way with me. I tell Danielle what happens and she checks to make sure I'm okay. I tell her I'm okay and I go over Mina's place so I can just clear my head and chill out. I get there around Noon and I'm just talking with Mina. Yet she had to leave to run some errands so I stayed at her place surfin the net on the different job websites to see what I could find. Mina came back around 3 hours later and we watched THE DATING MOVIE which I thought was hilarious. After that we went to Brennon's Winery in the Central West End to enjoy some wine which I needed to help relax and calm the rest of my nerves and didn't come home until AFTER 11pm.

So here I am this morning at home just waking up typing up this blog. Oh then my "special" friend sent me a myspace message wonderin where I was, I'm sorry hon. Since my phone is acting funny you know the "backup" number. LOL I holla;) The Lady has spoken.

Oh and "that" job hasn't heard the last of me, I will be filing some complaints and they will definitely remember MY name;)

If anyone knows of good reputable source to get a LIVE grenade PLEASE CALL.......

Today I'm at work, clocked out around 4pm and I'm just on the cpu in the breakroom on the 5th floor of job #1. Today we had our evaluations and needless to say mine was deinitely on the shitty side. Personally I didn't care I knew it was coming and in all honesty I'm just going keep doing me and say phuck the rest. So all day long these evaluations are going on and guess who happens to be last on the list. Yep you guessed it, your's truly me.

I don't know how many people asked me if I had mine yet and I said NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. etc.........etc...............etc............. Well my supervisor's assistant finally calls me into the lil breakroom I like to go into to take naps from time to time. She gives me the evaluation and I read it over. Pretty much is sucked and I could feel the heat from the back of my neck just crawlin up over my scalp and settling right over my eyebrows.

She asked me if I had any questions or comments......Do you think I had comments??? Oh yes a sista had comments and let them be known. I told her what I honestly thought about the situation and how I didn't care for or TRUST either our Supervisor and the Lead Technican. She nodded her head in understanding. I told her I didn't have any animosity towards her or majority of the other people I worked with. It was just those 2 and a few other people that I have to interact with on a daily basis.

Of course I received ZERO raise but that's okay especially when I hear that a GOOD review would ONLY get you about 30 to 50 cents. I'm good, I have job number 2 since I work that on the weekends I don't really need the extra change. I just keep tellin myself this is just a bump in the road but I'll be damn if I make it a ditch.;)

Well of course I named this blog entry the way I did because I wish I did have a grenade and put it up both my Supervisor's and Lead Technican's ass and see which one would get blown to kingdom come first. Hell I probably would hold bets, that should take care of the next couple of bonuses I'm probably gonna miss out on.

Oh well, I have work at job #2 tonight so pray for me, but I'm happy because for the rest of the week I'm free of job #2 until the following Sunday. I wonder what I'm gonna DO????? Hmmmmmm any suggestions....you know me I'm ALWAYS game;) LOLOLOL

Oh what a web is weaved.....

I'm sorry not have kept you up to date on things at job #1. So let me start off with Thursday, June 15th.

Early Thursday morning, I awoke at 5am to go down to the Dining Room to type up my rebuttal to the FINAL WARNING NOTICE I was given the day before. It was a page long and pretty much explained my views on the situation what I disagree with. Oh especially my LAST paragraph was not too pretty.

Well I arrived at 6:55am and clocked on at 6:59am. I got myself situated at my desk and then put the notice as well as my rebuttal on Eric's desk, since I was the first one in the department to arrive.

Everyone else arrives in between 7:15am to 8am. I look at my desk and just shake my head and smile. It is STILL bare from yesterday's morning pack up and I have no intention of bringing my personal items back. Only things I will bring with me every morning from now on, will be my headphones, USB DRIVES with my songs on them and books to read.

I am still going to look for a new job, the sooner the better. Main issue is location, I still want to be able to get to job #2 within less than 5 minutes. Not to mention hopefully can keep the same hours as I have at job #1.

Oh well, anyway back to what happened. Well of course everyone was still acting the same and now I'm in a mindset that I'm just there to do my work at that is just it. Around 2pm or something like that, my Supervisor brings me a copy of the notice as well as my rebuttal. I'm polite and say thank you and file it away. He doesn't make eye contact with me he just slowly slinks back into his office.

3:30pm finally comes around and I clock out. I am already packed to go and I take my ass home. I showed the Notice and my Rebuttal to my mom. She kinda raised her eyebrows on the last paragraph of my rebuttal. I told her I didn't care and that was how I felt. Normally I am the consumate professional but they really got under my skin.

All I have to say is that I'm thankful that I took off the next day (Friday, June 16th) because Lord knows I needed the break from that place.

update to hell #1

Well ya girl got to work this mornin about 5am. Kinda proud of myself that I even got up that early especially since I was out till 1am. So I get on some jogging pants, husband beata, and my sneakas. I put my work clothes in a duffle bag and head out to the job. I get into the building and proceed to clean out my workspace cubicle. I wanted to do it now because I was gonna be dammned if I was gonna give them the pleasure of escorting me out with boxes in my hands. So I put all my stuff into 2 boxes and put them in my backseat.

I then went and got my duffle bag and went into the mini-gym on the main floor and changed my clothes. Once I went back to my car, I took the USB drives up to the 5th floor with me and proceeded to copy my personal information onto them and delete them from my cpu. Any business work I had done myself, I deleted from my cpu. I then proceeded to write a letter to Eric and Penny pretty much putting them on front street as far as my feelings for them both and others in the department, not to mention my badge was also inside of the envelope. So I pretty much was ready for any meeting by 6:50 A.M.

Well of course I don't need to describe to you the scenario of work. It pretty much was the same. Everyone avoided me, I didn't give a fuck. Yet I'm mad I packed my damn earphones away. So I had to listen to my music thru my cpu, but I could barely hear anything. So the hours are going by and I'm just doing work to pass the time. I finally get called into Eric's office around 3:10pm.

I sit down in a chair and already seated is a lady from HR. Not the usual lady Ms. Pingel, but someone else instead. I shook her hand and then the proceed to inform that I'm on a final written warning. Have you ever gotten that feeling that you wish you had something in your hands like a pair of plyers so you could just "rip" something off of the person in front of you? Not to mention I get those times I wish I knew what car he drives so I could oh I don't know....(use your imaginaiton. YEA I had that episode today. They inform me of their reasons for the final warning.

Eric tries to act like a bad ass and I'm looking at him like you "punk ass bitch". The HR lady was trying to make the situation go over smoothly and I guess she could feel the tension coming off of me, because she looked like she wanted to pat my knee and she asked me if I was okay or had any questions. I just shook my head no. It's a good thing she was in there as a buffer because I really wanted to gouge out Eric's beady lil ass eyes. He then INFORMS me that I can take the paper home, read over it and write a rebuttal to it, IF I had one. He has no idea.

So I leave his office and go sit back down at my desk. All these thoughts are running through my head and I just was SOOOOOOOOOO close to saying fuck this job it's not worth it, and in reality it is not. Yet I have to keep a clear head so I can deal with this issue. After speaking with my mom and updating her on what's going on, I've decided to use up the rest of my PTO, to take a long overdue vacation and do some job hunting. I'm also seriously considering filing a complaint with the EEOCC (or whatever the hell they are) and possibly the NAACP.

I had emailed Kamina's mom earlier to ask for some good job leads and she informed me of a few. I OF COURSE had to keep my girls (mina and danielle) up todate about this nightmarish Soap Opera. Danielle, being one of my best friends and also my Supervisor at job #2, let me know that if I need to build up some hours there while looking she would have my back. For that I'm so grateful as well as having friends that understand and always have a shoulder to lean on.

So now I'm at job #2, still THINKIN about job #1, and trying to figure out how the hell do I get away from it, without killing someone. But if I HAD too, at least not leave a trace.

It's almost official....Might be out of Job at hell hole #1 (cross your fingers)

Well today I was up earlier than normal. 4:30am to be precise. Reason being my dad needed to use my car while his was in the shop (again). He dropped me off at work precisely at 6am. I made it upstairs and clocked in. Beginning my day with checking my voicemails and sorting thru referrals from yesterday that I had yet to make calls on for today.

The day pretty much goes off without a hitch until this afternoon around 2:30pm. Eric calls me into his office and Penny is already sitting in one of the 2 chairs in his office. Eric asks me why I came to work early. I told him I had a Dentist appointment at 3:30pm and I cam in at 6am to work so I would have my full 8 hours in. He then proceeds to question me about my work shifts and lack of lunches in some areas. I gave him my explainations and he just looks at me like a freakin idiot.

He then goes into a "schmeal" about approiate work shifts and lunches and such. Point blank he thinks I'm stealin time. He tells me he has to do some more "Research" and will give me a decision tomorrow. I said fine and walked out of his office. I then go back to my desk and just sit there. You what the funny thing is? I just smiled to myself. Fuck Eric, Fuck Penny, and Fuck ESI. I'll date more later on this evening.

Boy this JOBBBBBBBBB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well today my job tried to put one over on me. When I got to work around 9am, I had a nice big ass stack of callbacks on my desk. With a nice lil note to have these done all today. Okay no sweat, because I refuse to let them see me trip about. So I get myself situated and log onto my cpu. I get my headphones out and start checking my mail. Why in the hell am I the ONLY person this week doing callbacks???? Now mind you there are 3 people in my particular pod. The normal rotatation is, 2 people do callbacks and 1 person does research. You wanna know what MY EMAIL said? It states that the other 2 will do research and I will have to do callbacks by myself for the rest of this week.

I logon onto the software we use for working the ref's, and I check out the number in my particular que. BULLSHIT, pretty much the same number any ole day that we would have. So I immediately think to myself, somebody or some people are to act funny with me. YES I KNOW WHO YOU ARE GROW THE FUCK UP!!!!! MENOPAUSE AND VIAGRA ARE RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER!!! Boy what I wouldn't give for some Napolm right about now. So I sat back in my seat and just dissected the situation. I could act to this situation in a couple of ways.

1. I could say fuck them and just jerk off the whole day.

2. I could do the work and not give a fuck

3. Or I could a combination. say fuck them, do the work and not give a fuck.

So I chose to go with option 3. I'll be damn if I'm gonna let some of these asses that I work with get me down. So after 2 hours of none stop callbacks. My special friend gives me a call and I welcome his distracting me from the work ahead. This is the same guy that I got pissed with in the last blog post. All the smoke from the previous evening was cleared up, so I'm just talking to him and he explained what happened. So everything is all good and hopefully we will be able to hook up this week. Not to mention I keep fucking with him throughout the day with lil text messages.

I talk to him for some time and then we end our conversation. By this time people are going to lunch and I welcome the solitude. I get back to grinding and by this time I'm already half way done with the work. Around 4:10pm I'm ready to call it quits, I've pretty much done all the callbacks except for 3 which WILL wait until tomorrow. My girl Kamina gives me a call about 15 minutes before I leave and we talk for a bit. I close up my area, clockout and get the hell out of that hole.

Also for those are applying for a position where I work at JOB #1 and know ME, word of caution you MIGHT not want to put me down as a referance. You probably stand a better chance of getting the job if you don't. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I decided to go to my Nail Salon and get a manicure and pedicure. The person that worked me over did their magic and you talkin about a chick that was knocked out sleepin in the massage chair as my feet were getting soaked. My toes are painted a pretty light purple color and I decided to do a clear polish on my fingernails. I've never been a friend of fake nails or TIPS as they are call. I like my own nails and when I grabbin something or ......someone, I like to make sure I have a good GRIP.

Well any ol ways I'm home now and I'm just chillin. I probably will go to the gym tonight and work out since I was suppose to go play racquetball and my partner called me and thought it would be best to schedule for tomorrow...BUT I don't think that will work either so I'm gonna call her and see if we could push it to Thursday or Friday. OKEY - DOKEY. I'll see ya later. TA-TA

Boy you never know who you work with.............

Woman accused of attacking breeder with dead Chihuahua

June 8, 2006 - ST. PETERS, Mo. - A woman angry that her new puppy had died pushed her way into a dog breeder's home and repeatedly hit her on the head with the dead Chihuahua, authorities said.

The 33-year-old woman told police she had taken the puppy to a veterinarian, who said it was only 4 weeks old and needed to be returned to its mother. But before she could return the puppy, it died.

Early Wednesday, the woman went to the breeder's home, pushed her way inside and began fighting with the breeder as she tried to make her way to the basement to get another puppy, police said.

The breeder wrestled the woman out of her house to the front porch, where the woman then hit the breeder over the head numerous times with the dead puppy, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported, citing police.

As drove pulled away, the woman waved the dead puppy out of the car's sunroof and yelled threats at the breeder, police said. She later called the breeder and threatened her and her family, according to court records.

Police said they are considering felony burglary charges against woman and misdemeanor assault charges.

NOW FOR THE FUN PART.... I USED TO WORK WITH THIS WOMAN!!!! She was let go from her job because she was too UNSTABLE!!!!! Go figure................. LOLOLOL

Something wicked this way comes....just wish i knew what it was

Well yesterday pretty much was the same as the day before. The people are still avoiding me somewhat. Yet I don't really care and it doesn't faze me at all. Pretty much my salvation is my music and headphones. It's quite funny to me at times when I look at my co-workers.... That is such a funny word, co-workers. To me that word is SUPPOSE to mean, people that you work with, not work against. But I've come to the conclusion that some of the people that I work with NOT ALL OF THEM, are adult sized kids. My supervisor didn't bother me, I sure as hell didn't acknowledge him. So we kept our distance and that was that.

Today was ALSO pretty much the same as well. I kept to myself and today we had a picture day for all the participants involved witht he Cancer Walk this Saturday. During work also had an email about a training I had to take, so I decided to get it out of the way today instead of waiting on the 14th. While I was taking the training, my Supervisor came out to me and asked me if I had received a voicemail from a patient, I told him I don't recall and that I had yet to check my messages yet for the day. It was kinda weird, he just nodded his head and then went back into his office. Then another co-worker says he's having some meeting. So who know's what up for tomorrow. Oh and I did check my voicemail but only had one message and it wasn't the one he was lookin for.

Left work around 4:50pm today, had planned on going to Barnes and play some racquetball, but it was TOO DAMN HOT;) Didn't feel like falling out today on the concrete. So I went home and took a nap. So now I'm up just writing this lil blog update and just got finished watching BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN on PAY PER VIEW for the first time. Man I didn't think it was going to be good, but i am actually crying while I'm typing this now. The music was excellent, especially the THEME SONG and the story was just simply amazing. I can definitely understand why people were pleased with this.

Right now it's going on 8:15pm, and I don't know what I'm going to do this evening. Might go to the gym and workout or just keep my ass at home not sure. Yet I still can't help but be curious about the lil meeting at work. Oh well either I'll find out or I won't. I'm not going to let them stress me out, they simply aren't worth it. And also I know not to use my Supervisor for a refrence. LOL They way he dogged out one of my co-workers back in December and had told them BOTH they could use him as refrences for their next jobs. yea well you can bet he lied and told the people when they called him, that they were unreliable and pretty much was the reason they didn't get positions at the new jobs they were looking into.

The REALLY messed up thing about it is that one of the former co-workers called him about it and she said he caught an adittude and told her not to call him anymore and hung up on her. Now if THAT isn't a prick I don't know what is.

Like my momma always says "Where there is a mongoose, there's a snake".

Shady as hell at the Prison....aka THE JOB

Well if you read the previous post, you will notice the one paragraph in bold. Where I stated my supervisor is a dick....less, spine......less, trout. Most of the time he is in his office which is where I prefer he stays. I was working on my previous post while I was doing my work and listening to my music. He comes over to my desk and asks how the referrals were going. I was in the middle of working on one, but still had my previous post which i was working on in Word was still up. I clicked off the document and brought back up my referral area.

As I was explaining about the referral, he asks what I was working on before. I told him it was a personal document. He INFORMS ME "That it doesn't need to be worked on here, and that I should only be working on the referrals." Trust me the way he said it, If I could have had a bat, I would have wacked that smart ass look off his face. So in my opinion, that means one out 3 things happened or least a MIXTURE of them.

1. a coworker that works behind me must have said something to our Supervisor. She is pretty much his lapdog whenever anything needs to be done.

2. another coworker, came over to Debbie desk, since Debbie went home early, for some paperwork which happens to be facing opposite of me, since the way the cubicles are lined up back to back, noticed the document BUT I don't think I was working on it at the time she came over so that one is up in the air.

and

3. The Sup., finally learned how to use some of that damn Watchdog software on his cpu.

You see I don't care for him really. If anything I think we have somewhat of a mutual understanding that we 'tolerate' one another. I had tried in the past to be nice to him, but I've come to the conclusion that he is just as two-faced as some of the other co-workers that work at my job if not as worse. My opinion of him has never really changed since the incidient concerning 2 former employees last December. The way he handled the situation was highly unfair and I have never forgotten about it. Not to mention my "surprise" drug test that happened a day later after 2nd employee was let go.

He has his "favorites" out of his group which consists of about 20 professionals and 8 assistants. I of course being one of the assistants. Anyway after I was given the CURT instructions from my Sup. I of course was a bit pissed but I wasn't gonna let his sorry ass see it. So I did my work with my headphones like usual and kept to myself. Now you know what was REALLY interesting to me? You know how you have that 6th sense that something is going on, and you KNOW something is going on, the people around you know something happened and they just keep their distance from ya? Well yep, that sure did happen today. It was kind of funny though, certain people would look at me funny or just pass me up and not say anything like they normally do. Such a damn shame and they think they are being clever about the shit.

The hint that really put the nail in the coffin was when a coworker of mine came around the corner and we were chitchattin for a bit, and then she made the unusual comment "Let me get going so I don't disturb ya work and get you in trouble" OH YEA if that isn't a big HUGE RED BLINKING SIGN I don't know what is. I'm at the point that this job can just kiss my ass. It really sickens me to see so many people trying to kiss up to my Supervisor and for what? I'm not gonna apologize because I sure don't see the point. Some of my coworker's I swear carry Carmex in their back pockets so they can pucker up to him and do his bidding. I'm not one of them and I'll be damn if I'm gonna start.

Another thing that irks me about the whole situation is that to me personally I think he went around to some of the coworkers, a few in particular and told them how apparently he "put me in check". lol Only if his dumb ass really knew the score. He is so pathetic, thinking he needs to validate himself to everyone as being somebody he obviously isn't. I so detest him. Today all I could think about was ripping off his head and shitting down his throat. Or better yet just pushing him out of the 5th floor window and watch him go splat onto the sidewalk or maybe hit goose waddling across the street.

I was so pissed I didn't have breakfast OR lunch. I just worked until 5:50pm and then went to Barnes Hospital to meet up with a friend to go play some racquetball. It did help relieve some of the stress since I pretended the ball was his head along with some other coworkers. Afterwards I went home, told my mom about the shit that went down at the job. I told her if that crap there doesn't motivate me to get back into school and finish up I don't know what will. Right now I'm there for a check and benefits and THAT's IT. Fuck team work, I deal on my just fine.

Oh well can't wait to see what drama is instored for me tomorrow. Thank GOD for headphones that allI have to say about that. Not to mention I have to deal with job #2. Whoopie fuckin doo!!! Good night folks, my black ass has left the building. Come back for another show;)

Interested thing happened today at the job

Interested thing happened today at the job……

Have you ever had a co-worker that just didn’t REALLY fit in with the rest? Well we HAD one (hint hint on the HAD part). He was relieved of his duties today, aka (FIRED).
I was a witness of his behavior today and let’s just say it included the words Masturbation and Nudity pop-up’s. He was talking to another co-worker who was looking at him like he was crazy. I was looking at her implying “did I just hear what I thought I just heard.” Well I happen to be on my break at a computer station and his cubicle is off to the side.

By this time, I was so zoned into the conversation I don’t remember why I signed into the Computer Station to surf the internet or the reason. So I just signed right back on out and went back to my cubicle. Around 30 minutes later the co-worker that was having the conversation with the NOW TERMINATED employee asked me if I overheard the conversation and I said yes. Now note the incident was around 10:30am she comes to me around 11:15am and then the strangest thing happens around 1pm.

The man comes down my isle and says, “Take care guys I’m being fired, nice to have worked with you.” Now mind you he says that to EVERYONE one of us INDIVIDUALLY. I have 5 other co-workers in my area. Now mind you I heard he did this to everyone else that happens to be in 3 other isles. Originally he had been saying, “Take care guys I’m being fired for Sexual Harassment, nice to have worked with ya.” Well apparently he said it while our Supervisor was behind him getting ready to escort him out the building and he told the employee, “Say it again, and I will call Security”. Well he stopped and said the OTHER phrase by the time he walked down my isle.

Weird thing is this person was just hired and I don’t think he was with the company a month yet!! Not to mention we found out that he was previously fired from another job for the same behavior he showed today. When will people learn? But you know what the really sad part is? Apparently he had been warned about his actions last week for something totally different. He was talking to an employee and made the comment about how he thought he had “nigger lips” to a Caucasian lady in my isle that happens to be married to an African-American man!!! Well she filed a complaint against him, and he was given this warning, oh I don’t know last FRIDAY!!!!!!!!?????????

But I guess being a 50-60 year old Caucasian man, who has shoes that remind me of the Big Dude from the Harry Potter movies, smelling like cologne that has a petrol base to it (anyone wanna get high?), wears a surgical mask (Michael Jackson WILL be calling), Definitely has issues don’t ya think?

Well besides that my day is going slow, just had a townhall meeting for an hour with other co-worker for an update on the business. *YAWN* Dozed off a couple of times if I recall. The weather is really nice and I think I might go workout today. Hope you have a good day;)

Job security its no joke

Job security – it’s not always guaranteed

Today at work, there was a bit of a commotion. Apparently close to 200 employee’s were let go today. 112 in my building and an additional 80 across the street at another building which housed more workers. They had extra security beefed up just to make sure that there was no commotion when the people were told the bad news. I looked out the window in front of my area and just saw people some upset and others just calm.  I just thought damn it could have been me. Job security is not guaranteed and when you think of all the benefits people have connected with their jobs it really makes you take a step back. Luckily for me the only job I was ever let go of was a temporary job just working for THE LIMITED during Christmas of ’97. That was no big deal. Where as now I have a job that I have medical benefits through. It also shows an ugly side to working for a company regardless of the size. One of my co-workers made an interesting statement to me. She says, “I don’t feel bad when I leave a company because the loyality they have to their employee’s is crappy. The only thing they care about is making money and making sure the “big heads” bonus.” They couldn’t give to clicks of a shit, about us, the people that MAKE them”. Damn it makes ya think doesn’t it?

Random Drug Testing and NEW YEARS EVE

Random Drug Testing and New Year’s Eve

What’s up my people’s…….Ya girl is currently at work. Taking a “me” break from all the crap around me called THE WORKPLACE. As you probably recall, I told you back on Dec. 16, two of my good co-workers were fired for bullshit reasons. Well I have been feeling as though some of the other co-workers eyes are REALLY on me now. So guess what happens to me…..oh about 9am this morning. Our FRIENDLY, WAY TOO CHEERFUL, I have an IV in my arm for my 24/7 COFFEE FIX, human resource person comes by with some papers to give me. I swore I was about to get fired on the spot, so I’m looking at her like she has a horn sticking out of her forehead.

She proceeds to explain that I’ve won a contest, yet I still hadn’t caught on, so with my fake smile plastered on my face I proceed to listen. It then registers in my head that I have to take a RANDOM DRUG TEST!!!! Tell them what they’ve won JOHNNY!! You have won a trip in your own car to drive (as if GAS isn’t already expensive) to one of these 5 locations still on company time to take a leak in a CUP!!!! As this is all processing in my head, I’m still looking at the human resource lady like what the fuck???

So needless to say around 10:50am, I decide to make the trek over to the one I originally went to when I was getting hired for the job. I don’t know if it’s me or what but to me it looks like they have added a lot more red tape to the bathroom. I wish I could have had my camera phone to take a pic, but alas, my phone was outside the door with my jacket.  Now with me being the ever so attentive employee, the lady hands me the cup to do my business in. I just started giggling to myself; I wonder if I could fill the whole damn thing up? Now mind you, this wasn’t your ordinary specimen cup, nope to me they look like they got a hell of a lot larger. Yet I wouldn’t let an obstacle like size stop me, so ya girl delivered the goods. Needless to say when I handed it over to the nurse she looked at me and we both started bugging up. She shook her head and was like whoa, she has yet to meet a guy do THAT well. So I filled out the remaining info and now I’m back at my desk.

So we will see if any weed, or anything else that can show up in a urine drug test comes up, I’m pretty sure the workplace is crossing their fingers.

On another note, just want to wish you all a Happy New Year’s EVE/DAY since I probably won’t be near a cpu after tomorrow until Tuesday. Ya girl plan’s on having a room at a hotel with some other friends. Go out and kick it, live it up, and just have some plain damn good fun. Remember don’t shoot up in the air, the bullet might come down and bite ya in the ass if not the top of your head. I also have my outfit together. So if ya see a sister with a camisole top on with an off the shoulder red sweater, with some cute jeans on with brass studs on the back pockets….not sure what I’m gonna wear for shoes though. Hair will be down in soft curls, probably will rock some color contacts…just have to choose from the eight colors I have…..or I might choose one of my 6 pairs of glasses. Come holla at lady. HUGSSS AND KISSSESS XOXOXOXOXOXOXO

2 faced employees and biking

Good evening to all. hope your Friday evening finds you well. Not full of backstabing employees who smile in your face and talk behind your back. Let me give you an example. Today while I was at work in my main building, a coworker asked if I wanted to go another building with her to pass out some invites for her birthday party. I agreed and we both went to the other building to revisit our friends since this was the orginal building that we both started in before being moved this past month. WE spoke with our old co-workers catching up with them and making sure they were ok. So much had changed on our floor, more than half of the cubicles were empty to make room for the new people. AFter a while we go back to our current building.

When we get back, we here that one of our co-workers felt she just HAD to let everyone know that we were gone for 45 min. My Supervisor who i think is really cool didn't really even trip off it. It was just blown out of proportion because this one chick can't keep her mouth close. and before you go thinking she is some model employee let me you this. She thinks she's better than anyone else because she went to nursing school yet she didn't quite cut the grade so she was kicked out. problem is that whenever she talks to a patient on the phone or to some important high ranking person in our company she just feels COMPELS to let people know that she was a NURSE.

Now lets do the math here folks who in they damn right mind would go through all that hell of nursing school to be a nurse and just quit to become a god-damn pharm. technican? THANK YOU it doesn't make since. So three of us also in the same pod look at her from time to time thinking what the hell do you think you are doing? She catches us looking at her and turns herself away because she is juswt too damn embaressed that she got caught in one of her lies.

On another sour note I along with 3 other co-workers decided to order Pizza hut, we put in our orders and we wait for the food. FINALLY it gets to the job after waiting an extra 15 minutes. Why was our food not right? Well let me take that back why was 3 of the 4 pizzas not right. We called the location and let them know that they made our pizzas incorrectly and needed to bring us either a) new pizzas that were CORRECT or b) our money back. Needless to say we all ended with an extra pizza to take home.

Well enough about work. After I clocked out, I went home to pick up my mom to take her to the Cheesecake factory at the Saint Louis Galleria. To celebrate her finishing up her breast cancer treatment. Afterwards we go to Sports Authority to check out riding bikes. I've been wanting one for some time since I was trying to get back into the swing of things with excerising. So I was only going there just to price bikes yet the salesman was very helpful and when he showed me one bike from a company called Mongoose I was very impressed and it also helped that it was 50% off. So since I had the money I decided to splurge and give myself an early x-mas present.

AFter also getting my accessories we finally go up front to ring up my purchase fit it into my mom's towncar and away we go back home. My girlfriend, kamina wanted to go out. Orginally I was going to but as soon as I got home I just shut down.

Ive GOT GAS

I’ve GOT GAS!!!!!

Hey people guess what??? I’ve got gas and no not the kind people have and try to pass off as someone else’s in crowded elevators. I mean the type of gas that one buys for their car. You know the kind where the gas is just so damn hi now you actually have to figure into your budget how much of your check is for the GAS fund? Besides the BILLS, COLLEGE, and etc funds.….?

Well today my Supervisor came by with 2 $10 Gas Cards (that is $20) that I won because of a survey that I took a long time ago that I don’t even remember taking. So who am I to say no to free gas? I took them with a big smile on my face and signed my name on the dotted line to accept them.

So at least I have something to show for the day since I’m pulling a double-header today. Which means I work job #1 now and go to job #2 this evening. Oh and did I mention I get to do all over again tomorrow? Quick somebody shoot me I’m having TOO much fun.

Cubicle 101

What’s up people? It’s ya girl back again. Almost finished with my first day of work at my new desk. Made sure to get here by 7:15am so I would have a good parking space. I had to make sure I remembered the trek so I wouldn’t get lost;) After the first successful, I went back to my car and brought in my first box so I could unload and start getting things into place. Took about 40 minutes and only thing I still need to take care of is my voicemail and getting some replacement keys for my lockers. Also the bathrooms BRRRRGGGGHHH are cold as hell!!! I swear I need to put down at least 4 layers of those damn toilet seat covers just so I won't form assicles by the time I sit down... thought I was gonna have to take the seat back with me to my cubicle cuz I thought I froze there on site. lol

You may pass GO

It's 7pm C.S.T. and I'm at my 2nd job just blowin time. Well folks I've offically ended my first year and a day at my 1st job in my old building. All my crap is in my car until tomorrow morning. I am now at my new location which is a good walk......10-15 minutes away depending on the laziness factor. I said my good-byes to my coworkers still in the building and so around 3:30pm started to pack up my last box with the remaining items that I was still using to function for the day. I know I will have to get to work around 6:45am to 7am in hopes of finding a good parking spot. So cross your fingers for me and hope I remember to get up.;) The Cardinals play tonight and try to stay alive for the World Series. I am rooting for them and hope they send the Astros home by next game.

The Big Move

Hello to one and all. I’m at work right now just taking a mini-break (you know, the one’s not scheduled as official breaks, but as seen as the quick one between one of your scheduled and your lunch). Sometimes there are more than one of these.;)

Well anyway I started packing my stuff up yesterday into boxes so I wouldn’t have to rush at the last minute. Took me about 15 min. too get 2 boxes together and set them under my desk. Yet I still have a 3rd box to go that will fit all the stuff I’m still currently using until I permanently move over to the other building. Spirits are still the same with the group – dread. Yet I came in today at 7am to put my 2 boxes that were already packed into the trunk of my car.

Musical chairs

Musical chairs

Payday is here from Job #1. My direct deposit went off without a hitch!!! So yes ya girl is paid and happy. Well somewhat happy. Found out I will be moving from my current building to ANOTHER one and have to be moved by October 19. Everyone else in my pod area is pretty pissed about it as well. One of my coworkers is on vacation so she’ll get the “good” news next Monday. I really like the building I’m in because of location, the restaurant, the GYM, and the working atmosphere. From what I hear, where we will be getting shipped off to, we will be cramped like sardines.