5.21.2004
I would love my job if it wasn't for all the stupid people...
seriously. i love helping people out. when people come in with a problem and i can be all smart and superior, help them out and send them home happy, i feel really good. plus i love the fact that every single time i sell something, i can practically count the money it puts into my pocket. no, i'm not one of those people who are completely focused on money. in fact, i hate having to deal with it on a daily basis. i could never be a true gadget girl like huey wants because i just don't care about having things at all. but on the other hand, my needs are very important. case in point, i need a car. sure, i could ride CCT up to kennesaw, and maybe take a taxi from there to work... but let's be realistic. that would cost a fortune. and if i had a fortune, i would just get a car.
anyway, jay is changing stores and we are now in our new house. i will no longer be able to carpool with him to work. suddenly, i am rideless. and if this keeps up, i will also be jobless. jobless means no school and no school means no job that i want and then it just becomes this big spiraling chaotic mess where i'll be working my ass off at the local mcdonald's to be employee of the month. would you like fries with that, sir will never become a part of my vocabulary.
so that is the reason why i am, of late, so concerned with money. it's like my magic key to get the things i want. and the only way i know to get it is to work really, really hard. which, as i mentioned, isn't so bad because i love my job. what i don't love is the training. my entire last week has been spent taking a virtual training class. in my mind, that means that it virtually sucks. no wait, it actually sucked. every morning i had to log into a classroom environment which was just a big chatroom that the instructor could show us slides on. and then we had to call in to a conference call. somehow this is all supposed to go very smoothly so we can all feel like we aren't wasting time, but whenever you get 50 people together trying to do the same thing, something is sure to get all fucked up.
first off, people couldn't figure out how to mute the phone. and they kept talking about things, we could all hear them and they had no idea. no amount of instruction from the teacher could get these people to shut up, so he finally had to bring an operator on the line and get the numbers of the unmuted lines. it was like taking the names of the bad kids, so obnoxious, and it wasted a good 1/2 of time. anyways, then we had all day to do these dumb scavenger hunts and things, which wasn't too bad except we did it all on paper so i wasn't really sure how we were getting graded for any of it. there was no accountability apart from making sure you were in the chatroom and on the phone call twice a day during the scheduled times.
plus we had to do this group project and i got stuck with some real morons. one guys was okay, he had his shit together and him and i got most of the stuff handled. the other guy had this horrible northern accent and was driving me nuts because he was older and couldn't figure the whole computer thing out. the other kid was definitely young, and a total slackass, not even getting back from lunch until half way through our group work time and then apologizing by saying, "dude, i lost track of time!" i shit you not... and he had some stoner, surfer thing going on. this was all over the phone mind you, i couldn't actually tell you anything about these people. but first impressions count, especially in sales... i don't know how those two will ever get along.
anyway, i'm almost to quota for the month so i'm lookin good. its been such a crazy month and the whole damn house is still a wreck. but i can't spend time straightening it because i have to do transcriptions. and if anyone knows me, they know that i don't mind mess, but it drives completely freaking nuts to not have control. and right now that is what this house is to me... out of control. sure, things can be messy as long as i know that i could clean it all up and put stuff back where it belongs. right now, nothing belongs anywhere, it's just everywhere, and it bothers the hell outta me. hopefully i'll have time to get some stuff done tonite, and i guess the less time i waste here the more i can have there. so on that note......
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posted by megs at 10:59
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