And Then There's Work...

Another interesting turn of events. Near the end of the work day, Mr. Big Boss gets my manager to call me to go and meet him. I see the Boss and he leads me to THE MEETING ROOM (I've never been in the meeting room :0). And then he tells one of the outside staff to "call the crew" in. And suddenly I find myself in the middle of a MEETING! I was then surrounded by various department heads and we begin by discussing my new job... I won't go into the details but basically my new job is to chase after people who owe us money. The meeting itself had an extremely intense atmosphere [apparently the people who owe us money, owe us a lot.. in other words, this is no minor problem] and all eyes were on me, eek? But I came out of the meeting rather excited and scared at the same time! Totally unexpected and sounds really interesting and challenging. XD And better yet! I'm now part of the Courier-side's crew! In other words, farewell si-lai clan and your smelly warehouse! I get my own personal desk space again (yay!!) and I get to work with BETTER PEOPLE! Now let's just hope I can keep up...!!

Another Eventful Day

Relatively laid back work day. Really dead, sadly. Manager reading the newspaper, front desk lady playing tetris [badly]... Oh, I've come to good better terms with one of the old geezer/si-lai clan members after working with him, counting [EW!] inventory. Bloody hell, I have to do inventory every damn morning. But anyways, at the end of the day, I got a surprise visit from the big boss and we talked a bit. Apparently a guy from the courier side [whom I recently just somewhat made friends became acquainted with] actually recommended me to the big boss [after talking to the guy, oh, 3 times total? and half-jokingly told him to ask if they wanted any help on their side]. What a sweetie :D But then the boss said something at the end I couldn't hear him say, which I think was a key for me to get the position, so uh I'm kinda screwed. He repeated it twice already, as he was walking away and the stupid other guy was shrink wrapping some boxes loudly beside us so I couldn't get him to say it again. I'll get back to the courier side guy for helping me out though.

After work, I'm greeted with a giant spray-splatter of bird crap all over the driver's side. Mmm... beautiful work of art I tell you. Even more beautiful to clean. Sakuya's first real bird dropping experience. Sakuya (咲夜), my ride btw. Oh, her first "scratch/scrape" was done by my Sofa King dad when he decided to park a little too deep into the parking spot, scratching the very bottom of the front bumper with those parking logs. You can't see it, BUT I KNOW IT'S THERE! THAT'S ALL THAT MATTERS! I almost cried, dammit. And my brother laughs.

Anyways, after staring at the bird poop with teary eyes... I rushed to pay my school commitment fee. I arrive to find out they decided to close their only long office hours day for a convocation ceremony. Mmmk, good job Kwantlen staff! I received my letter lThursday and the due date is Friday, which leaves only a mere week to get your commitment money in. That's kinda rushed?! Their everyday hours are 9-430, 'cept Tuesdays and I work from 9-5 so I'm supposedly screwed but I requested that I take the morning tomorrow to do it. Ugh, smart Kwantlen, smart. Too smart for me.

Got home late tonight. Rushed on FFXI, did Escort for WHM and AF1 for BRD. Paper Knife... waste of inventory space. Next week, something a little more worthwhile, AF2 and Coffers most likely.

Internet's been sucking lately. Either Telus or the router. Either or, it's interfering with my XPing.

Hmm... I've been so talkative lately.

Aghahgahgahg WORK

I swear I do nothing but rant about work.
I should be happy I even have a job to start with?

Naaaaahhh!

So at work today. Very productive.
When I got in, I took a deep breath and approached the manager. He shoves the inventory task at my face. I was like W-T-F! The only difference was he had some other guy help me. Ugggh I hate inventory. Whatever, I couldn't exactly 'refuse'. After that was done, he told me to go out and help scan stuff in the warehouse. This time..
I was like, "Uhhhhh...."
He then said as the eyes in his big penguin head were quivering, "Is that okay?"
"Uhhh..."
"Okay, Okay?"
"*mumbling-ish* I don't really have a choice now do I... Well, my position's office. Isn't there anything office-related for me??"
"No there isn't." And he LEAVES.

LEAVES ME THERE FOR THE REST OF THE DAY.
So for the rest of the day I surfed the web for notebook information. It's so awkward to be the only one not 'working', considering everyone's getting paid doing something or not. Feels a bit unfair. I sure felt it was unfair. Anything NON-warehouse task is pretty okay to me. I just dislike the warehouse.

I left asking the manager if there was anything for me to do tomorrow. He was like nothing except warehouse stuff.

Later when I got home, the big boss calls me and tells me there IS nothing to do [for now]. I reluctantly agreed to help out in the warehouse in the meantime. My own fault for not going out and finding another job so. I'll just have to deal with it as it is. Even though the si-lai clan still don't approve of me, the courier side employees are friendly, so it's all good.

Yeah about notebooks man. There isn't one out there that's POWERFUL ENOUGH! I originally wanted a VAIO cuz I'm loyal to Sony and I like the logo but their books aren't that great. I hate Acer. I see them at work. I hate Acer. For a good powerful notebook there's the Mac PowerBook but I don't like Macs. I've seen and used Simon's and it's... too annoyingly functionful [too many nick-nacks] and has too many annoying animated transitions n stuff. Just lots of junk I don't want, even though it doesn't take up any resources doing so. Then there's Alienware. It's powerful but expensive and their cases are ugly with their alien-theme. I then came to like one of Toshiba's notebooks but it isn't available in Canada right now. I don't especially like that particular book's processor choice but everything else is pretty good. But hey, what do I know.

Mmm... online window shopping

Nao 1/8 PVC is on sale.
Angel XX series is on sale.
Shinshi Doumei Cross 4 isn't in the catalog yet.

Some things to think about when I get paid.

Oh wait, the computers come first. Eh, or do they really.

More things to think about...

Work Days...

Oh yeah, ink poisoning.
Maybe.
I'm still blue ink stained.

So let's update on work! Work sucks! (when does it not, really? I do nothing but complain about work anyways). This whole week my manager was obviously having trouble finding things for me to do, so he would end up sending me to the warehouse to help out. My job is supposed to be within the office, NOT in the warehouse counting inventory and labelling. I especially hate inventory. I had to do it every morning, climbing and squirming everywhere, it's frustrating [not to mention I hate math :b]. It almost became my official morning task too. I think the penguin manager noticed how reluctant I am when he tells me to do something out there. It's quite obvious he's also reluctant to teach me anything [afraid I might just surpass him?]. As if he doesn't already have a bad impression of me, I called the Big Boss yesterday after work to ask about what the hell I'm exactly supposed to be doing and what my job really is. And yes, as I was initially informed, my position is in the office taking over his office job. The boss said he'd talk to him about it and make sure I'll be doing that Monday. Heh. I look forward to seeing how he's gunna teach me. I doubt his attitude's gunna change much though. We'll just see how this week goes...

And ya I have no life again... I think I mentioned that already. FFXI is my life. Yes, now bye!

A Down

So! Let's talk about my first day returning to work.

Okay so there was nothing really different about it except the people. Many new faces, LOTS of old ones haha... I wish I worked on the courier side, they're so much friendier than this crappy SI LAIっぽい side. The old geezers (yes, as a matter of fact, they're ALL old geezers working on this side) are SO FUKING 8 and can't stop gossiping and complaining and shit.. like, holy crap, stfu. My pay hasn't changed much since the last time I worked here.. manager position my ass, really. Let me just hope somewhere along the way my boss will notice and go "hey, I told her the pay is VERY DIFFERENT so I will keep my word and give her MORE!" hahahaha.. I wish. :( Let me put it this way, I'm getting LESS than my previous job at the spa and it wasn't that spectacular there either. Well, no point in fuming about it... I might ask about that second option [that somehow disappeared in the process] where I get to work at the new place instead. I'd rather; I currently don't have my own personal space, the working conditions are still dirty and my COMPUTER, OH THE HORROR. The keyboard is black... black due to the cummulation of dust and dirt throughout who bloody knows how many years. The warehouse workers come and use this computer once in a while too so you can imagine. Water and tissue didn't solve the problem, though I wiped up a LOT of black crap from it already. *sigh* Deja vu, I remember ranting about something similiar last year... So I wasted my morning staring at the si lai that's currently doing front desk/customer service, my previous position here cuz my manager says "I'm out of it" from not working here for so long. Yeah whatever, you just couldn't find anything for me to do. Afternoon came around and he throws me stuff he can't catch up on (which I've done before so it was nothing really new). Then halfway through the afternoon, he gets a phonecall from [I suspect] the other manager from the other branch that I thought I was going to work for talking about sending "someone" over to him when "he/she's" done and the penguin says "he/she understands but he/she's slow at it [wtf!] so I'll see when he/she's done". It felt like it was about me but there was no way I could finish over 200 pages of his leftover messed up job in time anyways.

I visited Daiso. I was in the stationary section and on my way to check out an awsome-looking permanent marker, it SPILLS ALL OVER MY HANDS! It was so damn permanent, soap didn't remove -any- of it. I was in the washroom for a good half n hour I think, trying to get it off. With a lot of rough effort (ouch my hands), I was able to rub most of it off. Now it's still stuck between the nails and the crappy spots. In exchange, my skin's peeling and it hurts a bit from the dryness. That reminds me, the ink won't come off my shoes [thank goodness I felt like wearing my old ones today] and my pants [thank goodness they're dark today]... [thank goodness it didn't hit the upper half of my body].

Why's it always my hands. My precious hands. Cuts and scrapes, dirty keyboards, really bad permanent ink... I have an obession for clean hands too. Bah.

The Ups and Downs of life. Today was quite a Down. Did I mention my gas receipt fell out of my bag, flew under my dad's car and I had a hell of a time trying to retrieve it?

Night Market Night Market NIGHT MARKET. LETS GO ALREADY!
*pushes Mo2 & Shi2 over*

まだまだ！ It's not over yet...!

My family and I went had Fukuroku Sushi Friday night. It was good for the most part... 'cept half way through I noticed someone from the corner of my eye, turning their head towards me constantly. So of course, just to see who the annoying bastard was, I turn around to unmistakenly find the pussy manager (aka. the penguin, guy who doesn't use his numpad, the wuss, etc.) with his back facing me. Okay, without a doubt, he purposely sat like that considering the rest of his table was empty at the time... OBVIOUSLY cuz he saw ME. Okay fagget, where's my phone call? I thought you said you'd CALL ME about my JOB? YEAH? Okay whatever, I didn't want to talk to him, especially when he didn't want to talk to me. I told my mom when we were leaving and she got upset at me. Hey, I'd say hi to ANY other co-worker/boss/manger EXCEPT him. If HE saw me and didn't say anything, then we already have a problem. I'll be sure to call him Monday, on his day off. I want to know what I'm getting into before I start. I've learned my lesson from working with them before, get all the details beforehand or they'll take advantage of you!

Yesterday, I spent the whole day on my caaaaaaaaaaaaar. Washed, vacuumed, sprayed carpets, and waxed. Phew. Gunna give it another wax layer next week. I feel like a pro... almost. XP

{Congratulations!} 3/3 +1 +CHR

Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuah, I got a call today from one of the Kwantlen GDMA Program staff telling me I GOT INTO MY PROGRAM! I swear their letter says that they'll NEVER tell the students what their admission status is over the phone but what the heck. He says their mail system's behind schedule and that my letter'll follow soon. But YAY! CELEBRATE! Yers, I'll be wasting it big tomorrow over an ALL YOU CAN EAT ExPENSIVE FUKURoKU SUSHIIIzzz family dinner.

*shakes head* I shouldn't be spending... I haven't even gotten paid yet! XP

So, I woke up early and arrived at the new warehouse place to find that the Big Boss wasn't even THERE and couldn't SHOW UP! So I was left to talk with the stupid annoying manager who never uses his numpad so it's all dark and dusty and apparently from his knowledge, I'll be replacing HIS position instead (Nooo~). I thought I'd be working at the old location but noooo I don't like this side! Doesn't look like I have much of a choice right now... And since the Big Boss wasn't even around, the both of us weren't really even sure what was going on. My pay? My duties? My hours? Bah, retarded boss. The boss who called all his employees to his house to waste TIME!

Well the discussion wasn't really long, so it was quite early when I got home. I sprayed up another layer of pretty leather protection on my baby. I couldn't find the window cleaning stuff, so that's gunna be for tomorrow. If all's good, it should be sexy perfect by the end of Saturday. Heee, I'm so excited!

My FFXI Bard adventures continue, making very good progress. Just a few annoying new guys, but they're everywhere, so it's all good. Probably the most irritating thing was my job is partying with STUPID MAGES WHO DON'T KEEP THEIR DISTANCE FROM THE MELEES/MONSTER. They're right smack in the middle of the fight, constantly getting slept and hurt and I can't give them their songs without giving everyone else their songs and aghaghghrag.

Anyways, gotta do some intense saving for a Notebook and a Desktop PC.

キラキラーっとピカピカーってカンジ

The car dealer's a retard. Boycott Wolfe Mazda, plzkthx.

Today, I sprayed pretty my car's interiors, seats, panels, dash. Tomorrow I'll probably spray another layer on the seats, vacuum and spray the carpets. And another day (probably weekend?) I'll have to wash it and wax it up. My dad can't stop driving it. Dude!

I got a call earlier today from my previous employer at the warehouse.
It's amazing how God's plan works.
The big boss is offering me two positions: my previous position (customer service) or (gasp) manager. If I take the previous position, I get to work at a new location (that's sweet :0) but who would pass up a manager position, really. It's such a rare opportunity and, not to mention, quite an interesting challenge too. Gunna meet up with Mr. Big-Boss-Man tomorrow morning (ugh, morning! XP) and discuss.

Monday: Simon and I wanted to eat at DT Kintaro but did you know they're CLOSED ON MONDAYS? Ahahaha... We're so dumb. Joyrides are fun... especially with construction traffic, yes (y)!

Right Hand Immobilized

I had my school interview on Tuesday. I chose Tuesday over the first available day (Monday) because everyone wanted Monday and I usually had crap to do Monday anyways. Yes, I like to be different. So hm, it was really really bad but at the same time really really good. I did exceptionally well with the exercises and I had some good portfolio pieces to show. The bad part was... I had trouble explaining them. My brain was a complete blank the whole time and I made useless pauses and stumbled plenty. However, they seemed to love what I did and the eagerness I put out. They noticed I had trouble thinking of a good answer when I paused and staggered with my words, so they would always put forth another question to help me out. But then again... the positive reactions might just be the same for everyone else as well and in fact, I really suck and have no chance. Oh well, I have no regrets... I don't think I would've done any better any other time.. my brain's dead from all the years (well only 2 :b) of inactivity so it can't be helped.

I earned myself two blisters and a lovely scrape today from extreme Taiko Drumming. I haven't had blisters in ages so this is new. Only on my right hand too.... why is it always my important hand? Anyways, long time no GuitarFreak. Actually, long time no arcade in general. So many teenyboppers at Metro during after school time. And what happened to MAL in Metropolis? SakuraMedia raided the place, gasp. And they still sell bootleg CDs, bastards.

Zoom Zoom!

Yes!
I've finally got my Zoom Zoom! Today was so damn hectic it's not even funny... we went from to and from the dealer like 4 times! There was nothing but dissatisfaction today, seriously. We were denied rights to their 20th anniversary promotion deal on our vehicle, we were charged an extra protection fee we didn't even ask for, and my precious came SCRATCHED EVERYWHERE -- hey Mr. Polisher, you suck at your job! Of course, we didn't settle it without a good fight. We gave them a pretty bad customer satisfaction feedback survey [not on PURPOSE, mind you.. we had to be honest] so they BETTER give us our free satellite radio! Well that actually doesn't bother me too much.... my main concern's the scratches. I gotta bring it back to them for them to send it to the shop and get it professionally repolished. Bitches! Argghgrhaghrahgrh! I'm paying so much for it, I'm not going to let them do a half-assed job. So yes, I'm now officially really.. really...... really poor. If you wanna ask me out, you gotta treat! XD

Jobjobjobjobjob... must find another job.

OMFG INTERVIEW TUESDAY!

And ya, I'm obsessed with Final Fantasy XI again!~ I've decided to just play my bro's account. But it's weird... a TaruTaru's perspective is... so low. And I've got.. like... no HP. I'm tempted to get the new ToAU expansion pack so I can play Cosair! Oooh myy gooodnesss the Cosair job is soo COOL! I partied with the three new jobs the other day.. it was soo awsome!

Ok enough, I return to my gaming.

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