Writers Block

21. October 2008 by Terry.

So I’ve got a major case of writers block at the moment.   I could write about work or the business…..or the cutie that works at the CD Tradepost next to work…but nothing really stands out, nothing really grabs me.   Well that’s a lie…I do have some stuff on my mind but it’s really whiny bitching that won’t do anyone any good so I’ll throw it out there anyway.

I hate my boss.    Big shock huh?

It’s not nesseccarilly the fact that I hate him as a person….just mainly the fact that I think he sucks as a manager.   For example, he takes vacation today.   I get a call from my District Manager (who didn’t approve my bosses said VACA day by the way) and tells me that we have one of our big shot’s coming around tommorrow to do store visits and walk throughs and what not.   Well, the store didn’t look that bad aside from having to be stocked, which is normal after the weekend.   The problem is my bosses office.   This guy I swear to god is the laziest SOB I’ve ever met in my life.   He complains because he has to do so many reports every day, 26 to be precise.   Lets break them down, because when I say “do” I mean he either has to barely glance at them or actually get up off his but for 5 seconds to find something in the store that someone returned.

So besides the deposits that are done daily obviously and the 3 or 4 pages associated with that, the rest of the paper work if its caught up is cake.   But he STILL COMPLAINS about it.    It takes literally a half an hour to do ALL the paperwork for one day, I’ve timed myself.   So there’s about I dunno……..EIGHT days worth of paperwork piled on his desk right now because he’s just too fucking lazy to do any of it.

Now your probably asking yourself why this would matter to me?   Well, since I close on Saturday’s, and Open on Sunday’s, I’m responsible for at least a little of that paperwork, which I do, along with the deposits, every day I’m supposed to.   The other 5 days worth of crap is all his, but what happens if it doesn’t get done because he’s not there?    Thats right, good ol hardworking me gets bitched at for not doing it when I’m not supposed to be doing ANY OF IT AT ALL, I’M NOT EVEN A FUCKING MANAGER.

So to recap…..he doesn’t do HIS Paperwork…..I DO Some of his paperwork for the days that I Open and Close…..I get bitched at because the REST of HIS paperwork that HE DOESN’T DO doesn’t get done…..Thats why I’m bitching.   I honestly like my job, but god damnit I’m sick of doing everyone elses fucking job.   Doing my Job isn’t fucking rocket science, but when someone comes in knowing less that half of what I do and gets paid more than me, I take it to heart.   After my business slowed to a crawl over the last month, I was really humbled, and honestly felt really lost.   And you know what brought me out of that?   I worked 4 hours at another one of our stores, and the manager there told me he was IMPRESSED by me…and wanted me to switch full time to his store.   I got RECOGNITION for how hard I work and how much I CARE about our company.    It gave me just a little bit of my sense of pride and self satisfaction back.    I needed to hear that…because I haven’t had any motivation to better any part of my performance at that job in almost a year…and thats sad since I used to put everything I was into that store.

Phew…

so much for writers block…

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