Whew! I just got home from work @ 11:15 PM!!! I went at 8:00 a.m. to do the grocery count and the paperwork alone took an hour. Not good. Then counting to make sure everything was delivered, then training Carol better. I did all that before 12:00. That is good time. Then I ate lunch and worked on a new register overlay in Excel…I can do anything in MS Office (but I have know that for 5 years) It looks pretty and easier to read now. It impressed everyone at work, even myself.
Anyway, I got to leave at 4:45p.m. So I came home, and get more “not-so-good” news about my car. Because my step-dad does not want to be financially tied to me any longer than he has to, they made a deal I could not refuse, literally. They are taking my sporty car, and I get the red, family Ford Escort.
The Perks: automatic everything, 4 doors, less mileage, paid off in Sept.
The Dis-Perks: lose my sentiments of relating my car stereo to Amy’s, antenae ball my RD Brett gave me doesn’t fit, tape deck instead of CD Player, and the fact that I liked the Cavalier better than an Escort, or I would have gotten one.
Dah well…at least I will be out sooner. They are giving me from Sept to Feb 04 to save money enough to move out by Feb 1st…4 months. One year from now I am outta here and back in business. 9 months from now, I have a useable car, 4 months from now I should be manager of a restaurant. 10 days from now I should be making $8/hr. Tomorrow I have an employee meeting.
But tonight…back to tonight. I had to return to DQ tonight at 8:30 to prepare for a bus of basketball players and company from Wortham. It got busy. We ran about $200 in one hour. $700 in that night shift and about $1000+ during the whole day. Pretty good business for winter, especially since we have been eating up the labor cost for the last few days because of training.
Carol is doing better now, she just needs more time. I don’t know why I changed my mind, unless it was something my stepdad said. He said “If you have to fire someone because they could not make it after training, you have failed as a manager.” Now firing because of quality or performance, or stupidity is different. But failing…that is not me. I don’t fail. I won’t let myself fail, or at least I will try to do everything possible to keep myself from “failng”. So I put more effort into training, corrected some problems she was having, and clarified some things that needed clearing up.
I also brought home a book about Operations at DQ – “Operations Manual” – Which tells how to make everything. I will read that, along with all the others there so I can be the best manager DQ has had and move up in the corporation as far as Michael, the Owner, will let me.
But it’s 11:50 p.m., I have to bathe, and do laundry and get up at 7:00 to get to work at 8:00. So Laterz.
- Song in my head: “When you love a woman” – Brian White
- Craving: Diet Coke
- Mood: Hyper/Tired
- Thought: Everything and nothing all at once, with Amy, somewhere in the top of my mind.
- Quote: “I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day…that means it’s going to be up all night.” – Steven Wright
