Ok, so I don't have a job anymore. I worked on Friday, and had Saturday and Sunday off. I went in today (Sunday) to write down my schedule for this week, and noticed that I wasn't on the schedule at all. When I asked the managers about it, they said they didn't know (which of course they probably did) and that I'd have to call Terry to find out what was going on. I gave him a call and asked him why I wasn't on the schedule. His reply was "I don't have room for you on my schedule anymore, so I'm gonna have to let you go." Stunned, I replied, "Umm... was there something I did wrong?" "No, you did as well as everyone else."
There are so many things wrong with what happened. First, he didn't even have the decency to confront me in person (or even call me) to let me know that he was laying me off. Second, he gave me no notice whatsoever. So now, I'm stuck scrounging around for another job in my second week of classes. Not only will this take up a huge chunk of my time and energy, (and interfere academically) but now that the students are back in town, I'm certain that all the good jobs are already taken.
That being said, I'm not sure what I'm going to do about this. My options are: beg for my job back (which won't work, and will probably make things worse), call Terry up and bitch him out (will probably convince him to formally terminate me), or go over his head to corporate and see if policy can help me. I'm also wondering if I can get unemployment out of him. I mean, I'm sure the government will give it to me, but I don't want it from the government. If employees have to put in their "two weeks" then I'm pretty sure there's a reverse policy too. I should get my unemployment checks from Pizza Hut. Anyone with law experience that can give me some tips?
Someone else that's shady about the whole situation is that they continued to hire new kitchen help even after they'd hired me. I was finally starting to get the hang of things (I had several "C.H.A.M.P.S." cards on file-- those are marks you get from managers saying you're doing well.)
I definitely don't want to be working under shady management anyways. "Good riddance to bad rubbish" as they say.
The icing on the cake was when the towing company came at 1:30am to try and tow my car. In my own lot! I had a permit clearly stuck on my bumper, although it wasn't the new color. I was going to go on Monday to renew it. The towing company said they had already towed 15 other cars with expired stickers tonight. I tried calling Aerostar's night watchman, but he wouldn't intervene. I mean, come on! I live here. Have a little bit of decency. As I said before, it's the first week of classes. They made me fork out $50 just to *not* tow my car. My roommate's car got towed, and my other neighbor had to fork out $50 too. I'm demanding repayment from Aerostar first thing tomorrow.
8.29.2005
8.24.2005
goin' up...
It looks as if things are looking up for me. I'm on my way back up again.
Monday was the first day back to school, and Fall Fest kicked off that evening. Had a blast, hung out with friends, and witnessed some great live music. Anna Nalick was there--incredible performance. Her recordings don't do her justice at all. Filomath opened, although I missed them, and O.A.R. was there. *sweeeeeet* I remember hearing them play at my college union my freshman year (before they were famous) and fell in love with them then. I wish I'd snagged some autographs back then... Cyprus Hill played too, but I was mainly there for O.A.R. :D
I've been running around this week getting everything organized with my schedule and financial aid, and despite the effort involved, it has gone more smoothly than in previous semesters. *knock on wood* I'm taking German 4, some CS courses, another Comm class to complete that minor, and metaphysics (a philosophy course). I may add a PE if I can fit it in my schedule before Friday.
September 17-18th is the Wine & Jazz Fest here in Morgantown. I'm shooting for Sunday on that one. I also have to request all the WVU home games off this year, especially since this will be my last season. Go Mountaineers!!
Monday was the first day back to school, and Fall Fest kicked off that evening. Had a blast, hung out with friends, and witnessed some great live music. Anna Nalick was there--incredible performance. Her recordings don't do her justice at all. Filomath opened, although I missed them, and O.A.R. was there. *sweeeeeet* I remember hearing them play at my college union my freshman year (before they were famous) and fell in love with them then. I wish I'd snagged some autographs back then... Cyprus Hill played too, but I was mainly there for O.A.R. :D
I've been running around this week getting everything organized with my schedule and financial aid, and despite the effort involved, it has gone more smoothly than in previous semesters. *knock on wood* I'm taking German 4, some CS courses, another Comm class to complete that minor, and metaphysics (a philosophy course). I may add a PE if I can fit it in my schedule before Friday.
September 17-18th is the Wine & Jazz Fest here in Morgantown. I'm shooting for Sunday on that one. I also have to request all the WVU home games off this year, especially since this will be my last season. Go Mountaineers!!
8.18.2005
"spontaneity"
Finally. My internet is back in service. I seriously think I was going through withdrawal...and I definitely decided that I take the information superhighway for granted. I was so bored that I ended up borrowing Jen's copy of The Tommyknockers by Stephen King. It's been a great read so far. Within five minutes of my signing on, several people had already IMed me asking where the heck I'd been. *inflates*
Work today was an interesting experience. The "employee picnic," I guess you'd call it, was today. They'd decided to go to Sandcastle (a waterpark). Consequently, they decided they didn't have the funds, and went somewhere that was *not* Sandcastle and got completely smashed (or so I heard.) Not that I minded. I needed the hours, and I didn't feel comfortable enough yet to do any major socializing with the group as a whole. While they were out, the pizza crew from another Hut came in to run the store. I was the only one there that knew where anything was, and so I drew a slight sense of importance from this. The interesting part was observing the different ways they ran things. I may have picked up a few tricks/bad habits, but who knows? I'll probably forget it anyways in a few days.
Classes start on Monday, and I really have alot of work to do before then. I had an appointment with my academic advisor, made two weeks ago, but today was the only slot she had available. As it turns out, my turning up 15 minutes early didn't even matter. The one time I'm actually early, and she didn't even call my name until half an hour after I was scheduled to be there. Then she looked over my file, made a few comments about my transcript (there are plenty of things in there I'm not proud of) and referred me to another advisor. As it turns out, this other advisor didn't have any slots available whatsoever, but agreed to "squeeze me in" (translation: gonna be waitin' a long long time) this Friday at 8:30am. So I have to get up extremely early, and then "hurry up and wait" as they say.
At least the cable's working. I'm currently engrossed in Lost, a TV series on Fox about a group of people shipwrecked on a deserted island in the pacific. Normally I would scoff at the idea, but somehow I got sucked in, and not I'm hooked. I also saw an episode of Dead Like Me, a Showtime series about some people that sort of work for Death. Kinda like assistant grim reapers. Definitely my kind of stuff. Even though those are pretty much the only things I've watched, I managed to jot down a few previews I thought looked promising:
I'm also looking forward to Charmed, and a new season of South Park. Oh! and my friend Bob's wedding! Congratulations, Bob, you sonofabitch! That man is my hero, and I'm honored to be invited to his wedding. Fallfest will be awesome on Monday. Cyprus Hill and O.A.R. are coming. How awesome is that? Very awesome, that's how. I remember hearing O.A.R. for the first time when they played in a little hall next to my college union at Baldwin-Wallace College my freshman year. They still hadn't broken the fame barrier at that time, and there were probably only 20 or so people came to hear them that day. I remember hearing their music floating in through the window of my dorm, and I dropped what I was doing (playing Counterstrike) and ran over there. It was incredible. Oh, how I wish I'd snagged an autograph then. Cyprus Hill is more mainstream, but likeable on some levels. But I'm mainly going for O.A.R.
"It's 3 A.M. and I wanna go to bed..."
Work today was an interesting experience. The "employee picnic," I guess you'd call it, was today. They'd decided to go to Sandcastle (a waterpark). Consequently, they decided they didn't have the funds, and went somewhere that was *not* Sandcastle and got completely smashed (or so I heard.) Not that I minded. I needed the hours, and I didn't feel comfortable enough yet to do any major socializing with the group as a whole. While they were out, the pizza crew from another Hut came in to run the store. I was the only one there that knew where anything was, and so I drew a slight sense of importance from this. The interesting part was observing the different ways they ran things. I may have picked up a few tricks/bad habits, but who knows? I'll probably forget it anyways in a few days.
Classes start on Monday, and I really have alot of work to do before then. I had an appointment with my academic advisor, made two weeks ago, but today was the only slot she had available. As it turns out, my turning up 15 minutes early didn't even matter. The one time I'm actually early, and she didn't even call my name until half an hour after I was scheduled to be there. Then she looked over my file, made a few comments about my transcript (there are plenty of things in there I'm not proud of) and referred me to another advisor. As it turns out, this other advisor didn't have any slots available whatsoever, but agreed to "squeeze me in" (translation: gonna be waitin' a long long time) this Friday at 8:30am. So I have to get up extremely early, and then "hurry up and wait" as they say.
At least the cable's working. I'm currently engrossed in Lost, a TV series on Fox about a group of people shipwrecked on a deserted island in the pacific. Normally I would scoff at the idea, but somehow I got sucked in, and not I'm hooked. I also saw an episode of Dead Like Me, a Showtime series about some people that sort of work for Death. Kinda like assistant grim reapers. Definitely my kind of stuff. Even though those are pretty much the only things I've watched, I managed to jot down a few previews I thought looked promising:
- Invasion (TV series)
- Red Eye (Movie)
- The Brothers Grimm (Movie)
- Transporter II (Movie)
- The Skeleton Key (Movie)
- Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (Movie)
- Doom (Movie)
I'm also looking forward to Charmed, and a new season of South Park. Oh! and my friend Bob's wedding! Congratulations, Bob, you sonofabitch! That man is my hero, and I'm honored to be invited to his wedding. Fallfest will be awesome on Monday. Cyprus Hill and O.A.R. are coming. How awesome is that? Very awesome, that's how. I remember hearing O.A.R. for the first time when they played in a little hall next to my college union at Baldwin-Wallace College my freshman year. They still hadn't broken the fame barrier at that time, and there were probably only 20 or so people came to hear them that day. I remember hearing their music floating in through the window of my dorm, and I dropped what I was doing (playing Counterstrike) and ran over there. It was incredible. Oh, how I wish I'd snagged an autograph then. Cyprus Hill is more mainstream, but likeable on some levels. But I'm mainly going for O.A.R.
"It's 3 A.M. and I wanna go to bed..."
8.04.2005
Ghost and The Hut
...and: the most overused blogger line ever-- "So, I haven't posted for awhile..."
I started regular shifts at Pizza Hut this week. Surprisingly, it's not as bad as I originally thought. Besides the fact that it's a food biz job and not writing code, I look forward to going to work every day. The coworkers are agreeable, I don't really have to deal with customers (at least not yet) and the food is great. I'm sure, given time, I'll hate all of it, but for now it's working for me. Getting paid on Mondays is a perk, too. Mondays are usually dreaded by those who work, and with Friday paydays, you have to get up early on Saturday to take your check to the bank. Who wants to get up early? Not me.
My PC hiccupped over the weekend, and XP got scrambled enough that it didn't feel like booting. Avoiding the hassle of troubleshooting, I opted to do a complete fresh install. While waiting for its rebirth, I thought to myself, "Why do this every time?" So I went and got myself a copy of Ghost and made an image once I got everything up and running. Having little experience with the app (everything was pre-scripted at Baldwin-Wallace) I quickly found out that getting booted properly to reload the image was a real hassle. I'll spare you the gory details, but what I ended up doing was making a bootable cd-r set, with the image spanned across two discs, and meshed together a few scripts to automate the whole process. Worked like a charm. The biggest bump I hit along the way was that MS-DOS will only recognize the first optical drive in the system. Keep that in mind if you ever try this and get stuck.
Thanks to Argon for the tip :)
I started regular shifts at Pizza Hut this week. Surprisingly, it's not as bad as I originally thought. Besides the fact that it's a food biz job and not writing code, I look forward to going to work every day. The coworkers are agreeable, I don't really have to deal with customers (at least not yet) and the food is great. I'm sure, given time, I'll hate all of it, but for now it's working for me. Getting paid on Mondays is a perk, too. Mondays are usually dreaded by those who work, and with Friday paydays, you have to get up early on Saturday to take your check to the bank. Who wants to get up early? Not me.
My PC hiccupped over the weekend, and XP got scrambled enough that it didn't feel like booting. Avoiding the hassle of troubleshooting, I opted to do a complete fresh install. While waiting for its rebirth, I thought to myself, "Why do this every time?" So I went and got myself a copy of Ghost and made an image once I got everything up and running. Having little experience with the app (everything was pre-scripted at Baldwin-Wallace) I quickly found out that getting booted properly to reload the image was a real hassle. I'll spare you the gory details, but what I ended up doing was making a bootable cd-r set, with the image spanned across two discs, and meshed together a few scripts to automate the whole process. Worked like a charm. The biggest bump I hit along the way was that MS-DOS will only recognize the first optical drive in the system. Keep that in mind if you ever try this and get stuck.
Thanks to Argon for the tip :)
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