I got a job working at the pet store in the mall. I'm supposed to sell the animals. The only bad part is there is no base salary, it's all commission. That makes it hard, having to constantly be on the look out to get customers to bye pets. The main goal is to sell at least a puppy a weak, because then you at least get around $200 a week ( Read more... )

Last week wasn't the best week for me. I lost two jobs in two days. First on Tuesday I went to Quiznos to see why I hadn't been called when the store opened a week ago. Nestor, the owner, said that he hired someone else because he didn't think I wanted the job anymore. Here's what happened. Around the end of November I went to the nearly completed ( Read more... )

I never thought I would work somewhere that is run worst then the movie theater was. But I think Sears might have it beat. First off I tried telling my manager I was taking a few days off when I visited Tom and she wasn't there. I tried telling her three times (once when I clocked in, once during my lunch break and again when I clocked out) and ( Read more... )

I got a job working at sears as a cashier for the holidays. I've been "training" there since Tuesday. My training so far has been sitting in front of a computer doing training programs. Seriously. I have to do 20 hours of orientation and register training, all on computers, before i get any actual floor training. Also they're really disorganized ( Read more... )

Last Thursday I went into the city with my parents to see Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. And it was a hilarious show. Basically it was a one man show staring Martin Short and a few others. And it was loosely based on his life. The key word is loosely, since at one point he was showing the audience his death in the 80's. But I would definably ( Read more... )

I'm not dead. My life has just been so boring and repetitive I haven't felt the need to post ( Read more... )

So this weekend i was sent by an agency to hand out fliers at home depot for zero water, a company that sells a water filtration system. So i get there on Saturday and no one was at the booth. So without any training or instuctions i suddenly had to work the stand (basically i got people to drink samples of the filtered water and then gave them ( Read more... )

Where did the last 8 hours go?

Ok, this has to be one of the weirdest things i've heard in a while. The Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, was killed in Austraila from being stabbed in the chest by a sting ray.

Yesterday was kind of a hard day for me ( Read more... )