Well dip me in mayonaise and throw me to the lesbians

[gfrancie]

Oy vey. I made sure Miss Kit got on the right ferry so she can catch a bus to go home and it all goes to hell.
The local bus service doesn't wait three minutes and she ends up stuck in Poulsbo (about forty minutes from home) all by herself until my Mom could rescue her.
Thankfully, some really kind people helped her out and kept her company. She isn't a baby or anything but she is fourteen. It was also the first time she has traveled from Port Townsend to Seattle by herself. (It is a 47 mile distance) My Mother is so pissed off right now that I suspect a bus driver may be found in a ditch soon.

In other news I had my review today. They love me. Maybe it helps that they know I might burst into tears if I get a bad review so they ignore the sarcastic behavior I display at work and say nice things about me. I got a piddly little raise and was told what a great person I was.
I was kind of scared because I was doing my review with Magda Goebbels and being in a room with her, with the door closed made me think of a dog that realizes that it is on its way to the vet. I wanted to scratch the door and say, "lemmie out, lemmie out."

Again one of the things I need to "improve" upon is coming to managers when I have concerns. So apparently trying to place nice, ignoring the problem and putting food on top of it doesn't sit well with them. But how does one say, "Yeah um...you are the problem. quit being such a bitch." I suppose one has to be creative. I did let on that I was sort of irritated that they weren't telling me things I needed to know and I was finding out about them after the fact. So they listened to that.

I think I will take a bubble bath and call it good.

Comments

[starrynytes4me.livejournal.com]

Making suggestions that are nice, but still direct is helpful. Saying, "You know I really like it when you,..blah and it makes me feel like blah de blah blah." Instead of, "When you are a PMSing bitch I feel like I want to throw you through the window." Which generally gets you fired.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

*laughs*
Yeah, I am having to use the "I" statements they teach kindergarten kids to use.

[cogshiftingman.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a character-building adventure for your sister. You may need to have words with the bus driver, after your mother has pummelled him to a blue-unformed pulp.

What %age raise did you get? We all got 3.5% :-)

[sarahparah.livejournal.com]

Not ALL!

[cogshiftingman.livejournal.com]

Oh, pardon me, I forgot :-)

I was using "all" figuratively.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Oh I don't think it would even register a percentage.

[cogshiftingman.livejournal.com]

Even to two decimal places?

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

none

[photosexual.livejournal.com]

When stuck in a room that also contains an authority figure or person of power, try to always visibly position yourself between them and the door. I did this years ago when I was in an 'exit interview' for being laid off in a mass execution, and the HR rep that was in the room realized that they can't get out unless they get past me....

Adds a whole new twist to who likes being in the room and why. ;)

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Oh I did. I knew if I had to I could get the hell out. But still...scary scary scary stuff.

[photosexual.livejournal.com]

The point being here is, make sure they feel like they can get out- assuming they tell you what you want to hear. ahahha turn the tables on 'em. "so, we're in a room, and I'm blocking your door. I'm assuming I got a nice raise, yes?" and then twitch with shifty eyes and mumble to yourself. Their answer is almost always "why, yes! it seems we just found another... seven percent for you above the 2 percent we were going to give! Can I leave now? safely?" ahahha

I never like reviews though. It's not that I don't work hard, but I've realized that direct supervision either isn't aware of what I do unless they're literally working with me (and therefore, not giving me the fair benefit at review time, assuming I'm doing less until proven otherwise) or that they misunderstand me and choose the lower end of the reward. A few times I've been praised and fairly compensated, and it annoys me that for that, I was doing the same things as I was for the lower pay that the ignorant fools gave me previously.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

You should be a motivated speaker.

[photosexual.livejournal.com]

I'd have to get me a pompadour and some flashy white dental work and a laser pointer and a suit and stuff. All I need is a good topic that gets my goat, and I have a portable little soapbox here that comes out!

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

I think you would make a great speaker just the way you are.
It would draw people to you or frighten them. But you know they would look. Once they look, they start listening.

[photosexual.livejournal.com]

All I need now is a topic to speak about! I should get some mileage in on the street corner opposite the guy at 5th and pine that thinks the SPD and and the Frye apartments are satan.

I think the giant get-rich hypocracy that I would end up being a tabloid scandal for is to be a big time motivational speaker dispensing dating advice. When they finally confront me during my bid in the presidential election in 2008 I'll admit to making it all up.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Maybe you could speak to people with your crow army keeping watch.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

pardon. "motivative" speaker.

[heatherfeathyr.livejournal.com]

i think it's kind of weird they have her doing reviews. i mean, she's only been at the store a couple of weeks. that's really not enough time to get to know anyone well enough to be judging their behavior / work ethic / etc. i think it puts both her and the person being reviewed in a very awkward position. but i dunno, maybe that's just me

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

No no no. That is Margaret Thatcher. heh
Magda Goebbels is a short lesbian who likes Danielle Steele.

But I do agree with you.

[heatherfeathyr.livejournal.com]

lol :)

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

So did Geoff emerge from the review with no one dead?

[heatherfeathyr.livejournal.com]

well i didn't get called to clean up any blood or dispose of any bodies so i'm assuming yes, lol. but maybe he performed the murder neatly and disposed of the body himself. or maybe he got so fed up he quit. i dunno! but if anyone turns up missing for an extended period of time we'll just assume it was geoff's doing and the person probably deserved it anyway. haha

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

I think that seems like the best plan. No point in getting our hands dirty with blood.
Yesterday was Karen's last day wasn't it?

[ekdogg.livejournal.com]

Good to go on the review!

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Despite my acid tongue and prediliction for laziness I fooled them yet again.