Started Out Fun, Yet Ended With Me Cursing

I just had this huge realization about my posting on this page. I've never once talked about my job at Wal-Mart. Or if I have i've forgotten and i'm not up for digging through previous entries, although i'm pretty sure I haven't. For starters, I began at my job in the summer of 2006 starting out as a member of the "store set" team. That was probably one of the best jobs at the store. All I did, everyday was go to the wal-mart warehouse and play cards everyday. The warehouse was pretty awesome, we had pumptruck races, we had one of those ice cream freezers you see in esso, and we got to smash stuff into tiny little pieces. What more could a guy ask for?

This pretty much went on for around 2 months before I had to go back to high school and most of the warehouse guys left for university. The few of us left from store set now had to find a department from within the store to work in. Most people would assume I tried to get into electronics, but with almost everyone left from store set and some other associates from around the store, I played it smart and did the next best thing, by applying for the department right next to it. TOYS!! Yes I work in a toy department, and i've been there for a little over a year now. It's pretty cool in there, although I usually avoid doing all that much work, which kind of makes me wonder why I haven't been fired yet. Example: yesterday one of the managers told me to change all the front endcaps to clearance and then moves all the stuff on them into new homes. At first I had my other toy guy, Paul giving me a hand. Since I had to take my dinner at 5 to ensure there would be someone covering the department while I was gone, Paul finished up one of the endcaps for me. When I came back I ended up talking to the peope in electronics for a good chunk of an hour before I decided to go for my last break. Then when I came back I was pulled to the truck for the last hour and a half of my shift. In conclusion, my department looked like shit when I left, although electronics was supposed to zone* it for me.

*Zone means to make everything look nice. So put away returns, pull products forward and make the department look good for your department manager when they come in monday morning.

*Swas is a certain group of departments that an assistant manager attends to. My swas currently consists of Electronics, Toys, Sporting Goods, Automotive, and Hardware. I'm trained to work in all of them.

You would think that this job seems like fun and games, but really it's not. The biggest, if not worst downside is the management. At first I really didn't mind management too much, mainly because I never dealt with them. When I first started working in toys my manager was Christine Oarsen. Christine was pretty cool and usually she'd give me easy jobs or tell me to stay the hell out of electronics. Other than that she was ok. After about a year of having her, she became manager of another swas* and I got a new manager named Mark. At first I wanted to kill Mark, mainly because he treated everyone like a total jerk. Kind of like my history teacher. But his reign was short lived, and I got a new manager named Liz. To me, Liz was a pretty cool manager. She never came and bugged me in toys and she always changed my schedule to my liking. Although almost everyone else in my swas hated her with a burning passion, I never really had an issue. Then the unthinkable happened. Liz was transferred out almost as quickly as Mark was and guess who was now in control of my swas yet again...MARK!!! Ok so the first time around I never really gave the guy a chance, and really once I got to know him, he kinda grew on me. But this wouldn't be all that interesting if I Mark stayed on. This past weekend Mark was transferred to another store and I got a new manager named Darren. Now Darren had been a manager at my store before Mark, he was just in charge of a different swas. Didn't mean I didn't have to put up with his bullcrap. The guy has no idea how the store actually works. For example, during an 8 hour shift associates are entitled to an hour long lunch, so I of course went for my mine during one of saturday 8am-4pm shifts. For almost the entire hour Darren paged me non-stop. Taylor from electronics got tired of it and called him and told him I was on lunch. Still he paged me. So when I came back I called him and asked what the big emergency was. He told me that someone wanted to know if we were getting more pool chemicals in. NOT FUCKING WORTH AN HOUR OF PAGING FOR!!! I actually was astonished at how he couldn't just ask another associate or tell the customers who were looking for it to call back when my department manager was in. (swas and deparment manager are 2 completely different things) The same thing happened this past weekend. He called me trying to see if we sold a certain product in hardware. I WORK IN THE BLOODY TOY DEPARTMENT!! NOT HARDWARE!!! Oh and it gets better. This is the conversation that occured between us

Me: Why don't you ask Jordan in hardware.
Stupid Moron: Well where is he?
Me: I don't know. Why don't you page him?
Idiot: Can you go look around the back rooms for him?
Me: Why don't you page him?
Whiny Stupid Moron: Well I don't know where he is. Can you go check the break room for me?
Me: Fine

Now lets review. What did Whiny Stupid Moron do wrong? HE DIDN'T ACTUALLY PAGE HIM!! I actually coulnd't believe he would't page him, yet wanted me to go look for him. The stupidity of some people is just increadible.

Anyways, i'm supposed to be doing an essay, so until next time people.

J-moose

I'm Frantic So Load Me Up

Yes, it's true, i'm back with a new blog!! I know, your all very excited as am I because i'm pretty sure i've got a bit to say. First off i'll tell you to look at the right side of your screen at the new list of songs i'm digging at the moment. Snazzy ain't it? Instead of being songs that help it's been changed to songs i'm digging at the moment which i'll be updating as frequently. Also, i've managed to start my new years resolution list. For the time being we can half check the part about being more social. I am now part of a youth group called LIFT which I started last friday. I had such an amazing time there. Some of the things the leader of LIFT spoke about kinda made me rethink a lot of what I thought I knew. Plus I met some pretty cool people and i'm really excited to keep going back.



There's a point and time in every guys life (no matter how much they'll deny it) that they have this obsession with a musical instrument, be it guitar, drums, bass or anything. For me i've had this happen to me a fair few times. When I was younger I wanted nothing more than to play the drums. I asked for them for two years straight and my parents never gave in. So the urge to play went away. When i was 14 the urge to play guitar kicked in. I'd been listening to a lot of green day, U2 and billy talent so naturally I wanted to break out a guitar and play some Longview, Sunday Bloody Sunday or River Below. This time my parents gave in. I ended up taking lessons for about a year, but they didn't really pay off. Usually I'd bring in a song i'd wanna learn and my teacher would listen to the track a few times then teach me the song. Pretty lame to do for over a year. From there on out I just played guitar whenever the mood struck me. Like yesterday for example, I picked it up and started trying to play Bobcaygeon by the tragically hip. It didn't sound good but I strummed away regardless of the wrong notes.



Anyways, now I have this weird urge to learn how to play harmonica. I haven't actually listened to a lot of songs with harmonica parts in them but learning how to play would be pretty awesome in my books. I actually can't get the thought of going out to the park by my house, sitting in a tree and just playing some harmonica....

J-moose

I'm Still Here!!!!

SORRY!!! I've been busy doing other things and I haven't really had the time to write a new blog. Although tons of stuff has happened in the past little bit I just haven't had a chance to gather my thoughts into something new for you guys. The next 2 weeks are gonna be even harder for me to blog since i've got exams and such, but don't worry i'm still here and i'm still blogging. In fact i've already got one started as a draft, but i'm a little stumped as to how i'm gonna finish it. It's a brief summary about something I attended last friday night that has made me feel more confident in my faith in God, which is something I usually steer clear of. It's also a little bit of a thank you to my friend Jenae for bringing me to it. So here's the deal, by the end of the week i'm gonna try and have a new blog up for viewing pleasure and I promise I won't disappoint. Until then my friends.

J-moose