I'm enjoying a cup of mint tea, though it occurs to me that I really should have fixed a pot of coffee instead — I feel a caffeine migraine demanding attention. I slept in this morning. Well, it passed for sleeping in. I rolled out of bed at quarter to ten. That's late for me.Continue reading “On Packing”
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On the Last Day
Today's my last day at EB Games. A number of managers got together last night at a local bar as a kind of going-away get-together. One manager left last week, I'm leaving today, another's moving to Pittsburgh (though staying with the company) in two weeks. It was the last hurrah, basically. It was good. IContinue reading “On the Last Day”
On Monday
Today. Today was the hard day. Today was the day I made the difficult phone calls to colleagues I've worked with for years. Half were happy for me that I was leaving and getting out. Even the knowledge that, as of right now, I've no job lined up didn't temper that excitement. It was, oneContinue reading “On Monday”
On Friday
Yesterday was a colleague's last day. He was the only person in the company with whom I'd discussed the possibility of leaving, and even then I didn't go into great detail as to why I might be doing so. We had similar complaints about the company and its direction, we'd been through the same advancedContinue reading “On Friday”
On Taking the Plunge
It's done. No, not the evil plan. (And please, people — stop asking me about my evil plan!) I submitted my letter of resignation to EB Games today. No, it wasn't profanity laced. I didn't even take the opportunity to castigate the company for its insane decisions this past year. There's no reason to burnContinue reading “On Taking the Plunge”
On a Stuffy Nose
Yesterday evening, on my way out the door to go to an inventory in Smithfield, a bee stung me in the knee. I couldn't get the stinger out, though I could feel it, and as I was already running late — I meant to be there at 7:30, but didn't get out the door untilContinue reading “On a Stuffy Nose”
On Work Idiocy
My boss is an idiot. There. I've said it. He's not always an idiot. But sometimes he makes idiotic decisions. He's got good reason, but still. Idiotic. Let's go back to the merger. Many EB stores were inventoried in January. Most were not. And then in February, when the EB and GameStop mainframes were linkedContinue reading “On Work Idiocy”
On a Really Bad Odor
The worst thing about working next to three restaurants in summer is the rancid smell of their garbage after a day in the sun. The whole of the shopping center reeks of rotten food. Gah.
On Prank Phone Calls
The phone rang at work today. I answered it. The voice on the other end was high-pitched, a boy whose voice hasn’t yet broken. “I have Halo,” he said, “and I don’t like it.” “What’s wrong? Why don’t you like it?” Innocuous questions, to be sure, but they’re asked to narrow down the reasons forContinue reading “On Prank Phone Calls”
On Evaluating the Week
Today I feel mildly awake. It’s been quite a long week. Shore Leave over the weekend, inventory prep at the store–convention, lengthy drive, twelve-plus hour days at work. Suffice to say yesterday I was exhausted and unable to move, and not just from the seventeen hour shift I pulled on Wednesday due to performing theContinue reading “On Evaluating the Week”