Welcome to another Weekly Words Challenge, presented to you by the award-winning blogger, Tink of Pickled Beef! Every week she picks a couple of words for us "picaholics" to take beautiful snapshots of and present on our blogs. The words she decided on for this week are LIFE and WHITE.As usual, I will ramble on a little bit about something, before I go on to present my pictures for the week.
Today, I want to scream and rip the remaining hair out by the roots from my head. I got to work today, and as you all may have noticed - Christmas season is very near, and that means there are a LOT of people out there doing their shopping. I would imagine that any self-respecting business would take the opportunity to put a few more bodies on the premises on such a day, in order to keep up with the added sales.
This is not the case where I work.
We always sit down for 15 minutes before opening and go through the day, and I arrived just as we sat down in the break room. I was a little surprised, having had a few days off, that there were only three of us present as I walked in through the door. I also knew today was delivery day, and we would be expecting 25+ pallets of furniture and stuff to deal with.
Today's assignments are announced, and not only do I get to work the register, while I was expecting to be in the storage room dealing with those pallets. I also find that there are only 5 people working today... period!
Now... what the hell! Usually, on any normal delivery day, we would've been at least 6 to deal with everything. Today - with the added chaos of Christmas shoppers (and a massive Christmas sale going on) we are minus one body!
This is not because people are at home being sick or anything - this is how it was scheduled.
I am pissed - and I came so close to just walking out the door, never to return that it's not even funny.
Add to that the fact that I had to spend the last hour alone in the store together with the new bitch, who's presence I do not find in the least appealing...
To hell with my job!
On to more entertaining stuff... as it is time to look at some pictures. Here's what I came up with for the WWC this week:
The story of my Love LIFE "book cover"
('Rubicon Heart' will premier here shortly)
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This is my LIFE! This is where I work... **********
Well, it's winter and everything is WHITE.**********
These WHITE flowers appeared on my hanging plant**********
Next week we will be playing with the words TRADITION and PINK. My goodness... what could I possibly come up with for pink that is not... ahem... X-Rated? Maybe I'll run off to a farm and get some shots of a pig... they're kind of pink(ish) right? A Christmas ham?
Hope you enjoyed! We'll be playing again next week!
37 comments:
Pretty typical management type decision. We're gonna be really really busy so lets schedule fewer people so the short term profits will look better for the store.
A manufacturing company I worked for used to lay off people the week after Thanksgiving every year. They always wanted us supervisors to go out tell the people being laid off too. The third time it happened I refused. I told HR if they wanted them laid off "do it yourself". Of course they did it cause corporate told them to. And why did they lay off? Cause we were slow? Nope, the opposite. They laid off to make last quarter profits look better than the rest of the year. Losers.
Oh hey, great pics dude! LOL ;-)
LMAO! You've already designed the book cover? Oh man REH, you're awesome. I think I love you.
Great pictures. Although the "life" one of the back room was a little depressing.
Hey REH! That really really sucks about your work. I can sympathize to a point. Working in hotels in Las Vegas during major events seems to have the same affect on the scheduling people I have had to deal with. fortunately, I got out of that racket a couple years ago.
By the way, I just scrolled down and saw your major award post and I love that you included the leg lamp!!!! AHAHAHAHAHAH! RAG-ILAY!
Sorry about the crappy job situation. That is typical in all businesses for some reason.
Love your pictures too. The snowy photo is really nice.
Jay: And people wonder why I have strange fantasies about hanging management people by their hands, naked. Connecting jumper cables to their balls and hooking it up with my car as I start the engine... :)
Tink: Yeah. That book cover is what I'll be using for those posts ;)
About the depressing LIFE picture... imagine me having to work there every single day.
Pookie Sixx: You got out? You got out!!! There is hope then... people can actually get out! ;)
Karen: Typical, maybe. Stupid... for sure!
Stuped managers, the new bitch AND regular F-ing people? My head would have exploded.
Great pictures, love the cover.
Good luck with the pink ;)
I will be back to admire again later, but I just wanted to say your pictures are AWESOME this week!
Dude, I feel for you! Sound like a bad day in the making! Hopefully it gets better after the holidays!
so you work in a closet?
that's a little... odd
so what exactly do you do? lick boxes? me too!
x-rated is fine with me!
The snow picture is so beautiful. I actually said Wow out loud.
Sucks about work. What were they thinking? Obviously they weren't.
Work can get pretty weird with bad managers. Still, there is a way out! :)
Like the book cover! Looking forward for your next week's pink!
G-Man: My head damn near did explode... I had a head-ache all day ;)
About the pink... I can't seem to get that one thought out of my head ;)
Fiwa: Thank You. I was actually quite pleased myself this week... notice - no defending the quality of my pics in this post ;)
RockDog: I would hope things get better after Christmas - but it's been a downward spiral for the past year or so... my hope is diminishing.
Jay Cam: That's not a closet... see? No skeletons!
That is just one short aisle in the stock room. See how nice and organized it looks? Yeah! Sure you do ;)
Beautifully Profound: I was beginning to worry you had left me there, BP.
I guess Christmas hysteria is getting the better of all of us... but soon enough, we will be rewarded with all that marvelous food and candies that Christmas is really all about!
Kell: Yeah, I kind of like the snow pic myself - even if I do hate the snow in general!
Thanks!
Joel: There may be a way out... but I seem to have lost the directions! :(
... and I am certain that all of the customers were pleasant and patient, right? Not only do you get to deal with idiot managers, but the always happy shoppers as well.
A few more days and the madness will cease!
Great pics! Love (& miss) the snow!
Looking forward to your new project!
beautiful snow photo! I love snow.... from a distance!
what's wrong with x-rated??
Love the snow pic...I'm jealous!
Sorry about the sucky stuff.
Your management team seems to have their heads up their backdoors to have scheduled like that.
Yet remember people with real brains never get the management jobs, only airheads and aholes it seems...no offense to any of my pals who are management, you are the exception to the rule (I hope).
Loved the pics for the week, might have to join in this game once I get better with the camera and convince Papa Bear to teach me how to upload the pictures. Yes, I am technically challenged...I admit it.
You weren't the only one frustrated I'm sure. There's nothing worse than being a customer in an understaffed store...except perhaps being the workers dealing with the pissed off customers, and trying to keep up with demand.
Life is just hard. Who'da thunk?
i like your pics. however, i would've included a pile of blow for the "white". or baking soda on a mirror and just let everyone draw their own conclusions.
Dana: Oh yes! Customers are all lovely people - I have them all enchanted by my lovely charm...
Alli: How can you miss the snow? Snow on pictures - fine, I can deal with that. But, I would sure not mind never, ever having to set foot into a snowy sidewalk ever again. ;)
Leighann: Oh, there's nothing wrong with X-Rated. I just don't think of this blog going there... just yet ;)
Real Live Lesbian: Don't be jealous. It's not as nice in reality as on a picture.
Sassy Lucy: Airheads and A-Holes are too good for management jobs. I think incompetent dickswab is the minimum requirement.
Seriously though, the one responsible for this is not the store manager but the district manager. I'm pretty sure this bitch is on a mission to destroy our particalar store - we used to be number one!
You should definitely give the WWC a try! Fun and addictive!
Samantha K: I know. I often quite loudly and clearly get the opportunity to be informed of customers dissatisfaction at that.
"Can we get some help here?"
"Are you the only one who works here?"
"Tried calling you on the phone for days - why don't you answer the friggin' phone?"
My answer:
"You got my attention. What the hell do you need help with - I am quite sure your reasons for talking to me had nothing to do with how fucking long it took you to find me. Are you in the market for furniture, or to file a complaint?"
Seriously though - we lose many a customer a day. I see them walking right back out the door when they see the lines at the register.
Tequila Mockingbird: The pile of blow blew out the window and settled on some trees out there - you saw that pic, right?
Very nice - I love the pictures for WWC- you always amaze me with how you interpret the words. The white flowers on your hangning plant are really cool.
Good luck with the rest of the week! You must be exhausted.
I'm shortstaffed at my work too. You know your desk job is busy when your feet hurt at the end of the day, from all the running around the office. Seriously!
Newt: I didn't even know the thing could get flowers. I've had it for almost 2 years... it's grown from teenie-weenie to a long jungle-bush type plant.
Just a few days ago I was watering it, and I noticed these things hanging at the end of the runners.
I was like "Dude! Cool! There be flowers growin' on that thing!"
Sparkling Red: Yes, I am exhausted... I'd be quite interested in finding out how many miles I walk during a workday.
Being short staffed sucks!
Good luck to you too.
Job sounds dreadful.
"Today, I want to scream and rip the remaining hair out by the roots from my head."
--had me laughing for several minutes. I apologize for finding your anguish so amusing.
hey madman,great shots. thanks for visiting
that's a lot of blow. holy asscrackers!
I am really looking forward to this 'self-biography' although I'm not sure why you don't call it an autobiography?!
Nice flowers :)
if you had that much blow, you should snort a line off my back tat.
Odd Facts: Well, a man's misery is a woman's joy - way of the world ;)
Jinks: Thank You.
Tequila Mockingbird: That is snow... not blow! Duh? ;)
Guilty Secret: It will be a self-bLography... because this is a bLog ;) Lame, huh?
Tequila Mockingbird (again): Is that tat located at the small of your back? You should post a picture of it over on your place - I've got a thing for those ;)
Nice book cover! That sure is kick ass sweet!
Preposterous Ponderings: Thank You... I'm quite pleased with it myself ;)
Oh ok I get it now bLography! Love it! (Although I'd still call it and autoblography... but that's just me and my anal ways!)
Guilty Secret: The more I think about it... I think I may have to agree with you on that one.
I'll see what I'll end up using.
Ok, don't think I'm a freak for thinking about this all evening, but... how about autobiblography? Or does that start to sound like it's a book about books?
Sorry, I'll shut up now...
Guilty Secret: Autoblography I like... autobiblography, is a little much I think.
Thanks for suggesting though ;)
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