Workin’

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007 | Life

Ok so I have gotten through my first couple days of work.  There was the paperwork / orientation / drug test day last week which was a nice short day.  Then the weekend where I tried to cram a ton of website work in.  I would have crammed even more in had I not been retarded staying up till nearly 4 am and then getting up with alarm at 6, only to end up going to bed early in afternoon due to exhaustion.  After that it was off to a normal job.

Granted it’s “training” for this and next week, so it’s not the same as what I will be doing, but so far it’s extremely slow.  I am at the “head of the class” and the teacher always asks me questions unless somebody else is volunteering  to answer it.  I sat and listened to a rep who has worked there over a year and a half today and ended up correcting him on several things he told the customer wrong.  Though I should of impressed when instead of giving an honest answer the guy managed to sell his way out of it.  I wasn’t really amused by this, but it seems most people doing this job that are technically inclined get promoted fast to different areas and those who do sales tend to stay where they are at since even though the sales is also supposed to be tech support, so long as a customer leaves the call happy then all is good.

Oh well, I am good at both technical skill and sales, so on the chance that they don’t just move me to webboard like they are trying to do, I should do very well.  It’s kind of a mixed bag, I would enjoy webboard more, but I would have to go to gilbert and I wouldn’t be doing any sales so I wouldn’t make nearly as much money even though the base pay is higher.  If I work the support/sales position then it’s in Tempe and is within walking distance of my house!

In other news there is my car.  I haven’t been driving it, y? Because on Friday I entrusted it to a guy who was going to repaint the hood and bumper for $400 and have it back to me good as new on sunday at 5.

Well he didn’t.  In fact he told Maria to just bring me to his place (to which he led her to believe it was done) just to show me the “progress” which was pretty much just primer on certain areas…  I was pissed and so was Maria since she had put her own reputation on the line to tell me how great this guy was.  Well this time he promised he would get it done on Monday and get it back to me by 5 on Tuesday.   Well at first I was happy when I pulled into Chuy’s and saw my car.  Until I got out and looked at it.  It looked like shit, though technically the right color all the painted area looked like it was textured, there was still sticker residue on one side of car, a couple of the small white lines were not painted etc..

I was flippant.  I was slightly calmed down when I was told that it was not finished and that when it was it would not be textured at all and the lines etc.. would all look good.  They brought my car back so that I could have it for the rest of the week and on Saturday the guy will come out to my house and finish the job there.  Still not happy about it not being done, they realize that I am not going to pay $400 anymore and what I do pay will only be based on my final satisfaction.  Went inside for a drink and the bar generously forgot to charge me for the pitcher+ of beer that I drank.

I do hope he gets done on Saturday and at a reasonable time and that it looks like a million bucks.  If it gets done early enough I am going to Tempe Beer Fest.

I added several more new artworks to site again.  Still going to keep it just new stuff for another week or so.   Oh, and where I asked for a better name for Smartass Reviews scratch that.  It was a stupid mistake on my part to call it that in the first place since I have been planning to call it Smartass Recommends for a couple years, and have written several blog posts where I reference that exact thing.  Not sure why I forgot it but it clicked to me again after I realized I was only writing reviews for things that didn’t suck.  Also I don’t know why I didn’t think of this earlier, but that new link of the moment thing i took the time to setup.  Kind of worthless.  I mean I want it there but I went about adding it wrong, I will instead use del.icio.us since it does just what I need:  bookmark’s sites with my own descriptions and then puts them in rss feed so i can syndicate it on my site without having to manually add them.  Yeah, so no reason to have blog for links.  I will implement that soon.  Perhaps also my DiGG feed, but that will be somewhere else on the site if I do that again (you saw it before on the side of this blog, though I removed it).

Ouch… Grr, you know the feeling.  You have a sore or something and you can’t help but poke it… Well I have one on my gums right now.  It doesn’t take much to irritate and is really pissing me off.  It just appeared there this morning for no good ryme or reason.  So I am hoping it goes away tomorrow.

               

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