Just hanging out while the rest of the family are watching the first Kings game of the season. Or more like yelling at the TV screen for allowing the Blackhawks to score 3 times in the first period. Meanwhile I am trying to reason my argument as to the fact that there hasn't been any real play since we've been locked out for so long. So while my opinion is being tossed in the trash as unreasonable I am just sitting here chilling and craving greasy tacos from Taco Bell.
It's Saturday and I have to work at 17:30 this afternoon, I am sure that I am going to hear about the end result of this game.
On another note if I had knitting needles I would be trying to teach myself, which would be a great afternoon activity. A friend of mine sent home a skein of yarn for me.
Last night I was thinking how about a month ago everyone was going nuts trying to tie up loose ends of their Christmas shopping. The park just got extremely busy about this time. Now the park is slower with nuttier guests hanging around it. Literally. But with it being Martin Luther weekend, the NAMM convention going on and the Tinkerbell Half Marathon happening tomorrow I am willing to be we pick up in business this weekend without the coverage we'll need because its off-peak season. So I guess we'll see what the outcome will be.
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Friday, January 4, 2013
Can't say I'm fine Tonight
I know it's been a while but it's been one of those nights when I just want to scream.
I got into it with a fellow lead over the fact that she let her store go to crap because she thinks she can. You know at Disneyland we're just the little guys, the peons you might say. And there's times when we have to do more than our share of the work because a runner didn't do theirs, but a lead who makes it clear that she won't run in areas, she won't close carts, she won't process merchandise to the floor should not even be put into this position to begin with. There are many a nights when I stay later making sure the stores are ready for business in the morning, even if that means I have to do OT because of it. Because that's what's expected of me. But when you have a fellow lead who gripes about every little darn thing and then gets mad when help is coming there is a problem.
Also at the end of the evening I usually have a list of some sort that a manager might give to me of items that need to get looked into. I had this list and she got irked because I wouldn't let her know what was on it. And she pretty much accused me of letting my helper runner know what was on this list, which I didn't. No one knows what was on it besides me and God. When Gloria my helper came down I had her work on the lollipop tree which she was happy to do. Also my pain-in-the-arse runner told me she was leaving because I asked someone to come down and help. Seriously?!!! Sometimes I really have to wonder about people. Anyway she did leave for about 20 minutes then came back. Tossed her radio on the table and was pretty irksome the rest of the night.
And this is someone older than me who was bragging about being more mature just a mere 7 hours before? Hmmm.
Of course I did fall into the trap of venting when I had no idea that she had walked back into the store. I'm sure I will be held
accountable for that.
I got into it with a fellow lead over the fact that she let her store go to crap because she thinks she can. You know at Disneyland we're just the little guys, the peons you might say. And there's times when we have to do more than our share of the work because a runner didn't do theirs, but a lead who makes it clear that she won't run in areas, she won't close carts, she won't process merchandise to the floor should not even be put into this position to begin with. There are many a nights when I stay later making sure the stores are ready for business in the morning, even if that means I have to do OT because of it. Because that's what's expected of me. But when you have a fellow lead who gripes about every little darn thing and then gets mad when help is coming there is a problem.
Also at the end of the evening I usually have a list of some sort that a manager might give to me of items that need to get looked into. I had this list and she got irked because I wouldn't let her know what was on it. And she pretty much accused me of letting my helper runner know what was on this list, which I didn't. No one knows what was on it besides me and God. When Gloria my helper came down I had her work on the lollipop tree which she was happy to do. Also my pain-in-the-arse runner told me she was leaving because I asked someone to come down and help. Seriously?!!! Sometimes I really have to wonder about people. Anyway she did leave for about 20 minutes then came back. Tossed her radio on the table and was pretty irksome the rest of the night.
And this is someone older than me who was bragging about being more mature just a mere 7 hours before? Hmmm.
Of course I did fall into the trap of venting when I had no idea that she had walked back into the store. I'm sure I will be held
accountable for that.
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Frustrated
With my son James.
He did really well the first semester of Jr.high and has since gone downhill the second semester as he is purposely not doing his assignments and turning them in. Marc and I are at our wits end with trying to talk with him, taking his privileges away etc. Nothing seems to be helping. And we are at a loss to know how to deal with it all.
He did really well the first semester of Jr.high and has since gone downhill the second semester as he is purposely not doing his assignments and turning them in. Marc and I are at our wits end with trying to talk with him, taking his privileges away etc. Nothing seems to be helping. And we are at a loss to know how to deal with it all.
Monday, December 3, 2012
Mourning turned to Joy
Thankful that I have a husband who knows how to pick me up when I am feeling down.
This morning I had a bit of a meltdown in the drive way of our home over the fact that I am feeling non appreciated at work by my managers who always seem to make sure that they lavish their attentions on the younger, lazier leads. No matter what they do it's okay. The moment I slip up its a no-go situation. Of course, very seldom do I hear a word of anything from them about it. However, I always do my job no matter what kind of a mood I am in, the job gets done. Because there is never any time to just mess around and never do my job. But for the young ones I am always observing that they can do no wrong. More often than not, when they know that I am coming on to close they do nothing as a lead, and as their daytime runners underneath them are usually their buddies at work and away they follow the examples of their leads and their stores don't get filled. But for some odd reason they are never held accountable. All this to say that I just got fed up and yesterday was the day. During our briefing yesterday afternoon before our shifts, we talked about the value of "getting to know our runners." And while that if fine and dandy, there should still be a certain accountability of our runners. The managers think that we need to spend time helping our runners, in that maybe we should come alongside of them to help fill their locations. This mind you I already do unless of course I cannot get to them because I am responsible for taking care of locations. So I just briefly brought up the subject of expectation of the runners and I was shot down like a fighter plane in action. I can't believe the arrogance of my managers and some of my fellow leads. Anyway, it all ticked me off to no end and I just felt so discouraged the whole entire night. Which I know better than to feel that way, but couldn't the both of my managers just for once sugar coat something and not be so blatantly rude.
At any rate it upset me to tears. And I have really never wanted to so badly tell my managers to stick it where the sun doesn't shine. And to step down from being a lead. But I didn't. Because I know my work ethic, and I know that the lead that I am. Im committed, dedicated and do an awesome job every darn night of the week. I never let my managers down, nor the FOH team and I always make sure that what I am doing is for the Lord and Him only. But words, attitudes and actions can inflict pain when it's from people you are to honor and obey.
If it wasn't for Marc's encouragement from what the Lord showed him I would surely have still been in this slump all day today also on my day off away from work.
I am really thankful for a husband who always seems to have the right words of encouragement. I think that's the biggest blessing of it all.
This morning I had a bit of a meltdown in the drive way of our home over the fact that I am feeling non appreciated at work by my managers who always seem to make sure that they lavish their attentions on the younger, lazier leads. No matter what they do it's okay. The moment I slip up its a no-go situation. Of course, very seldom do I hear a word of anything from them about it. However, I always do my job no matter what kind of a mood I am in, the job gets done. Because there is never any time to just mess around and never do my job. But for the young ones I am always observing that they can do no wrong. More often than not, when they know that I am coming on to close they do nothing as a lead, and as their daytime runners underneath them are usually their buddies at work and away they follow the examples of their leads and their stores don't get filled. But for some odd reason they are never held accountable. All this to say that I just got fed up and yesterday was the day. During our briefing yesterday afternoon before our shifts, we talked about the value of "getting to know our runners." And while that if fine and dandy, there should still be a certain accountability of our runners. The managers think that we need to spend time helping our runners, in that maybe we should come alongside of them to help fill their locations. This mind you I already do unless of course I cannot get to them because I am responsible for taking care of locations. So I just briefly brought up the subject of expectation of the runners and I was shot down like a fighter plane in action. I can't believe the arrogance of my managers and some of my fellow leads. Anyway, it all ticked me off to no end and I just felt so discouraged the whole entire night. Which I know better than to feel that way, but couldn't the both of my managers just for once sugar coat something and not be so blatantly rude.
At any rate it upset me to tears. And I have really never wanted to so badly tell my managers to stick it where the sun doesn't shine. And to step down from being a lead. But I didn't. Because I know my work ethic, and I know that the lead that I am. Im committed, dedicated and do an awesome job every darn night of the week. I never let my managers down, nor the FOH team and I always make sure that what I am doing is for the Lord and Him only. But words, attitudes and actions can inflict pain when it's from people you are to honor and obey.
If it wasn't for Marc's encouragement from what the Lord showed him I would surely have still been in this slump all day today also on my day off away from work.
I am really thankful for a husband who always seems to have the right words of encouragement. I think that's the biggest blessing of it all.
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
A need to vent and move on.
The elections, I mean
And I know none of us got what we wanted which is to see Mitt take over, but in the end God's will was done. Now it's up to us to make sure that he's prayed for every single day, as this nation is lifted up also. I still believe that God has a plan through all of this and lets face it, we're probably not going to like it. Already, we're experiencing some hardships in the financial department with more taxes being put on us. It seems it doesn't matter how much we work, because we never really see the fruits of our labor for very long. It seems 10 times harder to make it through a week to payday again when your coming up shorter by having more taxes imposed on our checks. And with the cost of everything going through the roof it just becomes incredibly stressful. Although I am sure that I am not the only one experiencing this.. It's just so disheartening to think we've come to this in this nation. What also gets me is the fact that the Democrats don't seem to see it, nor are affected by it. It's almost like he's profiling us and those who vote him into office are the ones getting the tax breaks. And at this point, that theory doesn't seem so ridiculous.
And it might have something to do with New World Order and it also might have something to do with the mark of the beast. When we read about those stories in the bible, we don't put two and two together. Because we tend to think that this couldn't be happening yet. And at the same time so much is changing. And we need to be aware of what's going on, and need to take action.
So we legalized marijuana in two states and we legalized gay marriage in another two. There's just too many liberation going on these days don't you think? We are truly a country that is far away from God. In fact so much so that I am sure that I can find at least 10 references to the fact that the Christian Right is no longer in control of the voting in this country. That's truthful and sad. And should make us snap to.
And the thing about it is is that O is convinced that he's fulfilling Christian scripture. He is as the Wolf in Sheeps clothing. Mostly every one that I know of is convinced (myself included) that he is evil and that he can't be trusted. While others think he is a saint.
So we have him and he's promised to make the second part of his term fascinating. I can't wait to see what he has up his sleeve for America.
And I know none of us got what we wanted which is to see Mitt take over, but in the end God's will was done. Now it's up to us to make sure that he's prayed for every single day, as this nation is lifted up also. I still believe that God has a plan through all of this and lets face it, we're probably not going to like it. Already, we're experiencing some hardships in the financial department with more taxes being put on us. It seems it doesn't matter how much we work, because we never really see the fruits of our labor for very long. It seems 10 times harder to make it through a week to payday again when your coming up shorter by having more taxes imposed on our checks. And with the cost of everything going through the roof it just becomes incredibly stressful. Although I am sure that I am not the only one experiencing this.. It's just so disheartening to think we've come to this in this nation. What also gets me is the fact that the Democrats don't seem to see it, nor are affected by it. It's almost like he's profiling us and those who vote him into office are the ones getting the tax breaks. And at this point, that theory doesn't seem so ridiculous.
And it might have something to do with New World Order and it also might have something to do with the mark of the beast. When we read about those stories in the bible, we don't put two and two together. Because we tend to think that this couldn't be happening yet. And at the same time so much is changing. And we need to be aware of what's going on, and need to take action.
So we legalized marijuana in two states and we legalized gay marriage in another two. There's just too many liberation going on these days don't you think? We are truly a country that is far away from God. In fact so much so that I am sure that I can find at least 10 references to the fact that the Christian Right is no longer in control of the voting in this country. That's truthful and sad. And should make us snap to.
And the thing about it is is that O is convinced that he's fulfilling Christian scripture. He is as the Wolf in Sheeps clothing. Mostly every one that I know of is convinced (myself included) that he is evil and that he can't be trusted. While others think he is a saint.
So we have him and he's promised to make the second part of his term fascinating. I can't wait to see what he has up his sleeve for America.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Updates...
Well a couple of weeks ago I was frustrated with work amongst other things.
I had my court date on Monday only to get all the way into LA to be told that the window of opportunity for child support had just closed on a case I purposely closed more than 2 years ago. The lady just looked at me and couldn't figure out why I didn't want to Jane anything to do with re-opening a new case.
Sometimes things are better left the way they have been instead of opening up a new can if worms. It's true the kids haven't seen their dad for almost 3 years. Do I care? Not really. He has never in the past 5 years supported these kids, hasn't called on their birthdays, Christmas etc for that same amount of time. He always seems to call once a year to let me know his new phone number, other than that I never hear from him.
So do I wish to find him for CS? No.
He's made his bed so to speak, and it's basically up to him to make contact with his kids, should he ever want to hold up his end if the bargain.
In the meantime I believe that The Lord gave both Marc and I our steady jobs at Disney that He will provide for all of us through.
I had my court date on Monday only to get all the way into LA to be told that the window of opportunity for child support had just closed on a case I purposely closed more than 2 years ago. The lady just looked at me and couldn't figure out why I didn't want to Jane anything to do with re-opening a new case.
Sometimes things are better left the way they have been instead of opening up a new can if worms. It's true the kids haven't seen their dad for almost 3 years. Do I care? Not really. He has never in the past 5 years supported these kids, hasn't called on their birthdays, Christmas etc for that same amount of time. He always seems to call once a year to let me know his new phone number, other than that I never hear from him.
So do I wish to find him for CS? No.
He's made his bed so to speak, and it's basically up to him to make contact with his kids, should he ever want to hold up his end if the bargain.
In the meantime I believe that The Lord gave both Marc and I our steady jobs at Disney that He will provide for all of us through.
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