Well it seems that I've been offered the Hess position and it appears that I've taken it. I am "training" today and tomorow athough I've already worked there and anything that is new that wasn't there when I previous worked there, and granted that is a lot, I've already done at a previous job. Except for the pizza machine but that's pretty self-explanatory and if Chad can operate it...I sure as hell can.

I have to work with the guy that I am supposedly replacing. Now, it is supposed to be DEFINITE but here's what happened in the past. January two years ago I needed a job. Chad's boss said that they were going to have to fire a worker there. He said that I could take on two coverage shifts per week to get me ready to handle everything myself and then they'd fire him and I'd take over his duties. Well I worked my two shifts per week making about $130/week but it was something and they never fired him. I ended up leaving to work with Southwest Airlines.

They have a new District Manager who is very big on not having customer complaints about employees. Two and you're fired. Well this particular person was always complained about by customers to myself and all the other workers. But our boss didn't want to fire him. And I didn't get it because he rutinely comes in atleast 1-2 hours late. And comes in just having smoked a bunch of pot. And other assorted things. But still he didn't get fired. But now it's out of our boss' hands and I believe that the DM wants him fired. So our boss should be telling him today or tomorrow that he is fired. Luckily they do have two other people leaving eventually so he'll probably figure that I am training to take over one of their spots when they are ready to go which is good so there shouldn't be animosity towards me like there would be if he knew that I were there to replace him.

So I work 2-10pm today and tomorrow. Off Friday and Saturday. Then work Sunday, Monday Tuesday and Thursday starting next week as long as they've fired him by then.

It's a pretty big cut in pay but I'm hoping that absence of misery that I had from my previous job disappears. Atleast here I know that my manager won't be trolling for penis constantly haha

I had been given a business card with a URL for a survey from Hess which you get a chance to win $3,000 for taking. I was going to take the survey. But now I'll be an employee and void my entry anyway.

Oh yes. They were allowed to listen to the stereo at work which would be awesome. But the jackass that I am supposed to replace was always blaring the stereo so the DM said that they couldn't play it any longer. I am hoping that he realizes that it was just him and will allow us to listen when he's fired because that'd make the job that much better.

Well this apparently is all job-related and that bores me haha So I am going to go take my shower in a few minutes. And shave. Oh yes... I have to be cleanshaven which I am sure I mentioned previously. Ugh. Don't want to do that. But I'll have to sellout on this one. You can check my gallery by clicking the approrpriate link in the top left-hand corner as I believe I have pictures with the facial hair up. Maybe put one up without at some point. We'll see. Okay..I am going to shower now. Have a goood day and I'll catch you later on.

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Plenty to do today.

I received a call from Chad at work and he told me that his boss said that I could start training tomorrow if I chose to. When he gets home I have to ask him if I was officially being offered the hours I was promised or if he just wanted me to train and get put back into the system and then go from there. Either way I'll go in but I am not going to discontinue my search for employment until I am guaranteed and scheduled for the amount of hours he'd promised me.

I had worked there before. It's a Hess gas station...which you may/may not know...but it's primarily on the east coast US. But then it was a tiny cube that no customers could enter. There was a slide out drawer for customers to put their money in and we could slide out cigarettes, bottles of soda, bags of chips and whatever else they wanted that we had inside. They plowed that down, put in twice as many pumps (they desperately needed new pumps anyway) and made a full size convenience store. There used to be only one person working at a time. Now it's two. Which I like. It was a pain before because you got no breaks. You ate between customers and you never knew when that would be. And worse..if you had to go to the bathroom...you also had to wait between customers. And that was a huge pain in the ass because even if they are using a credit card at the pump, you still have to hit a button to authorize it before they can pump so sometimes I had to go forever before I actually got to. These problems should be mostly rectified.

There are some downsides to this. You technically can't have any facial hair. Chad can get away with it because he works third shift. But I'd work second shift and whatever days the store manager's boss comes in..he comes in during that shift so there's no way to hide it. I'd have to go cleanshaven. Which isn't horrible but people were digging this look more apparently. But we desperately need money! And the other is that the schedule that he told me would have me working on Tuesday evenings which is the first day the band is supposed to practice of the week (Saturday is the other day) so we'll have to figure that one out. But I should be able to drink free coffee, cappuccino (i think that's true on both of those) and I know that you get to take home pizzas/wings/other assorted items after they've timed out (after whatever hour that they can't be sold to customers any longer) so that's all good stuff. And I should be a lot happier doing this than my previous job.

I'll be discussing this stuff with Chad but most likely call Paul (the store manager) and see what we could do to work something out. He knows how important the band is to Chad and myself as he came out to a couple of our shows so far. And I know atleast one of the other workers there really likes our music so I think that they'll be willing to do what they can to help out with shift trades or helping to cover some hours to be able to schedule shows or whatever. That'd be helpful.

Then I am calling my current/previous job to see if they tried to fire me. If not I will be quitting. I will try to set up a time for someone from the company to meet me at the store that I serviced so that I can hand in my PDA, it's charger cradle, my drill, the drill's charging cradle, whatever work books they want and my work shirts if they require them. Then I can get my last paycheck from them which I should get next Thursday night (friday morning I guess since it'd be midnight) which will help with next months rent and hopefully put a good chunk down of what my car will need for inspection/emissions and re-registration of the car (which we do yearly at about $35 a pop).

If I train tomorrow and Thursday I will get a check next Thursday for two days which would be two checks that day. And hopefully we'll be on the way to getting my car taken care of for another year. And hopefully it will be our last time getting this car inspected. And I'm praying that it lasts until we can get rid of it!

And then I have a bunch of things to take care of around here.

Plenty to do but I'll be around here throughout the day/evening. So feel free to hit me up and I'll hit ya right back!

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