9-13-2010

Ok so i have not been writing as frequently as I've wanted to but duties call. Its another monday afternoon and Im stuck at Home Depot waiting for my shift to finish so i can go to Starbucks sit in my cozy corner and study for this week. Unfortunatly my shift ends at five so im stuck for another three hours. Im actually writing to release some stress i have built up. Im getting fustrated with my work schedule. I dont have a fixed schedule like most people with a nine to five. If I did I would better schedule my life. Sometimes a alternating schedule can be benificial and it has been for me in the past. My scheduler Sofana has a difficult job on her hands, she has to schedule the entire store consisting of more then one hundered individules. I do understand that the task is not easy, but with a computer system that records avalibility there is no excuse for my issue. The problem i have is that although i gave the scheduler my avalibility sheet, signed by my supervisor and manager, I still see some weird looking shifts. Not only are they beyond my relm of labor but they are also being scheduled when i have class. This is just a blatent disregard of ones time. The scheduler must have been, pardon my choice of language, eating shit! If the computer tells you i cant work at a certain time either your doing it on perpose or your not paying attention, I dont know whats worse. Im also being scheduled more hours a shift then I specificly expressed i could work. I know that in our current economic state i should be greatful i have a job and that i have hours but its simply not just, and they are using the "resesion" as an excuse to do as they please. I wont stand for it. I fortunatly enough come from a family that is well off. I have been told countless times by my father "Joseph, you dont need to work just go to school". I work because its my choice. Not only does it make my Resume look better but im earning an income i use to support my lifestyle, instead of being a broke student always asking Pop's for money. So as im writing im about to go express my opinion to my supervison and follow it up with ths scheduler. I need my study time to get the best grades possible to boost my GPA back to where i need it.Aside from that i really cant complain. I had a pretty good weekend.

9-8-2010

I missed class today, not in a Ferris Bueller way, just missed it. I forgot to enable my phone alarm and i overslept for my first class Enc1102. When i finally found the strength to prop my head up i noticed it was already 11:00am and time for my next class. When I saw that I knew I wouldn't make  it on time so i knocked out again. I regained my senses 34 minutes later and had some breakfast while watching the news. from that moment on my day was a blur. I didn't do anything i had scheduled myself to do on my agenda. I sat on my computer for awhile and managed to get a minuscule amount of actual work done. I never even stepped outside, something I criticize about today's generation. I was a bum all day. Then around 6 after I ate something and washed up I started to feel revitalized. I awoke for my bummy trance and began to read my assigned readings and writing my responses. I'm actually all wired up and I haven't had any coffee today. I'm surprised I haven't stopped writing to make a coffee run to my neighborhood Starbucks. I think i will sooner or later. When my dad gets home in a couple of hours I'm going to hit the gym for a bit of cardio and some lifting. Hopefully when i come back from that I finish up my responses and what ever else I haven't submitted yet so I can be on par with my classwork. I'm starting to crave my coffee so it looks like I'm out for now. Off to get my liquid crack as I like to refer to it as.

Labor Day

Labor Day... a day full of labor. Normally its the opposite, usually people have this day off. Schools and Universities are closed for the day. But I have the misfortune of having to slave at work today. I actually find my situation rather ironic, especially because we were talking about Irony last class. Well , looking on the bright side at least i didn't have class today and i had a chance to sleep in.  I'm actually partaking in my indentured servitude  as we speak, on one of Slave Depots computers. I'm extremely bored in my department  and due to the constant rain outside I'm short on customer traffic. I wish i had a few customers to keep me entertained for a while. I wish time can pass by quickly so i can get out of here and back home where i can study and take care of a few things. I almost feel like closing my department and leaving for the day...too bad i cant do that. The old saying "Misery loves company" is very true. I do wish i had someone here right now to converse with. That's probably  why i resorted to blogging my thoughts. This way i don't go insane and i complete a class requirement, "Kill two birds with one stone". I actually just became a tad bit optimistic about my closing shift. I just found out that Rebecca, one of my ASM's, is the closing manager on duty. This is excellent new for me. you see this means that im going to be leaving work on time.  To explain a little, my department is Tool Rental. So i rent tools to Contractors and DYI's. One of the Perks of Tool Rental is the schedule. We close an hour before the store does. So with Rebecca's closing that means i leave promptly at 9:00pm. This isn't the case on other nights though. Any night that i have the luck to close with Yoanky, another ASM, he attempts to keep me in this big orange box longer. So now every time i close with him I'm constantly dodging bullets to avoid the unnecessary bullshit he throws my way. Hes a super pain in the ass and this is coming from someone who gets along with everyone. He might be one of the few people i have a strong dislike for. I have actually already spoken to Management about my situation and I'm hoping that it get s resolved because with school work and other choirs i cant afford to be caught up more then 5hrs a day at Home Depot. I need adequate time to study and prepare myself for class, as well as time to work on my house. Well i just got a customer so it looks like I'm going have to leave blogging for later.

My week

Ok so i should have been writing a daily blog but due to a mix of School,work, and other duties i was unable to. To sum up my week in a word; Transcendent. My week was great, i really cant complain. Yeah sure i worked through out the week but i got allot done in reference to school and personal chores. I spent the week collecting documents for my Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission(FWC) application. You see i want to be a FWC officer and I've been trying for about a year to get in. They recently opened up for applications again so i needed to pounce on the opportunity quickly. So on Tuesday i finished up my online application for the state and all i need to do is to submit a supplemental form plus all required documentation and test results to Tallahassee. Then its a matter of crossing my fingers and hoping i get called.
Towards the end of my week i got a call from my jet ski mechanic with some good news. It wasn't the shaft or the impeller on the jet ski that gave, it was the motor mounds. this sounds bad but its a simple fix. you see because the motor mounds gave the engine would slide forward when i would jump a wave detaching itself from the shaft spinning the impeller causing no propulsion. So with that fixed and my third jet ski also up and running i decided to take my little brother out for his birthday. On Saturday i picked up my brother Jonathan from my moms house and met up with my father and cousin at MOC to have a "Machin Outing" as my dad latter called it.  My dads exact words to my cousin Carlos were "Carlos Rene your fathers a bitch for not coming. It would have been all the Machin men". The day was exquisitely gorgeous for boating. too bad we were not boating. In fact we would have preferred some of Hurricane  Frank's furry. A Hurricane would have converted Gov. Cut into a plethora of liquid ramps just waiting for us to jump. Unfortunately for us but beneficial for our boating counterparts the waters on Saturday were pretty smooth. we still got our waves, only they were produced by twin Yanmar Diesel engines off Various Yachts.
 We jumped till our harts content. In fact we jumped so much that Jonathan and i had a minor accident. something we have been trained since we were younger to avoid. Jon hit me almost head on because i was distracted by a large wave. The hit caused me to fall off my ski and Jon's momentum flung him clear over the handle bars into the water. No one was hurt, but Jon's ski sustained a large crack in the hull. We switched skis so i could ride the damaged one. my experience level is higher then his and i could manage riding with minimal water penetration trough the crack.
After our session of jumping we headed for no name Harbor to have lunch. we docked up and had conch fritters and cheese burgers. We conversed and had our laughs about the incident. Once we finished eating we saddled up and headed out in search of more man made waves. once we passed The Rusty Pelican and the old race track we raced passed the Port of Miami where we found a flotilla of boats. The waves from these boats would crash together and form peaks that i used as a launching platform. After a hour more of riding we called it a day and headed back to MOC to wash up. Once we hoisted the skis onto our trailer we washed everything down and cleaned the motors we then took showers and  Ate at the Restaurant/Bar at MOC. They didn't have the Seafood bisque i ate last weekend but the Crab bisque they had was equally as decedent and savory. The Dolphin sandwich wasn't far behind. After a long day of fun in the sun we called it a night and headed home leaving our babies at the club to rest off a hectic day.