Phoenix Arose

Near as i can tell, i could be on leave(paid) from 12.409(yes this Friday) till some time in mid February. Unpaid leave (other than sick and vacation pay) i could be out till early May ........ Nice

the longer i'm out the less likley this team will have a spot for me ...... starts working the budget

"[our] commercials are all inner city rap heads and no one will buy apple because our marketing represents
a young stupid foolish person".....and our computers "show a stupid biz guys and a cracked out million dollar kid who spends all his money on drugs"

retired Sergeant Walker was not impressed with our youthful image - he has never bought an apple in his life but he felt obliged to let us know how we are messing up
for reference I offer you links to commerials

http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/ ->computers

http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/ads/ -> nanos

http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/ads/ -> Shuffles

So apparently this is a tough gig.

It's a bit of a rat race - it all about rush rush rush and it's really hard to just leave it at the office at the end of the day

and when your not official fruit it really stucks - you don't have the great insurance, you don't have a permanent job, you have all this other stuff that you are worried about and for those of you who are not a masochist. This probably isn't the job for you

people are irrational mean and nasty all day b/c they feel entiled to b/c you are just some voice ( that is probably in inda) or you don't work for apple or a million other things

If you like fixing things this not the job for you 90% of the time - it's not something you have control over nor can you affect it

And do not take this job if you think that having sick time means you can calling sick or you don't like being chained to your desk 3 months a year


the benefits once your on rock - but seriously getting on board is hard

So for those who might care - I am no longer alive in a social capacity =P

I am going to work a lot and be a hermit - and perhaps share some of my more exciting/strange/werid/messed/happy stories

this weeks schedule fuckery is
Monday- Wednesday 1pm -10pm; Off Thursday ; Fri. as early as I can haul my ass in here or 1pm (which ever happens 1st) till 10pm or the last ass get's off the phone - which ever comes last



so if your feeling kind send me a message during the day - I'm tring to come up with way s to say happy heathy and sane for the next 6 -9 weeks


Funny for the day

quiz : You make an online purchase for a 300$ camera you miss the 1st 2 delivery attempts and the camera will be shipped back to camera store (in France).To prevent this you sign the tag on your door asking them to leave the camera on the door step in the Bronx NY. You arrive home and check for the package it's not there the tracking # says delivered left on doorstep. What do you do next ?

A. Kick yourself and remember that next time you should not have the package left on the doorstep where any one can take it
B. Call the french camera shop and inquire about replacing it since clearly you didn't receive the package
C. Call the carrier and see if they can replace it for you

So the shift bid came in i have monday and tues day off ...... 7-4 wed- fri and sat - sunday 9-6 i think ...... the man lied to me


he said he trired to keep our choises in the top 8 that was 32nd on my list ........ WTF

so 1sty day back at work not bad also day 4 of PT - it went okay - i think i might have come to a platu b/c things are starting to hurt again - hurts so bad i can't sleep \

8 min on bike 6 min on total gym 20 set of ususal - 2x the alphabet

got streches for my neck and orders to get my desk fixed and stop leftting my shoulders live in my ears =)


other than that a good day i think hoping tomorrow is just as good

so i told me mangaer i had a job offer i was thinking about very seriously and he promtly got back to me and wanted to know if i would decline to offer if i knew that there would be a round of hiring in a few days even if i didin't know that i would get a badge.

*fruit basket holds out the carrot*

*'drug resits urge to say "yes'*

i told them i would decline the offer IF i was sure there was a round of hiring andi was almost positively getting a badge. since i can't afford not to be employed =)

*fruit basket takes carrot back* they will be looking for a better bigger carrot

I in the mean time am going to cal this new job and ask them what kinda 3 month raise they were talking about .25 .50 1.00 2.00 really 2 would be best but i need to know b/c i really don't wanna waste their time or mine - ands since i'm the bread winner i need to know - you know they seem like reasonable folk - that will take thema few days to get back to me about i'm sure by then maybe we will know


Also i hope to gods that my cell is back on by then b/c i might have had several morte offers but they can't reach me since the phone is off for those of you who may have tried to reach me 512-535-2782 iis the house =)


this is my after noon break i need to hunt down my tea =)

i get to go home early yay!

so thank you all who wished me well i am not good enough to apply for this round of hiring - so i shall sit here and watch others become "fruit" and think on the fact that i at least havea job =)

so i've ben thinking - here's the deal with everyone i trained getting hired - it means that i am a good trainer or mentor or what the hell ever i was thru x-mas.

and actually that's pretty hot =)

no i'm not saying that i'm not upset that is didin't get badged and they did .. but shit how wonderful is that - all of my friends got hired !!!!!!


hopefully next time i'm good to go =)


in other news if i'm hard to get a hold of this week it's b/c matt's leaveing at the end of the week and i would like to do as much with him as possible b4 he goes.


more later