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• 08.08.08
  First week on the job   Rant!, Work (0)

  I started working my new job this week. I was happy when I put up my install tools a month ago, telling myself ‘man I’m so glad I’ll never have to use these again’. LOL, boy was I wrong.
  My previous contract spoiled me, hell everyone that worked there. I could do one bundle and walk [...]

• 07.30.08
  How I fucked up my life in less than a month, by FP   Rant! (1)

  I have so much on my mind it’s fucking insane. I’m surprised I’m able to still fuction right now. Or at least what might pass as functional.
  The more I think about shit the more I find I over looked what I once thought of as an insignificate detail, turned into something pretty major. More and [...]

• 04.21.08
  worst weekend of my life   Rant! (0)

  a weekend can’t start off very well if you have to work on it, but that turned out to be the least of my problems. I actually finished up early and went home around 11am. I had time to run some errands and then pick up some lunch. I grabbed a couple tacos from Taco [...]

• 04.06.08
  nothing new.. right? maybe…   Rant!, Work (0)

  well things are about the same.. however they didn’t quit shit the bucket like I had anticipated about a week ago. yah thats right, I’m still working. things have been a little better at work after a certain somebody higher up was told to hit the bricks. this guy was a useless piece of shit, [...]

• 03.27.08
  it’s that time again   Rant! (0)

  you can only have so much of a good time before shit goes sour. unfortunately that usually always seems to be the case for me.
  the company I contract for is trying to squeeze us out. these people can’t be straight up and just talk. no.. instead they fuck with our work. our area goes from [...]

• 03.08.08
  fuck the gym, well my gym at least   Rant! (0)

  I’ve been trying to cancel my gym membership for the last month and I’ll tell you something.. I’ve never had a more difficult time doing anything like this in my life. I think an illegal alien would have an easier time getting a gun over the counter than I had canceling this fucking membership.
  I had [...]

• 03.04.08
  pretty steamed..   Rant!, Work (0)

  I recently applied at a local phone company- the same one I tried to get a job with a year ago but was a bit late. well, every few days I hope on their site and look at the careers section waiting for new positions to pop up. finally it happened and you know damn [...]

• 03.02.08
  1 & 1 are sneaky mother fuckers   Rant! (0)

  I host sigmonic.com over at 1 & 1. why? I dunno, I was in a hurry to find hosting and it was cheap. I haven’t really touched it for over a year. they really don’t give you many rights as far as how you can manage your material then ontop of that you can’t even [...]

• 02.27.08
  watching a man fire himself, and I thought I had problems   Rant!, Work (0)

  a guy I work with has had a run of bad luck lately. two weeks ago a customer called in saying he scratched their antique tv stand. saying something like how it cost 5,000 bucks, blah blah blah. a week later I’m at a job with him and while he was climbing into the customers attic he breaks the shelf in their closet by steping on it. now in his defense it would have been very difficult to avoid [...]

• 02.21.08
  street run vs tredmill   Rant! (2)

  just got done with a 2 mile run this morning. this is usually what I do before I weight train at the gym- I bust out a quick 2 mile run and continue with my weights.
  anyway I had recently decided that since I can’t get to the gym as often as I’d like I could [...]

• 01.14.08
  monday madness   Rant!, Work (1)

  HAH! it’s been a while since I’ve posted and that’s not because I havn’t had a lot going on. oh no sir, I could write a fucking novel.  I’ve save you most the details- or maybe they’ll come in a future episode.
  I just got home and am pissed at an idiot co-worker. I’m running trouble calls today. well mid day this guy calls me and says “I got a trouble for you” he gives [...]

• 12.03.07
  The last time we left our hero…   Rant!, Work (0)

  he was bragging about how much money he had made the previous day and how much more he was going to make the following day and even days to come. irony is not without sense of humor.
  after waiting two hours in the cold for his check he was told he’d have to turn in 100% of his equipment before receiving it, this put a real smile on his face because not only had he already woken [...]

• 12.01.07
  I have a feeling, today is gonna be different! *sing song*   Rant!, Work (0)

  so here I was around the same time yesterday ranting about not making any money.. I goto work with an attitude of man this sucks, I can’t wait to go home. when DUN DUN DUN something amazing happens! I’m got put on a pretty huge project.
  It was purely luck like a lot of things have been at [...]

• 11.30.07
  black friday was lame   Rant! (0)

  this is a week late, I only thought about it now because it’s once again friday.
  I’ve decided to never hype myself up for another black friday again, this one was awful. there were very few good deals. and the ones that were good were barely good enough to fight through the mass of people for.
  I went to Best Buy and they actually had a fair stock of everything that was advertised in the paper. there were some pretty good games for say however they were all games just about everyone has played already.. had I of been living [...]

• 11.30.07
  bad weeks   Rant!, Work (0)

  well the last couple weeks have been really slow at work. REALLY slow. most days I’ve been getting off work at around 10 or before 12… heh, I can’t complain about that- I enjoy having the rest of the day to get some things done but I’d rather be making money. hell one day I [...]

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