h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well, this weekend will be my first adventure in 7 days a week employment.
I worked for the first time last night with the Willendorf Rabbit.
She had me well-trained... well, so did the previous thirty years of taskmasters and exepriences.

They are, once again, attempting to get me to learn a series of exxentially logical processes and results, but to perform the tasks in a non-intuitive manner.

I hate procedures that were not logival develipmints but progreXXive accretions.

At some point some reational or irreachable person must step on their foot down and say, "Earmuff!"

Had a little showdown with my evil supervisor on Thurs.
Turns out he'd not evil, he's just stupid.
He took sides with my co-worker.
Which means not only that my lazy co-worker is still there, but he's going to continue in his mindless ways with the renewed imprimature of the evil supervisor.

Can't get out of this place soon enough.

Anyway, working in close proximity with the WR has led to many oppurtunities for physical contact. She's actually a walking punch in the face anyway. But working with her takes a lot of restraint sometimes. Fortunately I'm tired, I'm professional and I sincerely believe that if I behave myself now I won't have to later.

I need some crossed fingers and prayers.

Oh, and I lost my debit card, sometime around Thursday evening.
I didn't notice it until this morning.

Marvelous.

Traveller in Time hoovering just above his head
"Goodluck with the new changes, they semm to be all for the better

"

'I need some crossed fingers and prayers. ' Aha! I see the answer to my earlier question on the Peanuts thread.

Fingers crossed and prayers on their way!

I did recover my debit card.
I left it at a tobacconist on Thursday evening.

Good you recovered your card
Banks are pretty good about protecting you on those.
I just read where the gov is going to require all banks to add another level of security for the internet.

Makes me mad anytime I talk to the bank they push using the internet.
I say no, I do not trust it yet.I have never had a computer that was not compromised to the death eventually.

Glad this job is better
I may have missed some info not being on top of postings lately.
Are you finished working at the hellishly hot and dangerous place?

Not yet, but the Willendorf Rabbit is trying to get me to quit.
I am ambivalent.
Or confused.

I hope you will be able to quit and make a living elsewhere.

The events of this next Sunday evening will determine if i go in on Monday at the Die Casting Foundry and give them two weeks notice.
I will be flying solo in the inconvenience store.

Oh, and I went in to get my first check this morning (I've been working for them part time for three weeks ((I think))), and because of a mixup with the social security numbers (some adolt interred the wrong number), the check will be cut this morning and overnited.

Crud, not only is my vision becoming black and white, but my grammar is dying.
I meant that I would be flying solo this next Sunday evening. If I succeed in making it through the night without blowing anything up or killing anyone, then I think I might try to do it full time.

I may be a bit confused.
I will just say I hope you get your preference within the choices presented.

How is your back doing?

I gave notice at my hard job on Monday.
Next week is my last there.
Next weekend I will start full time at the inconvenience store.

It will be hard financially for the first couple months because I will essentially be making 1/2 of what I am making now, but without the takeouts on my check that have been nibbling away at my take-home on my hard job.

My "training" is proceeding apace on the new job. I did an evening shift Friday after getting home from my regular job, getting 4 1/2 hours sleep and then going to work at the store. I did a day shift today after sleeping most of Saturday.

The new job is actually just as hard as the other one, only more mentally and less physically.
The fact that the illumination is provided by flourescents is giving me a big pain. I can actually see them cycle.

The touchpad cash registers are giving me trouble also because they were programmed counter-intuitively.

But I have no choice, I have to do the best that I can.

"Sometimes your best is not good enough,
sometimes your worst is better than the rest,
while most of the time you work
with people who can't tell the difference."
Me

'The fact that the illumination is provided by flourescents is giving me a big pain. I can actually see them cycle.' My mum has real difficulty with fluorescent lighting. She needed to be near a window to get natural light. I gather that there are some types of glasses which can help - I think polarising lenses.

Good luck with the new job full-time!

The difficulty is caused not by the quality of the light, the part of the spectrum, but by the fact that flourescents strobe at, what is it, 60 cycles per second.
Just as aspies can hear electrical hum and other sounds that normal people take for granted, we can also see things that seem very strange to neurotypicals.

Patterns, for example.
We find them either fascinating or irritating.
On clothing, boxes, ads, or products.

We also notice things in movies, TV shows and adverts that seem hidden to most. The pause button was invented for us.

Anyway, last night was horrible.
The WR was in a bad mood for most of the night, I was dead tired and half allergy ridden, the store is full of reconstruction debris and paint and adhesive fumes....

I was fortunate to make it throught the night. I made a large number of register errors.
There were things that I failed to do.
Tonight I will be on my own.

I'm tired of being tired and tired of being afraid.

Remind me and I'll try to tell you about my last night at my old job.