1. Use the bathroom before you leave home.
2. Don’t complain to me when the bathroom is closed. Not my fault the mall doesn’t have water.
3. Don’t complain when I direct you to the employee’s bathroom if the public one is closed due to a customer potty mess.
4. Don’t complain when I tell you that the public restroom is all the way upstairs. I didn’t design the damn building. No one working here designed the building.
5. Don’t complain about having to walk up a flight of stairs to reach the second floor because the escalator is broken. You only have to go upstairs once. I have to climb those stairs all fucking day.
6. Don’t complain to me when the A/C is broken. I’ve been sweating buckets all day and you’ve only been here five minutes.
7. If we are out of stock on an item, be nice about it and I might call up the other Sears stores and have them deliver the item you want for a low fee.
8. If you are a jerk about it, I’m giving you a raincheck. Or nothing at all.
9. If you ask for some weird item and I have to find and see if we have the item, be patient. I don’t have an index of what we carry in my head. We carry thousands of items.
10. Don’t eat in the store. There’s a food court just outside of the store for you to stuff your faces in. If you do eat in the store, THROW AWAY YOUR SHIT. DAMMIT.
11.  Don’t steal.
12.  If you do steal, don’t leave the evidence (i.e. tags, wrappings) in those little trash containers in the stalls of the women’s bathrooms. That’s just nasty. Give us a break since you already stole from us and leave it on the ground or something.
13.  The fitting rooms are not bathrooms.
14.  The fitting rooms are not trash cans.
15.  The fitting rooms are not photo booths.
16.  The fitting rooms are not play rooms.
17.  Hang your clothing back up after you tried it on. Don’t leave it in piles on the ground, you lazy person.
18.  No, I don’t know if Wal-mart, Target, Penny’s, Belk, etc carries that particular item. Call them and ask.
19.  No, I don’t know if that particular item is priced better at a different store. Call them and ask.
20.  No, I don’t know the number to that particular store. Look in a phone book.
21.  No. I don’t have a phone book either.
22.  I am not your personal shopper. Don’t call and ask me to run around the store to pick out items for you to hold in the back until you come in. That’s not my damn job.

Talk around Sears is that they are going to eliminate the department I am in, which is In Store Support. Yes, I work in electronics most of the time, but my actual department is ISS.

So. I hope I do not lose my job.

I do not work until Sunday so I'll have to spend the next two days worrying and wondering about my future at Sears.

I am so fucking tired.

I keep forgetting to pay my car bill. It was due three days ago.

Tomorrow I have off from work. Will sleep lots. Tomorrow night I have to go to my other job.

That is all.

How's everyone else? :D

Today I watched a few episodes of the last half of Stargate: Atlantis, season three via Youtube. Really great series they have going! Though, one episode made me cry like a baby.

Other than that, I haven't much else to say today. Worked. Like every day. We are having a stock room audit next week and even though it's not my job, the Big Boss is making anyone not in sales go around and clean up the stock rooms. So, that's FIVE stock rooms that have to be organized and cleaned out before Thursday of next week. Though, one group of people have already made significant progress in organizing the main stock room/receiving area because we FAILED the last audit. This next one is actually a "make up" audit. I suppose if we fail again, heads will roll.

I was in just one of the stock rooms--the home fashions, small appliances, kids, and toys stock room. It's big. And dirty. Dear god, I looked like I had a tumble in the dirt and trash when I came out of that room. It was nasty. But! I scanned a lot of the old merchandise and some of the stuff is so cheap that we might as well give it away for free. This is merchandise that's just been sitting in the stock room for months and in one case, years. I like going back into that stock room because we still have some "old timey" Sears store stuff from waaaay back when our store was built thirty years ago and Sears was practically a different company. Sadly, I think we had to trash it. Oh well.

The mall that my Sears is locating in is going to close in the fall. The company that owns it is going to practically tear the inside down and rebuild it. There's going to be an open air court, a small lake...they are completely changing the mall. It's about time too--they hadn't even really repaired it from the hurricanes. It's such an eyesore. But what really sucks is all those people that work in the mall are going to lose their jobs. I won't have any place to eat (but since I'm on a no fast food diet, it shouldn't affect me much. I hope.) I've gotten to know a lot of the people that work in the mall and it's sad because I'll never see a lot of them again. Our sales probably will suffer because the mall is closed. I know that the folks at the other two anchor stores--Belk and JC Penny--seem a little worried as well.

Hopefully it will be for the best.

Now I'm going to sleep, I hope. So hard to get to sleep these days!

I am thinking about moving to the 2100 to 0600 night shift at work. I find that I always work better at night. But the thing is, I don't want to give up my spot in electronics. I also will never see my family if I'm working on a night shift. Still, the pay is better and the hours are solid. Something to think about, I suppose. Boss lady told me I have one week to decide whether I want to take the shift or they'll hire someone outside the company to take it.

I teach Sunday school for the second and sixth grades. I hate my sixth graders. You'd think that since it's church class, I would be all "Oh, I love you all! God bless!" Instead, it's, "Goddammit, why did I take this class?!" With second graders, getting them to clean up their mess is awesomely easy. All you have to do is make it a game. There doesn't even have to be prizes. You just say, "Okay, the first person to clean their desk and make it pretty wins!" and they're off. It never fails, year after year (I've been teaching the second grade CCD class for six years.)

With sixth graders, getting them to clean their mess up is next to impossible. They tend to make more of a mess than the second graders! I don't know what it is with preteen boys and eating paper, but I'm getting tired of picking up soggy paper after class! (Boys on my FList, please explain this unhealthy attraction to paper eating.)

I recently bought this keychain and it just arrived the other day. It's very cute! You know, I only have one key on my keychain and that's for my car. Other than that, I have loads of keychains. I might have to declare myself a keychain collector. 

I usually don't follow NASCAR much; I'm more of a formula one and rally car racing fan, but I am so happy that Montoya won today's race in Mexico City. EPSN had it in Spanish on their main channel and in English on ESPN2. It was a lot of fun listening to the race in Spanish. They had much fewer commerical breaks, it seemed, for the Spanish telecast. Montoya raced so well, despite that spin out on his team-mate. Hell, but he recovered great from that! It was a good race. I love it when NASCAR runs on road courses. It's a lot more interesting to watch than them going around in circles all day.

- Zoti