Today's The Day's The Day*

Had work at 2am this morning and got out of there at 11am. Alex has a big football game tonight in Klamath Falls against Henley. Since they have officially yanked him from JV and made him a Varsity starter, I thought that I should go support him. This game is also the second biggest game of their season. They are in first right now but these last two games are up in the air. I think that they would tie for 1st three ways if they lose the next two.

* When I delivered papers up in the Rogue Valley Manor, there was this crazy lady that would start yelling, "Today's the day's the days," whenever we through her paper in her room. We used to walk-in her paper, but that old bitch started gettin' violent.

True Confessions of a Costco Merchandiser

Inspired by Donnie's "True Confessions of a Barista."

- No matter what name is written on your name badge, you are called one of these names: Boss, Hoss, Babe, Baby, Hun, Honey and in my case Brian. An interesting selection being that the majority of the other workers are guys. "Bring that pallet right over here, Hun. 'Atta baby, we're movin' now!"

- 'That's not what your ex-wife said' jokes are OK and sometimes encouraged.

- When Jim, aka Silver Fox, yells, "What!?!" like Lil' John you can hear the rest of the workers begin yelling in rapid succession, "What!?!" as well.

- Nobody cares if you have a big yellow front tooth in merchandising, that's for serious. I believe that they hold annual competitions to see whose looks most like a piece of corn.

The list shall go on, stay tuned. This is meant to be humorous, the other workers are some of the nicest employees I've met, they just have extremly skewed sense of humors.

Oct. 31st preparation

Scott and I decided to pick some pumpkins up from the local Safeway and carve us up some real nice yack-o-lanterns. Scott went free style, every cut more random the previous one. I went all high-tech and picked up a stencil kit and precision cutting tools. The end result was miraculous. Here are some more pictures.

Don't know what to be for Halloween? You should check out these suggenstions from Uncrate. very classy.

Costco

I had one of the assistant warehouse managers come to me after work one day and asked what my goals were (with Costco). I let him know that I was interested in management as my main goal and a supervisor position in the very near future. He told me I was on the right path. He met with another assistant warehouse manager and let my current foodcourt manager know that that is what I was interested in. They tried to find a place in the store that would be a better place for me the be even more recognized and move up in Costco faster than if I stayed in the foodcourt. The recommended merchandising. They said that when in merchandising you are working around all the managers for each department, therefore if you stand out the right people will see it would give a good word for me when applying for higher level positions. As I understand it, there recommendation was a an impressive mark on its own, not including what they said about me- what they have noticed in my work ethic, personality type and communication skills. I would have been honored the get comments like those from just another manager from some other department, but from two warehouse assistant managers was incredible.

So I have a couple more days in the foodcourt to finish out this week, I think that I will take up this job, but I told them I would still take a couple days to think it over. It gets great hours with a lot of chances for overtime. Also, with that many hours, 35-50, I will blow through my raises fast and earn full-time status much faster. There will always be something to and for the most part and it is completely self-motivating position. This is the one place you would want to be if you wanted to succeed in Costco, so I think that I will jump all over it. Granted there will a bit of a life style change, that will be the sacrifice I have to make in order to be successful later on.

Downward Spiral

I think that my life really started to head south when I stopped reading this bad boy. I shall pick up from where I last stopped and get my life back on track.

RAmen.

The Bachelor

My sister got a call recently from a casting director at ABC asking if she was interested in being on The Bachelor. Weird. She has recently started making her "personality" video.

Making Contacts Cool

Odometer Uh Oh!

An incredible thing has happened today. I have exceeded the maximum mile count for my odometer on the '74 beetle. It was glorious, terribly, terribly glorious. I actually started singing "A Whole New World" from the Aladdin movie. While thinking about thinking about what I was gonna write in this post I saw a fat kid on Delta Waters that resembled the fat kid in Bad Santa...Hmm.

Some people wait their whole lives to do what I have achieved in just 21 years. I'm feeling great, looking great and my 1974 pimp mobile only has 2 and 3/10 miles on it. BEAT THAT!

Sniffles Aren't Gonna Get Me Down

I've been sick for about a week now, starting late Thursday of last week up until now, and I believe that the sniffles are now leaving my system. Though I've been sick and had to work 6 days and 40 hours this week I still have had time to entertain myself.

Wednesday I gave a fellow Costco employee the scare of his life. It started off an ordinary day for Bob, but when sent out on a mission to sign up some new Costco members at a near by apartment complex things got a little interesting.

I saw Bob walking through our complex putting notices on peoples doors that let them know if the signed up for a Costco membership using the notice that they would earn a $10 cash card. He had already dropped one on my door, so I had lost the element of surprise, by I was determined. I sat in the Jeterati plotting in case he came back. I went outside to see if Bob was still out, unfortunately he had already head on out back to the 'Co. I scratched that idea and decided to go get a Coke from vending machine down the way. Just after leaving the APT, his car came rolling around the corner as if he was meant to get PUNK'D. As he started to pass I waved him down, but he mistook it for a friendly wave. I waved him over in a more aggressive manner after I got his attention once again. As he rolled down his window I grabbed a hold of it and pulled myself in just passed my shoulders and said, "Hey, you mind not putting anything on my God dammed door again?!?" He couldn't answer. He say there fumbling his words trying to collect himself, but he failed. He asked, "Which one is yours?" Without breaking eye contact I pointed backwards and said, "That one!" He fumbled some more.

I fessed up just after because I could hold a straight face for much longer. I let him know that my name is Adam, I work at 1:30 pm and I'll be in the Food Court if he ever feels like harassing me a little bit. I'm actually lucky he had a good sense of humor about the whole thing because Costco has a strict no harassment policy. There are meetings held with the employees constantly about how people outside of the conversation can technically feel "harassed" by what others are saying, be it directed at the outsider or not.

From now on I am known to Bob as the "Skateboard Kid."

I thought about PUNKing others and writing for the Costco Chronicles, but I would have to go through Administration to get an answer and then see if Membership would let me join their team of "crafty" writers. I figured I would never get approval simply because some people don't share that type of humor and may really feel threatened.

ps. "Old Fashioned" doughnuts are the best! It's a two-fer: You eat the outside ring, then when you're done you have a whole other delicious doughnut just waiting be eatin'. "Old Fashioned", pfft, more like "So Fashioned."