[Caution: Grammer used in this posting is atrocious and will not be edited due to length. Thanks and have a nice day]
Sweatshops…why do I feel like I’m working in one!
Well, before spring break I went by my old job and they mentioned they had some filing they needed done. I thought “well, I’m not going anywhere for spring break so I can make some extra money!”. I called the owner, and he said he could use me. I also had alterior motives because this is the line of business I’d like to eventually enter.
*le sigh* Come to find out that this is filing that they are TWO years behind on. I’m talking about major inventory missing which means major money owed. First of all, all of this filing is paper contracts. He has not invested in a computer…which we told his cheap ass he needed when the business started growing. So we’re dealing with these handwritten carbon copies *people write sloppy these days*. They have what we called a Return Form *for when people turn the instruments back in* and an Upgrade/Exchange Form *for when people trade in a clarinet for a tuba or an old clarinet for a newer clarinet*. Say John Doe returned a Tuba in 2005, we must look in the 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 NOTEBOOKS (that’s stuffed to capacity and rarely alphabetized) for John Doe’s contract and then staple the Return to it, to show that the contract is closed. It’s even more complicated for the Upgrade/Exchanges. The reason we’re doing all this is because they didn’t keep up with it as they went along. They just let it pile up til it couldn’t be fixed. The reason it piled up is because nobody likes doing paperwork and as much as they have, it is a full time position, but the owner is too cheap to hire anybody. ATTENTION: If you are a future business owner, cutting corners is good in some areas, like off brand toilet tissue, BUT when it comes to having enough employees for all facets of your business, having a computerized inventory system *which is usually linked to the cash register*, and having an accountant to do payroll, DO NOT CUT CORNERS. It WILL bite you in da azz. The owner had us looking for missing instruments last saturday and off of a 3pg one sided document, he was missing $103,000 in instruments. Meaning he owned VIR for that amount. Two words: inventory system.
*R U still there, I kinda went on a rant there…annnywhoo*
Anyway, me and my fellow coworker were like, this is frustrating cause they will leave off the serial number or what type of instrument. We keep finding Returns stuck in the book with no original contract. You can’t read people’s handwriting etc etc. Basically we didn’t know what we signed up for. We thought it was short term gig, nope, they wanted to know when we could come in during the week, I was like nooooosiiiirrr I will see you for 4hrs on saturdays! *le sigh* Then the owner had the nerve to complain about the length of our lunch after we’ve been sitting in the back, in the cold *he’ll turn up the heat only when he comes and asks if we’re cold*, with a radio I brought as the only thing to keep our mind going and you complain cause we were gone 45min for lunch and told us we could only take 30min….oh I got you! I’m moving slow as molasses from now on. We were already tryin to decide if all this work was worth $7/hr or for me $56 a paycheck…shoot that’s just getting my hair done at the Natural Hair Shop. He lucky I’m not a person who likes to quit, he’s also lucky I may need him for an internship. Lucky bastid….yes, I’m a lil heated.
Moving on..
Needy Aunts. Jesus wept! Now this probably wouldn’t bother me as much if she called when she DIDN’T need something. *shakin head* This is my aunt on my daddy’s side. She and her husband are very career focused and sometimes their children slip through the cracks. Their kids are going to have HIGH therapist bills…that’s a fact. Anyway, my aunt accepted a job in Alabama for higher pay and my uncle is always traveling with his job, so whenever they are both gone they call me. That’s cool but it’s become a bit much this month. I kept them 3days earlier this month, I was carrying them kids everywhere, that’s hard on gas and patience. Then she needs me to pick them up tomorrow and was tryin to get me to get them Friday too, I said no to that…at least I think I did, well I will say no if she brings it up. THEN the last week of march I will be at their house ALL WEEK, takin them to school and pickin them up and running them to this practice and that. I’m not lookin forward it but I do this for 3 reasons: 1. she really doesn’t have anyone else 2. Heck, they are my lil cousins and they are moving away this summer 3. She does pay pretty well. What I need to work out is how I’m going to study for my second midterm at her house. Hmmmmm….
Cool Mom’s…
My mommie is so cool. She was on the phone with my grandma saying that she was going to try to come down during her spring break, but she had to check with me and see what I’m up to. My lil ears perked all the way up because my friend happens to stay where we’re going. So I asked when she was trying to go and she said the weekend at the end of her break. I said cool but you know I have alterior motives right? She said yep, you gotta see ya man! Then I asked her if she was going to help me see him without all the family in my business and she said she would. Now that makes her the coolest mom in the world. See, my family, lawd love ‘em, is kinda nosey. Not in a bad way but in a “we’re concerned about what you do and want to make sure you’re stayin on the straight and narrow”. It can be annoying cause one may find out and then by the end of the day, the whole family knows and you will start to get the “Gwyn Round of Calls”…GRC for short! My mom was like “you don’t need to subject him to the spanish inquisition!” I agreed wholeheartedly cause it’s not like I’m marrying him…just a date…goodness! She so cool!
I think I’m done….yep, nothin else rattling around in my brain.
Serenity
