Haha, I'm actually updating from work!

TAKE THAT LIVEJOURNAL, ONE MORE WAY IN WHICH YOU DON'T COMPARE!

Either way, just kind of bored at the moment. Finished my follow up for the night, and about to start looking through my teammates' folders.

I'm going to start updating this thing AT LEAST weekly, and with a picture of the bonsai tree I'm growing. Right now the thing is only a little over an inch tall but the limbs have started to sprout all. If things keep going this well, I might have to repot before Spring even gets here! If anyone is familiar with the care of bonsai type trees you'd know that this is abnormal because during the Winter months not much growth is normal in a bonsai, and well, even if you didn't know and don't even care you still know now. The reason I'm kind of excited about this is, that normally it would not even have sprouted under normal conditions in the wild, but with this plant, that I'm growing from a seed, things seem to be moving along quite well! I just hope that I haven't jinxed the whole thing.

Well, back to find something to do before I get in trouble.

Nothing much to report. Just the end of my second week in my new position at ASI.

I think I could get used to it.

Either way, things seem to be getting a little bit easier, and now I've finally been trained on our Customer Info program, Seibel, things should go alot more smoothly regardless.

Been sick all this weekend, wouldn't have bothered me that much if I hadn't needed to go to work on Saturday. I was already feeling like shit on Friday, but 8 hours over time and free lunch? I can feel like shit in front of a computer at home, but getting paid for it seemed like (and I can't believe I'm saying it) seemed like a better idea. So yeah, the longer that I work here the more I feel kind of out of place, though...

Let me put it this way, I was the only guy out of the whole 15+ person training class there yesterday. Not that I have a problem with it, it's just becoming painfully obvious as of late. For over $11 an hour I'm sure I can find some way to not let that bug me too much lol.

Either way, looking into getting a new budget set up AFTER I do a couple of upgrades to the comp and a couple of things looked at on the car. Hoping to start saving up for the restaraunt by the beginning of 07.

OH SHI-

Got the promotion at work I applied for last week. Kind of strange, I was hoping to stay in the Academy Bay (where we are till we get used to the call procedures,) but apparently I'll get specific training (since it's a different department) and with the center-wide pay raise, the pay progression being phased out AND the promotion all at once, I'm getting over a buck worth of a raise all at once.

I'm planning on staying here a few years if I can, and getting cash together while hopefully getting into either the productivity/training department or the Systems department. If I could just get into that LAN room that would be a fucking nerd's dream come true. I've never seen so much potential bandwith, a killer LAN party could be had here.

As of this coming Monday, I'm a member of the MONOGRAM CUSTOMER department. Basically what this means is that I get to deal with all the snobby fucks in California (mostly) that feel the need to pay upwards of five grand for a fridge that can hold trim and wood panels that can be made to match the imported italian oak cabinets in their kitchen. Yeah, doesn't sound like much fun, especially since if you have to call to have service done on something like this, you want it done immediately, but that's normally not an option for most people. Luckily for us in the Monogram dept though, these people are high fucking priority and normally CAN get service/exchanges the SAME DAY. Fucking unbelievable, but since it's easier for them, it's technically easier for us as well. So basically I just got a promotion where I'm going to be paid more and it'll make things a lot easier on me.

Also, have I failed to mention that I'm the only guy that got the promotion? Fucking weird, there were only about 4 guys in my training class of 20, and probably less than a fifth of the total employees there are guys. I feel really outnumbered lol.

Anyway, it's eleven something and I'm fucking tired, so I'm going to just lay down. In the unlikely situation that someone needs or wants to get a hold of me, you should know how.

Well, finally got off my ass and decided to post something here.

I wanted to wait until I had something important or interesting to say, but since those moments are few and far in between I just figured I might as well.

Work seems to be going okay, I guess. Nothing really going on, although Friday was the end of our class' first week on the phones. I think that we've all come quite a way from Monday, everyone had their hand up within half a minute of starting a new phone call, but recently we've all been able to figure things out and handle them on our own. In fact, on Thursday I handled what could have very well been a Supervisor call all on my own (more or less) and think I just might be getting used to this.

I hope so, since I've almost got a budget down that would let me not only start saving up for a new car, but even have cash set aside for opening my club/restaurant. I guess things are actually working out for once. Guess I better stop talking before I jinx myself or something though.

I haven't made a post for a while, but it's not because I forgot about this thing.


I've just been far too busy being delicious.

For those of you unfamiliar with JUDGE FUDGE... shame on you.

Training is retarded.

I believe these past two days we've done things that personally, I think I could have figured out on my own in two hours. Not even.

Now I know that I expect way too much of people especially when on computers as working on them is my forte, but come on. I really don't see how some of these people passed the Windows Literacy test. Maybe they're not used to working with more than two applications open at once, I don't know. I really don't care.

I know that I shouldn't be bitching when I'm getting paid almost $10 an hour to sit around and become overly familiar with it, but I'm fucking bored. I think that today our trainer allowed us almost an hour OVER worth of breaks than we're supposed to take. The shitty thing is that when you go on "breaks" you log out. When you log out (as I understand it,) your pay stops. I don't want to fucking sign out four or five times a day when I'm only supposed to get two plus a lunch. Rediculous. Note to self, training would be a kick ass opt-out once I get out of training. Looks like easy money and it's 8 weeks off the phone at any given time.

Either way, I'll just be glad when Friday rolls around and I don't have to wear some fucking polo shirt. I hate polo shirts. Fuck I hate polo shirts.

Just to clarify:
Training sucks, need to become a trainer, breaks suck, easy money, fucking polo shirts.

I think I finally have everything ready for work. Car is washed, vacuumed, new clothes worn in (somewhat,) got a bookbag (I miss school lol) to carry all my shit around in, hell, I even bought frozen dinners to bring for lunch. The only thing I'm planning on doing tomorrow is relaxing, so if anyone has some ideas I'm game. It's also time for me to go buy another spindle of CDs to get ready for my backup regime. Fun, fun.

For anyone that might try to get ahold of me, I'd suggest either looking me up on AIM as the0taku1, or now under GoogleChat (internet phone service FREE btw) under my GMail account toshikazu.fukunaga. Don't have GMail? Ask me here for an invite. Shit, this thing is a hell of a lot more clear than my cell, and I'm also more likely to answer lol. Just an FYI.

Today was a productive day.


JUST KIDDING!

The only thing that I managed to do today was get a massive headache, and then later on go buy a couple more polo shirts for work and a new watch (only to have to take the watch to a jeweler to get some links taken out later.) Could have been worse though, and somehow I managed to wake up right at 10:00. That's better than what I can say for Thursday, heh. I think I slept in until almost 3:00, but that was mostly because I like to sleep as much as humanly possible on my birthday every year.

As for the new job, for some reason they still have not recieved my background check; which worries me because I don't know exactly what's on the damn thing. I try to do good at whatever job I take up, but sometimes it just doesn't work out... And I'm good at recognizing the signs.

For example, after three weeks of working at IMA (some telemarketing thing out in VaBeach) about a year ago, I just stopped coming in. It was a high pressure environment, with "team leaders" behind you yelling at you to deliver your lines and make sales, while you have to fight with disgruntled (and might I add, unwilling) customers that want nothing more than to hang up on you. So yeah, I called them up one day near the end of my fourth week and told them that due to transportation issues, I'd no longer be able to work for them.

The other issue that might come up would be my short lived employment with Costco Wholesale. I really wish that I could have told myself to keep this job, but working in that bakery was killing me, literally. Some kind of chemical (or combination of, which is not only dangerous, but against health code) that they used in cleaning (not what I had in mind when I was told I'd be in packaging in the bakery) made me develop symptoms of what seemed like bronchitis, though right after I left they completely disappeared. Strange, huh? Either way, I called in three days in a row (couldn't help it) and after that I got the whole "we'd like to keep you coming in but we're running a business here and can't take a risk with someone who keeps calling in" line of bullshit. Really, too bad about that job though. Best paying job I ever had including this one... Oh well.

Damn, it's really sad cause now that I've thought about it... Other than days when I would be working this really has been a highly productive day. lol Welcome to my boring ass world.

Meh, so I'm 20 finally. I've hated these last few years, I don't feel like I've really gotten any older at all. I look the same as I did when I turned 18 (at least I'd like to think so, with the exception of that I used to be clean shaven in high school) and that means that I pretty much still look like I'm about 30. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not, but I'm sure when I turn 21 I'm not going to carded. At all.

Birthday was more or less boring, so in other words it was more or less perfect. The more or less (less of course) being that I had a headache and my stomach was bothering me all morning. The headache still lingers. Ugh, I hate having a headache. Fucking sinuses.

I guess I should probably lay down and try to start getting to sleep, as I'm going to need to start getting up much earlier than usual soon. Just glad that I'm not up till 4 AM anymore.

Just found out that I don't have to work for the rest of this week...


Okay.

That shit sucks, and there's no way around it. I would have prefered to work at least two days this week, but apparently it would be a hassle to keep me on payroll so I guess there isn't much that I can do in this situation.

I didn't ask for Monday off, and I didn't ask to work Tues (though I wasn't scheduled for that day and then was accordingly.) I was asked to take off Wed so a coworker of mine could get a few extra hours, so that left me with tomorrow (which I took off over a month ago just to be sure,) Fri and Sat for this week. So much for that idea. I could have probably started training THIS week instead of next. Now I'm more or less behind another week and though normally that wouldn't piss me off, but since I'm trying to go about making a big change here I'd appreciate it if people would help me out and stop fucking around with my schedule.

Since that won't happen, I guess I can just hope that this new job works out as well as I think it will. I've already got big plans, and all that needs to happen is this job pulling through in the way it says it will.

Also, I seem to be missing the remote to my radio in the car. I don't even know if they sell replacements, but if they don't I'm out of luck. I hate having to mess with the volume dial on the thing, just seems too sensitive. I guess I'll have to worry about this later. Got too much shit to do.