Fired

Sorry I haven't been posting as much as I used to. I was really busy with school and work and didn't have any time to update. My schedule was school, work then homework with small breaks in between classes to eat and play PSP. I used to work for vending, refilling all the candy, but since Christmas is slow, I work in the cafeteria for some $$$.

I just found out today that I was terminated from my vending job a month ago. Somehow they forgot to tell me that being me being relocated to the dishroom was permanent (despite them telling me that it was strictly for the Christmas season). I thought something was up when they told me last week that I'd be working in the dishroom "For a while" which I assumed a week or so. Later thay said there would only be 2 people working in vending and that I would not be returning.

Thanks to my friend in accounting, I found out yesterday that a new person was hired to refill the machines. I went to go talk to my boss about it and this is how it went down in a nut shell.



And here I thought Dilbert was fictionNeedless to say, I quit. Ironically, I check my inbox today and the guy who owns tripletags.com (maker of thsoe PS3/wii forum tags) offered me a job as assistant editor in chief.

Why did I get fired? well it's very simple, I didn't do as my boss instructed me. But, in my defense, she is bi-polar. Very often she will tell me to do one thing only to criticize me the next week for doing what she told me to do.

"No, you're filling up the machines too little!"

"No, you're filling it up to much! Cut back."

"The price of fruit snacks in your machine is at $.70, which is incorrect. Change the price of fruit snacks to $.80"

"I never said $.80 I said $.70"

"I never said $.70, I clearly said $.75."

"I don't know what the prices are, check the price sheet."

(The price sheet says $.70.)

"Isn't that what I told you? Why is it at $.75?"

Eventually I figured that I was doing everything right the first time around and all subsequent changes were completely unnecessary. But my boss doesn't like a "thinker" she wanted someone who would do everything she said even if it was incorrect.