Good dog!

Some of the apartment people came by today to tell us that they would be painting the building soon. The one guy (who is always in the office) told the other guy that I have the best dog on the property. Whenever I go into the office, I tell her to sit and stay outside and she does. Jody is such a good doggy!

Job!!

So, today I finally got to actually work! I've been double-jacking (listening to other people take phone calls) for two weeks. Here's the breakdown of how things are supposed to work:
1: 3 weeks on classroom training - (check!)
2: 1 week of on-the-job training with a partner - (nope- doublejacking instead)
3: 1 week of on-the-job training, solo - (nope - double jacking instead)
4: Production (aka real work) - (still double jacking for 1 week, 1 & a half days, then, finally, today, real work!)

The 2 weeks of on-the-job training are called Edge, and you are more closely monitored by the supervisors, so you can more easily get help when needed (plus the first week you have a partner, to share brain-power with). My class did not get that. Today we were thrown out into production with everybody else. *sigh* Granted, it wasn't until about 9:00, and my shift is from 3:30 to midnight, but still. Wow. I thought I knew a lot more than I actually do, but a lot of it you really have to learn from doing. I'm glad that tomorrow is my day off so my brain can recuperate a little bit.

Oh, and tomorrow, while my brain is recuperating, I will be cleaning house, and in the afternoon, looking at a duplex.

Nummies!

Tonight the hubs and I decided we wanted an actual dinner when we got off of work, since we didn't really eat anything before work. He wanted pancakes, and I wanted an omelette, so I made both, plus some bacon. I learned a few things:
1. Sauteed fresh mushrooms and mozzarella are better than canned mushrooms and velveeta.
2. Pancakes are extra yummy if you add cinnamon.
3. If you sprinkle cinnamon SUGAR instead of plain cinnamon on the pancakes before you flip them, it causes a sticky mess which then can mess up the rest of your pancakes unless you scrape the skillet REALLY good before you pour the next one.

Visit from mama

For Christmas my mom got me some yarn, a Wii Fit, a jacket, a calendar and a Blake Shelton CD. The Wii fit is awesome! And yay for yarn! 5 skeins of some Lion brand homespun, which I already have an afghan planned for, SIX skeins of elastic sock yarn (all the same color, though), and 3 skeins of lion brand suede yarn, which I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do with - maybe a scarf or something.

When she brought all that stuff down, she also brought marcus's presents (CD, wii game). She also took me shopping for work clothes. I got khakis, brown slacks, 2 button-up shirts, and 2 pairs of nice shoes (1 black, 1 brown). Plus, she brought a freezer full of meat, yay!

Fucking Bullshit!!!!

Ok, so I've liked my job and my trainer so far. Today, however, ticked me off a little bit. The Fiesta bowl, Ohio v Texas was on TV today. Of course, a large majority of the class wanted to watch it, including the trainer. So, we ended up watching pretty much the whole thing. During part of it we were supposed to be doing worksheets, which I did, because I wasn't really interested in the TV, and not everyone else did them, because they were jumping around and screaming at the TV. After a while, we didn't have anything to do, it was awhile before our break and all we were doing was watching TV with no attempt at looking like we were doing anything. So, I brought out, which I keep in my bag to work on during breaks and after I eat lunch. I did it for a while, and I figured the trainer didn't care, because I made no attempt to hide it and he hadn't said anything. Someone behind me started talking to him, and because he has some hearing problems, he came closer to talk to him. That's when he noticed my knitting. He said "Amy, PLEEASSE put that away right now." I said "Y'all are watching FOOTBALL but I can't knit??" He said something to the effect of we deal with programming as Dish network techs, and we could pretend we were doing something useful if someone in charge walked in. I thought that I think I could probably hide my knitting quicker than they could pretend that a room full of jumping, screaming people were actually doing something useful, but whatever. I just said ok and left it at that. A minute later (while I was staring blindly into space waiting for the break) he comes by and asks if I want another worksheet. I am sure I looked at him with the most dumbfounded look ever. Did I want a fucking worksheet????? WTf?!?! I just said "No, I'll just watch the TV" and then proceeded to stare in the general direction of the TV. Seriously?? Ask me if I want to do more work while pretty much everyone else watches a stupid football game??? What kind of moronic question is that?!?! And the only reason that we were watching football was that he and most of the class like football. If a small portion of the class had wanted to watch it (or probably, more accurately, if he didn't want to watch it) then I doubt we would have watched it. I really don't see why I couldn't knit. No one else was doing anything useful. Like the title says, it was just fucking bullshit.