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[dejavroom]

...chill in the rec room of my new job, tea mug in hand and an eye on the webs. I'll be posting more from now on, possibly, maybe.

[AugustWest]

The stadium in STL is downtown, and is surrounded by basically abandoned buildings as far as I can tell.

My inlaws lived in an apartment in the old Pet Foods building right across the street.  It was very nice and not at all abandoned.  They've moved now.

[jaydub]

I like Giants Stadium (forget its corporate name at the moment).  Not nearly as many balls going into the Bay since Bonds left town.  That was amusing.  Seriously though - any home run hit by a team from a seaside city should go into the ocean, right?  Its like a cartoon trope.

[theinevitable]

ah, I think I know which building you mean. There's just this one cluster of empty buildings on one side, so "surrounded" wasn't the right word at all.

[JorgeFabregas]

Today I'm going to bike to the nearby Schnuck's. The security guard will apologetically ask for my bike bag. When I go back to pick it up he will ask where I'm from. Somehow he will rightly determine that I'm not from St. Louis. We willl chat about Chicago neighborhoods.

[greenkoolayd]

...chill in the rec room of my new job, tea mug in hand and an eye on the webs. I'll be posting more from now on, possibly, maybe.

i couldnt quite put my finger on what was missing.......

[theinevitable]

BARF. Woke up a little hung over due to a stupid party. Called a job and they wanted me to come for an interview immediately. Drove there, the place seems... really horrible. It became apparent that they are hiring a manager for their St Louis branch, which seems like something I am completely incapable of doing. The fact that after the interview they told me they want me to do another interview on thursday makes me feel like...
you know. Maybe I don't trust a company stupid enough to put me in charge of 25-30 people. The way they had previously explained the position made it sound like it was more of an "office manager" thing (mailroom, filing, etc) than a "manager" thing.
I acted like a nervous idiot throughout the interview. Every time she started talking, I'd realize I was frowning, and have to try really hard to smile and act like I wasn't really unhappy about this interview.

Also, 60-90 days of training is so much training.

But basically my overwhelming impression of this place is that it's pretty half-assed.

On the other hand, they will pay me money. So it's not like I'm in a position to be picky.

[Choop]

do it. you've managed a radio station. you can screw off out of there if you don't like it. good pay, decent benefits? try the corporate world for a while, maybe you'll find a latent success gene pop up.

[wombat]

As I think I have said before - there is much to be learned at a totally shitty job.

They will pay you while you are training, yes?

[theinevitable]

yeah, I mean, if they offer me the job after this next interview there is no way I can say no. That would be insane.

She said I would get paid during training, but was really vague about it (I mean, they told me how much the pay would be for the actual job, but then kind of brushed past the part about being paid during training.)

has anyone ever sold books on Amazon? I put a bunch of my old textbooks on there, but now my friend's roommate is telling me on facebook that the company amazon routes the money through (or something) fucked her over and never paid her.

[jay-ell]

...wonder why my facebook friend, who is childless, divorced, and self-employed, posted as her status "XXX needs some 'me' time."

How is it that you can decide you need "me" time and not just...you know...go have some, if there are no kids or spouses to stand in your way? Also, if you live alone, isn't pretty much all the time you're not working or socializing, by definition, "me" time?

I think my life situation has seriously altered the way I operate. At this point, my idea of "me" time is being able to take a crap without interruption.

[miles]

She's referring to this kind of 'me' time.

[wombat]

On the one hand, "self-employed" generally means no paid time off so you feel like you should always be working, and if she works at home, what I find is that means is, there is never any going home from work.

On the other hand that is such a fuck*ng irritating status update that I take back the first part of this post.

[miles]

I find the term "me time" irritating generally. What's wrong with "I'm so fuck*ng sick of dealing with people that I'm going to lock myself in my apartment and drink myself to sleep"?

[littlefallsmets]

I try to keep my facebook status updates down to sharing semi-comic observations about things, unless I'm doing something fundamentally interesting.

I find that people don't get too too annoyed when I handle it that way.