Monday - 10-26-09, what a mess.

I guess I'll start by recapping the weekend a little. On Saturday we got the third cat into the house. They seemed to be doing fine once they got used to it. I had to work during the day, but Cathy was able to spend most of the day with them. Work was a slow day, but then it rained off and on most of the day. Saturday night was a bit disappointing. The Bears lost yet another game. If this trend keeps up they will never make the playoff this year.
On Sunday I stayed home. We had Dish Network coming out to install a new receiver for us. We upgraded to DVR. They said they would get there between 8 and 12. They called around 10, and showed up around 10:15. The guy switched out the receiver, and then was basically ready to leave. He really didn't want to explain anything about it to me. So when I got a call to do an automated survey about his installation I gave him a low rating in that area. Sunday night's Bears game was a good one. We finally won one again. They had Bacashihua in, so I think that helped. But then having the Pirate's goalie tip the puck into the goal for us doesn't hurt either. Over all it was a good game.
Sunday night we found a mess before bed. One of the cats decided to pee on the bed. So there we were cleaning it up before we could go to bed. I just hope they don't keep up doing that. If they do we will end up having to put them back out.
Now onto today. It was a messed up day from as soon as I got to work. I walked down to Vault to pick up the money. When they handed the loan bag out to me it was really heavy. I couldn't believe they ended that much change. Well when I opened it I found that I didn't. They ordered $24 in nickels last night. The par for nickels is only $20 and we still had $12 in the stand. They should have ordered $8 tops. So now I have way too much change in the loan box.
Then I make my way over to the stand, and find that a mess. They patio wasn't touched, which was the first thing I noticed. Then I came into the stand to find what looked like they just turned off the equipment and went home. I don't know why people think they can do things like that. I made up a list of what wasn't done, and I'm putting a PAM on Harry's desk when I come in tomorrow. If he doesn't sign it oh well, but at least I tried.
I'm at the point now where I feel if people don't want to be part of the solution to cleaning up Timber Treats, then they are part of the problem. And if that is the case, then I don't want them in the stand. But I know I can't make that decision. That would be up to Harry, and I Don't think he will go that far with fixing it.
Once I got everything set up for the day, I spent about two hours catching things up from last night, and I still wasn't done. I don't know how they could have made such a mess. By that time I was really starting to think that it was an intentional mess.
After having to spend an hour on the pretzel oven, and change the water three times, I've decided that I am going to do my plan for next year. I just hope I get the backing of Harry, and the foods office. But my new way of thinking about things is this: you are here to do a job, either do it, and do it right, or you won't have a job. I am going to start PAMing people for not doing their jobs correctly, and if the office follows through on their end, the people will lose their jobs after four times of doing the same thing wrong. That will either cause people to straighten out, or me to get new employees every few weeks.
On a better note, between cleaning I've been studying for my amateur radio test. I'm really starting to see improvement. I'm getting up to the upper 70, or lower 80 percent range over all now. If this keeps up I should be able to take the test and pass it.
It was an extremely slow day. I didn't get my first customer until 1:45, and he turned out to be my only customer. At least that let me get caught up on the cleaning that needed done.
I got home to find out that one of the cats had peed on the bed again, and that they had messed on the floor. We have to figure out which one is doing it, and try to stop it. We can’t have the house smelling of cat pee.
I finished watching the BBC series “Being Human” last night. From the shows I’ve seen it’s a pretty good series. I’ll have to watch for new episodes to come on in January….