This was a friends only entry until somebody convinced me to make it public.

March 17th will be a day that I will never forget because it shows me just how much one company can piss me off.

In the early morning hours of the 17th, I thought I was doing a good job, 5 pallets by 1 AM, and then I got a call from my significant other. First of all, I admit that I should not have been talking on my cell phone while on the clock, but it wasn’t a long conversation. I promptly told them to call back later, and ended the conversation.

Fast forward to 6:30 AM, I was called into the back office, and was given a verbal warning for “talking dirty” on my cell phone. At the same time, I was complained to for the 3,000,000th time about my production capabilities. Then came the bomb shell, THEY FIRED ME FOR INAPPROPRIATE LANGUAGE.

Before I go any farther, I must make a confession to you all here on my LJ, and must confide in you all with this secret. I am not straight, I am gay. It’s no big deal to me, but it relates to this subject because I feel that I was fired on the basis of my sexual preference. A person claimed that I was talking dirty on my cell phone to my boyfriend which I was not, the extent of the conversation may have been “I love you”, but I don’t think that was offensive in any way. More or less, this has shown how much I have waisted the last 9 months of my life for a company that just did not care.

I must also confide in my friends to not spead this around, this is a very personal issue that I wanted to share with you because not only is this an atrocity, but it is an insult to who I am as a person, and I do not intend to let this matter be a victory for such moral hatemongers such as the company I used to work for (I will never speak their name again in this forum). If you do not agree with me, that is OK, it won’t violate my friendship or acquaintenceship with you, but I just hope you would keep an open mind to this very serious issue.

Just keep this in mind, the person who turned me in that night, I had the gall to consider them a good friend.

Goes to show you how much your personal life affects your job life. In other words, leave it at home.

BTW, I think I will have a new job by the end of the week. More details as they warrant.

For Your Quiz Pleasure….

Go forth and wreak havoc!

Here is an update, finally!

I have a fetish for an old gothic soap you’ve probably heard of, or probably not, called Dark Shadows. It centers around the supernatural and a vampire named Barnabas Collins, and a dark old mansion called Collinwood, located in Collinsport, Maine (50 miles from Bangor). It ran for 5 years in the afternoon on ABC (from June 27, 1966 until April 2, 1971), amassing a total of 1,225 episodes. I have fallen in love with this show again after picking up two DVD sets of episodes released by MPI Home Video, and plan to buy every set that they put out (40 episodes in sequence per set).

Also, I am starting on Monday morning trying to find me another job, I am getting sick and tired of Walley World riding my back over my job performance. A lot of the time lately, I’ve been coming home sore and miserable, and I even went to work sick the week before last, my allergies hit me full force.

I guess every greedy corporation in America shits on its workers like mine does to me and my coworkers.

What to do after the job search on Monday, probably sleep.

Some comments about last week’s PYL documentary on GSN, it sucked. Not only was I annoyed by that “Original 1984 Broadcast” bug, but the tone and the feel of the special was just all wrong. GSN just ripped off E!’s format for doing documentaries. Let’s hope they can just get The Price is Right back on the schedule soon and I will be satisfied. And while they’re at it, why don’t they just get the rest of the run of Press Your Luck, then all the Tomarkenites will stop whining (well, I complain about it sometimes myself, but I don’t resort to incessant whining).

But, that’s all for now, feel free to comment if you wish!

Well folks, not much has been going on lately in my life. I made a major purchase off of EBay, a complete 80 tape set of the original “Star Trek” TV series. (Insert groans here). Yeah, I know what you’re saying, why would he spend $220 on THAT!? I can just tell you that I love the show that much.

Now to some opinions.

I could barely stomach about 20 minutes of the new Let’s Make a Deal. I just found it to be not the show it could have been, and Billy Bush… although I see some good qualities in him, I don’t think the type of person he is fits this type of show. I found the pilot on GSN to be much more entertaining.

About that pilot, I understand completely that it was just the first pilot, but we can see what the show would become from this “work in progress” version. Oh how much I wish we all could see the NBC days to see how the show grew and became the phenomenon it was.

Have to wrap this one up, the neighbors just rang my doorbell and invited me over to dinner… yay!

More to come…

Well, I swore I’d keep up with these, here we go….

1. If you could choose living in a place with terribly cold winters (below freezing 3+ months of the year) or a place with torrid summers (90+ degrees 3+ months of the year), which would you select and why?

That’s a good one. While I hate winter, I also absoultely hate summer. But I can deal more with the heat than the snow, so I’d choose the summer climate.

2. Who’s the man with the money/makes a dark day sunny?

Why (of couse)… It’s the wizzzard of odddds!

😉

As some probably did or did not notice (more often than not the latter), I moved my website to the Charter server last week. One minor problem arose and slapped me in the face during my tired state watching Trivia Trap this morning. Most of my links were still configured for my old website address! So I had to go through and modify EVERY page on my website to the new directory mask. I was bitter and annoyed. But I remember that I’ve had to do this several times before, so I said… “Oh well, that’s the way it goes sometimes”, and swallowed my pride.

Meanwhile, I was by myself in Pets last night, and got 14 PALLETS OF FREIGHT! I freaked out completely. The assistant manager, whom I shall dub as “Idiot Boy”, didn’t realize my situation until midnight, I had done went through 6 pallets of bag food when Idiot Boy finally sent me some help… the gargantuan sweat-hogs from receiving. Then went through my pallets like madmen, only stopping to ask me where something went. After they left at 1 AM, I browsed for signs of them plugging (IOW, putting stuff in the wrong places), and found only 2 cases (which I went ahead and fixed). I was surprised. So, my night of work didn’t turn out bad….. until 7 AM, when I run over my time trying to get everything off the floor, and I get paged by another assistant manager whom I shall dub as “PMS Bitch”, you see, PMS Bitch says that my department is a MESS, and just tells me to get my mess off the floor before I leave. So, I didn’t clock out until 7:40 AM due to this, and I am VERY pissed off at this point. That damn woman WAS on PMS!

But oh well, I’ve got 2 days off, and am going to be with my guy tonight after some rest. Yippie!

Last night, me and 3 friends decided to go out to the Waffle House (the only place open to eat out outside of the grocery side of Wal Mart at 3 AM) to have lunch. We arrive at around 3:05, and we DID NOT get served until 3:30! If that wasn’t bad enough, even though the place was pretty packed, they had only ONE waitress, so we had to coax the cook into taking our order. We made sure he got the tip. We ended up 13 minutes late getting back to Wal Mart. Talk about bad service! Oy vey!

And now… 2 days late, the Tuesday Two…

1. goldenbrahman just got on my case because the T2 isn’t up. What form of punishment shall he receive?
Since I know what hectic schedule that Klaussie has to endure day in and day out, it shall be that he shall cut down the mightiest tree in the forest….. wiiiithhhh……. a HERRING! (insert music here from Monty Python and the Holy Grail) 😛

2. If it involves feet, what are the odds on sport6449 sneaking a video camera into the proceedings?
I don’t know about Chuck, but there is a freaky poster on a newsgroup I lurk on called alt.tv.dark_shadows that is obsessed with certain actresses’ feet. Pretty freaky, no? That being said, I think he might do it, but a part of him might leave the camera at home.

Well folks, after almost 6 years of being online, I have taken one small step forward
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I HAVE A CABLE MODEM!

And you wouldn’t believe how a cable modem can make a 100mhz Pentium piece of shit run so much better than it ever has!

More to come later

The haxor handle of Nicholas Mooneyhan is “Deadly Snake“.

What’s yours? Enter your name:

Uhm, I don’t know what to say of this…. except that I am terribly afraid of snakes.

Work has been very blah lately, I was under so much stress last weekend it was unreal. I work with this woman who’s been there for 5 years in pets, and she is convinced that she knows EVERYTHING and has also railroaded the department manager into believing anything she says. IMHO, a stocker should not have such rapport with a department manager. I’m set to go to higher authorities should they try to come down on me repeatedly again.

In other matters, I do have a special someone now, but I would feel uncomfortable with discussing it online, so I’ll leave it at that. Let’s just say that I am very very pleased :-).

I am planning also to do 1 or 2 game show related projects here in the next days, one of them could take several years (some people already know about this and have barfed at the thought, but I will try it anyway).

And now the Tuesday 2 (a day late)

1. Is Valentine’s Day the single biggest joke of a holiday ever, especially for singles?

I despise this particular day, because I think that love is significant each and every day of the year, and shouldn’t just be focused on February 14th.

2. Keeping in mind the first question, what’s all the world needs now?

A fucking reality check! 😛