sugardeath

I haven’t done this in a while

Soo...  I have not seen Dad since Wednesday before I dropped Alyssa off.  I am pretty sure he is either in Hawaii at the moment or on a plane very near there (how long DOES it take to get to Hawaii?).  Pretty sure meaning we talked about me possibly driving him to the airport almost two weeks ago... and that was it. 

Got sent home early today at about nine...  Jason FINALLY arrived (with Cat) at around ten-thirty, so the three of us and Paul went to Denny's for dinner and to hang out.  Afterwards we came back to my house and kind of hung out for a bit before everyone left due to boredom. 

At the moment...  I am so freaking bored.  EEERRRRRRFFFFF I am thinking of going to sleep just to curb the boredom (and because it is three-thirty).  But what would I do tomorrow?  Oh!  Greg's grad party is tomorrow.  I wonder if I will get up early enough to hang out for a bit before I go to work.

I really do not like the changes going on at work...  Freaking new management.  Just...  Ugh.  Dan said to workJason and I today that he does not think he will have any trouble with the two of us but that workAndrew and Larry might cause some trouble...  I am more of the silent type.  When Dan says that Zois now wants us to take our time and make sure the theatres are absolutely spotless, I am going to take my time, damnit.  He now wants quality over quantity.  Understandable, but when we had quality before...  It is kind of pointless to make us work extra hard for the same results.  Seriously... is there really a difference if the theatre is absolutely spotless or just merely appears spotless?  With how I have done things for the past three years, you would have to be looking really hard to find anything indicating laziness.  Perhaps I have just perfected being lazy while still getting the job done... but I got the job done.  The customers will not be checking everything to see if we are doing our job.  They just care if things are reasonably presentable, if the food tastes okay, and if there is anyway to squeeze free movie/popcorn/pop passes out of us.  Jason had made up his mind, separately from me, to do the same thing...  We are just going to take our sweet time cleaning these theatres.  Apparently Zois went up to Christian while he was on his phone in the break room (not yet clocked on) and called him "a failed lead."  Andrew has already been yelled at.  I wonder how Larry and Christian handled things tonight..  I wonder how the five of us will handle things down the line...  (I do not count Adam as a real lead...) I forsee demotions, firings...  It is going to be fuuun!  I have yet to decide where I draw the line...  when enough is enough.  I have already gone through various situations and outcomes in my head (something I do...  about everything; usually results in lack of action on my part...  I was once told it is nearly as satisfying (and a lot less troublesome) to punch someone in your imagination than it is in real life...  I have extended this idea to my social life too), but I just get angry thinking about it, so... 

Apparently it's cheaper to pay one of our nightly janitor crew two dollars an hour to come in and take care of the women's restrooms than it is to have the already on the clock male ushers take care of them... as they've been doing for the past eight years. There are five fucking restrooms available to the patrons, it is not that hard to walk for a minute, maybe two if you're slow, to get to another restroom.  It takes maybe a minute or two for us to finish in there, so you might as well just wait it out.  You'll miss less of your movie that way.  "Why do you have men cleaning the women's restrooms?"

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Just a little off track there...  Either way... having a dude clean the women's restrooms is NOT THAT BIG A DEAL ZOIS.  It is inferiorating to have this mexican chick garbed in street clothes DOING OUR JOBS WHEN WE ARE PERFECTLY CAPALBE OF DOING IT.  It leaves us with less to do.  Which leads to management seeing that there's nothing for us to do... which leads to people being sent home and hours being cut.  And money is saved!  Profit!  Jackass.

And all that is just from today.  Like I said...  It will be interesting to see how us usher leads (and everyone else, too) deals with Zois and his backwards way of doing things.  The dude is AMC, too.  It's not like he came from a Star or a Loews...  I thought Mom was joking when she said the Livonia 20 theatre (where he's been working since it opened (like Sandy at ours), save for the first year the Forum was open) was going to have a going away party for Zois... the kind he would not be invited to.  I can totally see them doing that, though.

I wonder how Sandy is faring at the Great Lakes...  Apparently they still do things the old Star way and her goal is to make them AMC in all aspects. 

It is amazing how completely different the two highest ranked managers in the Detroit market (and probably lower Michigan market) can be.

Most of you guys probably just skipped right over that.  Don't lie.  I don't blame ya.

Jason took pictures of my car, though!  I wonder if he uploaded them yet.  Now it can rain... It hasn't rained in forever.  Weather.com predicts "isolated t-storms" for Wednesday night...  That's crappy.  I want some good rain, damnit!  All over.  None of this isolated shit... 

Today is Friday (despite being four-ten in the morning on Saturday), but it felt like Saturday the entire day...  I am becoming disoriented.  I remember completely losing track of what day it was last summer.  That was neat.  Sleep work sleep work sleep work sleep work sleep work.  Houses and buildings and roads and cars and fences and street lights.  Come on.  Someone wanna go ride the Dodge Park trails with me?  We can start at Farmstead Park, go to Clinton River Park (I am definitely going down there when we get the torrential rains that we need..  I love it when the Clinton River overflows into the apartment complex on Riverland), and finally go to Dodge Park.  I need to see some green.  Granted, what I see in the sub and all around is way more than what I ever saw in Chicago, but it is nice to just lay by the Clinton River and look at the sky through the trees.  Anyone?  No one?  God I hate you all.

Actually..  Every bit of both Illinois and Indiana that I have seen has had far less trees per square area than the single subdivision that Dad's house resides in.  Mom's sub has more trees.  But then traversing through Michigan on my way home from Chicago is verry nice.  Indiana is very... flat.  Flat and empty.  Bad combination.  Michigan is pretty flat, but it's at least got shit.  I remember Linda saying something along the lines of "Oh my god you guys have trees!."  Yeah, we do.  I think that will be one thing that will be hard to give up.  I don't know if I can live anywhere too grey and full of cement for too long.  I need my nature.  Thankfully there's a freaking lake near campus. 

I think I need sleep. 

I don't think I will get it.

I need to fix this cough.

I seriously wonder how many people think "tl;dr" when they read my journal...  I know I would.