See and you all thought the horror stories from work would stop when Gail left...Ha! I wish! Aside from the fact that Gail stops in AND calls at least once a week since she left there is the depths of crazy of Amanda that I never knew. This week she told Jenn that I am out to get her. why? Because when I get to work early I play on the coputer a bit, blog, and the like becasue I am hourly. I am not going to work off the clock. She came in to the office early as well and tried to talk to me about work before I was on the clock. Now this is not a new concept. I have always refused to do Becker's work on my time. If they can't spare the measly few minutes of overtime then I will not work off the clock. It has always been this way for 3 years...but somehow...this week....saying "Amanda, I'm not clocked-in right now, you will have to talk to me at 8" suddenly means I am out to get her. Her words, not mine. She told our manager that I was out to get her. I was trying to ruin her orders and two can play that game.

There is no justification. I can not explain to her that I get a percentage of commission from the ENTIRE showroom. So basically if I mess with her orders I am messing with my own pocket book. She just doesn't get it so I am not even going to try to explain that I really am not trying to hurt her. Not to mention that I am not in grade school and I am NOT out to get her.

But in other news I had a dream last night that Bekka got upset with me for calling everyone around me "crazy" and said that I was being predjudiced against mentally ill people so she would not babysit Andreas for me any more. Talk about your crazy? I thought that was hillarious!

I have made beautiful christmas card from the drawing Andreas did at Bekka's. He drew an anatomically correct snowman.

And finally, it wouldn't be a blog without mentioning my c*nt of a sister. Every year she sends out this "state of the Cauley family" email to let everyone know what they are up to. To everyone else int he family this appears to be a cheerful little update but in this year's letter there are 4 different digs at me in the guise of sweet holiday greetings. I hate her.

I decided to read "Interview with a Vampire" I had seen the movie. It was alright. One of the most vivid images i remember fromt he movie was Claudie and MAudeline being exposed to sunlight and destroyed. I alsways felt dsorry for her...until I actually read the book.

The book is so COMPLETELY different from the movie in it's fundemental philosophies. I understand that you can not fit all the content from a book into a movie..there simply isn't enough time...but to completely and thuroughly change the entire concept of the book?

Here is a for instance...and a HUGE for instance at that. You never had to guess that Lestat was alive he pops up throughout the entire book. In fact HE is the reason Claudia and Maudeline is burned to a crisp...how can you leave that out? But the real philisophical difference comes to this. The whole story is Louis recounting his "life" to a reporter. The hopes was to show this reporter that Louis is damned. That the life of a vampire is no life at all. The reporter still asks Luois to change him and, in the movie Louis scares the crap out of him and he flees. Grateful that he was not changed and that he wa still human afterall. And then of course Lestat shows up out of the blue with the intention of changing him. In the book Louis not only scares the hell out of him, he drains him of blood, leaves him nearly dead, and disappears which only shows the reporter how being a vampire gives you the ulitmate power of life over death and makes the reporter want to be a vampire even more. He rewinds the tapes he made of Lopuis' life and find the part where Louie tells him where he found Lestat and the reporter then seeks him out.

There is a huge fundamental difference between being "scared staight" and being consumed with greed and hunger for power...and the entire book/movie comparison is like this. Deep differences. I wonder if the people who made the movie read the book at all.

Ok...so Jenn and I have come to realize some of the things we blamed Gail for are actually NOT gail's crazy but Amanda's crazy. We have come to this realization because Gail is no longer here (although I STILL have her old fuck-ups haunting me) and Amanda can't hide her crazy any longer. She told Jenn that I am hacking her computer and getting into her emails and that I am calling her appointment when she is supposed to be at them to make sure she is there. First of all, why would I do that? Secondly, why would I do that? I really don't care where you are or whom you are with. I do not have the mad computer skills required to "hack" her computer....Although I did get into her email. How? she gave me the f*cking password...the dork! Sometimes when she is not here I have to get onto her computer to get to files so she gave me her password to do that. She told Jenn that she never gave me her password and that I had to have hacked her system. Plus, if I am smart enough to hack your system then i certain am not going to tell you I did it and I told her that I got into her email. I had to print an email she forgot to give me so I told her "Hey you forgot to give me that charitable donations email before you left so I got in your email and printed...I no longer need it" why would I tell you I got into your email if i didn't have permission to do so you freak?

As for checking up on her appointments...I don't have the f*cking TIME to be checking up on her...even IF I had the inclination to do so. She has just become extremely paranoid. First she thought Gail was following her in her car...now she thinks I am hacking her computer and checking up on her.


C-r-a-z-y

We are experiencing 55 MHP winds today...so diane Becker decided to sweep the sidewalk.

I am not making that sh*t up.

This is what is wrong with this company. We were not expecting any kind of Christmas bonus this year then we got this email today:

I wish to congratulate each of you on making it through a difficult but successful year here at Becker in 2009! As a company, we took several actions to cut costs and reduce our expenses to match the slow down in sales, and many of these ideas and actions came from you, a valued member of the Becker team! Our hard work has been quite effective and thanks to each of you for helping make this happen!

On this week's pay, the managers have included a Christmas bonus in your pay that is approximately equal to 2-1/2% of the 10% wage reduction we started company wide on May 11. For example, if the 10% reduction resulted in you earning 2000.00 less since May 11, your Christmas bonus we be approximately 500.00.

Only thing is 2-1/2% of $2,000 is $50 not $500. So ok….you took approximately $2,000 out of our pockets and gave us twice (and in my instance 3 times) the work to do but you are going to give us $50……um….thanks?

This really explains the problem with this company if the owner cannot perform simple math equations.

Amanda chose to take the confrontational route with her email reply (which she CC’ed me on…why? I don’t know…she’s a little nutter) WOW......Is this a joke? Are you going to send a "revised" email on the correct math. Appreciate the small kicker that is a slap in the face.

Me, I chose a more comical route and I did not email the owner but the former ops manager and now sales manager: If I read this correctly they are tailoring the bonus based on income loss that Becker’s caused to the associates in order to keep the business going. Since I lost 100% of my income does that mean that they will base my bonus on the 100% income I lost or only on the 10% pay cut that I had before and after my layoff? HEHHEHAHA…just messing with ya.

He didn’t appreciate it. F uck ‘em if they can’t take a joke.

The answer is this…I only had a 5% pay cut that took effect before I was laid-off in the form of us having to simply not work as many hours. I was actually not employed when they implemented that “10% across the board we are lowering your hourly and salary rates because we can’t afford to have you people taking off days from work” so, since I did not receive a 10% pay cut…there is no income loss for them to base a bonus on…which means…Connie gets screwed once again.

Happy Holidays!

What do you get your spouse when you are completely broke and don't even have the money to purchase fabric for making a gift?

Oh and Jason is coming home....already. Wow 3 weeks in new york and he is already broken.