11:22
Micro Management Boss
Let me start by saying, I haven't done much work this past week. I've discovered a game online that I've become horribly addicted to. agar.io it's so incredibly simple but I love it.

Today however, I got into work, and started doing actual work. I'm making speed, doing important stuff. Naturally whenever my boss hears me typing, and not talking, he HAS to interrupt. What're you working on today? I give him my list of stuff. He then tries to derail me. Oh there's this and this and this you need to get done. It's on my todo list because I'm catching up today. But still. why can't I just be productive? Let me do my work :(

I'm told this is common, but let me just say that this is not common, at least not the way he does it. He has no idea what importance is. Everything's important, everything that comes out of his mouth is do it now.

Naturally I ignore him and do things in my own way. It doesn't really matter as long as it gets done.

11:00
So it's been a while
So it's been a while. I don't really have a good reason besides lack of motivation, and the fact that I now wear headphones 8 hours a day. I see 8% is a returning visitor so hopefully I haven't upset you that much.

If you want to get ahold of me, you can e-mail me here Dingleberg@workingwithsillypeople.com or glowsticks@workingwithsillypeople.com or anything@workingwithsillypeople.com.

Kinda neat I guess.

10:15
It's so Expensive to Ship We Lose Money!
So Boss#2 always throws these fits when the shipping costs more than what we charge. This is pretty common practice and is usually made up for in the profit of the Item. Except he doesn't understand this. He sees one price, and that's the ship charge. Sometimes we have larger items that we have to send out. It's not ideal to ship one of them because then we get whacked on shipping a little bit. Boss hates when Boss#2 does this. HATES IT.

Whenever Boss#2 starts this up, Boss just yells to me to take it down and forget about it. It's a comical routine that hasn't gotten old yet. Luckily Boss#2 can't see my face while it's happening.

10:43
Can You Just Verify This For Me?
The Other Guy Behind Me (a designer/web guy) had to do an inventory the other day of a particular product. Boss never trusts The Other Guy Behind Me when he does inventories. Sure enough the items he was upstairs trying to verify were right in front of him. Shocker

11:00
"Booosssssss?"
I guess I have to come up with a name for this lady now. I think we'll just call her Incompetence. It sounds fairly feminine. This lady can't do much for herself. She's older, and I have no idea why she's still employed. She won't learn anything new, and she always needs help. You can always hear her yelling Booossss, and I cannot stand it. It's mostly her voice. And the Way she talks to you like she's somehow superior except how when she's talking to you, she's always asking for help.

13:45
Butter Me Up
After talking with My Buddy Up Front for an extended time today, it was found out that Boss#2 has no idea who was "stealing money." That's in quotes because I don't believe anyone would be able to successfully steal money from here. I hear the cash register drawer every time it opens and can clearly tell when there are customers around. So Basically Boss#2 admitted that Boss is just being a complete asshole. He said that they just needed to stop the people from stealing, so they accused someone they thought could have done it. Unfortunately this was all done in a private setting so there's no real opportunity to sue.

They suspect My Buddy Up Front because occasionally he comes in late to work, which indicates he must have some form of a problem. Everyone comes in late to work here, like I said earlier, it's because they don't care. There's no motivation to show up on time.

Today the bosses have been extremely nice to him. Like they always are when they know they have done something extremely wrong.

Just another day in the life here at my place of work.

14:14

Can You Make This Bigger For Me?

Boss#2 just came up from upstairs and asked me to blow up an image for him because he can't see it. He shows me a printed out e-mail he had that had an image attached to it. I crack the biggest smile. He said he zoomed in to 300% and still can't see a damn thing. So I'm trying my hardest not to laugh as I make my way to his station.

He has the thumbnail preview of the image in the center, and he was zoomed in. LOL I downloaded it and opened it, and I will forever remain a god in his eyes when it comes to computers.

10:31
Drama Drama and More Drama
So My Buddy Up Front, has recently been subjected to interesting exclusion by Boss. Since Boss came back, he has reduced the people that are allowed to use the cash register. Nobody knew why until he was confronted about it last night. My Buddy Up Front was one of the people not allowed to touch it. Very peculiar as he has been a great employee and co worker.

Last night at about 16:30, My Buddy Up Front decides to have a "talk" with Boss. When you have a "talk" with Boss it's always going to be in a random spot in the warehouse, or outside depending on the severity of it. So they disappear upstairs. Boss returns shortly after, then My Buddy Up Front comes down about an hour later. He looks hurt.

I text My Buddy Up Front shortly after he leaves to see how the talk went. What I got in return was this text "I am still numb from it. I don't have the words. Apparently, I've stolen "thousands of dollars," and Mike knows in his gut it's me because I have a "drug addiction or alcohol problem." I'm fucked up about this."

This is shocking, My Buddy Up Front doesn't do drugs, he won't even smoke pot. He does go out to the bars on occasion, but it's not as frequently as anyone else that works here. I have only two explanations for these wild accusations.

My first is that someone planted a seed in Boss's head. I think Girl Up Front, who has recently started disliking My Buddy Up Front, may have said something that would have lead to that state of mind from Boss.

My second is that someone is messing up transactions up front. Someone has probably been running credit cards after marking them as cash on the register.

Nobody has been stealing though. I don't work with anyone that would risk that. Even if you were to try and steal from the drawer, someone would be around to notice that.

Now my boss is trying to get cameras, in particular ones that record audio. Not looking forward to having zero privacy here.

17:50

I'm Getting Real Sick of Jazz

I'm still confused on why I'm forced to listen to jazz for 8 hours a day. It's killed my working motivation. But I think he thinks it's helping. I just don't get it and it's giving me a headache.

Don't get me wrong though, I do enjoy Jazz. Just not at work. I prefer upbeat music to keep me going and semi energized. 

09:31
I Finally Won the Amazon War
Whenever there is an issue with Amazon, it turns into a giant hassle correcting it. It's always something simple too. Like oh this says it's green, but it's actually orange. It'll take about 15 messages until they finally do something about it.

Today I won a war. It was a 5 day battle. I came out victorious. I announced that I had one the Amazon War. Boss asked what are you talking about?

I explained the situation, and then said that they had finally listened to me and gave me what I needed.

Then Boss throws in when he heard that "MAKE SURE WE HAVE INVENTORY, we zeroed it out last week!"

Thanks, I know, I was the one that took it down, reuploaded it 5 times, and then re published it the second I won.

It's not like this is my job or anything.

10:00
Other Guy Behind me, Can You Show Her How to do the Music?
It was only a matter of time before we lost control of the music. We apparently had gotten to loose, trying to make the store seem fun. So he asked the newsletter lady if she could pick some more appropriate music. Sure enough, she picks probably the most boring playlist I've ever heard. It's taking all my might to not fall asleep in my chair. I'm staying awake but barely.

"We want something that'll relax the customers while they're shopping, we don't want them to start freaking discoing"

13:20

Why Don't you Get up an Stretch Your Legs

When you hear boss say that, you know that you're going to get asked to do something that you're probably going to hate. Today Boss asked me to cut paper, and become the paper cutter master.

Why does the web guy get asked to do these tasks?

Well today, the Girl Up Front decided that she really hates jazz. I think she already had plans of leaving early, but I'm thinking because of the drastic music change from indie to Jazz she decided to leave even earlier.

Next there was a cash register issue. Apparently there have been to many mistakes. so Boss says only one person can do the cash register.

That ties up everyone once The Girl Up Front left. And since Boss neglected this order for weeks, it had to go out today. Naturally I guess I'm good at everything so I was asked to use the paper cutter, and turn 50 sheets, into 500. Now my back hurts, I'm tired and I really just want to go home.