The janitor at Egghead

 Egghead is long gone; it used to be one of the first online stores in 2000.  My friend Stacey worked at Dolch now Konica and quit.   She would call me up at the receptionist desk and try to recruit me to Egghead.   They had a position for a scheduler, and the pay was rather decent.   I got hired at Egghead as a receptionist and then my supervisor in HR was let go.   Immediately her responsibilities became mine and only a few of her responsibilities became Stacey's.   We were getting paid under 12 dollars.   

Stacey quit for more dollars per say.   Then she started to call me.

It turns out the HR Director of Dolch did not like how paged on the phone so, she fired me.

So, I got an instant interview with the HR at Egghead.

They liked me.   

As soon as I got the scheduling job , my HR supervisor quit and left for another Company.

Then I got her responsibilities.  

Background checks, Place job announcements in the newspaper, making sure all the job announcements on the Company website made sense and were open, Scheduling interviews just for the second floor and the CEO, CFO AND ACCOUNTING, AND CREATIVE SERVICES.    I used to stay longer than usual with creative services they all had unique personalities.   They all knew how to play ping pong and throw beach balls over their desks whenever they were trying to fix something and used the beach ball as a way to think out loud to fix the problem.  Every time the beach ball came to them, they would say something out loud and toss the ball to the next person.

My desk was made friendly.   Someone for St. Patrick day gave me a St. Patty's mobile and I hung it above my desk, and it just stayed.   I also had a frog on my desk that I put there.  It when picked up and squeezed made a sound.  It got squeezed allot.

Also, I always had licorice in a tub at the desk.  So, anyone could have some as we talked.

Well, it so happened one week I was staying late and got into conversations with the turn Indian security guard.   He would come to my desk pass 6pm and say working late.  I said yes.  Then ask for some licorice and then said it is passed 6pm you should go home and try again tomorrow.

I agreed.   but sometimes I would stay and after he walked the whole building, he would say it is late and I will walk you to your car.  I will be downstairs by the door.   Then I would pack up my stuff and my computer off and go home.

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It funny with Karma.    The last 2 years I have discovered what they put in licorice.  Won't be eating that ever again.

And the abuse those poor little beetles suffered from the love making secretions are put into licorice.

Nope.

The passed 2 years they flat cartoons have graced my room and become beetles with personality.  They seem to know English especially if you scream.............

They have been searching for something and have not found it yet.

When leaving the retail store in the night time

 When leaving the retail store in the night time, you waited until everyone was ready to leave.

We had a gate that came down from up above the entrance.   After the Store Manager made sure everybody was out of the store she pulled down the gate from above and then locked it.  She always had the key around her wrist while she worked in the store.  So, she always knew where to find it.

Then we walked to the parking lot.  We were supposed to always park in a certain area, however it was never blocked off and the customer always parked in that area.  The parking lots were always well lit and had security constantly driving around checking park cars.

My manage trusted me enough for her to get into her car with her and then drive to the bank to drop off anything that was put into the red bags during the day.

Then she drove me to my car and I drove home either by freeway or the slow way that had all the intersection lights.  I mostly hit the green lights because it was after 10pm.

Visiting Aunt M

 My parents drove me and my siblings to Kansas City to visit my father's sister.

My aunt had tickets for the Kansas Hockey team.  So, instead of going to her house we drove into a city in Kansas and went to their arena to watch hockey.

When you watch hockey your supposed to scream at the players, so they play harder.  They kept crashing into the clear barrier between all the patrons and the rink.

We watched until the hockey game was over.    Then because traffic was going to be bad.  We waited until almost everyone had left there seats for the parking lot.   Then when we got to our cars, we had less a struggle leaving the parking lot.  Then we drove to Aunt M's house.

In the 80's a carwash did not exist

 In the 1980's a car wash did not exist.    My grandfather used to get the hose out and wash the car as did my father.    We lived in the country, and the nearest gas station was the other side of town near McDonalds.  Mcdonalds was on this giant hill, and we were always looking up at when we were at the gas station.  

It wasn't until we moved here to this new location that car washes became real.   Car soap, Wax and then afterward if you paid extra the gas attendant vacuums the inside of your car.

Yep, the 1980's was interesting.