Pierced My Knee

I was one of the lucky ones at work who 'volunteered' to help clean out the company's old Scottsdale office. While doing this, someone decided to move one of the clean plastic rug guards from one room to the other. You know, those stupid clear, plastic guard for under office chairs that have the little spikes on the bottom. When I went into the office that it was in, I went to pick up a few flower pots that were around it and I knelt down on it. How was I supposed to know he had put it spikes up? I now have 3 small puncture holes on my knee. My, that was painful. Luckily, there wasn't much damage done. Only small whole, but still, ouch.

Also, I just passed 1000 views after my last post. Actually, I think I passed it. I am not really sure, I am only going off what an add-on that I installed told me. I sort of don't believe it's accuracy, but I also didn't have it for the first few post. Who knows. Cool to know that people are reading it.

Am I a Superhero?

At the corporate office for Siren, they have recently put in a call center for one of the owners' other companies. The company is called Green Monster, they work with customer on how to make their house more 'green', at least, that's what I think they do. Anyways, one of the girls from that call center recently gave me a picture. Since the giant printer/fax/copy machine is near my desk, and she was having trouble with it, I decided it would be nice to help her with it.

I guess this has made me a superhero in her eyes. I am now 'super fax dude'. I have the picture hanging by my desk. Not the best of artwork, but MUCH better than the stick figure I would have drawn. It's nice to know some random person thinks highly of me. (Or, as one of my coworkers pointed out, someone that has a crush on me.)

How quickly things change

After being told I was going to San Antonio for the extension office for about a month before being pulled back to the corprate office back in Phoenix AZ, I was just told I have to be back there on Monday. Yeah, that's right, I have a week to move back to AZ and find a place to live before I am expected to be back at work. I still have to work on closing the office here and maybe spend a day of 2 in San Antonio helping set that up. Well at least I can say it isn't boring here.

The worst part is I moved all my stuff into storage and have it paid till October. Well, guess there is no rush to move into my place in AZ.

Great...no, wait!

The review went as expected, great. Tamra and I talked for a while. Babe actually had gone to the Dallas office today and will be in the Fort Worth office tomorrow, so we'll see what goes on there. During the review, Tamra started mentioning the job at corp and making me feel really set that I had a job there. Talk of the extension came up and I foud out who I would be working with and I was pretty excited about it.

Then, I get a call from Tamra around 7pm. Turned the whole day around. We talked for a bit and now I am not really sure how things stand. The biggest problem with this is that I don't know what to do about my stuff in Arizona. I have most of my belongings in my old apartment there but I need to be moved out of there by September 7th. The problem is I need to figure out when I will have time to fly back there. Just very frustrating, though I should have an answer by Monday. Hopefully.

BIG DAY!!!

First off, happy 30th Anniversary Mom and Dad! It is awesome that you guys have made it this long and that anyone can see you'll be making it much longer. Thanks for everything!

Not so great news with court. Prosecutor basically said he would only give me a $138.00 fine and have me go to traffic school. (Which I would have done in the first place but they said I couldn't being that I am an out of state resident.) I tried to explain that the sign wasn't even in a place for me to see it and why would I think it would be 35mph where I was stopped. He responded with, "Ignorance to the law is no excuse." Boy did he not get it. But whatever, as soon as I take the class, it'll all be over with. Man, do I hate Texas right now.

My roommate loves to sing. I don't mind people who can sing well, doing so often. But when you have no talent for singing and only sing crappy songs, you really need to stop. Please, Jordan, think of the children! (And those who act like children.)

Tomorrow, my boss, Tamra, is coming in for my review. Babe, the owner of Siren, is also coming in, but I don't know if he is meeting with me or not. I hope they have word on my job situation. I am hearing from some little birds that I have well placed that I am 99.99% sure to have a job. The only reason I say 99.99% is because I don't have word from the people who can tell me the final word, but I am hopeful. Still will need to figure out what to do about the whole Arizona living thing, but a job might be helpful for that.

Should probably get a good nights sleep for tomorrow. I need to get into the office on time tomorrow. (And not the 10-20 minutes late that I have been.)

Take me out to the ball game!

Last week, if the reps in the office sold enough, the office would get to go to a baseball game. Well I was told we didn't get enough but we still did convince the boss to buy us tickets. Being SportyDebo, I was excited to go to a sporting even. Not as excited that it was baseball but at least the team I root for, the Boston Red Soxs, were there. (Not that they won.) Though I must say, my team is pretty boring to watch. (Might have something to do with losing.)

Here's a picture from my seat.

Friday's notes

I wanted to mention this earlier, but the last few days had been a bit taxing on me. You might have noticed those very short posts, yeah, sorry, sometimes I can be very lazy. But I will give you guys an update.

So Wednesday night, two of my friends, Whitney and Christine, came into town. They were out in the Siren New Jersey North office, which merged with the Fort Worth office, and stopped in to visit on their way back to Phoenix. It was really nice to see them again. On Thursday night, one of the reps from their office who is now here was having a B-Day party so the three of use went. I had a good time getting to meet the new reps. I ended up getting back at around 1am. This became a problem when I woke up to drive to San Antonio for my little brother graduation. By 'a problem' I mean I went back to sleep till like almost 6am. I then spent over 4 hours in the car, in which time I was called 3 times for deliveries. The person who was filling in for me just decided not to go to the office in the morning, so we missed a delivery or two. The drive actually didn't feel that long but it might because I looked like a head-banger. Next time I have that long of a drive, I'll make sure I have a good nights sleep and coffee/energy drinks. When I got to San Antonio I found I was too late for the graduation. So I hung out at the hotel that my parents were staying at till they got back. Then, when Pat got there, we went out to eat and stopped by the Alamo. Yes, I will remember it, and no I could not find the basement of the Alamo. About 4pm I figured I should be heading home, so I spent another 4+ hours in the car driving back to my apartment. After arriving at the apartments, I spent the rest of the night moving boxes around the office, receiving shipments, and pretty much just doing what I do. No offense to anyone I work with, and I don't really think I am this valuable, but I really wonder how long this office would be able to stay open without me.

When looking back on Friday, and yes there were some fun parts in it, but for the most part, I wonder why I enjoy msking my life so hard. But I think it mostly came from a lack of sleep, or maybe that's just an excuse to sleep more.

Death of a (Potential) Salesman

I found out I'm not really interested in door to door sales. I tried to go out with one of the reps today to see what its like and see if I could do it. I watched for about a half dozen doors and then I took the lead. Not five sentences into my pitch, I am tripping over my words and trying to figure out what to say. I bombed most of the ones I tried, though one I might have been able to get if I could have figured out what to say. The good news is that Pat H. was with me and might save the deal, he'll go back on Wednesday to see if they are still interested in the system.

Though I am not going to give up and I hope to get at least one deal before the end of the summer, I don't really think sales is in my future. Not that I am upset about that!

Kicked out

Yeah, I was kicked out of my company apartment in Fort Worth the other day. This was a first for me, getting kicked out of an apartment, but not as bad as it sounds. It was somewhat expected. Let me explain.

So earlier this week, the NJ North office closed. They were having trouble selling in the area they were in so Siren decided to combine the office. So 9 reps and 3 techs moved down here on Friday. We had to figure out where to put everyone and I told Tyler that my roommate and I could move out of our 3 bedroom into another room where there are only a few people. He tells me no, he'll have the 5 guys from across the hall move, 3 into my room and 2 downstairs where there are already 2 guys. Thinking that was it, I go to Dallas to hang with some friends and watch fireworks. Having a good time meeting new people, I get a text at 10:30 from my current roommate telling me we are getting kicked out. Needless to say, this sort of ruined my night. I call my boss and flip out for a bit but just said that I'll move out the next morning. I was pretty upset for having to move. I was more upset for 2 other reason. 1) I had made this suggestion to him and he told me no and then takes my idea when I can't do anything about it. 2) I was told about this by my roommate and not my boss.

But it isn't all bad. I now have a balcony and a better internet connection. I can actually get it in the whole apartment and not just one room!

Going back to AZ early...or not.

It is pretty nice to find that your boss thinks highly of you. Today, I was told that one of the other office was going to close and combine with our office. I have two friends working in the office there in New Jersey, so I was pretty excited to hear they were coming here. It only took me a second to remember that there are 3 office positions and they are all filled here. So I quickly asked my boss what was going on with everyone. She tell me that I am being replaced as the inventory manager for Whitney, the inventory manager from New Jersey, and I was getting moved back to Corp to help in payroll. The company knew I was looking for a job after this summer gig is over, and they had an opening for me. I was pretty excited to be going back to Arizona. I would get to see my friends again and start looking at the houses in Tempe. I was also pumped for the different job I would be doing, not really sure what it was but I get bored easily, so a change was sort of needed. The news of the other office closing hadn't spread too much. The only other person I thought would know about it was Tyler, the head rep, who oversees this office. He had known about the merge, but when I mentioned that I was going to Corp, he laughs and says, 'I have the last word on that.' I get a call a bit later telling me that I was actually fought over and that I will be staying in Fort Worth for the rest of the summer and take the position at Corp after the summer is over. Pretty cool that Tyler thinks that highly of me to actually say that he wanted me to stay. As for my friends for New Jersey, Whitney is going to Corp and Christine is coming here for a few weeks, to help the merge go smoothly, and then she'll head back to Corp.

Pretty eventful day for me and my job. I was a bit let down when it all changed. I was really excited how everything was working out, but now I get to stay in Fort Worth. Still some stuff I wanted to do here, so it all works out. Plus, not sure if I am totally ready for an Arizona summer!

Scheduling

So today was.......long. At the Siren office I work at, there are three office staff. Kelly, who does scheduling, Marissa, who takes care of the reps paperwork, and me, who takes care of the inventory and the techs' paperwork. The jobs, when everyone is doing there job correctly, aren't bad. They all have their own moments that make you want to pull your hair out but, really, not too many of them.

When this office opened, I was doing both the scheduling and inventory. The day for an inventory manager started at 8am looking over techs paperwork and pulling inventory for them. The day for a scheduler ends at 10pm when all the reps stop knocking doors and come home. This made for some very long days. When Kelly started here about three weeks ago, I was very excited to not have to be doing that again. Alas, today I was back in the office doing scheduling for five hours. The thing was she went to New Jersey for a family reunion. I really don't mind if I was paid hourly to cover someone and get paid more. I am not hourly, I get paid salary. So Marissa and I have been doing her job and not getting any extra pay. Normally, if she had offered me money, I would have refused it. But when I did ask if she was thinking of giving us money, she almost seemed shocked that I asked. What, I am supposed to do 1/3 of your job (cause we had to schedule both Friday and Saturday) and NOT get paid extra for it? Not really cool. I just think if I had to go anywhere, I would either make sure everything was done before I left (which she can't really do) or pay someone a little to do my job. If neither of those worked, I probably just wouldn't leave, feeling that I had a job to do. But I guess that is just me.

Maybe I wouldn't be so bothered if doing the scheduler's job didn't mean I was sitting in the office for 5 hours with about 40 minute of actual work. I sat here for more than 3 hours before I actually got a call to dispatch. Guess its just been a long day.

A little about my job.

I don't think I've really told anyone what I do at this summer job. I am working for Siren, Inc. They are a lot like ADT. They get a bunch of people to knock door and sell security systems, which they also hire techs to install. I am in charge of giving these techs their equipment. Sounds easy, right? Well my problem comes from many of the techs in my office think I like to sit around from 8am, when I get in to run their numbers and make sure they haven't lost any equipment, till whenever they feel like coming in. Makes for some very long days. Also, about one-third of my techs think that they can turn in their paper work whenever they want, and then I'll drop everything to run their numbers and stock them. Not really cool, but I am working with their boss to try and resolve these issues. Hopefully, when this is fixed, my days will actually be fairly simple.

I really am glad I took this, mostly because of the awesome people I've met. I actually went suit shopping today with Brad, this really cool tech. Many of the people I met in training and working at this office are really cool. Marissa and Kelly, the other office staff are very friendly. AJ, Taylor, Nate, Pat S., Pat H., Austin, Clint, and Jason are all really cool sales rep who seem really good at their job and like pretty decent guys. The rest of the guys have, at times, made this job unbearable. I don't know why it frustrates me. Probably cause they make my job harder.

I guess there is good and bad with all jobs. Wow my brain is all over the place. Night peeps!