Blinkers are one of lifes little miracles.

One of my biggest pet peeves are the frustrating idiots who don't use their turn signal when switching lanes. You know who you are. You obviously don't check your mirrors or blind spots either. We're all victims here, right? Anyway, here's the hypocracy... mines broken. (Not an excuse for pissing you all off) Seriously, it's broken. The lever clicks, but no blinking or ticking. Every so often it comes off of vacation to tease me with a single click, but not enough to be an indication of my direction. So, to all of you in the Salt Lake City area who've been cut-off by a little blue car, SORRY! I can't help it.

Firing the boss

My boss got fired today. How does that make one feel? Most would rejoice at the fact that their superior finally got the shit end of the stick but not me,.. Really. Not only did my boss get fired, but my mother's fiancee got fired. (Sounds nicer than "future father-in-law", don't you think?) Now, how does that make one feel?

I work for a "trans-national-family owned business specializing in wholesale photo restoration and retouching". Have you ever been to a Ritz Camera? Or a Wolf Camera? Or an Inkley's? We do their photo restorations. Perhaps you've been in a MotoPhoto? We do a few of theirs, too. Anyway, the owner/president/CEO is truly and utterly a complete asshole. I mean that in the most sincerest form. Not all bosses are dicks, but this guy... this guy is fucked. I once cleared some time off (one day, unpaid) to celebrate my mother-in-laws birthday in Wendover, NV. (Gimme a break, I live in Utah... I am NOT Mormon... Yes, I get that a lot). After my return, I was reprimanded before the entire office staff and told that, "[I] didn't DESERVE time off", and that it was my fault that the company was not making it's goals that month. "[My] fault that we're not making the goal this month", FOR ONE DAY OFF?!! UNPAID!!! Needless to say, I upped my efforts, overshot our goals and still hold the grudge. I've been there for two years, there's ambition for ya'.

Anyway, I found out today that the man who hired me, a truly silver-tongued salesman, was fired. He was also VP of the company, and the LAST person I'd suspect to be fired. I still don't know why.

The owner/president/CEO is a swinger. By "swinger", I mean, the silver-tongued genius will probably be rehired back by the end of the year (he was never rehired.) Another employee has been fired and rehired 4 times. I've been almost fired, and surely rehired once. It's so volatile and unpredictable, I'm not willing to chance it. It's worse than walking on egg shells, without breaking them. Even if I'm only "fired" for two weeks, that's two weeks without a paycheck. So now I have to "yes" him to death.

"Yes, I'll take care of the billing", "Yes, I'll call the photo labs", "Prints? You got it."

I AM a hypocrite, after all.

Update: I lasted a total of 5 years with the boss considering me part of the "inner circle" of employees. I was pretty much guaranteed a position with the company somewhere, virtually invincible. Until I quit.