1st Day Being a Manager...

Well, like I already said...I woke up at 2:30 am this morning.  Could NOT go back to sleep for shit!  Read some.  I'm STILL trying to get through Shadowfever!  lol  It's been...3 months?!  ahahaha!!!  Anyway...

On my way to work, I stopped & got some cigarettes.  Funny thing about that!  o.0  1st couple of drags was like...WOO SAAA!!!!  Heh.  *grins*  But then...hmm...I'm not liking them so much.  WTF?!  My lungs hurt.  I stopped up almost immediately.  The taste is horrible!!  The smell.  So far, I keep smoking them though.  But it might not last long.  I think I have one patch left.  I just dunno...we'll see what happens.

Open the door at work & all I can hear is this beeping noise.  Ehh??  Turn on the lights, get around the counter, the main computer's monitor is flashing on & off.  I try to turn the CPU on & it momentarily flashes an error screen before it shuts down again.  So it won't even boot up!  I turn the other 2 on.  No internet.  Mmk.  So I go back to the main one to focus on the beeping.  Within a minute or so I realize it's the APC battery back-up!  Ahh.  Yep.  All this storming the last 2 days fried the old POS!  lol  Oops.  Luckily, Cindy walked in right about then so I told her what was up.  She went straight to Office Depot & got a new APC.  Hooked it up & all was bliss again!  ;-p

The rest of the day itself was pretty quiet.  Wednesday's order came in.  It was a pretty big one but really straightforward so it took less than 20 minutes to check it in.  Except, upon opening the 1st box, our stickers were in a wad & all jacked up.  And one of the books was crumpled.  One of LKH's that I'd ordered to complete the set (between new & used in stock) to prepare for the rush we're already starting to see.  Hit List comes out in June...so people are re-reading the series or trying to catch up!  ;-)  Cindy had me take pics of the damages & send to Robb (our rep).  LOL!!  My 1st actual manager duty!  *snorts*  But she's a dope!  She gave me his landline number so the MMS didn't go through, of course.  So I emailed them to her email so she could forward them.  I got an email at 5:30 that she still didn't have them...could I just email them to him from my phone.  Sheesh.  Done.  Cindy is really considering implementing an inventory/POS system!!  She was on the phone with the guy for like an hour.  In the long run, that'd be AWESOME!!  Would make life SO much easier on multiple levels!!  The bitch is gonna be inputting our current 300,000 books in stock into the system...yikes!  lol  I had Claire put away the new arrivals...though I shoulda just done it myself.  I had to show her where all of them went anyway.  After that was done, Cindy handed me a check.  Wha?!  1st Quarter bonus...but shh...cuz nobody else was getting one!  Mmk...

I ended up leaving at 3.  I'm tired.  lol  It was at a slow crawl.  Claire was hovering cuz she was bored.  Lori was getting to the point of coming up & starting random convos that nobody wanted to listen to.  I then went for my monthly Wal-Mart visit.  Then the bank.  I think, next month, I'm opening another account where the store banks so I can get rid of Bank of America.  That account is NOTHING but a PITA & mostly cuz it's a stupid fucken WA account still!  Argh.  Sick of it!  Anyway, Amanda has been trying to talk me into trying Melatonin for 2 years now...for my sleeping issues.  I just never got around to it.  lol  Well, I got some tonight. So we'll see if it does anything.  I also got some Zyrtec.  See if that helps the sinuses any.  The Pseudoephedrine works better than anything else I've ever tried but...IF I actually go to sleep, I have wicked nightmares!  Ick!  :/  So we'll see.

So finally home, had dinner, watched a movie.  I've been downloading the BlackBerry OS 6 update for 2 hours already--it's STILL not done!!  Really?!  Sheesh!  Maybe I'll update it tonight.  Maybe not!  LOL

I think I'll read another chapter or 2 of Shadowfever before I attempt to sleep.  *smirks*

I'm going to attempt to pin Cindy down tomorrow & talk to her about this salary thing.  Aside from the initial mention of me becoming her salaried manager when Kelli left, it's not been spoken of since!  Though Kelli spent the last 2 weeks teaching me her random duties.  No idea what Cindy is thinking my salary will BE.  I'd really like to know!  lol  Kelli thinks that...since I got a $.75 raise this month (which I WORKED for & EARNED!!)...that will be my salary rate.  Uhh...I think not!!  Taking on all this EXTRA responsibility does not warrant me staying right here, where I'd already previously worked up to!  I know how much Kelli drew!!  She better get a LOT fucken closer than where I am currently...seriously!!