This is meant to point out the inherent smart-alecky quality I have that I can't really get rid of.
At work last week, a woman was looking at the coffee bins and asked the following question:
"Where is the Sumatra from?"
Now, in my mind I kind of know what the answer is that she's looking for, but before I can answer, I give her a very matter-of-factly answer:
"Sumatra."
She scoffs a little, looks at the tag which contains the answer she wants, but was too lazy to look at in the first place, and goes away. Works for me.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Monday, November 12, 2007
I'm not that good at this.
I suck at updating things. But here's something I have to get out of the way now:
That's Lucy. She's nice. Moving on.
I know it's been a while, but dammit, there's not a whole lot that's new. I haven't seen anything in the theater since Eastern Promises, and while it was amazing, I kind of missed the bandwagon writing about it.
Work's been stressful lately. I'm slowly meandering into the territory labeled, "somewhat possibly searching for a new job maybe." However, I did get some good news on the job front, and it relates to a contest I didn't really try for in the first place. There's been a contest going on for quite some time, and when it started I didn't try all that hard because I estimated my chances of winning as being considerably low. However, as sales updates frequented, it became clear I was going to win, lest something freaky happen to ruin it, like last Christmas (which feeds it the "me not trying very hard" motif). Well, on Friday the final results came in, and I won a trip to Nicaragua for a week, to take place in February.
The rules were such that they allowed stores of all sizes to compete equally, meaning that the winner would have the highest sales as a percentage of the total store sales. So a higher-income store would have to sell more dollar-wise than a store whose total sales are smaller. That being said, not only did I win in my group of regions (there are 11 regions in the company, and they were put together into four groups) as a percentage of store sales, but dollar-wise I also sold the second-largest amount in the company. So, you know, eat it.
So why do I still feel like anything I do at work isn't enough? More at 11, or something.
That's Lucy. She's nice. Moving on.
I know it's been a while, but dammit, there's not a whole lot that's new. I haven't seen anything in the theater since Eastern Promises, and while it was amazing, I kind of missed the bandwagon writing about it.
Work's been stressful lately. I'm slowly meandering into the territory labeled, "somewhat possibly searching for a new job maybe." However, I did get some good news on the job front, and it relates to a contest I didn't really try for in the first place. There's been a contest going on for quite some time, and when it started I didn't try all that hard because I estimated my chances of winning as being considerably low. However, as sales updates frequented, it became clear I was going to win, lest something freaky happen to ruin it, like last Christmas (which feeds it the "me not trying very hard" motif). Well, on Friday the final results came in, and I won a trip to Nicaragua for a week, to take place in February.
The rules were such that they allowed stores of all sizes to compete equally, meaning that the winner would have the highest sales as a percentage of the total store sales. So a higher-income store would have to sell more dollar-wise than a store whose total sales are smaller. That being said, not only did I win in my group of regions (there are 11 regions in the company, and they were put together into four groups) as a percentage of store sales, but dollar-wise I also sold the second-largest amount in the company. So, you know, eat it.
So why do I still feel like anything I do at work isn't enough? More at 11, or something.
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