So the new guy quit today. That sucks, but really it’s great, because we were just going to fire his dumb ass anyway. No one wanted to keep him on. He was so damn unreliable. Of the five weeks he has officially worked at Bose, he’s maybe worked half of that. And of those days I’ve maybe seen him half.

His problem was either that he had the worst fucking luck known to man, or he was the biggest liar I’ve ever met, or a little bit of both. His car broke down. His girlfriend lost her job after, like, two days. His mom gets beaten up by a crack whore. His step kids get taken away by the state. Most of his electronics equipment gets broken (usually by him). His hot water breaks. He loses his belt (underneath his house). So forgive me if when I heard that his cousin shot himself with a shotgun my first question was “what was his cousin’s last name?” Apparently the straw that broke the camels back was that his cousin’s father tried to kill himself. That’s all just some messed up shit.

So we are back down to four people running the store. AGAIN. Just at the start of my fucking manager’s vacation. Poor woman hasn’t had a vacation in over a year. She still isn’t going to get one. Although it’s kind of her own fault. I mean really, if you have a job opening and no one knows about it, will it ever get filled? This sucks. My vacation was the week after next. Ain’t going to get that. Again. I’m fucking sick of working 6 days a week. Now it’s starting to get busy too. Oh joy. I’ve never seen so many people as I saw today. I’m just exhausted. You can’t run a store with only three people on a busy weekend. It’s just insanity.

On the plus side, our store got Swung this weekend and I think we nailed it. A Swing is when the district manager comes in and pretty much grades the store on how well we take care of it and work with customers. I fucking knocked it out of the park this weekend. I was wicked proud of myself, I was doing so good. Perfect salesmanship, if I do say so myself. I know it sounds cocky and arrogant, but that store really needs me. For instance I sold more systems this month than everyone else combined. And almost then some. I’m in the zone. I’m also incredibly overworked.

The last two nights I got home at 9. 9 o’clock! That’s just crazy. I come home, I eat something, maybe watch a movie and then I’m back up at 8 in the morning to go back to work. All I do is work. I’m going to kill myself, I swear. I feel like Barbie at the end of Toy Story 2, so exhausted from being happy and helpful all the time. When someone asks about home theater or plasma televisions I just want to tell them to go fuck themselves. That doesn’t really jive with the Bose higher ups though. U Music is cool and all, but I really don’t want to have to explain it to another person (and I’m not going to explain it to you!). I may be the show master, but if I have to do another show I’m going to lose it.

On the plus side, overtime does mean more DVDs…