Today's Mood: Perplexed
Today's Song: "I'm a Believer", Smash Mouth
Today's Random Ginny Thing (RGT): The worst kind of heat is the sticky kind. (*grumble* Say hello to Texas summers.)

My new GM
is very bizarre. Yesterday, he managed to be both dispicable and also bring up a point that's been bugging me for a while now. Let's do the bad first. :p

Each morning when we open, there are two doors to unlock--the front ones, and the ToGo one. For some reason, George remembers to unlock the front one, but he forgets the ToGo one a lot.
Cue to 2o minutes after we open. I've just had the 1oth person ask me if I know my ToGo is still locked, "because *whine* I couldn't get in, blah blah blah." (Oh my gosh, I just sounded like Brad just then...wah! Brad's gone! And Heather's leaving! And--sheesh, thanks for opening up the sadness! >:| LOL! Kidding! I'm dealing ok with all that and I'll tell you why in just a moment or five.)

So I go to George and ask him to unlock the ToGo Door. He looks at me, puzzled. "Don't you have your key?" I do, but um...since when did the bank key have anything to do with the door? Another 5 minutes and two locked out customers later, I ask George again to unlock the door. And I swear to my Auron statue this is what happened next:

"Ginny..."
"Yeah?"
"Go to your register."
I do.
"Now put the key in the lock." (Check.) "Now turn it."
I'm staring at him, wondering how the heck this is supposed to open the DOOOOOR. I turn the key at his insistance and it pops open.
"There, now your drawer is unlocked. Say, why didn't you tell me no one could get through the ToGo door?"
I just keep staring at him in complete disbelief.

ARE. YOU. FRICKING. KIDDING. ME?!?

It would have been funny if he hadn't been so damn condescending about it. If there's one of many things I despise in life, it's people being condescending to me--I don't give a rat's patootie how high on the corporate ladder they are (and that's why I'll never be high in the corporate ladder myself, that and because I don't want to be.).

He did redeem himself a bit later on, when he decided to revamp the training schedule. He's been coming to me for advice on all that, which I don't mind giving at all. You know how we've been shortstaffed a lot lately? Still are, and now half our training team is gone, for one reason or another. George is gearing up to get full-staffed in all parts of the store--major props for that, big guy--and he outlined his proposal. So some parts of the conversation were him needed advice, and others, him needing a yesman. Yesmen usually get in ground floor at the info level, so I don't mind it too much...

On my recommendation (though I'm rather relieved that George had already been planning it), two of the servers have been bumped up to trainer status. George went and told them that I had recommended them, so now they love me forever. *proud but embarrassed giggle* (It's all about me folks, BOOYA! Snerk.) And then George decided that our store is far too weak in ToGo business, so he wants to put all new trainees on at least one ToGo shift while they train; I've always wanted that. (Shannon always gently but firmly shot the idea down, proclaiming that as long as I was at the store, why did they need anyone else? Well, considering that I'm leaving...)

George finished up by saying that he needed a new Head Trainer and heavily hinted that I should be it. I've got a lot of silly little reason why I don't want to, but two very real reasons that make sense. #1-Since most training revolves around servers, it makes more sense for a server trainer to be the Head Trainer (ToGos is different from serving, trust me). #2-Regardless of how I feel about the store or the management team or the blue moon, I'm leaving in Sept at the latest. I've done what I've set out to do in Chili's, and I'm never going to be able to make enough money to move out (not even if I worked constant doubles all week).

Ginny's ready to move on. And she's been giving management a hard time so she won't get attached to them and miss them when she moves on.

Well...at this point, I'll miss Debbie a lot. And Calvin and George some. The Lord's asking for me to be open to a heaping lot of patience right now and I'm only going along with it because I know He knows what He's doing.

But it won't keep me from whining. I'm still only human, after all. :p

"Want a little cheese to go with that whine?"