Hello,hello, hello,damn it has been awhile.6 mths of a roller coaster , the likes i have never experienced , up, down, sideways, sometimes i felt like a ping pong ball,slammed with no control,hehehehe. You know what i am still standing, which i will admit surprises me.I think i could write a mini-novel here,but for now i am just going to hit the highlights real quick,well maybe not quickly,hehehe, but to a minimum and then greater detail in following blogs.
Hmmm,lets start with the new express lane corp.. I accidently ran into mark,head of operations and the new president, bob, at the store down the street.Mark introduced me and bob stated he wanted floors done,i requested a meeting frst to make sure we were on the same page.We met discussed floor care, my situation with kroger, the fact i did not really care about money a lot,which he thought was nuts,love my job, hehehehe, and commenced taking care of stores again.Thought of talking to him about mark but decided not to,woe is me.Did the floors for about 6 weeks, and even though the contract was till june 30, mark due to a situation canceled my floor care. I did catch up on my bills and manage to save a little money, so that made it worth my while.
The situation, arose over me buffing the coffee aisle, finishing it , coming out to the front, startling a woman a little bit, trying to make it humorous by stating i was just trying to get closer to her.She even smiled and rolled her eyes,now please understand the buffer was like a foot away and i was probably 4 or 5 feet away standing in the beginning of the coffee aisle ,facing the register. i figured the machine being close spooked her and i was simply trying to put her at ease.At any rate , about a week later mark tells me to put the store on hold for a little bit, due to a situation, which surprised me.I call the store to talk to the guy who was working that night to see if he knew anything, and he said no,after talking a bit ,he recollects the incident with the girl as being the only thing he could think of because she had rolled her eyes at him after i said that, but that he could not believe that was the reason.Until he reminded me, i had not even remembered the event, after he told me, i went to see mark the next day who had told me he did not know anything, the same story the clerk told me.After telling him what the clerk said he told me he did not see a problem just to hold off on doing the store for a little bit. I agreed and went back to work thinking all was good.The following week i got sick evidently, my ear got infected and it through my sense of balance of. It was actually kinda funny, i kept tripping over things, hitting walls, it scared the wife , and i got scared when it affected my driving. Went to county and they put me on antibiotics to beat it.Then that wed., ibelieve holly calls me to ask for all my invoices, as she wanted to make sure i got paid for everything, as mark told her he had told me i was no longer doing floor care for express lane. Lo, i was shocked, told her mark never told me that and he was lying, she insisted he told me that last time we met and i told her,if that was so why did i do stores the following week.I did try to get ahold of the president but he never returned my email. which says a lot,to me anyway. For years, mark has been trying to get a floor company he hired into the rest of my stores to no avail. Actually, i had been requested by managers who knew of my work, to come back and do their floors as they were not happy with the other companies work.Well i guess that is the way it goes, i am debating taking them to court but have not made up my mind yet,the girl that all this started over told the the clerk she had never thought i would lose my work, she did not think it was that big a deal,she was a regular customer and it came up while talking to the manager a day or 2 later, never thinking all this would happen. Mark evidently saw an opportunity and ran with it, so he could get the other company in.
The funny thing is,i was worried that the new company would do a better job then me and then i accidently ran into them doing store 1, about 8:30 in the morning first i was surprised at the late time they were in, then when i went back later to see how it looked ,relieved because they did not do as good a job as me. In addition they told the store they would be back on friday night to buff it out, and of course they were not.For the first time the beach stores were not up to par for bike week or memorial weekend,the other stores i have no idea,but if this was the old express lane my butt would have been in trouble,the lewis family always expected their stores to be better then anyone elses.Then i hear they do the store on jenks on a saturday night,shutting most of the store down after 7 pm,refusing to assist customers and even telling them to go ahead and walk on the stripper. Quite unprofessional, and setting everyone up for failure.Oh well,we shall see what will be.
Good things have happened too, people have been trying to help me, setting me up with work or extra work, trying to instill a positive atmosphere into me. I also started playing combat arms again,hehehe, killing and dying, i will admit it was nice to find so many people missed me. Actually it was shocking in the nicest way, i have been a slacker lately,my computer is acting up again,ughhhhhh. Hopefully i will be back playing again shortly, oh yeah, ROTOR, a game i played years and i do mean years ago,15 probably, finally got it to play on my computer using a dos box. Talk about a blast from the past and so much fun, however there is no save game so i have to start from the beginning to get to the challenging levels and then i die, hehehehe, hours of work for 30 min to hour of intense play, what a sap i am, but what a joy it is.
I also got the neighborhood store back, they apologised, i accepted,no problem,its all been good since.Life is kinda interesting, the way it works, up,down, then a little thing brings you back up.On that note.
My pond, ever since the kroger debacle, its been lying there a constant reminder, a hole, empty ,dark ,a mess,of beauty once seen now gone.SURPRISE, i took some of the money i had left from express lane and redid it,actually with the exception of no koi fish, it actually looks better now then it did before, not only to me but others also.You can see it on my facebook page, while i am thinking of it,one of my lessons that i learned and took to heart,i do not play with money now. I discovered i have learned ,sadly, to more realistic in the handling of it.I don't play with it, i actually try to have next months bills money in hand before i go crazy, spending on things i want. This was something i never would have thought of 3 years ago.guess it took hardship to teach me, i only hope the fear does not run too deep.
I am getting kinda tired now,but, want to share one more thing, i was at a store yesterday and the wife got a little nervous by this big guy who looked pissed off to her, following me as i left the store.I dont know who he was but he came up to me asking why i dont do the stores by him anymore,Puzzled i asked which ones ,to which he replied the tom thumbs.Almost three years later and people still remember me. What a remember when, after i explained the situation to him, he told me he might have some work for me.I dont know who he was , but i believe that says a lot, my work is still remembered and appreciated.On that note i am saying good night,hehehe,tomorrow i will talk about my meeting with rep.patronis,and what else i have been up to till then sayonara, and yes , i hope you enjoyed this, i enjoyed my memoir for the future and i wish you well.
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