spoiled chinese girl

(No, that's obviously not me playing in the video, but I can play this song on expert, and average around 95% accuracy)

I think I’ve just about had it with customers.

This one person we deal with, he’s been a long-time customer, and for the most part he doesn’t get his stuff done anywhere else.  He knows this because he knows we’ve always given him the best prices we can give him, and we always deliver the best turnaround times he’s ever seen.

A part of this was due to my predecessor who was absolutely bat-shit insane bending over backwards for this guy, and now he’s grown to expect it.  And myself and my coworker have no problem to tell him to screw off, and that if he doesn’t like the best service we’re giving him, he’s more than welcome to leave, and find out that everywhere else will not at all meet his demands. (And they won’t, which is why he’s here to begin with)

But seriously, every single time he calls, and I don’t have his pricing within five minutes, his automatic response is always “What? Do you not want the work?”  Shut up already.  It’s an empty threat.  You know it.  I know it.  Stop saying it just to piss me off.

Because my boss is a complete idiot. Yes, sales are down. And yes, it's understandable when sales are down, expenses must also go down for a company to stay afloat. But when you're staff is comprised of two press-men, and two office workers, it seems like ridiculously drastic measures to cut the production staff by 50%, and ask the office staff to cut their hours by 40%. Especially when sales have only gone down by about 30%.

Because… maybe it's just me, but I can't see how sales are supposed to go UP when you cut your staff by 45%. I'm trying to figure out how when sales are already so low, why cutting off the only means to increase sales (office staff) is going to make things better. And in the end, all I can think of is if the owner's goal is to make sure everyone starts looking for a new job and quit this one as soon as they've secured it, I must say her mission was a success.

The boss mentioned how she wants myself and my co-worker to go down to “25 to 30 hours per week each” from our regular 40 hours. I thought of maybe if one of us takes Monday off, and the other takes Friday off, that's a fair compromise. 32 hours per week. Lord no. “That's not enough!”

It could be a good thing I'm hard-headed and not willing to negotiate. Because I might get what I want. It might also backfire on me completely.

How tempted am I to say “Well if you only want me to work 60% of the hours I normally work, just lay me off now so I can collect EI, since that will pay me 55%, and I don't even have to work for it.”?? Because I have a feeling if I don't say that, the only other words coming out of my mouth will be “F*** you, you greedy cunt.”

So… anyone need to hire a moderately priced print-estimator, production manager or customer service representative?

So I’m getting kind of tired of not actually doing yoga while still going in and actually cleaning the studio.  At this point I probably have something like 20 if not 30 banked free classes because of all the cleaning I’d been doing.

It had gotten to the point of sillyness that I even started only going in for July and August for alternating weeks just so I wouldn’t have to clean so much but at the same time “keep my position” there should someone try and usurp it from me.

On the 11th, I actually went to class.  (Seeing as how two weeks before I had gone with every bloody intention of class, but ended up not realizing the the last class of the night had started 15 minutes earlier than I last remembered!)

Class was fantastic.  It was an hour long, calm and with one of the co-owners teaching whom I’ve always looked up to.  I hurt all sorts during class and hurt all sorts in the morning.  But it was okay, because I went to class!  I look forward to more classes!