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Pretty normal day. Worked. Went pretty quickly, had some fun. That's good, since Sundays are long days. I didn't get much done that I was supposed to, though. I was supposed to review applications and set up some interviews for this week--I did look over a pile of apps, but I didn't get around to calling anyone. I was supposed to check that the sales ad was set propery storewide, but I didn't get to that either. That should be okay because Eric checked it yesterday. I was supposed to get plenty of CSE's done, but I hate that so I didn't. Hm. But I did get like 17 promo cd's after arranging to be subversive with the rest of my staff. Heh heh. And I get to be back at work at 7am. Hooray for that. Wouldn't be a bad thing, really, but I work all day with my boss. I kinda hate that. A few hours is okay, but all day? Ick. At least there's pulldown to do. No one else knows what I'm talking about here, but I'm just babbling. Okay. Gonna see if I can write some lyrics. I have like 5 songs that would be finished songs if they had lyrics, and another 5 that would be darn good songs if they had lyrics I actually liked. Sigh. I know a good lyric when I hear it--I know what makes a good lyric. But I rarely write lyrics I find to be really good. Break Me Down is a good lyric; Nameless is fairly decent since I revised it; Elisabeth is simple but strong. The rest have their good points, but I'm still not happy with them. Ah well, whateva--I am definitely my own harshest critic. Let's see if I can crank out some good stuff.
Jul. 15th, 2001
Forgot a nice anecdote about today.
There are these 3 black guys who go around to our stores to steal merchandise. They don't go for little stuff, though--they head right for the electronics and try to make off with VCRs and DVD players and the like; we know for sure they got a stand-alone CD burner or two from another store, and are pretty sure they got ours as well. They're pretty recognizable, especially since they drive a beat-up old Nissan Sentra with a sheet of plastic where the back window used to be (my own speculation is that a disgruntled shopkeeper got them with a projectile at some point as they fled the scene). So anyway, two of them came in today, made a beeline for the electronics, stripped the security tags off a couple VCRs and a DVD player (I found that after they left), and headed up front. My cashier didn't know to recognize them, but he thought they looked pretty shady when they came in, so he'd called me. I recognized them and immediately alerted 2 of my floor guys to help me keep a close eye on them. The black guys sort of hung around up front with the electronics at their feet, because they knew we were watching them. I stepped outside to get their license plate number, since we'd never really gotten the whole thing for sure; while I was doing that, apparently the guys confronted my floor associates, complaining about how we watched them so closely. "I got gold teeth that cost more than this stuff," one of them apparently said. I'd have probably wondered aloud where the money for said dental work came from, of course, and why none of that money had been used to fix their broken back window on the Sentra. But unfortunately I missed all that, and they left, pretty irate from what the guys told me. But like I told them, if they were mad about anything, it was just that we wouldn't let them walk out with our merchandise, and I was quite happy to see that we're making our store so uncomfortable for them to come into.
A Cartoon Network drop for Scooby Doo that I just heard comes to mind--silly bad guys, won't you ever learn? You keep getting beaten by a bunch of kids and a dog!
There are these 3 black guys who go around to our stores to steal merchandise. They don't go for little stuff, though--they head right for the electronics and try to make off with VCRs and DVD players and the like; we know for sure they got a stand-alone CD burner or two from another store, and are pretty sure they got ours as well. They're pretty recognizable, especially since they drive a beat-up old Nissan Sentra with a sheet of plastic where the back window used to be (my own speculation is that a disgruntled shopkeeper got them with a projectile at some point as they fled the scene). So anyway, two of them came in today, made a beeline for the electronics, stripped the security tags off a couple VCRs and a DVD player (I found that after they left), and headed up front. My cashier didn't know to recognize them, but he thought they looked pretty shady when they came in, so he'd called me. I recognized them and immediately alerted 2 of my floor guys to help me keep a close eye on them. The black guys sort of hung around up front with the electronics at their feet, because they knew we were watching them. I stepped outside to get their license plate number, since we'd never really gotten the whole thing for sure; while I was doing that, apparently the guys confronted my floor associates, complaining about how we watched them so closely. "I got gold teeth that cost more than this stuff," one of them apparently said. I'd have probably wondered aloud where the money for said dental work came from, of course, and why none of that money had been used to fix their broken back window on the Sentra. But unfortunately I missed all that, and they left, pretty irate from what the guys told me. But like I told them, if they were mad about anything, it was just that we wouldn't let them walk out with our merchandise, and I was quite happy to see that we're making our store so uncomfortable for them to come into.
A Cartoon Network drop for Scooby Doo that I just heard comes to mind--silly bad guys, won't you ever learn? You keep getting beaten by a bunch of kids and a dog!