NEININCH

Last week we found out the president of the company and his wife were leaving. Nobody really knew what was going on or why. His wife told me that he had learned the other two partners were doing stuff he didn’t know about. She said he confronted them, and decided he was going to leave at the end of the year. He wanted to get more techs hired on and get everybody who needed raises increased.

Then, I was told, they told him no, actually, your last day is July 11th. I guess it happened rather quickly. His wife was with the company for years before she brought him in. They needed somebody and she knew that he would do a great job. And from all the stories I’ve heard from people who were around during, what they called, “the dark times”, he did a great job.

The Friday that was his last day, I got home and the wife told me I needed to get out of there as fast as I could. I was curious as to why, because it sounded like all the bullshit was at the partner level, and their business spread across multiples businesses, of which I work at just one. She reminded me, the guy who will be the highest ranked at work DID in fact try to replace me once, and the guy who’s gone saved my job.

I told her, I was clearly leaving the warehouse position and at the time they didn’t have anything else for me. I understand, they were just covering their own ass. I can’t blame them for that. But my job was saved, none the less. And the person who did it is gone now.

I thought about that all weekend. And she said that fairly early in the evening on Friday. I should have just called Jason and said hey bro I want to talk for a minute. I bet he would have answered. I bet he would have been fine with it. But instead I sat on it and stressed about it, took extra anxiety medicine to deal with the nerves from it.

Monday I talked to him, pretty early in the morning, too. He said there’s no way I’m going anywhere unless I do so of my own accord. He showed me the numbers he was looking at. Not only are we making more money than we’re spending, but we’re way above margin. Like 15 percent above margin. So we’re profitable. We have plenty of breathing room.

The only problem is, at the end of the day today, he got out of a meeting with our outside sales guy, and the guy who came in from one of the sister companies to take a look at things. It kind of bothers me that they’re doing it that way, as the CEO has always been around. Does he not pay attention when he’s here? Does he not look at the numbers from time to time? Does he not keep his ears open about stuff going on?

Either way, I’m honestly not worried about it. Worst case scenario for me personally, they wipe out a bunch of people including me and I go somewhere else. I’ve always been rather gifted at getting a job, even if I didn’t like it all that much. The times I had a rough time getting a job, honestly, was I even trying? Almost immediately after getting serious about holy shit if I don’t get a job I’m going to kill myself, or someone’s going to kill me, or both, it was a matter of days. Not many days. I almost typed a matter of hours.

And with full offense to the south, as long as I live down here I know I’ll have an entirely easy time getting into positions I want. It’s not hard to win someone over in a discussion when they’ve been interviewing smooth brains all day. I’ve seen faces light up, with the question following “where are you from?” Soon as I say where, they inform me they knew I wasn’t from here because I used multisyllabic words. FULL OFFENSE to the south.

I know they like to cry about the north is just a bunch of asshole yankees. Of course they do. Anyway, fuck all of that. I’m really interested to see what happens in the coming weeks. I’m finally caught up as of today, as well. Now, that would piss me off. I get caught up and am able to get to back burner stuff, and get dismissed. I doubt it, though.

There’s a lot of stuff I wouldn’t mind getting to, out in the warehouse. I would like to go out and spot check his cycle counts. It’s really a matter of getting myself ahead so I can afford to spend that time. I never mind helping the warehouse. And, it helps me make sure everything is as good as it can be, because there’s always the chance the guy out there will quit or get fired and I’ll have to be back out there more. From a selfish standpoint, I wouldn’t mind assuring everything is in working order. Nothing as irritating as having to force time into your schedule in an area that has fallen apart.

While outside clearing off the horsetail farm, the day turned black. The sun went behind the moon, and the day became night. I took a break to appreciate the spectacle. The sun came back out and I got back to work.

I went inside once the horsetail farm was cleared. I went down the stairs to the cellar and ate some meat stew. I find the meat stew to be visually unappealing. It looks like the piles of meat that are left once defeating various creatures in the mines. All it needs is some rusty metal rebar sticking out of the meat.

Our stock of quartz is low. There are a few places in the mines where I have seen more. I need to drop off two leather backpacks and take two mining bags with me so I can make better use of my time. It isn’t fun coming back up six times to unload, when I can only do it twice.

The bread man showed me how to carry crates, which has also saved me a lot of time. I can get 1600 of an item on top of what I can carry in my bags. It’s an amazing increase in movement capacity. Even with factoring in how slow I walk coming up stairs carrying a crate, it’s still a lot less time going back and forth.

I rode back to town over the weekend and found a second path making schematic. I brought it back with me and plan on developing roads over this area in the coming days. I love paths.

I said the woman in a gif was real pretty. One of my smartass coworkers, or maybe he was serious, asked… so what?

I asked if he ever pays attention to when sunsets or sunrises are a lot more beautiful than usual. He asked what that had to do with it.

I told him about the most beautiful human I’ve seen in person so far. There were a thousand reasons (probably) she was off limits to me. I didn’t dare approach, and I wouldn’t ever decide to. But she was beautiful. She was sexy. She was beyond cute. She was flawless. She was graceful. She could dance. She was amazing.

But she was like the most amazing morning sunset you ever saw. Which is out the right hand window in your car. You can’t turn to stare at it. You’re in bumper to bumper traffic going 70mph that randomly slams on their breaks to a full stop. You can’t look at it. Any number of horrible things might very well happen if you do. But you want to. You want to so bad.

Thankfully I dream about her. It’s safe to look while dreaming. lol.