While I am still jobless (though I do have an interview at Target on the 6th), BFL’s mom has decided that we should look into getting the house cleaned up and decluttered. There is a lot of stuff here that none of us need, and there is still stuff from when I lived here back in 1999-2001 that belongs to me but has never been gotten rid of or dealt with. I’ve rented a storage unit to store anything we decide to keep in. The main thing is getting rid of old, crappy stuff and getting some new, good stuff to put in the house. Mainly some of the rugs. Like the kitchen rugs. Those are horrible, threadbare, and in dire need of replacing. Hopefully we can find something good for those. We also have a couple of throw rugs in the living room that I’m thinking should be replaced. We can get decent replacements for those pretty inexpensively as well.

But the big thing is going to be deciding what goes to Freecycle, what goes to charity, and what gets put up for sale at a yard sale. There is a ton of stuff, plus we’ll have to get stickers, make sure that we know who owns what out there and make sure the person who owns the stuff gets the money for it. Fun fun! I just hope we can get it done before yard sale season is over!

Ok, so if being fired/being told I’d quit wasn’t bad enough, my landlords give me exactly 2.5 hours notice that I am being evicted from my apartment. Ok, so I get over there get my animals, get what I can get out of the apartment (computers, strong box with mom’s wedding rings in it, etc) and then take them to my best friend’s house. I hope that guy isn’t thinking that he can put on his tuxedo shirt or whatever it is he wears to show off properties and just rent it out again. You see, there’s going to be a small problem with that.

I plan on reporting him to the city for not having ever fixed things including the hole in the ceiling by the front door, the porch light that stopped working, the overhead light in the living room that didn’t work, the oven that never worked, the ceiling tiles that caved in from the bathroom and kitchen ceilings leaking, the toilet that only flushed once every 3 times you pressed the handle, the bathtub that would not drain for WEEKS after the tub/shower was used, and the kitchen sink and faucet that leaked constantly. I told them more than once about all of those problems and not once did he fix any of them. Since he’s had properties condemned before, I’m sure the city will be more than interested in this one.

I find it extremely funny that my former boss called my best friend’s cell phone and left a voice mail for me, stating that if she did not hear from me by 5PM she would push through my termination. She stated in this voice mail that she has not heard from me in over a week. Funny let me think about this here…

1. I called in and left a message that I was ill and would not be at work on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday of last week. Wednesday I had actually gone in to work and was too ill to remain, but I wrote a note and left it on my boss’s desk to let her know what was going on.

2. Last Wednesday I received a text message from said boss stating that as she had not heard from me Monday or Tuesday (funny, I have the proof the calls were made on my cell phone) she had pushed through a termination.

3. Saturday I received a phone call and voice mail from my boss’s boss asking how I was feeling and when I would return to work. I guess he didn’t get the memo that I had been fired.

4. Today my boss calls my best friend’s phone and leaves a message saying if I didn’t call her back by 5PM she would assume I had quit and would push through the termination.

Ok, so suddenly I’ve quit, I wasn’t fired? I was fired a week ago, but all of a sudden I quit? Oh well, at least now I guess I can put on my job applications that I voluntarily quit that place. That should make finding a new job a bit easier than it would have been otherwise. However, I am not pleased with the fact that my former employers chose to play games with me like this over the past week. I am glad that I am no longer employed there and I do not plan on ever going back.

As my current job is up in the air (my boss text messaged me saying she had to term me, but her boss called and asked when I’d be back at work) I have been looking over the job postings in my area. There are actually quite a few of them, which is surprising due to the current state of the economy and people everywhere losing their jobs and not being able to find new ones. I suppose I should be grateful that I may have an opportunity to actually get another job if it is necessary. However, it does make me wonder about the company I work/worked for if they can have a supervisor send a text message to an employee saying they were termed, but that supervisor’s supervisor calling asking when that same employee will be back to work. I’m wondering if I should cut my losses and find a different job. Of course if they say I’m not termed, I will most likely work there until I can obtain different employment and then leave.

This job hunting is where being a technically inclined person comes in handy. I can apply for positions requiring me to have computer tech skills, because I know what ddr is, I know what computer component is what and what they do. This makes me more desirable at the local call centers than some others because I don’t need to have hours spent with me to figure out what things are and how to use my tools (computer). It is definitely good to be someone who worked for a computer manufacturer and who loves computers. I’ve even used my skills as a web designer and web master in a tech support job before, as when I worked for the ISP I had to do tech calls about the ISP’s homepages. So everything comes in handy.

Now if I could just get a job that involved my HTML and WordPress skills, I’d be in heaven. Probably not going to happen, at least not around here, but we’ll see. Stranger things have happened!

I think some people in this town have lost it. Some guy at a restaurant we were at last night was going on and on and on about how he hated that he has to go clear to Omaha, NE to purchase Ferrari parts for his car. First off, there weren’t any Ferrari cars in the parking lot of the restaurant. Second off, I have yet to see a Ferrari in Sioux City, IA. Third off, if he really had a Ferrari, he wouldn’t have been eating at the local dive, he’d have been at one of the fancy places here in town more likely than not.

Now I admit, he might have been complaining about a car he was supposed to be fixing, but still. I never see that kind of car here. Heck you barely see Mercedes or BMW cars here, let alone something as fancy as a Ferrari! This may be a medium sized city, and we may be big enough to have two Walmart Supercenters, a Target Greatland, and a Big K, but we aren’t THAT big. Not by any means. Heck, we still have to fight to get the same number of concerts and wrestling shows the other cities get!

So here I am thinking “yeah right, you’ve got a Ferrari” when someone else at his table said to him “If you have a Ferrari, then I am the president of the US.” That stopped Mr. Bragger right then and there. He was caught. Gotta love it when guys start telling tall tales to try and get the best of each other.