Oh look another post......

Well hello again people of the internet…. I have another post for ya’ll (don’t judge, I have been living in the south for 3 years now and their langue is rubbing off on me a little bit.) and this time you don’t have to wait 2 years for it! Woot…. Yeah I rock hahahah.

I last left off with the nail biting cliff hanger of me getting married. Well it wasn’t a big cliff hanger but maybe a little teaser. Any hoo… Yes I am happily married to the love of my life, my best friend my everything. In true fashion the proposal was not your everyday romantic grand gesture. I didn’t take her out for dinner and hide the ring in a cheese cake (why anybody would ruin perfectly good food by hiding a gold or any other type of metal object in it is beyond me), I didn’t put it in a champagne glass full of champagne (or any other liquid associated with a proposal). You get the point right? I didn’t do a typical romantic proposal… nor did I do an over the top write will you marry me in the sky or billboard or jumbo-tron way. I proposed to her on our “monthiversery” which was on October 21^st. Cyndi (who is the “her” in this story) was sick and stayed home that day… I just happened to be off as well. I picked the ring up the day before and I was itching to pop the question (I am horrible with keeping surprises or things of that nature). I carried the ring with me all day… we went to the grocery store to pick up so comfort food because like I said Cyndi was not feeling good and I wanted to make her happy. Ok back to the point now… now it’s the big moment… now is the time I made up my mind in my head how I was going to propose to her. She was lying on the floor (because that was the only position she felt comfortable in) and I asked her “what would make you feel better right now?” and her response was to look at her left hand (to those that don’t know why that hand is so important Google it) and sigh. At that point I got on one knee (the tears were already starting to flow… from her…. And from me) and I asked her “in sickness and in health….. will you marry me?” Queue the tears and screaming (as much as she could she did have a sore throat) and she said YES!!!!! Then to celebrate the momentous occasion… we had shake and bake chicken and milk… I told you this was not a normal proposal in any way.

Next you shall sit there in front of your computer and read about the wedding.... and other stuff that happened before the wedding....

till then... Yeknom and forget about it!

Its Been Awhile....

So I am back…. Again…. And I know I say this time I am going to stick around for a while and post more often… and this time it is true (partially).

Since I last left off I was starting a new job (again) and I had plans of telling everyone out here in Internet land that I recently got a new pup….. and got MARRIED! Holy crap did I say married? That’s right interwebz I got hitched and I am no longer a sad lonely guy on the web (not that’s there anything wrong with that life style if you choose it… or if it is the hand that fate gave you… no judgement.) But before that (yes you English majors and English freaks out there I suck at composing sentences and I don’t give a shit because this is what is spewing from my head as I type…) (great mental image there right!) I would like to tell you guys what has happened in the almost 2 years since I have last posted.

Yes I did start a new job after I quite my last job working for T-mobile…. Well not really T-mobile but a shitty 2^nd party cell phone store that had the privilege of selling there phones and contracts. But anyway….. I found myself now employed by a large GLOBAL company that does windshield repair and replacements… not going to name names because like I said they are GLOBAL and in these days one little wrong word typed anywhere on the web can get you sued and taken to jail apparently… and I don’t really know anybody in Anonymous that would even bother to help me out if I got into any shit… but that’s besides the point. So here I am ready to embark on a new journey of employment. I started out as a part time CSR (customer service rep) at there in house call center. Oh I forgot to tell you that this job is about an hour away from my house…. That comes into play later on in this gripping story that is my life… (sarcasm does not translate very well in type… we really need hand and eye gestures to get that point across.) There I am all nice and sitting down (finally) at my new cubical waiting to be trained. Mind you I do have experience in customer service but I was not prepared for the type of bullshit I would have to pull out of my ass with this job. I will make a long story short….. like I said I was starting off as a part time CSR… then some one thankfully quit and I became a full time CSR…. Then a month or so after that I became the parts manager for this area (Raleigh, Durham, Fayetville , Greensboro and Wilmington) one would think that the title of manager would garner a higher pay rate… NOPE it was basically you will do this or we will fire you and find some other poor smuck to do it… and seeing how by the grace of god I have this job I was left with little choice. So I become the new parts bitch.. I mean manager, and it was great until I found out that a spot for a Market dispatcher came open…. With the promise of a raise that I desperately needed. So I applied for the position and I got it! Hooray for me… more responsibilities and more pay! Fuck yeah! I was told that I would be making good money soon I just needed to get through the 30 day probation period… which was understandable. The last 4… yeah that’s right 4! People that had this position either quit or had nervous break downs. And you think I am kidding you with the nervous breakdown parts… but I wish I wasn’t… the last guy that had my job one day got up from his cubical screamed and left the building and never came back….. fun right! But anyhoo back to me and my story….. so fast forward 6 months…. 6 whole fucking months and NO RAISE!!!!!! I am starting to get pissed and my moral is at a low right now… I am struggling to pay bills that me and my then girlfriend had… I was commuting an hour 1 way and that was killing me.. So I went to my boss who is now the new general manager and asked him what is up with my raise…. And he tells me that he has to wait till the new year….. well great time to tell me!!!! If you would have told me that in the beginning I would have been understanding but noooo you have to blow smoke up my ass and tell me its coming…. So I wait…. And the new year comes… and then they have the balls to tell me that I need to have a yearly evaluation before I can get my raise…. OK I ask him how that works and he tells me that I need to get with the operations manager… who is never around. But finally I get a hold of this crazy lady…. And ask her to do my eval… and this is the kicker right here folks…. SHE CANT DO IT!!!!! Only my manger can… who is the GM who told me that my operations manager has to do it…. HOLY FUCK PEOPLE DO YOU SEE THE VISCOUS CIRCLE OF SHIT I HAD TO DEAL WITH!@@#!@ OK…. Deep breath and exhale.. phew OK I good now. I finally get her to do my eval and then it needs to get kicked up to the GM who then kicks it back to me to sign off on the that kicks it back to the operations manger how has to sign off on it again to kick it back to the GM who has to sign off on it to kick it up to his in line manger to approve the pay increase to then kick it to HR to approve the approval of the sign off on the eval to then kick it back down the GM to put the raise into effect to then push off to pay roll….. :OASDHFLKADSHF:OASDHUIAHNDUIFGOJH ß that’s my brain exploding from the massive amount of bullshit that went on there. (and if you think I am blowing out of proportion…. I am not and I could easily show you the paper work if they didn’t delete it after I left). So yeah in the end I did not get the raise, my mind was shattered, my home life was falling apart because I was paying more to go to work than I was making. So I had enough… I went looking for another job… and when I tell you I was lucky when I found this job……. I was fucking LUCKY… Apparently there are no more jobs anywhere in the entire USA… I know this because I applied to ALL THE JOBS!!!!! I even applied to be a dishwasher at a hospital that worked 14 hours a day… they didn’t even call me back!!! So finally one day I went to my local mall and applied to every (almost) store in the place and finally one of the security guards that works the mall overheard me asking if the janitors were hiring. (I have my new lease on life and my new career to this guard who I have to get permission from before I can release her name). She literally took a big risk on my and told me to apply. So I did… and met with the director of security and BOOM! I got the job!!!!! YEAH BUDDY!!!! I am 5 mins away from the mall, I can see my wife (I will explain in the next post) and life couldn’t be any better. It could get better but I was still working for the other GLOBAL place. I went back and told them I am not working dispatch any more…. I want to work in the warehouse and only work 30 hours a week… they agreed… but not liking it. Again long story short, I worked for the warehouse for about 3 weeks and then they fired me on some bullshit reasoning that they have yet to prove to me and show me facts… but fuck them and there failing business…. They are a bunch of mismanaged assholes that will drive the company into the ground and they will all lose there jobs.. but yeah… I love my new job! Again I will explain what it is I am doing and what it is I want to finally do with my life later…. This is just a recap of what happened after my last post… as you can see it was a fuck ton… and there is a lot more coming later on!!!!

Till then,

Stay Yeknom my friends!

I'm Back the Redux

Well well well, I tried to make a comeback and thought I could stick it out and make some more posts but as you can clearly see... that was not the case. So let’s try this again, this time I think I can keep it going!

 

Ok so I left off with me going on vacation to Mexico, and I got a new job at T-mobile. Ok I am going to start off this come back with a BANG! The vacation to Mexico…… I cannot make this stuff up even if I was a master of litterateur.

 

So here we are on a plane to New Orleans to hop on a cruse ship to Mexico, this is the first ever vacation me and Cyndi are taking…. EVER! You would think that we would be super excited pee your pants happy... right? No…. well yes we were excited but here is the kicker, Cyn was sick. I’m not talking “oh I got a little tickle in my throat” sick I'm talking about turning 3 shades of green then white sick. She is having hot flashes, fever of over 100 degrees and a soar throat to the point of not being able to swallow. Here we are in New Orleans hours from getting on the ship and she is feeling miserable and to boot she has to put on a smile and everything so we could get on the ship. Ok to put this in perspective, the time we are getting on the ship was the same time the Swine Flu pandemic was in its height of paranoia. So anybody that was coughing or looked funny was not getting on the ship. There was no way we were going to miss this vacation so we had to look like a million bucks even though we (mostly Cyn) felt like death. Fast forward…… we get on the ship no problem and we are in our room now and Cyn is trying her hardest to put on a brave face and go out and have fun. That is just not happening; the first day on the ship was spent in the cabin sleeping. I am the kind of guy that will do anything for my girl even miss out on fun things because I want to make sure she is feeling good. I don’t mind it, people say “do you feel bitter for having missed so much on your vacation?” the answer is NO! If I was bitter or pissed about missing things then shit I would be a bitter grumpy 25 year old. I take things as they come and make the best out of it. Ok enough of that rant time to give the highlights of the trip.

 

Even though Cyn was running a fever of 104 and she couldn’t swallow her own spit, we still managed to have a blast on the ship. First off the food…….. Holy crap in a bag it was AWESOME! Dinner was freaking awesome, I felt like a king. I was ordered 4-5 different entrees for dinner. Braised lamb? Sure why not let me also get the steak, fish, chicken and throw in your first born as well. Man I ate like I have never eaten before! From the breakfast bar and me loading up on abo0ut 5 pounds of bacon a day to the all you can eat ice cream, yeah it was good. When I wasn’t eating everything in sight, we were in Mexico and had an amazing time. We saw the ancient Aztec ruins, did some amazing shopping and took tons and tons of pictures. Those were the highlights of the trip. It turns out that when we got back from the cruise to Mexico and we were back at home we found out that Cyn had the Swine Flu. At least that’s what the doctors told us (but who really listens to them anyway).

 

Ok now you have all the info you could get on our vacation to Mexico, now it’s on to the fun/boring/my life. As stated in my earlier post, I got a new job at T-mobile. This is where the fun begins, well sort of. My first week on the job I had already put in for vacation (the Mexico trip) and missed 2 training classes. That’s beyond the point, this job is idiot proof, and the location I work at is pretty rough (lower income Durham, NC). The first month I was there I was told never to make the bank deposit at night because I will get robbed (that’s comforting) and I was also told that I will get robbed, everyone at that mall has gotten robbed at least once (again comforting to know that). I made the most out of the situation, I thought to my self “I have a job, I am making money, and this is making Cyndi happy at home I can suck it up and do work!”

 

Ok it was fun for the first couple of months, but things started to go down hill from there. I was only making $8 an hour and the commission structure was complete bullshit. I had to hit a certain number a week and if I didn’t hit it I would not see a penny of commission. I was working 35 hours a week and not making any commission because at the mall I worked for the people there had no money and all the phones we had cost more than what the peoples unemployment checks had. Things were looking down for sales until I convinced my manager to get us some free phones, now things were picking up for me at the phone store. I was hitting commission and making some money. Then people started to quit, and I was left without a manager, and without any help. Isn’t that some bullshit, I am working 12 hour days 7 days a week and I don’t get any help, and the help I do get….. Oh this is good. I get a manager that is a midget with a napoleon complex and his obese coworker named Freeze (this asshole had that name on his name tag). Long story short they both got fired for hitting on a 15 year old girl and making lewd comments. They got what was coming to them (oh! And the midget was stealing phones form the company and selling them on Craig’s list, that guys was a freaking genius!). Ok it wasn’t all that bad I must say, I did meet some interesting people while working there. Such as the stripper mom that paid all here bills in $1 bills. Oh and a girl that got out of prison about an hour before comes in to get a phone and tells me she has no money but she will do sexual favors for a cell phone (WTF I have a girl friend that I love and she was nasty looking). Now the really fun part of my job, the sales contest. My boss was awesome, he is the owner and he was very hands on. He wanted to challenge us during the holiday season so the contest was to sell 50 phones in 3 weeks; the prize was trip to Vegas on his dime. Well all I have to say is that I won and boom Vegas baby!

 

I am thinking to myself now, I won a trip to Vegas and things are going to turn around for me at work. I was wrong, seriously wrong! The owner hired another manager for the store and this guy was a doozie! This guy had a rotten front tooth and looked like he was on meth 24/7. This guy would lie to me and not show up for his shift (which would put me again in 12 hour shifts). Finally I got fed up with his crap when he called out saying that he had to go pick up his kid from school and the next day I asked him why he didn’t show up for the next day shift and he told me he had mouth surgery the other day. LIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Now I am pissed off with his whole work situation and the kicker for me was the owner puts his coke addicted brother in charge of the store and this guy hires a new coworker. I don’t mind that he hired a new guy but he had no experience and he was just very very weird. I have been working for them for about 10 months and this new guy comes in and acts like he is the manager. Making the schedules and all that stuff. He even went as far as to make a schedule give it to the owner and then change it the next day and didn’t tell me, I drove to work and he told me that I had a day off. That’s when I decided to look for another job. It took me about a month to find a new job (where I am right now and I am very very happy with, I will detail that in the next entry). So I wanted to talk to the guy who hired me and made me all theses promises and such to tell him I was leaving and was putting in my 2 week notice. The sad part was I wanted to be professional about it and give my 2 weeks but when the owner doesn’t return my phone calls and blatantly ignores me; I lost all respect for him and decided to take things in my own hands. So my last day I worked a 12 hour shift, counted the money and walked out lock the door, took the key off my key ring and chucked it in the middle of the store. The next day when I didn’t show up to my shift the new guy (who doesn’t have my number) facebook messages me asking me if that was my key in the middle of the store. I told him yes and I quit! He goes on and says this ruins his plans and that I cant do that. HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH screw you buddy! 2 weeks later I go in to collect my last paycheck and the new guy starts to berate me and I am not having it. Mind you I am 5’10 290lbs football playing guy and this guy was a 5’6 fat boy that was getting up in my face. So I told him the nicest way “FUCK OF YOU SQUISHY FACED FUCKER!” then took my check and flipped him off.

 

Now we are caught up on the important things in my life that I want to go into today. Hey I need to have more things to write for later. So here is a preview for later entries; a new job, a new puppy, a new car and nuptials!

 

Till then

Stay in the light of the YEKONM!

I'M BACK!!!!

Well hello all, I apologize for my long absence from the blogging world. A lot has been happening since the last post I have made. Where to start... where to start??? OK this is a good jumping off point.... as I told you before when I moved down here I got a job as a administrative assistant at a housing complex. Well that is no longer what I am doing.

The housing development I was in was great, they were training me to be a leasing consultant and I was going to be very happy there. As it turns out my string of bad luck was just about to happen. I go into work one day and start doing my normal routine of answering the voice mail and checking the vacant apartments and my then my assistant manager told me that he was leaving the company. He had already let the main boss know what was going on, and that threw her into a panic and she started to look for people to fill his position and... MINE! So I am thinking to my self " Self, what the hell am I going to do now!? I have no other job openings that I can see and my money is starting to be replenished..." (yes I use big words in my head... thank you very much!) So it turns out that there is a lot of training that is involved with leasing apartments, and I just couldn't be trained in time for what they needed. So one Thursday I went to lunch and I was contacted by the temp agency that put me in that location and they told me not to return to that location.... i felt like I hit a brick wall going 300MPH! I didn't freak out though because I thought that the temp agency would find something else for me... oh how I was wrong!

After the temp agency told me not to return to work I started to go out and look for a job. I got to tell you that in this economy and the job market of today it is very very very very hard to find a job! I was out there everyday looking for something... anything... but I just couldn't find anything. My money was dwindling and things on the home front where not getting any better.. Yes my girlfriend loves me but when she has to pay for everything and start sacrificing things that she wants to do it just gets to you... and it is not fair.. not fair at all. I would get these interviews and they would turn out to anything and finally... finally I got an interview that looked very promising....

That interview was for a car dealership, well as I find out it was for a recruiting agency for a car dealers. So I go to this interview/training thing with an open mind and ready to do what ever it takes to get a paycheck. Oh just to keep the time line in your head, I moved down here in the very beginning of June, I lost my apartment job around the middle of June.. right around the time of my birthday... now it is July and I am doing this interview for the car dealership people.. so there is the time line.... OK back to the dealership thing..... So I get to the hotel that the interview/training is taking place... and I am the only "professional" looking person there, and there was about 15-20 people there. This interview/training thing is about 5 hours long and gives you all the tools to start out selling cars, it is really a good training program.. but at the end of the training I had my interview and I was told that I would be making at least $40,000 a year plus commission and that was great! So I leave my interview and I am all happy and excited to go to the dealership and get my job! On the way home I was behind a truck and all of a sudden a rock hits my windshield and it chips!!!! FUCK!!!!! So now I am pissed at this now.. and as I am driving the chip turns into a crack.. ... then into a long spider of crack.... my day went from WHOPOO HOO to SHIT!


So fast forward a few days and I am outside a Saturn dealership and I am called in for an interview... 1. I thought I have already got the job and 2. I was told that I was the only person to be interviewing with them that day and it turns out I was the 2nd person there from the training seminar from the other day. So now I get in with the manager from the dealership and he is talking and we get to know each other and things went well.. up into the point that I asked him what the salary was and he told me that it was a salary it was only commission and I nearly fell off my chair... I finish the interview and even before I left the lot I call up the place that set up the interview and told them it was a commission only job and that I wanted another assignment. They were "shocked" that the place was commission only and they set me up with another place and this dealership was about an hour away from where I live.. so that sucks! So the next day I head on over to an auto park that is an hour away and the same thing happens to me again... the whole deal was a commission only job. No I am very frustrated and near the breaking point.

So there I am.. no job, barely any money, and tempers are starting to boil over. Just as I thought I was never going to find a job I get an email from a cell phone company... dun dun dunnnnnnnn.. VERIZON! So I am bouncing off the wall with excitement in anticipation for this great new adventure selling Verizon Wireless! This is where things go from bad to absolute worse... OK time line check in time!... Now we are about 3 weeks ago from today.... So back to what I was saying... The first day of work and it is paid training at $8/HR and after the first week it will then change to $7.25/HR plus commission so that's not that bad. There I am first day of work and I get there and I am told to have a seat and that training will start soon..... 4 hours later I am finally getting a chance to fill out paper work and start my training. So that is the start of what is going to be a bad bad series of events to come.

Now it is the second day of work/training and again I get into work and I am told to sit down until training continues, but this time I only wait 2 hours before I start training again.. now there is another new person that is training with me and he has to get caught up and I am once again casted to the side. Now this is when things get really messed up. I overhear the new guy ask the manager about the pay structure and he is then told it is a commission based system... that's when my ears perk up and I told the manager that I was told that it was hourly plus commission and he proceeds to tell me that no one gets paid a hourly rate besides the regional managers.... So I kinda lose it and told him that he lied to me and that this isn't Fair, and the manager told me if I didn't like it then I could leave.... so I did! That was a huge mistake.....


This is the shitty part of my story that I completely brought on myself. When I get home I tell my girlfriend that the manager left early and that I was not allowed to stay there with out him and I got out early (LIE!). Then the next day I told her that I was going into to work and that I had an interview at 4 with another company (part LIE! and part truth.). I stayed home and attempted to clean the house when all of a sudden she walks in on me when she thought I was at work and she figured out that I lied to her... Now she leaves and things just go from bad to even worse because my mother is coming into town and my girlfriend isn't exactly a fan of her (my mom has made some mistakes but she is trying to make those mistakes go away) so now my girlfriend is completely pissed at me to the point of not talking to me... Then it hit rock bottom the next night when she walked out on me... just a reminder I BROUGHT THIS ON MYSELF! So I go out the next day to go job hunting and I go to the North Gate mall to continue the search. I happen across a T-Mobil store and hand in my resume.... Then had a mini lunch with my mom and her boyfriend and then I call my girlfriend that has spent the day with her brother in law. I told her I missed her and that I was worried about her and when I was done with the mall I went over to the brother in laws house to talk... I understand now that LIE-ING is very very bad and that I need to communicate better with her and not make rash decisions without talking with her first.

Time line check time!!!!!! Present day as of today... well this past week. I get a call from T-Mobil and he wants me to come in for an interview. So the net day I go in for an interview and it goes really really well... so good in fact that I GET THE JOB!!!!! This is a hourly plus commission. I have been working for T-Mobil for about 4 days now and everything is going great. Also on the home front things are starting to get better....


OH also I am going on vacation in 2 weeks! This is the first vacation me and my girlfriend have been on together in the past 5 years of our relationship. We are going on a cruise to MEXICO and we are leaving out of New Orleans.... Oh and we are staying in New Orleans for an extra 3 days after our 5 day cruise... I am super excited about this vacation that we both desperately need...

Well that has caught you up for now.... there are some more stories from the past couple of months but those are for later... the next entry will be about my "BEST BIRTHDAY EVER!!!"

Till then Stay YEKNOM and stay Everlasting!!!

-Brian

New Beginnings

Well it has been a minute in a half since I posted anything... with good reason. I have MOVED TO NORTH CAROLINA! Yeah it has been a crazy few weeks, with all of my packing and driving and such.

I have moved in with my lovely girlfriend cyndi, in a nice one bedroom apartment in the lovely town of Durham, NC... This town is great, we are close to her sister and brother in law and those two are great people to be around. I am in the process of finding a new job after the one that got me down here has fallen through. My manager was seriously bipolar so it was only a matter of time before it went bad. So I got an interview today for a admin position at a hosing complex.. full time and makes good money and the best part is...... it is a 9-5 job which is perfect!

well that's it for now... I'm off to eat lunch with Cyn and get a tour of her job which she works at the EPA.. how cool is that?!

Till next time... Forever YEKNOM!

SPRING TIME!!

Well, I haven't posted in a long ass time so on this rainy day I thought it would be appropriate to fill you all in on how everything is going. I got to admit it is going GREAT! It's officially spring time and I couldn't be happier that it is nice and sunny outside, well except for today since it is raining.

Another great thing that has happened is that I am back together with my girlfriend and I couldn't be happier now. I am currently on a quest to find a job by her in North Carolina so we can finally get our lives going together. It is hard to find a job when your not in that state your looking in so that is why I am taking a week and a half break from my current job and heading down there to find my self a job! There are 2 benefits to this move, 1. I can focus and really hit the pavement hard and get me that job down there 2. I get to spend a freaking week and a half with my awesome girlfriend!

Other than that I haven't done to much with my life right now, I go riding as much as I can, light permitting. I also made a really good friend on XBL and a Dance Off enemy on Twitter. I will explain later about the dance off enemy (lol). Its fun to have someone that plays the same game as you, but shit he is a good street fighter player, kicks my ass all the fucking time!

well there is not much more that I can deem worthy enough to tell you guys, all I know is that the next time I make a posting its going to be me telling everyone that I have moved to North Carolina!

Till then Stay YEKNOM and stay fresh!

-Brian

OUCH!

Well yesterday I was riding my bike down a pretty challenging hill, well its not really all that challenging but after not riding for 5 years it was challeneing to me... ok. So I was bombing down the hill when I slid out on a bunch of rocks and I went tumbling down to the ground... I have a feeling I blacked out, but I am not to sure. Well anyway my day was shot so I packed my bike in my car and went home, my neck and back were KILLING me. My best friend was ice, and a hot shower. It turns out I hit the ground a little too hard because my helmet was cracked and my rear rim bent... so it's costing me $40 to fix the rim and I have a old helmet I can use for now. So yeah I am out of commission till Saturday..... On the up shot I might be participating in a bike race in May some time. So I have a couple of weeks to get into racing form, or at the very least not die of exhaustion


That's all for now.

Till Next Time, Stay YEKNOM!