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I'm a closing song from the debut album by Canadian progressive rock band Rush

Okay, so I know I've been meaning to write about this for a bit, but I've been really tired lately because I've been WORKING!!! That means "yay" by the way. Yay as in I finally have a freaking job and can write about it now.

So yeah, I have a job. Well, "job" in quotes because I'm still technically a temp, but I'm in that cool "temp-to-hire" phase where they could very well let me go at the end of my 3 month trial period, but considering that my three month trial period ends on December 1st and this Christmas season is expected to be freaking insane, I'm thinking they'll be better off just hiring my stupid ass. It's either that or they will be contractually obligated to just let me go, and that would kind of be screwing themselves in the face. So here's to me! Yay!

It's a warehouse job, which is what I'm good at, so that's a plus. It's this company that distributes stuff for other companies. Being a temp I have no idea about their policies of disclosure, so let's just say that if you buy something online (like a boat motor, or a gas grill) from an online store (like "Boat Motors R Us" or "Ghetto Family SuperStore") then you're actually buying it through us. We have it in stock, we pack it up, we ship it out, all while pretending to actually be who we say we are on the invoice. Now it has to be a specific item from a specific place, but for these particular items from these particular stores, if you buy it then chances are around 90% that I'll have taken part in getting it to you. You're welcome.

So I actually started there back in August or something, maybe even July, but it was just for a week or two here and there to help out. But they dug me so much that when they got word that they could hire on another person, they called my temp agency and asked for me specifically. It was still just a regular temp assignment for a while, but then I had a meeting with my supervisor and he said that word had come down from the top for them to get me on the temp-to-hire thing and have my first official day as a regular employee be December 1st (as stated above).

The pay is adequate, the people are awesome, and the work is good and plentiful. Pretty much from the get-go they have been teaching me things and getting me familiar with all kinds of stuff, like they have been anticipating me becoming a full member at some point since pretty early on. Really, it's just standard warehousey stuff... stocking, packing, shipping, that kind of thing. I'm not doing any receiving yet, but it has been hinted at that it will be taught to me in the near future. I've made it very clear that I want to learn as much as I can, because a few of the guys that work there are kind of the MCPs of their regions. That means that if they get laid up for some reason, then it would be kind of catastrophic. If I can at least become familiar with what goes on in every department then it would kind of ease the burden of some of these guys. Plus I just like knowing stuff.

The biggest thing I've had to get used to is the music that gets played there. First of all, there is ONE GUY in charge of the music. I don't know how that came to be, maybe it's his radio, I don't know. But if you mess with the radio while he's around, it is game ON. He'll take requests every now and then, and he's even let me choose the music a few times, but he has ultimate veto power. I got really spoiled at my last job... we would listen to anything. It was not uncommon to go from Michael Bolton to The Shins to Journey to Debbie Gibson, and we dug it all. This guy's favorite forms of music are... surf and reggae. Seriously, two of my least favorite forms of music ever. But I'll give the guy credit, he knows his stuff. It's not just "any music that I can get high to" or anything. It's all really authentic stuff. I've actually come to appreciate a few reggae artists. a FEW. And I like the more spy-movie sounding surf music. Daikaiju. That's all I'm gonna say. But he also likes a lot of punk and heavy stuff too. We trade music back and forth every so often. It's not uncommon to hear Isis or Torche or Queens of the Stone Age mixed in with Satan's Pilgrims or some reggae. It's diverse, but it's his diversity, and that's fine. I can tolerate it.

Um, that's about it as far as work goes I guess. I'm getting a headache so I'll leave it at that for now.

Yay!