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So, these Tarot cards are pretty sweet. Well, as sweet as Pokemon-themed Tarot cards can be.

In other news that I am saving so I don’t forget, Essner has been creating NPC names for his DnD campaign. An example: Dagger Awesome and the Starlight Quartet. I guess it could also be a decent band name. Hm.

Attention, people who own Mega Man Powered Up! I have finally acquired a copy of this game! Tell me what awesome downloadable levels I should be downloading! Also, the fact that I’m having trouble beating the game on easy is a testament to how much I suck!

Finally got a copy of that Persona 4 soundtrack, by the way. Pretty good! Although a lot of my favorite Persona 3 songs didn’t become things I even listened to until I played the game and caught them and fell in love with them in context, so… I’m sure I’ll love more of it later.

So, the new system at work, eh? Well, it’s better in a lot of ways. The chances of me ever staying past 1 any night are now pretty well 0, which is both good and bad. It means I have to pick up other shifts. But I’ve already got that under control, which is nice. I just hope it isn’t too stressful come my last college semester, but if it is, I’ll just tell them to back off and be poor, I suppose.
What I’m having problems with is the cart. I always used to leave my cart on the aisle as a sort of… home base. I got used to this. I built techniques around it, and I never had to fight to get the cart through the little aisles and stuff. So with this new system, there’s a new cart, so I tried pulling it along with me. I hated it. So last night, I started leaving it again. Not only was I less frustrated, I put up about twice the number of signs in significantly less time. This I am getting chewed out about. Apparently I have to pull the cart along because “I am just slowing myself down.” That’s retarded, because looking at the time, I obviously are not. If I was going back and forth for each sign, maybe, but I’m grabbing like 5, 6 at a time and throwing them all up. It saves time. It’s stupid that I’m getting in trouble for it.
What really gets me is the fact that anyone looking at this can tell so much of the system is bullshit. If Kathy would just be honest about it, just say “Yes, this is retarded, I completely agree, but we need to do it to make corporate happy for just one more week” then I wouldn’t be so annoyed. She’s sort of trying to say that? Hinting that that’s how she feels? But she never does. She keeps feeding us the party line. This makes her feel so fake and pointlessly pushy… I remember a time when she was on our side, and that creates an even worse “traitor” kind of feeling in my head. I truly believe that in the majority of situations, you can manage people and be on their side. Just be honest with why you’re doing things, but don’t hesitate to make sure they do them they way you need them to be done. Complete disclosure is all it takes to have your cake and eat it too. Seriously. Instead, she’s just coming off as ridiculous and annoying, and I can’t wait until she’s not hanging around for ad sets anymore.
Anyway, I’m going to keep leaving the cart. My solution is to walk backwards the whole time, so that the cart isn’t blocking my way as I’m forced to pull it about. Then I can leave it and do my thing normally while looking, to the casual passerby, like I’m pulling the cart around. I’m sure I’m going to be chewed out about my backwards walking tonight, though. Oh well. I do a huge portion of the store, and I do it well. They’ve taken a lot of things away from me, and made me not care. So I don’t. I’ll just do things my way and not worry. When I start causing actual issues instead of made up bullshit ones, then I’ll take notice.