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2.27.03 "What are you doing? Shopping?" "No, I'm folding clothes." He had a weird look to his face. He walked out, came back in a minute later, and said, "you two, come with me," pointing to me and the other girl. Oh yea, one other thing that I know he said about me. One of the guys who just got hired full time from a temp position told me that Mat told him, "I like that Eddie." (He calls me Eddie even though I introduced myself as 'Ed'). I'm also beginning to get annoyed at the Filipino temp girl that works with us. I also realized today that I'm the guy's treasure hunter per say. I'm the one he sends into the storage room to look for an article of clothing in the huge mess of clothes. There is somewhat of a method of organization in the storage room, but a random person walking in there would be like "WTF. It looks like a tornado swept through here."
2.26.03 At the Banana studio (the place where they design the displays at all the stores), my daily routines include: setting up/breaking down shelves, folding clothes, finding clothes, helping create displays, and other fun stuff related to creating visuals. So today while I was working, in comes the chick who interviewed me for my potential job at the Banana Republic flagship store at Union Square. I wanted to completely avoid her, but she was assisting in the men's section where I was working. Once I saw her, I went around telling everyone I knew that that was the chick who didn't hire me. The whole time I was there, I just wanted to go up to her and say "Do I look familiar?" or "Are you aware that I interviewed with you for a job, and you didn't hire me?" I wasn't sure if would be a professional thing to do. I knew I had a bad interview, but it was just so ironic that I would be seeing her again. Well, maybe I shouldn't be too surprised since she was the manager for the entire men's department, and probably had some design ideas for the store and wanted to help create them. I'm not sure if she remembered me, and just didn't want to say anything or if she just didn't remember me at all, because she didn't really talk to me at all. But yea, that was today's most interesting event. This week will be the first week since I've moved up that I will be working a full week! Awww yea!
2.24.03
2.16.03 So here's a new dilemma. I was talking to this guy I work with at Alice Radio about jobs a couple weeks ago. He said he could "teach" me how to make 57k a year on a part-time basis. Immediately, I was thinking it was a pyramid scheme. Last Thursday, we met up at a coffee shop to discuss the job he had previously mentioned. We did some chit chat for a bit, and afterwards, he was like "I didn't bring you out here to talk about temp jobs" (he works at a temp agency). Out came a sheet of paper and a pen for me, and a sheet of paper and pen for him. It looked like a worksheet. I got a quick glance at the back of the sheet, and I could've sworn that I saw a pyramid thing on it, but wasn't 100% sure. I won't go into too much detail about the business, but basically, I'd be a Prosumer, something between a producer and a consumer. I would be making money while spending money. He went into more detail about the whole company. I knew right when he brought out that sheet that I didn't want to have anything to do with this company. But as usual, its hard to just tell someone that you don't want to join. The company is called Quixtar, and I was doing some research on it. It's part of the Amway group or something, and I'd be trying to get people to join under me, even though its "not" a pyramid. I would be buying food, books, electronics, etc at this website instead of actually going to a store. Theoretically, I would be saving money buying off this website because I'm skipping the middle man and buying directly from a warehouse like Costco. So at the end of his sales pitch to me, he gave me a tape to listen to, and asked me to come to a meeting that's happening today actually. I gave him a call a couple days ago, and said that I wasn't interested in going. Last night, he left a voice message on my cell that I just got today, saying that he hoped I would still go, and that I have his tape and he needs it back. I think that tape was just a ploy to get me to go meet up with him and to go to the meeting with him. argh
2.15.03 Okay, today is Monday, and I'm trying to remember what I did on Sat. The two of them bickered a couple more times during the day. When it was 4:30, I went to get gas at 76 for $2.50/gal! and then went to the Alice Radio studio to meet up with the guys I was working with. I forgot that there was a Chinese New Years parade on Market St and some other neighboring streets, so it took me FOREVER to get where I wanted. Normally, it would take maybe 5 min, but it took me almost an hour just to get to my destination. I had to keep finding side streets and other streets to get to where I wanted. We were working the David Gray concert, promoting Alice Radio by having a booth setup for people to enter a free drawing to win an Alice gift basket with CDs, shirts, notepads, a mouse pad, pens, and other stuff. We were getting paid to setup a booth, just sit there while people entered the drawing, and break down for $7/hr. That's easy money. I also got to get to know the guys better, which is always a good thing. I'm surprised at how many people didn't want to enter a FREE contest with no strings attached. Oh well. Their loss. So on the way back from the concert, Kevin (one of the guys I work with), brought out the megaphone, and started saying random things to people walking on the street. One guy actually got freaked out and jumped. At the station, Kevin also accidentally locked his keys in the ignition with the car running. That was probably one of the funniest incidences I've seen of someone locking themselves out of their car. Its one thing to lock yourself out, but another to lock yourself out with the engine still going! hahaha. So Aaron and I went up to the Alice office, and went looking for a metal hanger so he could try to unlock his door. Another guy who works in promotions, Mike, helped us look around. Apparently, he does Thump radio on Sat/Sun nights (they play dance music). So that was cool cuz now I know the guy who does it. I would've liked to have stuck around and just chatted some more with these guys, but I had to meet up with a guy to go out to a club and party. Met some cool people, met some weird people, but all in all, had a fun time at the bar and club we went to. Came back home at 4:30 in the morning and got woken up around 11 by a phone call. Sunday, Brandon, Kris, and I wanted to get some Dim Sum, but were bumbed out to see that the line would probably be almost an hour long wait, so we decided to get some Thai food. Afterwards, Kristina and I went to Union Square to do some shopping. Sat, there was the Chinese New Years parade, Sunday, there was the Anti-War Protest. At one point, we walked through the sea of people, and when I was almost out, I started yelling, "We want shopping! We want shopping!" Why is that almost all protestors are ugly, old, dress bad, and are probably poor. As usual, there were animal rights activists in front of Neiman Marcus, holding up pictures of skinned animals, holding animal skins on a stick, and trying to hand out pamphlets about animals. Kristina started feeling a little scared because she was wearing a jacket with fur lining. When we walked half way through the activists, I yelled, "I like fur!" and this French guy I think was like "I like fur too." haha. So around 5:45, I went to a restaurant called Lalo's in Castro for some Happy Hour fun. Food and margaritas were $2 each. The owner, a guy who apparently likes Asian guys tried to get me to take a shot of tequila. He was walking around with a bottle, giving people shots of tequila. We danced, ate, drank, and chatted. It was really fun. This place has all you can eat taco Tuesdays for $4.99, so I think I'll have to check that out. Around 7:40, I went back to the apartment, and decided to go to Ruby Skyy to meet up with the guys, but when I got there, I realized that finding anyone I knew would be like finding a needle in a haystack. There was a sea of people, and the place was incredibly packed. But I did end up finding someone I knew, and I just tagged along with him, and he introduced me to a bunch of his friends. So I did end up having some fun, even though it ended at 12 and cost $20. I seriously need to start penny pinching and saving up some money cuz I'm seriously getting low damnit!
2.14.03 So today, I got an email from Cheryl Cabigas, a girl I know from my High School days. Apparently, Natalie Montoya sent her my web page, and Cheryl emailed me about my comments about the reunion party. That was pretty trippy. What was even more trippy was when I went to check out my web page. For the first time in my life, I got a message that said: "The web site you are trying to access has exceeded its allocated data transfer. Visit our help area for more information." Now I'm wondering who in the world has been viewing my web page, and realized that I have to be more careful of what I mention on it. =)
2.13.03
2.11.03 so as you can see, I spent about $80 and all of these items totals $500+! Pretty awesome huh! So it is good sometimes to be a temp! hehe. The only shitty part is that 5 of the shirts I bought were sliced in the back on the bottom. That means I wasted $15. I'm wondering if I should just wear them as undershirts or try and swap them for something else. I doubt they'll let me swap things, and with the hoard of people going there tomorrow, its going to be mad crazy trying to do anything. oh yeah, when I first got there, everyone shopping was in the design department or something, so all the guys were gay. There was this one big black guy who said "Well Hello there" with a "damn you look good" connotation to it. This other guy I work with said that there were guys checking me out there. This one Asian guy was standing around us for a bit, and my friend said that he was standing there to check someone out, and it wasn't him that the guy wanted to check out. Just some interesting side note. Also, I made friends with some of the cute girls shopping there. They should be there again tomorrow, so maybe I'll be able to talk to them. We'll see what happens.
2.9.03
2.7.03 So my interview process. I interviewed with the manager of the men's department, an Asian woman. I thought, okay, maybe since we're both Asians, she'll give me a little leeway in case I screw up somewhere, but who knows. I don't remember the question, but I said something REALLY wrong, especially for retail. I brought up a situation where I was working with a girl, and said how she was very condescending towards me, and that I basically ignored the conflict because I didn't want to create any conflict. "You didn't bring it up with her at all?" she asked. "Nope, I didn't want to create conflict." I think the right answer would have been to say that I confronted the girl, and that the whole situation was resolved, something I changed during my interview with Enterprise. Another question she asked where I think my answer was sketchy was "What would you do if you saw four people in your section?" A friend of mine Jerylin, that use to work at Banana said that the answer they were looking for was that you would get help. My answer was "I would look for the person that looked like they were going to buy something, and help them out first. Maybe someone already holding on to some clothes or someone was was perusing the clothes rather than just briskly walking through the section." Just goes to show how much I know about retail. And worst part of the whole interview was in the end. You know how normally you shake hands and say "Thank You for the interview" or some crap like that...well I did NONE of it!!! SHIZNITZ. Well, they said they'd call me back in 2-3 days to see if they're going to hire me. We'll see just how bad my interview went. Theoretically, they should hire me just because I'm available to work any day and almost any time, but if my interview crashed and burned in the manager's eyes, than I won't get hired.
2.4.03 So Monday, I interviewed with Enterprise, and the recruiting manager said that she would forward my resume to the Enterprise branches in the city. I know I know, Enterprise?!?! So we'll see where that goes. Today, I interviewed for Banana Republic, and got a second interview, even though my interview sucked, and I only answered 2 of the questions they asked. I think the only reason they asked me to come in again was because I put my availability as almost completely open. Saturdays and Sundays I restricted the times that I was open so that I would have time to do fun stuff or whatever. Today was also the first time I took the bus in SF by myself. It's cheaper than L.A., and it stops on every block. That was pretty surprising. It'd be hard to overshoot your stop in SF. Here's
a link you should check out. Its quite amusing
1/27/03 Where to begin. So much has happened since Friday, when I went snowboarding. I think I will start with what just happened to me. Last Thursday, I went and bought a Columbia fleece and a pair of snowboard socks that I didn't really want to buy, but the workers at the store said they were really good. Today, I went in to return the socks, and the manager who was there when I initially returned a pair of snowboard pants and was also there when I bought my fleece and socks was at the counter. I asked her if I could get cash back. I couldn't she said. I would have to get store credit back, and then buy something to get the rest of my cash back. "You can buy an energy bar. I really don't care. You're not going to hurt my feelings," she said in a "I don't give a fuck" tone. I walked to the side of the counter to check out the energy bars, and asked what's the cheapest thing they have. She came around, and pulled out an energy shot for me. And she completed the transaction for me. I kept getting the feeling that the moment I left the store, she would be bitching about me to one of the normal employees there (she was a manager). In fact, I am 100% sure that she mentioned something about me to the other guy working there, probably saying something about what happened and the previous times that I've been there. But I can't be sure, thought that's contradicting what I just said. haha. At that moment, I made a vow never to go back into that specific store location. Okay. On to yesterday. Yesterday was spent moving a bunch of Kristina's big furniture to her new place in SF. We did two loads for her. While they were getting the second load in the car, I went to Costco with a friend so that she could change her car battery. It was dead. I stood in the Costco parking lot, unscrewing the bolts, and was having difficulty getting one of them out. None of the workers at the Costco tire shop were willing to help us out immediately, but said that if we waited a bit, they could, so I asked this black guy in a tow truck if he could help us out. I figured that since he had a AAA sticker on his truck, that he might be able to help me out. No success there. He wanted to charge $10 for having him unscrew a fucking bolt! I was like, I have a AAA card. He went on to say that he didn't work in this area or some stupid shit. I was like..fuck that shit. I went back, tried again, and for some reason, had little problems this time. Then I went back to SF to meet up with Brandon and Kristina to help unpack Kristina's stuff. After that, we went to Brandon's to move his big furniture. This is where the fun begins. So while Brandon and I were making our first trip to load our stuff in the car across the street, I step into something. I took a quick glance, and thought it was a banana, but wasn't too sure. While walking back, Brandon pointed out that that was human shit that I stepped on covered with toilet paper. The shit had the imprint of my shoes: two circles. I called up a couple friends to tell them what happened, and all of them said that I should throw away my shoes. Brandon had accidentally stepped in homeless man's shit and threw away his favorite pair of shoes. I didn't want to. I went into the bathroom, and tried to wash off the shit in the bathtub, but with little success. I got toilet paper, and tried wiping it off. This was the first time ever I have had to wipe off someone else's shit!! And that wasn't working because I wasn't getting the shit out of the little cracks and crevices in my sole. Brandon gave me an old toothbrush to use, some water, and when we left the apartment, I leaned up against a rusty fire hydrant, took off my left shoe, held the toothbrush in my right hand, had Brandon and Kristina start pouring water on my shoe, and I began scrubbing away the shit. At some points, the water was splashing onto my arm. E.Coli was splashing on my arm! Eventually, all the shit came off and I dumped the toothbrush on the sidewalk. That was the highlight of my night. Onto my snowboarding weekend. We went to Heavenly in Tahoe to go snowboarding. Friday, there weren't that many people, making it very fun to snowboard since we had a lot of space. There were lots of people from out of the country. Most of the workers that I noticed were from Australia, Brazil, or good ol' USA. Some of the people were still wearing their outfits from the 80's. Neon colors! One lady had bells around her wrists. That was whack. I saw one guy fall half way down a black diamond slope. That was amusing. Food was a rip off there. About my snowboarding skills. Friday, I had no problems picking up carving again, but I still wasn't good at it. At most, I would carve 6 times at once, but some because I was getting scared I would fall down. I fell down A LOT! My ass hurt a lot, my gloves were getting soaked, ice was finding its way down my shirt, my legs were hurting, arms hurting, and whenever I fell, my head took a beating too, even if my head was nowhere close to touching the ground. The second day, my carving improved dramatically. I was taking risks I didn't take the day before, adjusting myself when I was in situations where I felt I could possibly lose control. I fell down a lot less this day, but when I did fall, I fell hard because I was going a lot faster, and taking more risks. That's all I can think about saying. I definitely want to go back again! |