I'm enjoying a day off today which is a temporarily rarity until I move to el paso. I took this picture in manhattan on 5th ave near rockafeller center.

Just this past saturday I just got my 3rd peformance evaulation from home depot but since I transfered stores some time ago this is going to be my first evaulation for the store I work for now.

From what I noticed it seems like performance evaulations don't transfer over if you move to another store. And in my opinion that kind of sucks in a way. Now because of this evaulation and my expericance with this store that I'm in now, I wished I never left the other store, but I had to because of the almost 2 hour travel distance.

This home depot had a VERY high turn over rate espeically in the garden dept. The fact that home depot is not doing very well in the stock market and with sales doesn't make the situation better. Because of this hours have been cut back in the store and because we have so few people in the garden dept. I was transfered from hardware to the garden dept (much to my dismay). On the weekends there are only 2 people in the dept, me and another female. I continued to work just as hard in the garden dept as I did in hardware (my 2nd evaulation from my pervious store reflected this).

Later on the deptment head of garden left and went to another store, and a new Assistant Store Manager was hired. Since my evaulation was over due, the new ASM did the evaulation even though he hasn't known me for that long and because of our work hours and the fact that I take off a weekend a month for the reserves I only see him a few times. The ASM could of delayed the evaulation and if he really needed to have it done that badly, he could of asked the DH in hardware what kind of worker I was since he would of known me longer.

The ASM verbally mentioned the fact that he didn't know me long during the evaulation but didn't mention that in the performance and development summary.

On the performance and development summary chart I mostly got an "average" score with an above average in certain areas. What was said in the comments section which got me heated, here is some of what the ASM typed,

"....has been working in the gardening department for the past few months. Her overall performance has been mediocre...."

So all my hard work in this store has been for nothing. Now I understand why some of the vetern store associates would tell me not to kill myself working so hard. Plus the fact that he used mediocre like a double word as if I don't know what it means which insulted my intelligence. Mediocre means average but it's worse than average. Mediocre is average with a minus next to it. For those who don't know (or forgot) mediocre means "adequate or acceptable, but not very good ". The ASM might have been thinking "She another black ghetto female with no education. I'll use a "big word" so she won't catch on."

I was so ticked off at that one fact. Rather then curse the ASM out I just accept the evaulation and talked to my fellow employees about it. All of them was in shock. A few said that I should quit. Another stated that I have a lot going for me and that I'll never reach my full potiental working at home depot. I talked to my friends also. They also said that I should quit. One of my friends stated that "They are trying to set you up."

I feel that they are right. But I not going to quit at the drop of a dime otherwise all of my time in home depot would be for nothing. I need more job referances because my past referances are being coming obsolete because some of my managers from my old jobs had left.

I was trying to hang on to home depot so I'll have some what of an income once I move to texas. But now that's not going to happen. Maybe God is letting this happen because something better is coming along. I'm not going to cry over this.

I'm going to take my Mediocre self, and turn in my 30 days notice this saturday.

Besides the whole incident with home depot, I'm having a good time. I have less than 3 months before I move! I can't wait!