Happy Chapter 11 Day!

Well, ok, it was yesterday... but anyways! The company I work for (begrudgingly), Ritz Camera, filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy yesterday. Not a surprise to the smart people. We saw it coming. No product resupply in the stores, commissions went to next to nothing, end of promotions, etc.

Lots of folks are worried, for once, I am not. I sorta really don't care at this point! LOL. It's almost like retribution if they go under. Plus, I get a vacation out of it. I am all for it! As it happens, I have the next two days off. I plan to start cashing in all my promotion money with the vendors just in case, not to mention start taking like a vacation day every week to use up my vacation time!

It will be interesting to see, at this point, what stores will close, which I would assume would be quite a few. It will also be interesting to see if upper management continues to treat the associates like crap as they usually do. I think it will be amazingly fruitless to continue such treatment of employees when they know the company is half dead at this point.

Fun times ahead!

All a blur

WOW.. this past week was a total fracking blur! I can not believe it has been TEN days since I last posted! I suck!

I have been trying to make heads or tails out of my company's various odd moves over the past two weeks. I am still undecided if they are moves of a smart company trying to save money, moves of desperation to not go under, or moves preparing for the ole' bankruptcy sign. Time will tell, I suppose. I am on the magic carpet ride for the moment, so at least I hope it is exciting.

On the lighter sides of things, apparently road sign hacking has become all the rage. I am all for it! Especially if people keep producing gems like these...

Its a small, annoying, world

You all know about Disney's "It's a Small World" ride, right? It is that mind numbing ride where you float around while children of the world sing that "It's a small world" song. (fyi, the it was first built in 1966!)

Well, Disney just got done renovating it and folks are in a uproar because they updated it with new characters from Disney and Pixar animation. You can now see up to 29 new characters ranging from Donald Duck, Aladdin and Jasmine, Stitch, and Alice in Wonderland - to name a few. All of the new characters are done in the style of the original characters of "It's a Small World" so they fit in a lot better.

Tons of folks are pissed off at this move, as it is "ruining" the original, old ass ride. One statement I saw was "one of the most egregious and downright disgusting decisions" ever made by Disney." Wow, really? Let me tell you, I have been on this ride and it is mind numbing! Honestly, the idea of "find the modern characters" would at least keep me occupied on this ride. Plus, hey, it's Disney's ride, they can do what they want anyways. I am all for the update. Honestly, even if I disliked it, who cares? Its a silly ride! For kids! Maybe for adults when you are dragged into it...

You found what in the trash?

Alright.. so.. times are damn tough right now. You can tell because customers aren't buying shit! Companies are laying off people left and right and cutting back on every damn thing they can think of.

The job market sucks, since so many folks are out of work and no one is hiring. All of this makes it quadruple difficult when your boss is a fucking douche and knows he has you over a barrel.. wtf are you going to do? Quit? Yeah, in this job market and economy.. Your going to take it as long as you can handle it. That is what I am doing right now. Makes for a not so fun life at times I will tell you that.

That's ok though.. you see, I am a vindictive bastard and I hold grudges a long, long time.. I remember the people who treat me right. I remember the people who fuck me over. So just wait there, boss man who has something to prove.. all good things in time. Yours is coming... *AHEM* Now that that is out of my system.. moving right along. I ran across this story the other day.. which is amazing and bemusing all at the same time.

Workers cleaning up a huge Department of Energy cleanup site in Washington state, came across an old safe buried in a pit. Upon cracking it open, they found a glass bottle. What was inside the glass bottle you ask? Fucking Plutonium! To be precise, plutonium made for the Manhattan Project in 1942!!

So not only do you end up finding plutonium, which can kill you, but it happens to be from the project that designed the first A-bomb! Pretty cool, if it was so.. well, weird.

Swing that hammer, baby

Well, hmm, damn does time fly.. lets see, the last thing I posted about was the stupid Super Bowl last week! Ack! Mental note to post every two or three days, not every week!

So, best thing about the Super Bowl? Usually the commercials! Not this year though, overall I think the caliber of the commercials and movie trailers just sucked overall. Very disappointing! One of the few commercials I thought was well done was the Hulu ad. Speaking of Hulu, what I found really interesting this year was that Hulu had the Super Bowl commercials streaming on their site soon after they aired. Very cool. You can check them out at this link.

Now, since it was a dismal year for Super Bowl commercials.. lets revisit THE best Super Bowl ad of ALL TIME! The masterpiece that is the Apple Macintosh commercial from 1984.

Are you ready for some football?

Super Bowl Sunday! whoo hoo! Nah, I am just kidding! haha.. football my ass, like I care. I am from Phoenix too! I have never been a big fan of sports, so this is like any other day really, except, I get a day off and no for sure I will have no fires to put out tomorrow since it will be dead dead dead! All the zombies will be watching the game today.

Not sure what it is about sports and event such as these that suck people in. I made the mistake earlier of going to the store to grab some things. What a friggin mad house! People (sheep) everywhere! All buying the same crap, typically drinks, or munchies. The store was smart though, they had all that crap up front and at the entrances with sale signs on them! Go, go economy!

So, my plans for this evening - if the woman does not go on a murderous rampage before then - will be to have a nice dinner that she is cooking, then to kick back and catch up on some Battlestar Galactica episodes. Soooo much better than sports!