Sorry for the lack of ZOMG MASSIVE SHITFLOOD UPDATE but I guess I either forgot about posting, or just kept putting it off, or a combination of the two… but hey, at least i’m updating now. Right?
Anyway, the reason for updating was mostly spurred on by a comment from the Chase mang while going out to eat some delicious Tepanyaki (which i’d never had before until a few nights prior). So I got to thinking, and decided i’d dust off this old thing and start posting again.
So, yeah, Japan didn’t happen sadly. It was a mixture of me not losing the weight I needed to lose and needing to spend my savings on other things, and also the person I was supposed to go with kinda bailed/didn’t get their passport in time for the trip. So instead of dramatically going into all the details, there it is. You’re welcome.
So instead I had a rather uneventful summer of unemployment, going to the Lloyd’s a whole lot (even living their for like a week due to the Mother being unbearably bitchy), playing WoW more than I should have, cleaning out the Lloyd’s garage so we could have a nicer place to hang out than Gurt’s room, and did I mention being unemployed. That sucked.
So I got a job at a new Best Buy that was opening up in Mid-November as a Geek Squad ‘Agent’. The job was probably the best job i’d ever had… ever. The job was fun and challenging, the management wasn’t too overbearing for the most part, the people I worked with were seriously some of the best people i’ve ever worked with (not to mention I was working with my bff Tim). Everything was great. The management loved me, my co-workers loved me, customers loved me.
Then I got fired.
You see, the General Manager, Hesheim Hebish, seemed to think I was a threat to company security or some nonsense after I helped a customer outside of work…. FOR FREE. You see, her name was Natasha; A lady in her early 30’s of arabic descent with a computer knowledge base that was pretty much NIL. She strolls into our ‘precinct’ one fateful day with her clunky old dell laptop in hand that was apparently given to her by UCI Medical Center, her former place of employment. On this laptop she had about 20gb’s worth of photo’s, documents, and research files from when she was doing work for UCI’s Cancer Research division, although most of it was photo’s from her travels to Europe and other exotic destinations. Anywho, she came in saying that everytime she log’s on to her user account when her computer boots up it’s like the operating system treats her user account like a brand new user. It goes through the initial account setup, and pop’s up the “Take a Tour of Windows XP” window, and everything associated with creating a new user. So I turn it on and sure enough, it does what she said it was doing. In the process of trying to diagnose what could be causing this issue, she interjected and said that she was also missing some files and wanted me to find them for her, so I did a simple Windows Search and found said files. All of them. She said something to the tune of, “Will I have to do that every time I want to find those files?” to which I responded “Well yes, unless you want me to move the files to another destination like your desktop.” She said “Ok, go ahead and do that then.” So I did. I couldn’t think of anything else that would be causing her computer to act that way, so I told her I was going to restart the computer just to make sure it happens again in order to see if it’s a reoccurring issue. Restart. Boot up. Log in. The same thing happens again. Only now, all the files that I moved to the desktop are GONE. DELETED. NO LONGER TAKING UP HARD DRIVE SPACE. This is what ultimately screwed me over. Because of Best Buy’s policy, before you do anything that requires moving or altering data you have to get the customer to sign a waver saying that Best Buy and it’s Employees are not responsible for any data loss and that they wont sue us as a result. So instead of notifying my supervisor, who was on lunch at the time, or any of the other managers I decided to take matters into my own hands (foolishly) and told her I could recover her data for her outside of work for free since I felt somewhat responsible for her data loss, even though it was her computer’s fault for the data being gone. So I met her after work at a local Border’s and did the data recovery for her. Everything was found that had been deleted and everything was being backed up and I didn’t want to sit there for another 4 hours while everything was being recovered, nor did Natasha, so I told her just to keep her external hard drive plugged in, and for her to keep her laptop open, and when she got home for her to plug in her laptop to an ac outlet so that it didn’t die while in the process of backing everything up. As a side note, I received no payment, nor did I receive any tips in the form of food, drink, or otherwise. After that night I received one phone call from Natasha saying that she wanted me to come over and do a Virus scan for her (presumeably unpayed) and there was no mention of the result of her data backup so I presumed everything to be fine on that end. I decided to not return her call becuase A) I was currently low on money and gas and B) I didn’t want to give her anymore free service. So basically she must have gotten mad that I didn’t want to keep giving her free service, so she called the store, complained to management, I got sat down by Hesheim and Jeff, and was forced to write everything that transpired on that fateful day, and about hmmmm……3 or so months later they had Jeff fire me, out of the blue. I guess she was saying she was going to sue the store or the company or something, so that’s why Hesheim gave the order to fire me (Notice how Jeff fired me, and not the Store Manager, Hesheim, who was supposed to fire me. GO FIGURE).
Funny story, everyone misses me, except Hesheim. I went into the store the other day and he was walking around the store, turning to look at me every once in a while giving me his signature Hesheim ’stink-eye’. I lol’d so hard.
Wow, that was quite the rant…I grow tired, that’s all for now, more to come later.
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