All Work and No Play Makes RDC a Dull Girl

   I'm honestly surprised I found the time to write this post, but it's important to me to keep to my New Year's resolution. I haven't written one sentence of my book so far this week, but I know I spent more than four hours on it last week. I still plan on spending some time on it this week though. Probably not four hours; I have too much work to do.
   So between continuing my quest to hire 15 people, completing interviews to fill two training positions, making the client happy, and with merit review and invoicing coming up; I'm just overwhelmed. 
   HR is supposed to be doing more of the leg work with hiring, but they have hardly helped at all. I'm the one pulling the applications, I'm the one reviewing them, I'm the one calling the applicants and setting up interviews, and I'm the one completing the first interview. I even complete the new hire paperwork and do the drug test! My management team has been helping where they can of course, but they have their own job to do as well. They actually have a schedule to follow, I don't. 
   I'm constantly told how much I'm appreciated for doing more than my fair share of work, but it would be nice if they did some of their own jobs even if it was just calling the applicants, but that's not going to happen. We only have two people in HR and one is about to go on maternity leave. 
   I just spent the last two hours working on stuff I didn't get to finish at work. I'm going to have to work this weekend on invoicing and merit review because I'm training next week. Oh that's right I forgot to mention. I'm taking it upon myself to not only chose the two trainers, but to train them for their new position myself. 
   Maybe I have a control issue...maybe not, but I think if you want anything done right you gotta do it yourself. I don't like pulling my managers from their teams to train. I already had to pull my night manager from his team this week to train a part time class and I don't want to do that again. 
   The only other trainer I have is busy in her position, saving the company money by fighting fraud cases. She hates training and I hate it when she trains. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to have her cover for me on the first so I can finish up payroll. Since I'm doing most of it this weekend it shouldn't take me too long to do.
  I'm so glad Eleven invited me to the movies on Friday. If it weren't for that I would have ended up working non-stop all week...

Too Many Thoughts

   I have had so many ideas for a blog post in the last four days it's ridiculous. Most of them I can't remember though. I should really write this crap down. Any way I'm going to talk about a few of the subjects I actually remember.

1.    Right now I'm trying hire 15 employees as soon as I can. Sounds simple enough right? Wrong! There has been so many things that have gone wrong during this process. Any time I think I'm doing well and I'm definitely going to hit my goal of 15 I get knocked down. People I have hired either decline the offer all of the sudden, their number is now disconnected, they lied about their back ground, or they don't show up for their drug test. When I call applicants to schedule an interview I leave a message, but they don't call me back. Or I get the interview scheduled and they don't show-up. It's so irritating! I wish this oil boom would just go away already. I need employees and I need them now!
   
2. I can't stand talking to people who think they know everything! There is an employee who is a direct report to Juiz....hmm what should I call him? We'll go with Snaggle Tooth...I stole that nick name from New Boss. He has that nick name for a different employee, but it works just as well for this one. Snaggle Tooth is just a pompous asshole, I don't think there is any better way of describing him. I don't know anyone that can tolerate him on a social level. I had to ask Juiz to talk to him about interjecting himself into conversations when my managers are trying to get work done. On Monday I was talking to Juiz about the book that I'm writing while Snaggle Tooth was out of the room, but he came back before I got to finish the conversation. So he finds out I'm writing a book, when low and behold he is writing a book too! I tell him I just started switching my tenses from past to present and I originally had it written in 3rd person and now it's in first person. He proceeds to tell me that 3rd person and past tense is the only way to go. I told him that I have actually read several books in 1st person and they were excellent. He has the nerve to say that he doubts that! WTF! Thankfully the front desk phone rang and I had to answer it so I left the room to take care of the call and decided not to go back. Well, he freakin' tracks me down to finish the conversation! He then asks me how far I am, how long I have been working on it, and about my creative process. He pretty much tells me that my creative processes are all wrong and I should have written an outline containing every chapter and what I want in each chapter before even beginning on to write. Screw off Snaggle Tooth! Everyone's creative processes are different...
3. So I know I'm a hypocrite and probably a bad person for even thinking this. I just found out on Saturday that a classmate of mine who is 25, is engaged to a 42 year old. This just creeps me out. I have never once been bothered by age differences when I see it on TV or the internet, but I guess if I know the person it's a different story. I'll be truthful here, I used to have a huge crush on this guy in high school and maybe that's why it bothers me more. That and they're talking about having kids and stuff, but there is no way they can have a biological child, which is a shame because he has some excellent genes. It just saddens me to know that his gene pool ends with him. It should be illegal or something! Okay, so that's it for my petty and ridiculous line of thinking.
4. Obligatory post about SOPA and PIPA. They're dumb...and better not pass.

Belated New Year's Resolution

I have always thought New Year’s Resolutions were just silly. I mean who really achieves their goals? Most of the time people's goal is to lose weight. I myself half-heartedly made that same resolution years ago, but never even really tried. At what point are you just making a resolution just because it's the thing to do?

   Well I'm actually going to follow through with mine this year, because it's nothing like I'm going to lose 50 lbs this year. I'm going to work out every day and eat healthy....yeah I'm not doing any of those things. I'm going to start writing and reading more often.

   I know my new position has been keeping me from my writing a lot more than I should have let it, but I'm going to turn that around. Starting now I'm going to come out with at least one blog a week. I'm going to dedicate at least 4 hours to my novel a week as well.

   I also want to start reading more. I already joined Stayla's book club, so that should be a huge help right there. I'm currently working on reading two books at once and a work buddy of mine, we'll call him Juiz, loaned me a book as well. So I have a grocery list of books to read at the moment.

   So please wish me luck in my New Year's Resolution as I think I'm going to need it. I'm pretty sure between my new position at work and my niece visiting me this Summer my hands are going to be pretty full.