I figured I should post something new this morning. I left up the last two posts for 2 days, because I felt a bit strongly over it. I have my page set up to show 1 days post on the main page. It irks me to have to scroll and scroll and scroll some more. If I wasn't as passionate about the Safe Haven Issue, I would have waited a day to post it. I don't like my page to be cluttered. Ok, I admit it, I am obsessive, not to mention weird. I am, after all, awake at an UNGODLY! hour. (grumble)Freakin' 6:30 in the morning!(grumble more) I know it's not 6 am now, but man that's early. I go to sleep around 2 am or later.
Husband has to go to work early today. Mean Bitch, the kitchen manager, is on vacation this week. He's doing full day twice, and his buddy 3 times. I am so glad this is his last week. Without Mean Bitch and her waitress buddies saying mean things and giving him dirty looks, he'll be so much happier. We're going from 11.30/hr to 8.25/hr. It might be 8.50 he did talk the guy above 8.00 which is what he usually starts workers at. This line of work will be totally different. NO MORE RESTARAUNT HOURS! Off nights, Yeah! Off weekends! Allowed to go on vacation even if it is summer/tourist season, Even Better! I just walked him to the door. It's snowing, hard. Ok, well snow can't exactly snow hard but you know what I mean. Back on point. He's going to install boat docks. Something like that anyway. He may have to work late, but I don't care, I'm used to it. That and it will never be past dark. You can't install/fix stuff if you can't see. I may complain once in a while about not having enough money for things I want, however reality is I don't really care all that much. I get my monthly book, my internet, I'm happy. I mean, if I really was pissed off about it, I'd go get a job. However, I refuse to do this. I have reasons for this, 2 reasons: Mikel and Steven. I don't want them taken care of by a stranger. Hell, I have trouble letting them go over to their uncle's house so that my husband and I can go out. I know uncle and aunt take good care of my kids. That's the only reason I allow them to baby sit. It's funny, I used allow. ROFLMAO. I mean I want them to babysit for my convenience or whatever and I still, atleast in my head, use the word allow. I do not trust easily. I can be all sweet and sugar, and will be until you piss me off. However trust is different. Trust is me telling you things, I don't normally discuss. People have this tendency to think I want to hear their life story. Strangers seem to think I want to dispense advice over a problem they are having. I think I give off vibes. What do I do about it? AAAAHHHHH!!!! I listen to their problem and answer. (Smack the forehead, it's a DUH! moment.) I seem to have a unique way of stepping back and giving them a different insight into their problem. It's a curse. Crowds make me naseous and want to throw up. Stranger come up to me to do this and I'm shaking like a leaf. Shy, yes.
Next I will explain the hatemail thing. I have moved the button to the top of my sidebar. This way it cannot be missed. I added the alt=" " tag to the img src=" " code, before the />. (I sent them an e-mail for this. It's amusing, I had forgotten that my e-mails read as coming from my husband. This was done for his family. So now seven and whoever reads the e-mail think I'm a guy named Bill. I'm not, that's the husband's name. OOPS.) The alt tag, merely tells a browser that if picture is displayed, do nothing. If picture is not displayed, use alternate text. If you have a browser other than IE, you can check it out for yourself. In fact if you would like your page to be seen on any browser, you should download firefox or netscape or something. In fact, in this case, clicking on my alternate text words, you are sent to the hatemail site. However, if there is no anchor tag present I think you just see the image. It purposely loads because you purposely clicked it. Ok, Ok, on with the explanation. On the sidebar, at the right, you see a list of blogs I read. (I think it's time to add more to it, just haven't yet.) A few of those I am obsessive over. They make me laugh, as do the comments that are posted. So, I go around 3 to 4 times on any given day. Some days I really need to laugh. That's only when I can't get 'lost' in my books any longer. Around this weekend, I first became aware of some meanish comments on jack's blog. (I think he's not blogging anymore, his site only has one entry, everything else is deleted. Very sad, he was funny and made me proud of police officers in general. In my area our sheriff takes advantage of the fact that he's sherriff, his kid should be in jail, you know for drugs and whatnot. We also have a City officer that pulls people over for fun. No profiling, nothing like that, he just does it when he's in the mood to harass someone.) Now, when I read the comments, I was mostly clueless. Jack mentioned deleting a comment someone made at their request. I have never seen on his site, any censoring what so ever. Never any do not say your opinion by him or any commenters. Some jerks decided to go to her site and make hateful comments, and also send her hatemail. I am unsure how the 4 ladies got involved in the whole thing, it doesn't really matter. The point is there are quite a few jerks out there that feel it's perfectly ok, to harass the ladies. I do believe there was mention of death threats. Any way, there were some who saw the comments and/or e-mail. So, here come the knights in shining armor. It's so sweet. I still get warm fuzzies over it. No, I don't get hatemail, or even rude comments. Hell, I don't have many readers. Judy has lost her way and not been back in a while. (Side note: I turn 28yr only 15 days before she does. I find this amusing. A weird coincidence.) So I moved the button to the top, but left the link itself without the pic on my links section. This way, if anyone should come across here that may be having trouble with hate mail, they can go to the hatemail site and the 'crew' there will help and take care of it. They will post the hate e-mail, the address it came from, the IP, the name and where appropriate notify the proper authorities. Each one of the 'crew' has their own field of expertise. They are very capable of doing what they say. So if you have not yet, you really should 'clicky' on the button and see the site.
I did warn you my thoughts were fairly random today. Back to husband and his job. He is very good at it. He has been a line cook since he was 18, he washed dishes at 14. He is fast and good at what he does. Mexican food is what he knows. To give you a general idea, I will 'paint' a fair picture for you. A line cook is considered 'fast' if he/she can put together 2 tickets with 4 persons apeice. Okay in layman's terms, 8 dinner plates. Here after to be called 4 tops, 6 tops, whatever. He can have the whole dining room sat at once, and no one wait longer than 30 minutes for dinner. Picture dining room sitting around 200 persons. He has no trouble putting together 4 4-tops(16 dinners.) This means burritos, enchiladas, chimis, combos, what have you. No ticket ever has the exact same thing for everyone. Putting together a 15 top is no problem either. The big tables are usually the hardest. See, when dealing with smaller tickets, if there is food that takes longer, it can be manipulated a bit. Like steaks, or fajitas. A 4-top with four combo plates will be fixed and sent out before a 4-top with 1 fajita and 3 combo plates. Only because grilling the meat takes longer. He has an uncanny instinct on who's doing what, who needs help, when the meat on the grill has been turned and he can start the plates. Yes, as you can see, I worked with him. I was good at my job and learned to anticipate his needs. Get your mind out of the gutter! I did appetizers, so there were times I had free, where the line cook almost never does. I ran for beans, rice, cold line stuff whenever I had time. So, we cannot work together now, because mind reading is expected. When I'm busy I can't notice he's out of stuff. Long story. We met and married IN the restaraunt we were working at at that time. There are also basic rules for food in a restaraunt. The food must be x temp on the hotline. Food must be x temp in coldline, walk-in, freezer, etc. There must be lids on EVERYTHING. Meat can only be kept for 5 days after it is first cooked. These are health reasons, not just because I like it that way reasons. He was so frustrated with this. I went so far as to go to the State of MO Health Dept. Website and get exact info on what is unacceptable. You know the level at which your restaraunt gets SHUT DOWN! There are quite a few they were guilty of. These people smoke over the food. The women also have long hair, free. No ponytail, no braid, no hat, nothing. My husband finds more than one hair in the food, every day. He also throws out rotten food, that is on the line at the time. When food is on the hotline, that means they are feeding it to the customers! Their restaraunt has a consistent number of customers each day. They don't really fluctuate. They prep food say, tuesday: it will not be used until thursday at the earliest! So this tells you that the food that is served on saturday was more than likely prepped on thursday. Bear with me, there is a point. They are closed on sunday and monday. So, on saturday leftover food goes in the walkin. He has tried to get them to freeze it. So come tuesday, the food is on the verge of going bad, it's on it's fifth day. Remember, I said meat for 5 days from and including the first time it's cooked. No, they don't even use it all on that tuesday, they leave it for wednesday. Can you say food poisoning?! Yeah, the employees won't eat it, they know better. Yet, they still serve it. The owner knows this, but he still trusts his manager staff. I have to tell you, if the kitchen staff won't eat the food, it should not be served. I know the owner knows this. I gave him a folder of printed out materials from the health department. It was pointed out to him, he chose to ignore it. He hired my husband on the spot for 11/hour. That is not done here. An expirienced cook is hired at 8 to 9/hour. This tells you how 'in demand' my husband is. He is that good. The owner also allowed his employees to harass and abuse my husband. Mean Bitch, I want to break her nose. That is the expression I use for people that are mean to my family. However, I am fully capable of breaking it, if I thought I could get away with it. Like, not go to jail. They are lazy. My husband could get that kitchen so efficient they would do less work in less time, they just don't care. This is why I don't mind 8/hour. We can pay bills and feed the kids. I don't care. I want him to be happy. There have been a few jobs that ended up with the owner deciding to be rude and/or obnoxious to him. My husband is very laid back and will take a lot of abuse, just because he dislikes confrontations. One of said owners were yelling and screaming at him for things he had no control over, she knew he wouldn't give as good as he got. It's a long story. The only thing I have ever asked is that he have a job before he quits the current one. In fact, I am the one that encourages him to get a new one when that happens to him. No one deserves to be treated in this way. I'd rather not have my internet and books, in order for him not to come home upset every night. I'm just glad it's not necessary.
That's all for now, I may update later. |