the color orange....is now part of my past. i have served my time and learned many things at the hell depot. finally on saturday december 8, 2007 i was able to put it all behind me. i threw in the towel and called it quits 2 weeks prior to saturday and patiently waited for saturday to arrive. and boy oh boy when it did, my grin was ear to ear. i was probably the happiest person in that store that day. i counted my time, hour by hour then minute by minute. i said my good bye's...hugged those that i care about and shook hands with those i couldnt wait to leave.
having been at home depot for over a year i was able to meet new people and create bonds with those that i care for. i have met quite a crowd there, and only a handful i have promised myself to keep in touch with...just a handful. i have an almost new best friend and definitely a confidant. these people have really got me through the worse at home depot and have definitely laughed with me and cheered me on when i succeeded in something. i walked away from home depot with an air of confidence.
jenn had definitely made it a memorable last day by shrink wrapping my truck...never thought they'd do it to me, but they definitely found my truck and wrapped it. then in my last hour, tony and jenn tapped me to a chair and shrink wrapped me and rolled me all over the front end....a departing gesture meaning they will me miss....i think. i will definitely miss some people there, but i no doubt am very happy that i am no longer in customer service dealing with customers one-on-one. no more retail for me. btw, you can check out those shrink wrap pictures on my flickr account. they are all posted there. having the home depot now behind me....
i started monday with a brand new start at kaiser. my first day....was....hectic. there was a lot of information that was presented to me. i hope to have retained a lot of it. i hope! i trained with a pretty cool lady...jeannie...she's a lot older, but she was a cool cat. unfortunately i wont be with her tomorrow....i'll have to rotate onto someone new. the system they work with is pretty complex, but with the right training i plan to master it.
kaiser is definitely something different that home depot. i am not able to have my cell phone on or i'll be written up. i have little access to the outside world..right now at least. i hope to have my own extension by sometime next week. i do, however, have my own cubicle. i must say, i have a pretty damn cool cubicle. i need to decorate in and around it. i definitely need to put up a photo of me and daniel so all them damn dudes hitting on me today know I GOT A MAN! i'm spoken for fools! and if you aint leave me alone you'll be answering to my honey.
anyway, kaiser is a real cool place. the people are extremely friendly and helpful. they have all kinds of incentives to work hard. they have competitions and reward you with amex gift cards, they seem to always have pot lucks, managers always provide cookies and brownies, and management walks around and actually shows you they give a shit about you. which i think is really nice. i feel like i'm part of the company and not just the bitch doing the grunt work to get things done. i look forward to working at kaiser and taking full advantage of any benefits they have to offer me. .... wish me luck in my endeavors.
