Been a long time since I posted on here again...work and school and group projects and programs to write...I really need a good break from it all. The stress is getting to me. I've got a group project that I am working on that is the majority of my grade in my class and 3 of the 4 members have their portion of the paper done and turned in to each other. That includes me. I am also putting all of it together and making a power point to go with the speech we have to give about the company. I hate waiting on people to do the things they were supposed to do a week ago. The excuse is that she has had internet problems. Well if that is the case, way back in the 1988 era, they invented these things called "floppy disks" that were used as a portable storage device apart from a hard drive so that files could be transfered from one PC to another without direct connection or over the network or such. Nowadays, floppys are even called OLD! There are SOOOO MANY FRIKKIN WAYS to get a FILE to someone else's computer! HECK! PRINT IT OUT! Someone can re-type it in! Do something so that I do not have to sit here and wonder if their segment missing means I get an A or an F! "GROUP" Project, not "Screw you guys" project! Frustration one addressed....now for two. Seems my job is getting more stressful because the upper management wants to see how they can improve things. So, over the course of a week, we had to ship out about 25% of our higher priced items (high end laptops and desktops and almost all of our TV's) because out store had a SKU reduction. Basically, they want to give us less options to sell, hopefully to increase sales and also increase attachment rates of products with other products. Dunno how that actually works, but heck. Let's put this into another market... "Welcome to our BMW dealership! What model did you want? Oh, I'm sorry! We got this one. It's the same thing, right? What's wrong with a used Geo? We put the BMW logo on it! Come on...buy our warrenty too!" Stupid...just stupid....Plus, I had to work on a few weekend Saturdays that I never work in this position. Not to mention the Sunday meetings they had for 3 weeks strait in there too....yes, at one point...7 days of work...plus the usual 5 after that. *grumble* Issue 2.5. Since our store is not selling as well as the head guys think they should be, they decided that things need to be switched around. No...don't leave something alone and repair it...nope...start taking out parts and replacing them with completely diffrernt ones to see if that fixes it. Basically, they took the general manager of some other store and switched him with our store's manager. Yea...now we all have this new boss that we have NO IDEA how he wants things, who is just not at work for one day at all, and also who is not talkative to anyone at anytime. Why the hell do they think this will help? Maybe this issue will take out minds off the previous fifty!? Finally, issue 3. So, after such a crappy week, and after not really getting a good chance to enjoy myself on the weekend for the past 3 weeks...I work hard and duck my head and just trudge on into my job expecting to get my reward at the end of the week. Welp, nope. Sorry. We need you to do this extra job for an extra few hours after your usual job. What? Extra pay? Overtime pay? No way! And for that reward? Sorry, out of commission. Nothing we can do about it. No happy ending here. No grand finish. They all didn't live happy together. More like a plane crash ending where there's a big explosion and then the screen blanks to... "THE END" and you leave the theater wondering why you just spent $6 and 2 hours of your time waiting on that. *sigh* I'm just upset that I don't get what I worked so hard to get to...I can't be mad at the prize, just mad at the journey that I did to not get what I wanted. Sure, you can say I expect too much to get something for everything I do. Well, I do when it is promiced to me, when I get hints that this prize will come, and then in the final hour it's a no-show. Anyone can be dissapointed about that. Just need to vent about being upsent and move on...wait until the next time you have a chance at that prize. I should really find a good way to let out more of this stress I build up. Better yet, I need to find a way to not be anywhere near it. Wish I could make time to make sollutions for my problems, but the problems don't give me that liberty to do so...Such is life, huh? I think after this semester, I am really considering just taking a semester off and using that time I usually have for clas to find a new job. Sadly, I need that degree to get a really good job...thus the circle of death turns over this poor soul. I shut up now...I should sleep or something.