So I Still have a Job!

So today was the day, I started my morning off as a Market Manager. I had 18 stores and 60 employees. I had to do multi store management deal with call offs for stores that were sometimes 2+ hours from my house. I also had to deal with doing schedules and the day to day bullshit of aforementioned 60 people. Now at the close of the day I am once again just a studio manager. oh whoa is me. I now only have one store and 2 employees. My new working hours are from 10 am to 6 pm. And this studio is only 20 mins from my house. I'm not sure what I will do now that I don't have to drive 1200 miles a week!!!! Oh and the best part of this whole thing they are letting me stay at my current pay. HMMMM let me think 1 store vs 18 , 2 employees vs 60 , 200 miles a week vs 1200 a week, and I get to keep my current salary and now get my commission back ummmm yeah I think I 'll take it.
I am just re leaved to have a job and the fact that I am going to be shooting more pictures makes this a Sweet deal for me this has definitely turned into a win for me.

ERG!!!!!

So I remember the last time i blogged saying that I was not going to stress about my work situation. I lied i lied big time. It is starting to really get to me. I have been short with my children, short with my mother and also short with my wife. I know that stressing doesn't help but damn it is driving me crazy. I just need to know if i have a job and who I work for. I love my current boss, she is great with the whole GAY issue or should I say non gay issue. I just need to know if she is still my boss or after 8 years do I have to start proving myself all over again. I am so not sure that I am up to this, not with the same company. It would be different if I had changed jobs by choice or left for a different company. I just need to know the waiting is driving me crazy. OK enough bitching time for a drink.

That is so gay!

So today at work it happened i had finally had all i could take I was at one of my stores that I don't get to very much. This store as one of only 2 men that work for me. we had had a good day so far no technical probs with the new system that was installed. I was working with a corporate installer who was a bit of a pig but again I don't deal with alot men so sometimes I forget they are just wired differently. But anyway this gentleman that works for me was having some sort of issue with our system and didn't get how a certain feature worked when out of no where he yells " that is so gay". The girl that was working with us slapped this arm and just looked at him. I calmly turned to him and told him I would not tolerate that again. it created a hostile work place I didn't care for and that if I ever heard that comment from him again I would ask him to clock out and leave my store. He just stared at me. Apparently he did not understand that I am gay.. I don't see how but I told him that I do not tolerate any type of hate speech and would do the same if he use other not nice words. His statement was I would never use the N word or anything. Which brings me to my point...


Why is it OK to single out the "gays" We are people too and just standing up to this ignorant man made me feel better. I was talking to the young lady that was there with us as we drove home and I told her I thought that maybe I just have a lower tolerance for men since I don't deal with them that often. she just laughed. I know that we as a community have a long road ahead of us but I have decided that at least with the 50 or so people that work for me I will have a gay friendly zone or they can find other employment. I have to work to feed the family and I will do it in an environment that is at least tolerant even if they don't like it!
latters,
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