What's Going on?

If you've wondered, I'm still alive. Here's a recap of what's going on lately... no nothing bad, which is probably why I haven't written as much lately.

Been to the casino 3 times since last post. Well, 2 and a half. I went one day for 2 hours made $175. Then went later that night with my brother and lost everything I made but a buck, and that was like 6 hours of poker. It was lame, but I kept playing even though I was tired and knew I wasn't playing well. At one point I thought about leaving and I would've been up the full 175. I don't think you should leave just because you are up, don't get me wrong. But I knew I wasn't playing well. I started getting bored and playing every hand.. that's bad. That's why I should've left. The latest time, I went was a few days ago, I lost 150$. I was card dead for the first 30 minutes. Then I get AJ in late position. Raise a few limpers. Flop comes Axx. guy bets into me 3 times, I felt like I should've got all in on the turn and it may have even scared him off his hand. But, I just called and he ended up showing over AQ. There was a K on the board and the guy was older and I've seen a lot of people like him scared with AQ. Even if I didn't raise I probably should've realized I was beat, for him to be betting. I think I just wanted to have the best hand. next hand 88 loses to AA and TT, blam. Losing session.

So, the casino not so good to me lately.

Work life. It's been kind of frustrating lately. Sales are doing better than they have been, so that's good. But dealing with upper management is really frustrating. Yesterday for example, It's 6 pm on a saturday. We expect to be busy. Friday is our busiest night, saturday is number 2. Well, things are going well, we are rocking. I have 4 drivers and an insider because I want good service times. I've spent the last 3 weeks trying to improve my service, because the OER auditor is due in at any time to inspect and some of the biggest points you can get are service points. Well, my boss comes walking in and you can tell right away shes in a bad mood. Immediately she asks "why so dead?" meaning the store is dead. I'm like, what no where not we're pretty busy. Then she looks to see how many workers I have on the clock. Apparently her boss sent her some nasty messages about labor and "what doesn't she understand about getting some people off the clock?" Meanwhile, our goal labor is 18%. My store at that time is running labor at 10%. And with as busy as we are it's not going to go up much more than that, by the time I planned on letting people go.

But, immediately it's you need to let this guy go, and this guy go. I was so pissed. Dinner rush lasts til about 8pm. I had to get down to 2 drivers by 630 pm. This of course causes lates and terrible service. I'm visibly upset and shes asks me why, so I tell her. She doesn't like my answer and leaves the store without even saying good bye. I told her I don't blame her, I know shes under pressure from above her. She apologizes and explains she doesn't know what to do about it. It's freaking stupid and ridiculous that these people are in a position to run a company. At meetings they love to talk about shit that they don't even allow. "Great service can increase sales by themself" How can we run great service when we aren't allowed to have enough employees? The best was when Mark, the owner started bragging about a guy in another franchise who gave away free american legends pizzas as part of a promotion and ended up increasing his sales through that over the next few weeks. Well, guess what I did that too, 1 day only. I got in trouble for it! They don't like sampling cuz it raises food cost. The people who run this place are the most narrowminded and two faced people I have ever seen. If I wasn't just in this for the experience I doubt I'd stay very much longer after last nite.

Other than that things are okay. I'm doing well in my fantasy leagues, this week I am 1st place overall again. I spent like 8 weeks at number 1 last year and ended up in 6th, so hopefully i have a better finish this season.

Still haven't met up with Ryan. He's still looking for an apt in stL. Was gonna have my home game this monday, then I realized we don't even own a table. So, ya, gotta find a table first. Yes I mean a kitchen table, not even a card table.

My wife has diarrhea. That was for her asking if I was blogging about her diarrhea. She'll enjoy that. :)