To Whom It May Concern

"Employee 2704, report to the water torture room!!!

Well, Mack put in his two weeks last week, and was going to join Jason at a competitors warehouse, for 50 cents more an hour, but then he got offered a dollar an hour to stay here, so he took that offer instead. Bonus to this: Because I started when Mack did, I also got a one dollar an hour raise. Does 80 bucks every pay check help? Hell yes, but it doesn't make up for how shitty this job is so I'm still looking to quit soon.

Lenny has been screwing up lately at work, just like always, and today it caught up to him. Just to clarify, I like Lenny, but his systematic daily fuck ups have been grinding on me so badly that I can hardly stand to be around him lately, as sad as that sounds. I would suggest ways to improve what he is doing wrong and he would laugh as though it was a big joke, and if I pressed on he would start to get mad. Just to get one thing straight though, Larry is as hard a worker as anyone I have ever known at his age. He's 67 years old, and I just hope that when I get to be his age that I'm in as good of shape as he is, because it's amazing.

But he was better off on his daytime 6 hour drive, because after they canceled it, he was forced to work in the warehouse, and that transition hasn't worked for him, or anyone else, so today Art was forced to let him go. I know he didn't want to fire Lenny but you have to draw the line somewhere, and 3 screw ups yesterday that cost us a bunch of time and almost lost an account, enough was enough.

I talked a little to Lenny as he left, I could tell he was really upset, his eyes were a little blurry when he talked about how he had given 5 years to this company, but in all reality, he's going to be better off now. He didn't need this job, like most of us do, he just needed something to do with his time. Now I find myself sighing and thinking how much it stinks when someone gets fired, someone you didn't mind being around so much, just that he couldn't get the work done correctly. I guess I'm too soft about certain things, if I like someone I don't like seeing them go thru any pain.

Soooooooo, the question you are now asking, if you have read my previous writings about my job: Are they going to hire anyone? Well, yes they are. There is no way in hell they could possibly keep things going with just Art and three warehouse workers/drivers. 2 of us would be gone most of the day leaving only one person in the warehouse to take deliveries in town, and nothing would ever get put away/cleaned/repaired. So Monday next week they are going to hire someone, as we have been told now.

I get one week of vacation when I get to my one year anniversary at work, that being April 8th. I have given notice that I will be taking 2 days of that the 15th and 16th, and it's likely I'll use the other 3 days the next week. I wonder if you can guess what I'll be doing at that point? Hmm? If you said "looking for another job", DING DING DING, you are RIGHT!!

This company has never, in the one year that I have been here, had a company meeting with all the employees, to discuss ANYTHING!!! I've never seen such stupidity. Not once has the general manager (not Art, but the corporate baboon upstairs), done anything for anyone in the building, never bought pizza, never done anything for anyone's birthday, hell, I doubt he even knows my name. I hate this company and it will be none too soon when I find a new job.