Throwback: Cube Dreams, not taking applications....

The man got me down today, having the nerve to make me work, so today I will post a throwback blog that I absolutely love, please enjoy & comment if you'd like.

Originally posted 9/3/08:



This post has nothing to do with anything, but was inspired by this random as hell convo Tiha and I had yesterday after reading a post from craigslist,so just bear with my silliness! Let's just call it an early random Thursday, if ya gona be random you might as well be consistently random, that makes no sense so I am gonna shut up and just get to the damn blog......Here is part of the convo:

T 2U: i'm filling out ridiculously long applications
Alise: ugh, applications
T 2U: i think you shouldnt have to give all this info until they have an interest
in you
Alise: if (and when) I have my own business there will be no applications
Alise: you'll have to send me the link to your blog and send me a playlist of your favorite songs
Alise: to work at the "Incense & Shit Emporium"
T2U: All that from the craigslist post I sent you?
Alise: inspiration comes in weird ways
Alise: and from weird people
T 2U: thanks!

I arrive at work and sit in my ergonomically f*cked swivel chair, turn on the CPU and begin the monotony that is WORK. But on this day the Cucicle Crusader forgot her Starbucks, d'oh, so she's feeling sleeeeeeeeeeeeeepy... she "rests her eyes" for just a second and this is what happened.... UnTrue Story...

Okay, cue the smoke machine and gentle harp.... actually just press play and enjoy the nice song
"Dreams", by Little Brother
.... (Peep the chorus, "Mama I got dreams, but dreams don't keep the lights on...")

Wait, I 'll be right back we have to have a meeting on whether the smoke machine is in the budget......

tick tock....
Ok I'm back.... but suddenly I notice that I am on the corner of Moreland and Euclid (Little 5 Points, ATL). I guess I'm not in Kansas North-Cacalacky anymore... works for me. And I am reciting poetry (shameless plug poem here:
)with a guitar and Tiha is behind me with a tambourine doing adlibs like Jeezy. I glance back in the storefront window and notice my locs are bright red and wild, there is an piercing in my eyebrow, and I have on a thousand different colors and the baddest shoes on the face of the planet, yeah planet..... I look up at the sign in the storefront window: "Alise's Liquor, Incense & Shit Emporium"... (ALISE)... Word! I own this shit! A sista walks past after noticing the Help Wanted sign in the window and asks me for an application... but this ain't no motherfriggin cubicle, so I politely to ask her to write down the link to her blog and to send me a sample playlist of all her favorite songs, if that ain't a judge of character then I don't know what is! The crackberry rings playing "Hip Hop" by dead prez as the ringtone........and... and.. and....

"Ring, ring", jolted from a fabulous daydream Alise answers the phone.... the voice on the other end says, "Are you coming to the production meeting?"....le sigh......

R&B Amber Alert and Management

*"The closed sign on my door, I had to tear it down!"

I love this song.... I miss songs with minmal production and sans Pro Tools and shit, le sigh. When not only could the female performers sing, but they could saaaing... so big up to Miki Howard and 'nem....

Ok, a moment of silence for 80's & 90's R&B....... Now pour out a little liquor into my red cup...

So, of course the title of song brings me to the topic of management, but my management NOW is not bad as it could be, I mean I could be working for Diddy's bitch ass, digressing and shit, but it came from a mighty long way.... I found a blog I wrote a whiiiiiiiiiile ago about the manager I had about 2-3 years ago at my current job... here it goes:

1/30/06
I used to not believe the old saying that one bad apple spoils the bunch UNTIL I worked this job. I never knew how bad just one person and their negativity could affect so many people. My supervisor is the devil incarnate (and that is an understatement). At first I thought it was just me letting someone get to me, but this person had everyone rubbed the wrong way with her LIES, DECEIT, NEGATIVE ATTITUDE, INCONSIDERATION FOR HARD WORK(ERS), ETC........ But karma is very interesting because it is starting hit her in the workplace and in her personal life, funny how it works that way, and it is really going to hit her when I find a new job and I leave without anyone in the whole company trained how to do my job (including her), and I actually have been contacted about some jobs actually making more money, then she will see the err of her ways but it will be too late, because at this point all the reconciliation in the world will not keep me here. This place is wearing me down, and I am too hard and smart of a worker to waste it here and be stressed everyday, I just can't do it anymore, fed up is not strong enough of a word to express how I feel (and everyone else here too!, people who have been on this job 5-6 years are on the job hunt too because of this virus........) Wish me luck in my job hunt and interviews.........

I was feeling some kind of way... and the day after I wrote this blog I did something I have never done and hope I never will or have to do again and not to mention totally out of character... I cussed that lady out and called her everything but a child of God, yezzir... she got fired a few weeks later and I got her job .....



*Reality's a bitch and I heard that she bites! (c) Common

Do you readers have some interesting run-ins (good, band and/or funny) with management? Talk to me people!