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Ok, my turn for drama. I got a little phone call on my work cell Thurs at 6:11pm.
I work nights as a super. My normal schedule is 6pm to 6am, Sun, Mon Tues. This would be great for playing weekend gigs but I have not used to my advantage as I'm still too busy with covering shifts/working OT, etc. Sometimes I have some time to take during my break and I had a guitar stashed behind a file cabinet in a little room postal clerks use for weighing and figuring postal statements. It is about the size of a bathroom Its just off the dock area and the production floor where I work. I have carried one in my car on occassion to work out inspirations if I should get them and have time to do it. I sometimes use it when I wait in the line at the drive thru at the bank etc..
The main reason why I took it out of my car that night was that it was getting cold here overnight. I also thought I may have time to play it on my breaks to work on the ideas but I never got the chance as I was to just to busy.
However,when I was in high school...a guitar was pretty much attached to me. I had one in my locker at school and I used a practice room in the band area for personal use. So when everyone else was eating lunch...I was saving calories and practicing guitar. I sometimes had an hour free in the morning or time off for study, and I usually played guitar. I sometimes skipped class or gym,... you get the idea.
Well I never got the time to play any at work save for maybe three chords. I weighed judgement on whether I should leave the guitar there on my days off and it had gone a couple days w/o notice before, so I left it there for a few days.
Well now I have a note from my bosses boss saying he has it in his office.. safe of course. My boss and I had a few phone minutes over this. I had signed up to work OT outside of my normal work week/shift. The day this was found I called early in the AM to cancel my volunteered OT on my bosses company voicemail after working 10 hours OT the previous day. It seems they were going to confront me about this when I came in to work that evening. Turns out the boss "missed that one" on my message I left on his system (we've had previous problems over this and his lack of checking voicemail-he doesn't even have his cell voicemail setup after a little problem we had with that)
The thing that irked me was he accused me of a bunch of footprints and mud splatters on the wall...I know it was baseless and told him as such and said I noticed it too, which I had.
I just said, "I would hope you know me better than that."
My boss was kind of a dick about it. The funny thing is...people grill hotdogs just off the dock during the summer on major extended breaks-(like an hour). The press operators play chess when the press is not needing attention sometimes..so my crime? A guitar stashed away..ooo boy. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]
I work nights as a super. My normal schedule is 6pm to 6am, Sun, Mon Tues. This would be great for playing weekend gigs but I have not used to my advantage as I'm still too busy with covering shifts/working OT, etc. Sometimes I have some time to take during my break and I had a guitar stashed behind a file cabinet in a little room postal clerks use for weighing and figuring postal statements. It is about the size of a bathroom Its just off the dock area and the production floor where I work. I have carried one in my car on occassion to work out inspirations if I should get them and have time to do it. I sometimes use it when I wait in the line at the drive thru at the bank etc..
The main reason why I took it out of my car that night was that it was getting cold here overnight. I also thought I may have time to play it on my breaks to work on the ideas but I never got the chance as I was to just to busy.
However,when I was in high school...a guitar was pretty much attached to me. I had one in my locker at school and I used a practice room in the band area for personal use. So when everyone else was eating lunch...I was saving calories and practicing guitar. I sometimes had an hour free in the morning or time off for study, and I usually played guitar. I sometimes skipped class or gym,... you get the idea.
Well I never got the time to play any at work save for maybe three chords. I weighed judgement on whether I should leave the guitar there on my days off and it had gone a couple days w/o notice before, so I left it there for a few days.
Well now I have a note from my bosses boss saying he has it in his office.. safe of course. My boss and I had a few phone minutes over this. I had signed up to work OT outside of my normal work week/shift. The day this was found I called early in the AM to cancel my volunteered OT on my bosses company voicemail after working 10 hours OT the previous day. It seems they were going to confront me about this when I came in to work that evening. Turns out the boss "missed that one" on my message I left on his system (we've had previous problems over this and his lack of checking voicemail-he doesn't even have his cell voicemail setup after a little problem we had with that)
The thing that irked me was he accused me of a bunch of footprints and mud splatters on the wall...I know it was baseless and told him as such and said I noticed it too, which I had.
I just said, "I would hope you know me better than that."
My boss was kind of a dick about it. The funny thing is...people grill hotdogs just off the dock during the summer on major extended breaks-(like an hour). The press operators play chess when the press is not needing attention sometimes..so my crime? A guitar stashed away..ooo boy. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]
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