today has been a semi good day.
sometimes i really get annoyed with the guys who work for me. i bust their chops, they bust mine. i can dish it and i can take it just fine. it just really bugs me when i am "being the boss." I have an employee who is a great worker and works hard, but is kind of slow and slacks off here and there. last weekend i got a little angry with him with because he took forever doing his orders. so this carried over the weekend and onto monday afternoon. i asked him why he didnt do a simple task that he is required to do, and his response was "i ran out of time."

i told him his response was unacceptable. because it was. as much time as he wastes, he could have gotten it done. so i called him tuesday and confronted him about it. he was short with me. so lateron in the day i met up with him and he was really snippy with me, so i asked again what was wrong? and no answer. so being the guy who gets irritated when people ignore you, i made a comment to him, somehting along the lines of, "so what youre not going to talk to me because i yelled at you and asked you why you didnt perform your job?" and got no answer. This irks me more than anything, when people dont respond to questions. So i said fine, finish your job and go home, i dont need you the rest of the day.

Today i found out he was talking all kinds of shit on me to the rest of my guys. I don't take kindly to that. I like to be everyone's friend. But I need to be the boss first and foremost. I am off the next 3 days, but will make it a point to have a sit down with said employee about his actions.

this set me off to be in a pretty crummy mood for the day. I came home, ate some lunch and went back to work. There I had a conversation with a manager of my account who had put me in a better mood.

I cut the grass and cleaned up the backyard and picked up brianna from school. I'm about to make some dinner and then head to the mall with joe to pick up my tux for chris and jamie's wedding on saturday.

good times will be had this weekend.
i am excited for chris and jamie.
i am also excited to see dave and lindsey's newborn.


t-minus 9 days til Florida!