Boring AMs at Work

One of the earliest recordings of vampire activity came from the region of Istria in modern Croatia, in 1672.^[73] Local reports cited the local vampire Giure Grando of the village Khring near Tinjan as the cause of panic among the villagers.^[74] A former peasant, Guire died in 1656, however, local villagers claimed he returned from the dead and began drinking blood from the people and sexually harassing his widow. The village leader ordered a stake to be driven through his heart, but when the method failed to kill him, he was subsequently beheaded with better results.<sup>[75]


What kills me is that no one bothered to think that perhaps the husband had abused his wife in life and she just needed assurance that he was DEFINITELY dead.  I just feel like number 1 they were peasants, so people are automatically inclined to think poor people are difficult and number two he was probably abusive toward his wife.  Husbands in those days often were.


*Reference: wikipedia "vampires"


P.S.  "She is Nosferatu."  "She's Italian?"  20 points to the one who gets it.</sup>

Changes

My best friend at work, K.S-C, is abandoning me in 2 weeks.  I'm not mad, she's getting a job she wants so she can be happy.  That's super important to everyone, but I'm going to miss her.  She's the only person who is not only always nice to me (L is too), but K doesn't ever talk down to me and she always helps me, unless she's with a customer (and that's understandable).  I don't know how I'm going to get anything done in 2 weeks.  I don't think that I'll technically be allowed to call K once she leaves... work-related, I mean.  We're Facebook friends, so obviously we talk, but I think my manager would freak if I called K about work.

I just don't know what to expect.  K said that technically L defaults at the new head teller once she leaves.  There's a certain amount of experience required to become head teller (so I wouldn't qualify) and I feel as though my manager doesn't trust me, and I'm not sure she should.  I still feel like I bumble from time to time, so I wouldn't want to be in charge.  I think it took K a year to be HT because I have a 1,000 cash limit until 6 months and then after that I think I still have a limit.  I'm not sure I would even want to be HT.  There are a lot of things I need to think about (and not blog here in case this should be found by work people).

Jen - any thoughts?  I am definitely requesting your advice here.

Going into Week 2

Yesterday was my first Saturday, and instead of working with the manager (which was the original schedule) I had to work with the brand-new assistant manager who doesn't actually know how the teller system works.  At all.  I had a complete meltdown around 130 and the AM had me go in the back room to calm down.  The other part-time teller had come in to correct an issue with her drawer and helped me out, taking over the customers while I was chilling out.

I came out to prove my drawer at 2 (close) and the manager had come because the AM had told her about my break-down.  She told me I did fine and that technically it was the AM's fault, not to be mad at her.  She made me smile by the end, but I was not out until 230 and my dad had to sit in the parking lot waiting for me.  That's a whole other story, relating to car issues I've been having as of late.  Anyway, it was terrible and what bothered me most is that I was supposed to be helped (per the training instructor's specific instructions) until I really had the harder transactions down-pat.  I wasn't.

I'm also looking into a part-time gig at AT&T in Rensselaer because that's where my stepdad has his account and I would like a discount if I have to have service through a company I'm not entirely fond of.  Here's to hoping...

Bank Teller

So, it's interesting, I pretty much royally f-ed up my teller test for NBT.  I got a 93% on the written portion.  Pretty good, but a 39% on the practical.  I completely forgot that I was supposed to finish the scripts from class as they were part of the test.  Kari (the head teller, the girl training me) had to remind me because I was utterly confused by the score and Glo's explanation of it.


...I'll do more later.  I need to do something else.

Written While at Dinner Tuesday

While waiting for my dinner tonight I wrote this in my planner:


The PURSUIT of SELF KNOWLEDGE
   We spend our lives trying to fit a mold, be it society's, our own, our relatives, friends, lovers.  We spend our lives trying to be something and never succeeding.  We're told if we let go we can find contentment.  What if contentment is really just satisfaction in failure?


   Many great artists suffered their [entire] lives due to their dissatisfaction  with failure.  They refused to do anything displeasing to them, anything that degraded/ made them less than an artist.  You could say they led miserable lives because they never knew face, wealth, or even comfort, but they had the satisfaction of knowing they were true to themselves.


Perhaps when the forefathers promised us "the pursuit of happiness" they actually meant the right to be self-aware and confident in that.  If we could know who we are, what we want, strive for those things, and actually end up happy that would just be a fantastic little bonus, but if not we could always have the knowledge that we gave ourselves our all [because at the end of the day that's the best we can do and sometimes the only person we can please].