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I don’t like the new chick. She’s one of those icky, talkie, talkie, uber bitch chicks. I dunno. She’s the type of woman you’d see at a bar with a group of friends drinking beer in glasses, listening to Dave Matthews Band, dating a guy who wears khakis and plays golf. Maybe she was a sorority girl in college, but now she’s career girl and is all about being an assertive woman. She just irks me. Maybe the reason why I dislike her right now is that she called me “Val” this morning. I hate that.

She’s just like my boss and the sales rep I dislike, she’s a total sales person. So anyway I was at that tech faire thing with my boss and she, my boss, goes “You notice how Kimberly is just like Rox?” and I’m like “yep, now it’s 3 against 1″… she laughed. It’s so incredibly true.

People are really annoying me today. I dunno what it is. Maybe it’s the fact that they complain and don’t come up with solutions for their complaint or try to do anything about it. Do I do that? Do I complain and whine and then just sit in it? I know that I’ve complained about jobs in the past, or about certain aspects of my jobs and I’ve tried to come up with stuff to fix the problem or make it better. Companies are retarded which is all the more reason to get out and start my own. See I complain about that, about working for other people, about the fact that I don’t want to be copying papers forever, ’cause I’m worth WAY more than that, but yet I have plans on how I’m going to get out of it. At this point its all about money, trying to figure out how to get more. That’s why this whole pay event thing has me concerned about my life here at this company. I shall cut & paste what I wrote to Jamie, to save myself some time.

At work… so get this… April is our “Pay Event” month, which means that it’s the month where they decide if you’re getting a raise or not, or even a pay cut. They compare our jobs to others in our market to see if we’re getting paid too much or not enough, if it’s not enough then they’ll tell our boss that they can give us a raise if they feel its right after evaluating our performance, but if the market is getting paid less than we are then they could actually cut our pay. They did this last year and there was a guy here who was a producer (web site manager/updater person) and they cut his pay so he quit, which is why they hired me… it’s interesting… when I found all of this out it was like a total revelation, it’s like, okay I get it now. Anyway, I’m not too worried about getting a pay cut, although when they hired me they were actually going to pay me less, but I told them I needed to be at the same level I was at at my previous job, so that’s what they gave me… so my thought is maybe that’ll be more than what other “sales assistants” are making, I dunno…its lame… I shouldn’t say that I’m worried about it, because if it happens it’s not the end of the world, I’ll just leave and find another job… the good thing about this job is that I got a bunch of experience using a lot of programs, like Adobe photoshop, illustrator, Dreamweaver… so that ups my stock a little… On the other hand I doubt that if they’re going by the market average or whatever that I’m going to get a raise, I mean if they said yes there’s room for a raise, and it came down to my performance I’d get the raise, but I don’t think that the pay for a sales assistant has gone up but if I’m wrong then whatever… I don’t think it’s fair though, I think a raise should be based on performance in general…

So yea.. back to why this pay event thing has me concerned. So if I just end up staying where I’m at then I’m fucked because I need to be continually moving up in pay every chance I get. So I’ve reposted my shallow personal assistant ads on Craigslist.

Ok, so the new chicky wants to have lunch with me. So freaking annoying… Go sell something, we don’t need to be best buds. UgH! I totally don’t want to have lunch with her. I put her off for now, but I guess I’m going to have to, although we’re having our sales staff meeting on friday, or the “just the girls” meeting as I’m thinking of starting to call it, so maybe we can have a heart to heart then so I don’t have to meet with her alone. Ugh!!! Leave me alone!! If you can see that I don’t want to talk to you, then don’t talk to me. Great.

I’m outta here.. yay