…you’ll probably move right through me on my way to you.

Like OneRepublic I apologise. Not because my songs are played over and over and over, but because I’ve not posted for a while. Mainly because…. well, work and the evil that is the new boss.

She’s been “with us” for coming up to a month now and I probably still despise her as much as a I did when she started, in fact maybe a little more. I don’t think I’ve ever worked for someone so… frustrating. Someone that wont let me do my job, or at least someone who obviously doesn’t trust that I can do my job. Maybe it’s just because I’m used to my superiors; all having a bigger knowledge of the business than me, employing me and having faith in my ability to do my job and not making my job harder by changing things that should be done by myself so that I’m almost in a state of confusion wondering what has changed.

Whilst I’ve been a sales manager I’ve understood my job to have control of the sales floor and to use my expertise within the travel retail environment to help drive sales, support the sales team and to create a environment that is consistent with the company brand. And in a sense when I was sales supervisor at Leicester and Nottingham this was pretty much the same as there was no sales manager at these locations. The relationship with the store managers have always been that they suggest changes they want to happen, moves they want to make, staff they need to improve and I would “make it happen.” And I’ve always felt that way worked well. I got the direction from “up above”, the job would get done and they didn’t have to do it themselves so that they could concentrate on the things a store manager should be concentrating on and I get a sense of pride because even though I’ve followed instructions I’ve added my own flair to my shopfloor. And (never one to be big headed!) it’s worked well. Every store I’ve worked at has consistently been within the top 5 on the company for Counter Selling, which is one of the simplest/quickest ways to measure how well store is pushing. We’ve always been selected for store trials of new initiatives because, I assume, head office has had confidence that the managerial/store team can implement it.

Anyways, that’s just me ranting because… well, that’s what I do when I’m pissed off. I’ve been toying with the idea of leaving the store, leaving the company or sticking it out over the past couple of weeks and I’m still not 100% on what I’ll do, there’s pros and cons to each option. If I stay I can have the opportunity to smugly grin when it all goes tits up and piss her off more than she could ever piss me off. If I leave the store and go to another airport it’s the jump I’ve been wanting for a while. If I leave the company it gives me the chance to change direction and maybe find something a bit more related to computing. Of course the last option is the most risky and, obviously, most scary as I’ve got no certificate or formal qualifications I can wave and say hire me and it could all fail big time. If I stick it out then people tell me there is the worry that I could get the sack but as far as I’m concerned as long as I turn in every day, do my job to the best of my ability and don’t have any conduct issues then I can’t be fired.

Now I’ve got that off my chest I’ll try not to talk about work for a while! Here’s five songs that I’ve been playing quite a bit lately.

The Last Goodnight - Poison Kiss
Everyone is juggling hearts
You think that you never make a mistake
You say, you say
Everyone else is to blame

I mentioned TLG last november. I’ve since purchased their album and found that Pictures of You is slightly different than most of the songs on the album, I think the rest of the songs have a distinct Maroon 5 feel, not that that is a bad thing of course. Definately sounds good on decent speakers or through some nice Sennheiser headphones.

Finger Eleven - Paralyzer
I hold out for one more drink
Before I think, I’m looking too desperately
But so far has not been fun
I should just stay home

So this song has been playing a lot on *plug*The new KMGX, The Internet’s Music Alternative*end plug*. It has a bit of a Franz Ferdinand “Take Me Out” feeling to the beat, but that might just be me. The video is pretty cool though with dudes in suits dancing on the street in an almost Thriller like thing. Apparently about the lead singer’s inability to talk to women.

Third Eye Blind - Never Let You Go
I never let you turn around your back on each other
That’s a good idea, break a promise to your mother
Turn around, let’s trun on each other
Good idea, break a promise to your mother

They only seem to have live versions on YouTube, here’s a not live one. Anyways, old song. But I love it. Again, heard it lately on the internet radio which made me go “ooh, I haven’t heard that in ages.”

The Last Goodnight - Stay Beautiful
Post cards, throwing darts, side kicks and super marts
Break dance, second chance, I will run to you
Sideways, back and forth, wake up, hit the floor
Oh no, where’d you go, I will come to you

Okay, I cheated by putting in another song by the Last Goodnight but I’m late and listening to that CD a fair bit, so sue me. No, don’t. More poison kisses in this song too and, of course, a cute girl never hurts.

The Rasmus - Not Like Other Girls
She lives in the clouds
She talks to the birds
Hopeless little one
She’s not like that other girls I know

She’s not like the other girls that I know, true. And… shit I’m late!

I must go to work and face the dragon of my dreams.

I never let you go
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