029A Study in Contrast

posted by Jiggy on June 23rd, 2007

I have been riding a roller coaster the passed few days. Wednesday I received a visit from the president of the company and a few other higher ups. They were impressed and had nothing but good things to say about me and my staff. This sent me flying through the roof! I felt that what I have been busting my ass for over the past 10 months might be paying off, that maybe this visit would help me get the promotion I put in for. For those of you who I hadn’t gotten the time to tell, about a week and a half ago I put in for a theater the would have moved me to Fayetteville GA. I thought this visit would do nothing but help me. Well, to be honest it did but I was so far behind the other canditates that it wouldn’t have done much anyway. Of course I didn’t learn this till Thursday when the roller coaster took a sharp nose dive. I was fed the line about not having enough experience to run a location like that. Normally a rejection like that doesn’t really hurt too much because in my business you will always be turned down way more than you are accepted. As the night went on and all my work was getting done I ran into the startling fact that it looks like some who works for me is stealing. So now I am forced to look for who this person is requiring more time I have to spend at work. This would have made it a somewhat shitty night on its own but things were still going to get worse. As the weekly and up to date monthly numbers started rolling in things were looking worse and worse. All the hard work I have been putting in seems to be slipping away from me. If I ever hope to be able to move on from here I have to re-focus myself and do more. This theater has ended the careers of the two managers before me and I refuse to let the same thing happen to me. I will figure this out, and hopefully soon enough for the roller coaster to swing skyward before it runs out of momentum.