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| Here is another chapter in my life. It has come to change. Change. I hate change. So Bombay has not been profiting for the past 3 years and in March, they began looking for someone/a company to buy the company. We knew about that and thought that we would get bought out and turned things around. So obviously, no buyer and Bombay filed for bankruptcy back in September, with hopes that a buyer would come and take over. Well we found a buyer, but the buyer is a liquidation company. Last Friday all employees were informed that Bombay is no longer owned by Bombay and all rights to the company is now owned by Gordon Brothers Liquidation. The Monday after it was released and Wednesday, we had the store moved around; all Bombay signage disposed us, and the liquidation signage out up. Our regional manager has already been let go, and out District manager probably within the next week. We now report to the liquidator who I do not like. So I have wanted to get a new job for the past 9 months now. Over the summer, I have had a few interviews, my resume is updated and ready to go, and I have also been working with a job locator to help me find that perfect job. Now I can not leave on my terms, I am forced to get out and find a job now. This is a good thing; Bombay is kicking my ass out the door to move on. I am glad that I get to move on to bigger and better things. I will greatly miss everyone that I have worked with over the past 5 years; we have developed into a Bombay family. Even though I have hated work for the last couple months, I did like it; I stayed for 5 years. I started when the store was opening; my first day of work was the day before we opened, and now I am closing the store. I have learned so much. But this is not how I wanted it to happen. Not this way. Now the hunt is on, I know what jobs I do not want. I do not want to work in retail, I do not want to work at a call center, however I do want a job where that is fast pace and ever changing and where I am moving around (not sitting in a cubical). Change. I hate change. I need to change, in the past; change has brought me to bigger and better things. Here is to how fare I have come, and to how fare I am going. Bombay Co. stores to shut down Thursday, October 18, 2007 3:45 AM FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS The Bombay Co. stores at Easton Town Center and Polaris Fashion Place are preparing to shut down after the retailer announced this week that it is closing all of its U.S. stores. Most store employees will be retained through the holidays, Bombay told the Star-Telegram of Fort Worth, Texas, where the company is based. The 384 U.S. stores and outlets will close by the end of January, affecting 3,600 workers, the newspaper said. Twelve of those stores are in Ohio. The company did not return calls seeking comment on its plans for the central Ohio stores. Bombay filed for bankruptcy in September and sold its U.S. inventory in a bankruptcy auction last week. A group consisting of retail investment firms Gordon Bros. Retail Partners, of Boston, and Hilco Merchant Resources, of Northbrook, Ill., made the winning bid of $105 million. Fifty Canadian stores will remain open while they are acquired by Bowring and Benix, which operates Bowring, a Canadian home-goods company, and Benix & Co., a housewares chain. The Bombay Co. competes in the home-furnishing segment that includes chains such as Crate & Barrel, Pottery Barn and Target. In March, the company announced it was looking for a buyer and would close 75 stores by the end of the year. | | |
| Well it seems I have left my xanga page get dusty once again. I don't know, I guess I always update xanga when things are not going so well in my life, and here it is. I hate my life right now. The only good thing that is going for me is I have a new condo and it is 100% mine. I move in in the beginning of September, now my parents house has been emptied out and I have the condo filled with everything that is mine. All that I still need to do to my place is paint. School is school. I don't really like my Landscape class but I think i might like it better maybe in the future once I learn a little more and we get out of the basic shit. I just wish I would decide what I want to do with my life and get these classes out of the way so I can get a real job. On the subject of a job. I hate work. I would have quit but I can't now that I have to pay for my condo. My manager is a fucking dickhead. I hate him, he has such double standards and is not the person who I want to be working for. After finding out that he is mad at me for not being able to work on Tuesday or Thursday nights because of school and telling other employees that he can hire someone else to do my job. I should have open availability because I am a manager. Well let me tell him something. Everyone has an availability, we work around his when he has his fucking kid for a weekend or a day, he comes in late and leaves early for that shit. He tells me that I can't have a day off because someone needs to work and that this is my job. Well it is his job to and he is that manager of the store and that is his dam job. It makes me feel really nice that he says that he can hire anyone to do my job. I am his assistant manager who has worked for him for 4 years and has been running the store for the past summer and has been taking care of issues that has come up. I won't feel bad leaving for another job. You know right before christmas, we are already short staffed and he can loose his assistant too. Then he has the nerve to ask me to make some things on my computer for the store on my time. HELL NO I am not doing anything outside of work. I don't get paid enough for that shit. Everything and all my time that I have spent this past year making things for the store and for the district, none of that has paid off. for me. I can't even get a raise. So I am getting out of their, I don't give a shit about it. | | |
| Well well well. Its been a long time from my last update, and boy oh boy has stuff happened. Lets start with work.
Work has bee going. After a successful visit from our regional manager, the Vice President of US stores and the president of Canada stores we had to switch it out and start our fall floor set. We had to set our floor three weeks early and we had our regional manager come again, District managers from the region and the Vice president of store operations visit to see the new floor set. After that successful visit my manager left for Detroit to set some stores up their and this Sunday I have to have a walk through our store with all the managers in our district to see. So after this weekend is over I will be taking a break and some vacation time because I am sick of being left to be the only manager working at the store.
Lets move onto home. the house is coming but I still am not happy with it. Maybe once more of the finishing touches get done and I get all my decorating done I will be ok with it, but I already have been thinking Christmas.
The love life (as the B-Smith would say) is still no wear to be found. The hunt is still on.
Well I am going to get to bed. I have been at work all day today, I clocked out today and already had 43 hours in and I still have a 9 hour shift tomorrow. Hear comes the overtime. yippee.
toodles. | | |
| So I have gotten back into my routine of not updating.
I don't know what is going on. I have no control of how things are working in my life. I don't know what to do about home, work, and school. I have lost control and it has gotten to the point where I dread every new day. | | |
| Well I am back from Florida and I am glad to be home again. My grandparents are getting older and it is becoming a working vacation, but I still got to lay by the pool most of the time.
The Family Stone came out on DVD today and I so want to get it, along with Last Holiday.
Ok back on focus. So we sold our house. It was on the market for a week and it sold so now we are franticly working at the new house to get it ready to move in, but it will not be ready by May 23rd. So I am going to be living with my sister for the time being. I don't know how that is going to work out because lately we have been spending a lot of time together again and getting on each others nerves, oh well it will be ok. So I have been going over to the house before and after work and on my days off. My life is revolving around that right now, but with the little that has been done it looks a lot better. The vanity that I ordered for the powder room came today, We are now waiting on the Sofa and Chair and ottoman, Then another vanity will be coming. I can't wait to see it all when it is finished. I have been working on the landscaping a lot because it is something that I know I can do and it is easy and I like it, I just wish I took pictures before but oh well it is looking better everyday. Anyway I have been so tired of working all day, my hole system of doing nothing on my days off has been ruined.
Work sucks! I still hate it and want to find another job, but what? I have gotten so sick of doing things that I should not have to do and do not get paid to do. I am being worked too much and am sick, I am sick, sick, sick, and when I'm not sick, I am tired, I am sick and tired! Of putting up with everything their. I hate customers, I want to get out of retail so much so I do not have to deal with people. They fucking suck and when they are mean to me I am mean back to them and don't want to help them and don't care. I am going to start requesting more days off, and I don't give a dame. I am in a perfect place because they can't fire me right now because we are short people. so I have it in my hands.
Anyway I am going to get off here now, I am so tired.
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