Zel-kun’s Words

Yesterday was my last day at my job.  As happy as I am to move on, I can’t help but feel a very slight pang of sadness.  Its very slight, I assure you, but its there.  I think its because its the first time I left a job on good terms.  I shook hands with my bosses, was offered a job to come back to if I ever needed it, and was even taken out to lunch. In other words, I’m leaving a job where I have established myself as a competent worker, and am going to a completely different job, so I guess I’m a little nervous.

When I say this is the first time I left a job on good terms, I don’t mean I was always fired.  In actuality, I was only fired once, from Blockbuster Video, from mouthing off to the manager.  In my defense, she really had it coming, and I had only been working there for two weeks during high school, so I didn’t have any job loyalty or any real need for the money.

But, other than list last job, every other job has left a sour taste in my mouth.

Things Remembered - This was my first job, I worked here mainly during the Christmas and wedding seasons as an engraver during high school and my first year of college.  The job itself was actually pretty cool, I often worked with a salesperson on the floor, no manager hanging over my neck, and I liked that.  The Technical Manager (the engraving service end, basically) was fired for stealing, and for the better part of a month, I acted in this role.  All my associates thought I would get the position.  And instead, they bring in a woman with no experience in the department.  I felt snubbed, so I quit on the spot, didn’t even have my next job lined up.

Wal-Mart - I don’t even really need to explain this one, do I?  I worked this for three years, enduring stupidity, until I finally moved on.

Automotive Development Corporation - I loved this job immensely.  My boss was an intelligent man who taught me quite a bit of what I now know about IT.  Unfortunately, the company was bought out and I was laid off.

Atek Solutions - I worked here for about three weeks.  I set up the Lombard office and set up a network in Iowa for them.  I was paid for about half the hours I worked during this time, and was not reimbursed for any of my travel.  Minus my travel costs, I came up roughly even.  There’s a sour taste here a tad worse than Wal-Mart.  I mean, at least I was paid.

So its good to leave on good terms, makes me feel like I ended a stage of my life with disjointed jobs, and have finally embarked upon a career.

In other news, I saw Underworld: Evolution today.  It was okay, nothing special.  Better than the first movie, though that’s honestly not saying that much.  Personally, I think the tale of the modern vampire has been played out.  Its all just black costumes and blood, without any innovative plot.

Its almost always this: Vampires themselves are not really evil, just a few of them are.  There’s always one really evil one that seeks power.  And always a good one (almost always half-something) going against him.  The story will be set against an urban landscape, or in the tunnels below a city.  They all wear black leather.  Okay, you’re cool and gothic and spooky, and I bet you write morbid poetry and everything.  If they drink blood, even if it is from a glass, they will dribble it down their chin. Yes, you drink blood, red blood.  I get it, now wipe your damn chin you retard.

Why not have a vampire movie like this set in medieval Europe?  Ancient China?  Hell, even colonial or old west, just give me something new to look at other than dark skyscrapers and sewers.  Old West vampires… that would be so lame, and yet kick so much ass at the same time.

Well, that’s all for the moment.

Zel-kun out.