Dear GPS,
Please stop telling me to turn on Industrial Blvd, it doesn't exist! Thank you.
- Quex
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Dear people @ Work,
Having a GPS does not make me automatically know the area perfectly. Please stop asking me if I'm using it when I take 40 minutes on a run, that, according to Google maps, would take me about 30 under ideal conditions.
- Quex
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Seriously, I THOUGHT I was doing better today, I didn't get lost or have anything weird like old ladies happening today, but apparently not. I mean either these people expect WAAAY too much of me or I'm the biggest idiot on earth. Maybe it's because I had experience but I told them many times I did NOT know the area and applied for cook. I mean factor in things like me looking for an address/business when I don't know exactly where it is so I have to drive slowly on the road and look, the fact that I have to drop off a pizza, stop lights, people driving like dicks in the city, road construction... I dunno man. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. There was another guy gone on a run for over an hour today because of road construction so it happens.
I went on a run to somewhere in Brooklyn Park today, my GPS got me there (ironically the same way google maps suggested) and I made one little mistake. I mean it took me less than 2 minutes to correct. It was a residential area and my GPS wanted me to go straight on a road that didn't go straight so I had to sorta take a detour. Anyway, on the way back my GPS took me to Boone Ave which was like w/e. As I'm less than a minute from the store, someone from the store calls me and asks me if I'm lost.
I said no I was almost back and he said okay.
SO my thought:
Okay my GPS isn't working. It's not getting me there fast enough and these guys want me to be faster.
So what i decided to do was use the directions the store printed out instead of the GPS. The store directions on that previous run I took told me to take 169, where as my GPS took me on local roads. Okay makes sense. 30 MPH vs 60 MPH. Yeah okay I can see that.
So I print out the directions to my next run... and it tells me to take a left leaving the store then
"Turn LEFT (North) on Local Road(s)"
"Take Ramp onto SR-100"
"Turn RIGHT onto Ramp"
"Take Ramp (RIGHT) onto Cr-152"
Uh...
"Turn LEFT (North) on Local Road(s)"
Okay so... take ramp/turn right onto ramp onto 100. Okay I get that, I know there 100 is. I go right on 100, right? I mean tell me you wouldn't have done the same thing. If you can honest to shit tell me you would NOT have done the same thing... you obviously know way more about this shit than I do and can have my job.
So... I realize a few minutes in that I'm going the wrong way on 100, despite the directions tell me (I THOUGHT) to go right on 100. I said fuck it, pulled over somewhere, put the address in my GPS and it gets me to where I need to go. I called the store and said, "I ended up going the wrong way on 100, I'm really sorry, I just dropped off the pizza and I'm on my way back."
Guy on phone, "What happened?"
... uh...
I just told you? O_o
So I make it back from that one and said fuck it to store directions after that. Yeah the runs might take me a LITTLE longer, but ... you know what? Fuck it, I'll get there.
Oh did I mention I was only supposed to come in to help out at lunch and I came in at 12:00 and left at 9:30? Though to be fair, the nighttime crew had come in and had no idea when I had started since I'm not actually on the schedule this week. It wasn't until the night manager asked me how long I was schedule and I told him I started that he was like "You started at NOON?" and let me go home
I'm not a big "Ask to go home" person.
So yeah thought things were going better today but I guess not
I mean maybe they want me to speed or something.
Oh and this:
"Turn LEFT (North) on Local Road(s)"
"Take Ramp onto SR-100"
"Turn RIGHT onto Ramp"
"Take Ramp (RIGHT) onto Cr-152"
Apparently what the first direction is all about is that the system uses "Local Road(s)" for an unnamed road and it thinks the freeway ramps are roads. I mean, really, who would think of that?
I got home and looked up a few runs on google, and personally, I didn't think I did that bad, but I guess I did. If they're asking me if I'm using a GPS and calling me and what not, obviously I'm not doing good. On the run that the store directions said to go on 169 and I used local roads instead, according to google, 169 would have taken me longer. But I guess freeway traffic is a bit more predictable and no stop lights or kids playing football in the middle of the road (seriously WTF?)
Also I only had like $10 when I got home... I know I shifted money around in my wallet and payed $10 for a pizza (that I forgot at work
) but that doesn't seem right. well maybe... $25 in tips or something?.... I'm not really sure. (What happened to the $100 they said I could make
)
This is just insane. I feel terrible. I told these people I had experience. They hired me because I worked with pizza before and I can't do anything right. Granted I applied for cook and was asked if I was willing to drive. I said "I don't know the area, but I have a GPS." but the GPS doesn't matter a whole lot really. I'm surprised these people think it makes me invincible or whatever. Even when I think I'm doing okay, I'm not. I just don't know what to do. Dunno if I'm working tomorrow or not but I'm not making the first move this time. Maybe I'll feel better if I sleep on it, but I think I'm going to go in on Monday and asked to either switch me to cook or tell them to replace me ASAP. I wouldn't care so much if their expectations of me weren't so high and I blew it so bad. And they're nice people there. I like them. They have a lot of fun and I'm SURE I would love it there if I could just DO BETTER.
So yeah... just not really sure what to do here...
Never been told I did "not good" at a job before ;_;
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