AquariusGuy

Great Chapter Mark. I was surprised by some of the things that came out in this chapter. With Michael being fired and not turned over to the police it could lead to some further trouble. Either with the CAP family or somewhere else. It sounds like Michael is a pedophile and he needs to be taken care of and no I don't mean killed. Jeanine maybe using her illness to her advantage. Sure she may have a mental issue, but I know plenty of people who can fake what they need to get attention and maybe shes doing something similar. I'm sure you will address her situation further. JJ and Evan hooking up was a surprise... will we see Will and him having a conversation about it or will Will no have some sibling ammunition on JJ? The new guard for will seems like she will be good for him. Will still misses Pat and seems to hope he will magically reappear. I can't help to think that maybe Michael was instrumental in getting him fired. Now I sound like a conspiracy theorist.

HOORAH WADE IS BACK!!!! So the Mary Ellen plot thickens.... I wonder who the hired "hit man" was. Was it Michael? Could he be two places at once? I really thought Carl was going to start some shit with Wade. I was surprised to see Jason there and maybe deep down Carl knew Wade was right about a few things and he sought him for advice.... Nope, wishful thinking on my part. I wonder who Wade can find that's not under his mother's finger and to think he has a short amount of time to do so. Great Chapter Mark!

Hi Mark. Great chapter as always.... you never disappoint. The whole Will and JJ showdown was interesting. I bet JJ really expected Will to blow his top but he didn't. We also got a small glimpse that JJ likes Evan. Will also put more of JJ's "dirty laundry" out there too with how he treats people. It will be interesting to see how this story line developes for JJ. As for the whole picture incident... at first i had a few people come to mind, but Michael wasn't one of them. Hell will break loose if someone else was behind Michael taking pictures and I think there just might have been a second party because with this family NOTHING is that cut and dry, By the way.... I'm starting to miss Wade. Hopefully he appears soon.

Poor Will seems to be getting the short end of the stick. He tries to be nice to JJ only to get his bitchieness thrown at him. The whole thing with Eric was quite interesting. Maybe JJ likes him but is afraid to do anything or let someone outside the family become close to him. Jeanine needs a chill pill... we know JJ must have called and bitched about Will. I was surprised only Tiffany jumped to his rescuse some what.... Now we need to see what happens after he begins to walk down the bleechers.... Does Brad follow him or maybe Jeff??? Great chapter!

I have this friend I've known for about 19 years met him when we were in 6th grade (man it was that long ago?). Any how.... a few weekends ago I met up with him and another friend of mine (she's 21). We spent a majority of the day together and had a fun time. Towards the end of the visit at his house I noticed this jacket and helmet in his closet. I asked him what it was for, but I knew it was a motorcycle jacket and helmet. He didn't want to discuss it inside where his parents would hear. We went outside and he hands me his license and sure enough it has class C (car) and Class M (motorcycle). I asked him when he became interested in motorcycles and he was said forever ago. I was surprised and asked him if he had purchased one yet and said NO and added just so you know my parents don't know. I looked at him and said seriously.... your mom does your laundry and the jacket hangs it in your closet surely she’s seen it and your dad probably has too. He said to his knowledge they don't and didn't want me to say anything. I then asked him if he had looked at bikes since my cousin is Harley mechanic and might know someone selling a bike. He didn't want a Harley but a rice rocket bike, as he called it. I told him to tell his parents at some point just incase something happens. So... the whole point to this little rambling you probably are wondering. Ever since we had this conversation he has been ignoring my text messages. We talked about going to DC over the summer to do a day the museum’s since they have this video game exhibit I wanted to check out; even mentioned meeting his mom for lunch like we do when we go downtown. She works at the Library of Congress and there is this cool little Mexican Resaurant around the corner. Since we discussed needing to put in time to be off, I have texted him numerous times and sent and email and no response about the date. Now for a different subject, my boss and I were talking on Tuesday. She said to me.... Did you know that you have applied for over 70 jobs since you became eligible in November to post out? I told her I did and we discussed how I had interviewed for quite a few of them and have gotten no where. Thursday I got scheduled to take Supervisor assessment so I could apply to be a Call Center Supervisor. It was mostly a personality test and asked some really dumb questions. It also had a scenario section and I thought I did well. Apparently not since they said I failed and have to wait 6 months to retake the exam. They don't tell you right away where you can improve and said my supervisor will get the results to assist me in improving. Hopefully she has them for our meeting this Tuesday. I have started looking outside of Big Red for a new position. I have a applied for a few jobs and have yet to hear. Hopefully I will find something soon. Working in a call center is stressful, especially when you find out common sense is not so common.

Thanks for posting the great chapter fast... I just took my time putting my thoughts together. Wade would never betray anyone's trust... its not how he works. He will share what he needs to if he finds it to be pertanant to the situation. Now with Will... we know how smart he is, so it would be very unlikely he would use the internet from the same hotel he was staying at. He will be one the move because he knows he can be tracked. It's going to be interesting to see what happens...

Thanks for the fantasic chapter. I couldn't wait to see what Brad and Robbie would think of what Will did. Served them right. Stef was fantasic and I loved how he was able to relate Will's outburst to their whole debacle. Hopefully, we see the next chapter just as fast.

Sooo... Approximately 3 weeks ago I traveled to New Jersey for a face to face interview with a Vice President of a department I wanted to work in. The Director, Associate Director and the hiring manager all loved me and were really excited. Then the interview came. I arrived early to meet with the three decision makers prior to my interview. Everything was solid and good. The VP thought I was late because his secretary didn't know I was there over an hour early to meet the others. I didn't get a good read from him and he seemed put off. I was told by the hiring manager I would hear from him by Friday March 23rd. That day came and went. Three weeks went by with nothing and not a peep from any one. Today I come in and find a very generic email telling me I wasn't selected for the position. I reached out via email to get some feedback on the interview so I can be prepared for the next one. I didn't get a single answer or acknowledgement from anyone. I was thinking maybe I have higher standards because they are corporate folks, but my supervisor told me I should hold everyone to the same standards. I have had so many interviews; I've become the subject matter expert in interviews for my call center. I've been told my experience isn't relevant and that customer service people don't do well outside a call center. I would beg to differ on that one. I talk to on average 900 people a month and get yelled at, cursed at and called so many names. I want to challenge people who say my job isn't relevant or is easy to come do my job for a day. I know they would not last long at all. Being in customer service you have to be able to put it all aside and listen to people rant all day. It is quite and interesting experience. Just I'll just go crawl under my rock and continue to be disappointed.

So I have had more than my fair share of interviews over the past couple of months. I have been told I have no relavent expereince or being in customer service doesn't count. The jobs I interviewed for have been all over the country. I really wanted the job in Colorado Springs, but it fell through. I found a job that looked interesting and was like hey I could do that... and I think I finally might have gotten some where. I have a 4th and final interview with a Staff Vice President of National Distribution on the 21st in New Jersey. The job is located there at the corporate headquarters in Basking Ridge and I am beyond excited. Down side is its expensive to live there. I can not wait to get out of this crazy house. Looking forward to going up to Jersey to interview.

So my best friend who is a few months younger than me had to tell that I should tell people I am 3 decades old other than turning 30. To me saying 3 decades makes me sound real old, so I'm sticking with 30. I had a goal I wanted to achieve by my birthday and it didn't happen. I wanted to be moved out and in a different job position by then. I've interviewed for jobs with Verizon outside of my current area. I interviewed for jobs in Colorado Springs, CO and King of Prussia, PA. Both jobs I lost to other people... the Colorado job he said it was a tough decision but the person had a better action plan. They talked about current sales and how they would drive them up. Unfortunately I don't have access to the numbers and neither does anyone else I've asked. I will just have to see what else comes along. I've applied for local jobs and other out of state jobs. One local I was turned down because I didn't meet the minimum qualifications, but I've interviewed for the job 3 times. I decided since my birthday was Sunday and I wanted to get my self something.... I bought a newer car. It was completely unplanned and spur of the moment.

Customer: My emails not coming in. Me: Can you browse the web? Customer: I don't know let me check.... It says my radio is turned off. Me: Ok... It's a simple fix all we have to do is turn the radio on. Customer: No that won't work I'm not in my car. Me: (self control) No the radio in your phone. Talking to customer's you would never believe what they say.

Nice to see you about Mike. I sent a search party but I think they got lost. You will find you think of the darnedest things when your birthday is approaching or something life altering happens. Sometimes you just have to role with everything and break out of your comfort zone. That is one thing I am working on doing. When I moved several years ago it was nice to be on my own, but I didn't have friends outside of the work place. It can be though when you got to decide what to do. Just so you know... I worked 40 hours weeks in retail and went to school with a semi-full course load. It was though and took along time but I made it. Glad to hear you're alive and well.

To give a little back ground first... I am the middle 5 children, ranging in age from 32 - 21. I have an older brother and sister and 2 younger sister's. My family is a single income, as something has always kept my mom from working (that would be my older brother showing up at her job or constantly calling her). That being said in my house there are a total of 8 people my niece included and she's 2. I work 40 hours week, commute 2 hours round trip to work with out traffic and its a 56 miles one way. I deal with crazy people on a daily basis at home and at work. When I get home my siblings expect either my mom or myself to cook them dinner. It wouldn't be so bad but they are home 24/7 as a majority of them don't work. Only my dad, younger sister and I work full time jobs. My mom watches my niece and has to balance house work too. My younger sister (mother of my niece) doesn't know how to take care of her. Let's just say my niece wears the pants in their relationship. 3 of my siblings have asperger's and don't get out much and can't seem to hold a job at all. While everyone is capable of cooking; they won't because sometimes you have to make several different things as some people don't like certain foods. You could be making 4 or 5 different food and don't forget the side dishes. It can get to be such a pain to cook for so many people and if I don't help my mom, we don't eat. I learned to cook from my mom. It was the only way to spend time with her because nobody wants to help. SO.... tonight I get home and everyone was here and only my dad and I had to work. My brother refused to cook and no one would help my mom and she was making burritos and hamburger's. Since she couldn't be 2 places at once I get drafted to stand outside and cook. Which sucks since I don't have much time to do anything but work and sleep. This leads to my work issue. My supervisor had told me I could begin to post to a different job as I have been in the department 9 months. I was excited because there were tons of jobs available that I wanted and I applied for 15 of them. I didn't care where they were as long as it wasn't here. When she was contacted by a HR representative and reemed out since I hadn't had my position a year , I lost all the interviews (15 application and 15 jobs interviews). I was livid with her and all she could say was oops. Well had a meeting before with her boss our Associate Director (will be referred to as AD), In this meeting with the AD we had found out our sup had been lying to us about a bunch of stuff and I lost all my trust in my sup. So after talking with another sup I was directed to speak to the AD about my career progression or lack there of. I spoke with her and she went to HR and they said 1 year or financial difficulty, which can't be proved since I was will to move. So now I am stuck with morons at home and a moron for a supervisor. She freaks out when she see me talking to the AD and flipped out when I went to HR about something else that had nothing to do with her. My family drives me crazy and I don't have anyone I can really talk to or hang out with. When I go out with people from work, that's all we talk about is work. None of my cousins or relatives are talking to me since the funeral incident. I have never felt this alone before.... I am trying to decide what I am going to do and that November 15th can't get here fast enough. That's when I have held my position for 1 year and can move on.

or family for that matter. I know just about everyone on my friends list. Those who are friends for games are on a limited profile.

Things have been kinda of spiraling out of control since April. To set the stage: Christmas 2009 my grandfather was diagnosed with colon cancer. It was removed but had spread. He was seeing a doctor at Johns Hopkins and was getting some experimental treatment. When that didn't work and the cancer had spread they tried cemo. It didn't work and my grandfather got worse. In March this year, he did a 15 minute conversation with his kids. The day he met with my mom he had her drag me from work because he needed to talk to me. Granted I had just visited a week ago. He wanted to let me know how proud of me he was and was glad that I was making something of my self and oh can you be a pall bearer? I it was kind of strange being asked but I told him I would. My grandparents normally host an Easter dinner at their house and my grandmother insisted they would not be. She didn't want a repeat of this past years Christmas. Low and behold my aunt and uncles do not know how to listen and came over any how. They didn't bother to tell my mom and she was upset. So I posted something on facebook and was having a conversation with my uncles ex-wife via some posts. Apparently my other uncle and cousin decided to provide commentary to the others at the house. When my grandfather passed the next day, I was at work and had posted a Rest in Peace Grampy in my status on Facebook. When my uncle called a friend of my grandmothers they said they saw it on facebook. I have no idea who the person was and my profile is private so no one can see my page unless they are a friend. My uncles, aunt and grandmother proceed to chew out my mom who gave me the same BS. I told they I had no idea who they were talking about. My one uncle who just joined facebook was trying to tell me how it works. I told him I have had an account longer than him, since when I joined you had to be in college and have a college email. It was around 2005/2006. So during the first viewing no one would talk to me and everyone was avoiding me, so I sat and played angry birds. During the second viewing I spent time talking to my great uncle, my grandmothers friend who is the mother of my friend, my grandmothers old neighbor and her daughter who is the grandmother and mother of one of my other friends. Afterwords I got the 3rd degree about why did I talk to those people. Who knew I needed their permission. My other uncles girlfriend had come up to me during the second viewing and pulled my aside to let me know her and my uncle did not agree with how they were treating me over the whole status thing and they thought everyone should apologize to me. She must not know the family that well cause hell would need to freeze over. Since that all played out I began to realize things. The none of my cousins ever talk to me and they are always more interested in my sister. On my moms side I have 14 cousins and my dads I have 7. I'm not real close to any of them or my aunts and uncles. The only person I felt close to was my grandfather and know with him gone it makes things difficult. My cousins are always commenting on my siblings facebook stuff and give birthday wishes to them. I hear from none of them. The only people I converse with are my grandfathers cousins, who I have met a few times. I feel like I need to escape, but I don't know where I would go. Work is too stressful and while I have talked to some real interesting people (set designer for Law & Order Criminal Intent) I'm not sure about anything anymore. Some of the family that laid the blame on me I used to hold in high regards, now I don't and I am kind of surprised that he would stoop that low. Many of my cousins and other uncles unfriended me on facebook. Only 1 kept it and another added me. I am sure he only did so since his mother uses his account and like to spy on people.

I felt bad for Will with everything that has happened on his trip to Paris. The abduction and the dumping by John so close. I do think though it was a little early for him to be thinking about something so long term. A lot can change in life and maybe it was all for the best. As for the whole JP and cancer.... that kind of hit home for me. Christmas 2009 my Grandfather was diagnosed with Colon cancer. He passed away this April the day after Easter and 5 days before his 76th birthday.

You have described only of few of the DC Area people. I used to work in NW by the Silver Spring and DC boarder and some real unusual people used to come in. No one like you described. On Sunday's we would get the drunks who would complain the liquor store was closed since DC law prohibits them form being open on Sunday's. We' would also get those rich people who didn't know how to use their cell phones or their car chargers. This one lady kept returning the car charger saying it wasn't working. I went out to her car and plugged it in and she said... oh you have to plug it in? The only people I didn't mind who frequented my store were the guys from Walter Reed. They loved to show off those scars.

I had my 4 wisdom teeth taken out 11 years ago next month,,,, doesn't seem that long ago. Mine were not impacted and the surgeon said in his 30 years of pulling teeth mine were the easiest. I was fine later that day. FMLA can be hard to get... do your home work on the subject. I just googled FLMA and it says time is 1 year, says nothing about full time or part time. Normally FMLA is done by a separate insurance provider not through your company, unless you work for an insurance company. You can talk with them and they would know what you are covered under. Last year a friend who is an HR professional told me its only 1 year with company and doesn't matter part-time or full time. Do some research and don't let the company push you around. Most companies will do just that when they think they can get away with it.

Since I have last blogged… some things have happened. I no longer have to deal with my sexist co-worker. We changed teams in October and he landed on a different team. I still remain friendly towards him, but I am glad I no longer see him everyday. He did seek me out quite a bit when he had problems with customers and it felt good to tell him I could no longer help him. I didn’t land up with my favorite supervisor, but I did get and evil one, which sped up my looking for a new job. I November, I took a promotion out of Customer Service into the Business Service Center with Verizon Wireless. I now work with business customers all day and they are much easier to deal with. When I get yelled at, which happens, I get an apology later. I got a long letter of apology from a Worldwide Director from a J&J and I was really surprised and he was very sincere in his apology for how he treated me. December was uneventful… except for Christmas. Long story short, my uncle got my aunt’s kids (his sister and my mom’s sister) a gag gift. They were Obama Chia pets and the joke got blown out of this world. My Aunt is a political appointee and takes her job very seriously, while others do not. Let’s just say she’s the only Democrat of the bunch. January went by so fast; I am not sure what happened. I hurt my back while sitting on some bleachers at work for our yearly kickoff. February brought my 29th birthday. I also found out on the 8th (3 days after my birthday) that the pain I had in my back since January was because I threw out my back. So… I have been sitting at home since, trying to figure out what to do. I am pretty much a closet case and I think my mom knows. One of my friends on facebook had asked why I have so many friends that are female. When I was telling my mom about it she said that’s why everyone thinks you are gay since you have so many female friends. I know I need to make some changes and I am waiting for November when I can post again to a new position with in Verizon Wireless. I want to move out of Maryland and explore other parts of the US.

Hi Mark, I wanted to drop by and tell you I love how Millennium is progressing. I am constantly checking in to see if there are new chapters. When I saw the movie's that they picked up to make.... this reminded me of something. Keep up the good work Mark! I look forward to all future posts. Edward

Working in a call center is like working in a gigantic high school. There not much difference. All the drama is included

Sagging is a thing not many people get. It was just starting to come be popular when I was in High school. They even changed the dress code so people could get in trouble with their pants sagging. We even had an administrator who was known as the Dress Code Nazi. But the best reason I ever heard for how the fad started was on the Bonnie Hunt show the other day when she was talking to Dick Van Dyke. She asked him how he felt about starting a trend that took so many years to catch on?

You got that right or I could have said there's a map for that. I've worked for all major carriers.

When I leave work.... and get home, GA is the first place I go. Coming to the site happens to unwind the day, but prior to that its a rough one. I guess I will explain. When people ask me what I do for a living

Try calling the carrier and see if you can cut a deal. Back when I sold multi carriers I used to get people's bills lowered all the time. Just be nice to the rep .... I work for one of the largest carriers now as a Customer Service Rep and when you yell... we tend to not want to help you, be nice.... there is always something that can be done. I have gotten a $2,500 bill for data down to $190.00. Co-workers brother hooked it up to his laptop with bluetooth and was porn watching. A $960 Voice overage down to $100. $650 bill for overages and downloads down to $89