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The word Back Order is frustrating.

Remember my car accident of last week?

I got a call from the body shop who informed me that one of the parts is on back order and there is no e.t.a for when they are going to receive it.  So I have had the car for two weeks and it’s been in the shop for half that time.  I’ve already made a payment on it.

Jeffrey keeps asking me when we are getting our new car back.  I just keep hoping that the man who hit me and ran, while under the influence, gets charged with something.

Two weeks ago in one of my Friday Frustrations post, I wrote a post about how the company I’m working for is restructuring and there would be a few people losing their jobs.  I mentioned how it bothered me, particularly for a single mother who struggles financially.

Today is part one of the wave/restructuring.  I got a call yesterday informing me that they looked at their budget and they decided to keep one of the people they were letting go.  That one person was the single mom that I mentioned in my earlier post.

Although it won’t make today’s job easier, it does make me happy that she gets to keep her job.

I got a call from my District Manager on Friday.  It went something like this:

DM:  I want to run something by you.

Me:  O.K

DM:  We need to cut a management position in your store.  So we either cut your position or a sales manager’s position.  I wanted to know your opinion.

Now how am I suppose to have answered this question?

One of the sales managers was being transferred to another store that was closer to where she lived.  So if a sales manager position would be cut, her position simply wouldn’t be replaced.  So either cut my position or not replace hers.

It was a simple question for me to answer.

The catch?

I get to keep my duties as assistant store manager, but take over her responsibility of running her department too.  She was running the largest department in the store.

A Two for One Special.

I don’t think I would have lost my job.  I’ve been told I’m part of the succession plan.  At least I think I believe them.  Now, I get to figure out how to do the job of two people.

If you haven’t already, be sure to enter the General Mills Limited Edition Big G Cereal Giveaway.

Today is the Final Day of the Week Long Giveaway.

You can win 1 of 5 Prize Packs which includes:

• 1 box of each of the limited edition boxes of General Mills Big G cereal (Cheerios, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Honey Nut Cheerios, Trix and Lucky Charms) – That’s 5 boxes of cereal!
• 1 Retro-designed T-shirt (mine was a Honey Nut Cheerios one – very cute!)
• $10 Target Gift Card

One grand prize winner will win AN ATARI GAME CONSOLE at the end of the week.

Today’s Retro Theme week is:

Fun Facts From Atari Then and Now

Atari Then (70s and 80s)

• Pong was the first arcade video game with widespread success.
• About 10 million people owned and used Atari VCS consoles in 1982.
• Asteroids was a hit in the United States and became Atari’s best selling game of all time.
• Asteroids was so popular that video arcade owners sometimes had to install larger boxes to hold the amount of quarters that were spent by players.
• Atari sold over thirty million of the Atari 2600 consoles
• In 1981 Atari ruled about 75% of the home-video-game market.

Atari Now

• The all new Atari.com launched in November 2009.
• You can buy exclusive Atari games and merchandise such as awesome retro T-shirts on Atari.com.
• You can play eight original Atari classic arcade games in their original form (including favorites as Asteroids, Battlezone, Gravitar and Lunar Lander) on Atari.com. More are coming!
• 2010 is the 30^th anniversary for Atari classic games including Centipede, Missile Command and Tempest.
• 2010 is Atari’s 38^th anniversary.
• New Atari games include Star Trek Online, Champions Online, Project Runway: The Video Game, Backyard Sports Sandlot Sluggers, Puzzler World, and Ghostbusters: The Video Game.

Source: Atari

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GRAB THE BUTTON CODE on the the sidebar

Welcome to Friday Frustrations, a weekly blog carnival dedicated to getting things off your chests whether big or small. If you would like to participate, grab the button and enter your Friday Frustrations link on Conversations with Moms Friday Frustrations Blog Hop.. You can write about several frustrations or just one. It’s up to you.

You don’t need to pick the same topic as I do.

My lease was up on my car so I got another car.  It’s always exciting to be driving something new and I was very happy with my choice.

I was on my way home last Friday, exactly a week to the day I bought the car, when I noticed a car that was driving extremely erratic.  Apparently, the car in front of him wasn’t going fast enough so he blew the stop sign and drove into the next lane, (oncoming traffic) in order to pass ahead.  He miscalculated and narrowly missed the car in front of me, swerved, lost control and slammed into my car.

I felt a large bang, swore a couple of times and got out to stare at the culprit.  Except…… He sped off.

HIT AND RUN

It will take approximately 2 weeks to repair my car and the estimation is $9000, thank goodness for car insurance.

Hubby reminded me of the baptisms that my new cars go through.

First car: A mustang cuts 3 lanes to exit the highway and slams into my car, within 3 weeks of owning the car.

Last car:  Within two weeks of owning my car, a drunk man decides to have his version of fun and takes a baseball bat to a few cars parked on the street, including mine.

This car:  Exactly one week to the day.

On a very positive note, a few days later, the cops came by my house to inform me that they are 99.9% sure they caught the guy.  He was under the influence.   He was stopped by the cops for his driving and they saw that he was in an accident.  The witnesses I had were able to describe the car that hit me, which matched his car exactly.