Kurt Vile - "Hunchback"
I listened to this on my way over to Chase Court to get fired today. I got a call around 2 form the manager I left a pretty pissed off note for, citing her weekend instructions as being condescending and insulting, as they insinuated that I didn’t know how to do my job. I assumed someone would say something, but I didn’t expect them to fire me. When I went in to face this music, I really didn’t care. Getting fired from First Management (or as I’ve been referring to it the last couple weeks, Worst Management) was like dying from cancer. It was like a whole lifetime in the span of four months. I got hired, I lived my virile, lively days during the first week of August then slowly, my hours were cut. A couple weeks ago I noticed they’d cut my Sunday shift, yet they still continued to hire more and more new people, which I also found insulting. I’d been meaning to say something about that, and finally got to today after I was “let go.” I said that it didn’t really matter because my hours had been cut to death anyway and 6 hours a week is not a job and really, I couldn’t pay the rent with that anyway. They just stared and didn’t say anything. I wish I’d written things down in a notebook and made it like a reverse job interview. It’s just that none of it would have mattered because that place will never change. Right now they’re desperately trying to find people to live in all the vacant apartments they have and they’re slashing the rental rates but no one is biting. Chris Bianculli couldn’t lease Canyon Court and he got canned, and somehow they think that Jackie (who I left the note for) can turn this around, which doesn’t make any sense because it is very apparent that she has no idea what she is doing and it almost seems like she’s fresh out of management school and has that thing on her shoulder that tells her that her underlings should automatically respect her and that it’s something she does not have to earn. Or that’s the impression I get. Maybe I’m wrong about everything and was letting my complete and utter disdain for the company and the people in charge get the best of me. I was slowly becoming unemployed anyway, and I would have quit as soon as I found something permanent. Who knows when that will happen though. I just know that I’m not upset in the least, I just wish I wasn’t so nervous when they were firing me because I knew it was gonna happen. I had no reason to be nervous, I really should have just asked over the phone earlier and saved myself the trip. I feel good knowing that I tried my best not to lease any of their apartments towards the end. I have an authority problem that is well documented. From AMC to LPL to KJHK, I’m just kind of…a pisser. I see the way I think things should be going and I have a hard time working in an environment where things are not going as well as they should. Like, in regards to First Management they like to live in denial. I remember Malia (who I do like, even though she was the one who had to can me, which is why I felt bad for telling her and Jackie to get bent, because really, I only wanted Jackie to get bent) saying that “there was no way we could have predicted not leasing these apartments” which is bullshit because the economy had already tanked and the rental rates were incredibly high. It should have been obvious. Everything is full of holes. They had us flyering a month and a half after everyone had already moved in. It was desperate and they couldn’t admit that they’d fucked up. Instead, they’d turn it around and blame it on the leasing agents for not doing a good enough job at leasing apartments. Those things are HARD to lease and I always felt bad for the people signing leases. I wanted to say “Yeah, you will not get this security deposit back because I’m pretty sure they make a lot of money by screwing you over.” Seriously, I saw the invoices. I know that cleaning an oven takes about half an hour, which costs them $4.25 in labour, and they charge $50. They charged a lot of people $50 for dirty ovens. Although, most of this contempt only arose when they started hiring more people. I mean, what do you do in that situation? Clearly, I couldn’t change anything and if I spoke up I’d just get fired for insubordination. It’s a company where everyone is replaceable because, seriously, anyone could do that job. Malia tried to pin some sort of blame on me for things not getting done and slacking off on weekends which was bothersome only because there was nothing to be done most of the time and if there was, I could knock it out pretty quick. However, recently things hadn’t been getting done because whomever I was supposed to work with would call in sick or something or other and there were things I simply could not do without another person there. Anyway, it’s all moot now and it’s great! I’m really pretty happy that I get my weekend afternoons back (though I didn’t mind not having them) and I’m glad I got fired for something incredibly stupid. It’s not like I was shooing people away if they wanted to see apartments, I just never tried to sell them. I let the customer decide and if they wanted the apartment, they could have it. But that was too subtle. It’s not like I was stealing or fucking up my job or breaking things. Or maybe it’s cause I’m a dude, I don’t know, that might be going out on a limb but if you don’t mind my saying everything is very matriarchal over there. All managers are female, including the district manager. Chris was hired and then quickly fired (although maybe there’s something he didn’t tell me as to his demotion) and replaced with Jackie, who really in no way can be better than Chris who has worked at Wrst Mgmt since we lived together one summer three years ago. That and all of the men with the exception of maybe Mark, Dan and myself are rather effeminate. But that really has nothing to do with anything. I am excited to not have my Wednesdays ruined by pointless meetings at 5:15. Leasing Agent Jeopardy has nothing to do with my life, and I couldn’t stand my asshole co-workers. The bitchy entitled blonde sorority girls. The guy who actively tried to get people fined for things (I know a lot of morons live at 1stmgmt properties but really? Even I had a hard time when they forced me to tow people). The manager’s club of incompetence and “come up with marketing ideas even though we pay you shit and you don’t get any cut if we lease more apartments”-ness. Blah blah blah blah blah. A nice rant to cap things off on a pointless job. Do you want to know why Applecroft is so cheap? BECAUSE IT IS FULL OF ROACHES!!! I kind of wish I’d got fired for my snarky marketing ideas list, that would have been a little sweeter.
