tarnish

Well, as some of you who read my last journal know, I recently got hired at torrid, which is essentially my dream job at this point in my life. I could honestly see myself moving up in the company, fairly quickly, as can my Store manager and ASM. I was hoping to make a full transition into torrid, leaving gamestop behind. But recent events have given me the opportunity to get a promotion(starting this sunday!) with a $3 raise, benefits, personal time, sick pay, vacation time, and the lot...at gamestop. I'm taking it. The money is much needed right now, and I've been deserving of all the benefits a full time manager has to look forward to, since I was promoted to 3rd key 9 months ago. In fact, the policy changed litterally two weeks before my intial promotion, which took away all the sick/personal time and various other benefits, from 3rd keys.

What I am hoping to do is stay on at torrid for a day or two a week, get a few months of ASM experience under my belt, then talk to my DM at torrid and explain to her the situation, if my APTs and UPTs are as good or better than they are now, hopefully she can help me find a full time management position with torrid. My boss at gamestop doesnt want me to leave. Ever. My boss at torrid wants me to get more management experience, so they can promote me, and she doesnt want me to leave to do that either, lol. I really hope I can keep doing the 48-50 hour a week thing. It's kind of killing me a little.

I told my ASM at torrid about SG, she already knew what it was but I told her more about the community, and about the PSW group, and now she totally wants to join. I might buy her a gift membership so she can get a taste for it. I warned her though, I am naked up in this piece. hehe. I also told her about BadAssBetties, and she wants to do pinup now too hehe. I am so corrupting my pretty little co-workers. Why on earth isnth there a little devil smiley on this site?

I posted a little retro compilation of some of my oldest sets in PSW. I took them all down when I got my new camera thinking I would replace them all with better quality versions, and I just dont have time anymore. But I was looking through them, and thinking well this isn't a bad shot, the quality is shitty as fuck, but I still like it. So I asked TigerAngel if it would be OK to post a set using various shots from other ones, and she said yes, so there it is. I also posted it under the Site-wide PSW pics section. Which made me a little nervous, but I've always thought a lot of the PSW girls could use a little more exposure, so in keeping with my previous statements, I went against my nerves, and posted. I don't really want to be an SG in all honesty. They are so heavily scrutinized, and sometimes there are some awful things said...as tough as I'd like to think I am, I don't think my self esteem is such that I would recover quickly. It's almost the same as it is, just now, anything rude or mean that people have to say about me, they say behind my back. Whereas, were I an SG it would be in my tags, set comments, and personal emails, I'm sure. I like PSW and I like the PSW section on the Pics Tab, I think it was a very cool thing for them to implement. It kind of says to me that they know that a lot of the girls in the group shoot good sets and want to acknowledge them, and give the members a chance to vote them in if they see fit. I also think it's cool that SB is up there. I know there was some drama caused by it, but a lot of them have awesome sets too, and now more people can see them if they want to.

The week ahead will be a long one, and hopefully things go well. Have an awesome weekend folks.