Let me just preface this by stating one thing. I intensely dislike cookie dough. Intensely. To the point that I rarely, if ever, even eat chocolate chip cookies that are cooked because half the time, they aren't cooked quite enough to suit me. So when I saw Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough PopTarts at Target, I decided I'd give them a try. After all, they were $1.52 a box and frankly, my best friend loves cookie dough, so she'd eat the rest of them happily if I didn't like them.
I don't like my PopTarts toasted, so I just opened the package and dug in. I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised. They didn't have the nasty texture of cookie dough in the filling. There were plenty of chocolate chips and overall, I didn't get the normal taste of cookie dough either. It wasn't overly sweet. For me, the fact that I ate both PopTarts without giving them over to my best friend pretty much says it all. They were pretty good. Not something I'd want very often, but they were good.
Next flavor to try - Chocolate Banana Split. Those should prove to be interesting. ;)
I play a bunch of the different apps on Facebook. For example, I play Mafia Wars, Vampire Wars, Demon Wars, School of Magic, Sorcerer of Darkness, Barn Buddy, Farm Town, Sweet Shop, Sea Garden, Lil Green Patch, and a few others. Games like Sweet Shop, Sea Garden, Lil Green Patch, and My FairyLand actually help you raise money for causes. However I have to be careful when playing the games. You see, Sweet Shop benefit's St. Jude's, which a friend of mine on Facebook is highly against.
She has a reason, of course. We all know St. Jude's treats children suffering from cancer and they state that they provide treatment regardless of ability to pay. Well, my friend's son had a fever of 106, and the closest hospital was St. Jude's. St Jude's found out my friend did not have insurance and refused to see her son. I mean really, come now. Don't advertise that you treat cancer patients regardless of ability to pay and insurance but then turn away a child with a life-threatening fever of 106 because they don't have insurance. It's not like they went in there asking for a fat burner pill. They went there for a legitimate medical reason! And were turned away!
Now I still support them for their cancer research but I can't help but wonder if there is more to my friend's story than what she told me about it.
About people when you work with them. For instance, I have a diabetic co-worker, I have a co-worker who I kid you not, smells like bacon all the time, and my boss takes diet pills. I knew I had a diabetic co-worker, and the bacon smelling one, but not about the diet pills. All righty then. To each their own. ;)
But I have to say, my boss did say she "dieted" for 13 years before finally giving up on getting those last few pounds off and started taking the pills. According her, she was as big as I am or bigger when she started dieting. And you wanna know how she lost most of her weight? She literally cut everything in half, ate one half and threw the other away. Yes, she threw it away.
She never gave up fast food or anything else, she just simply ate only half of what she would normally eat. And she started walking. So I said ok, we're going to try this. Come this payday, I'm going to get myself some decent walking shoes and get started. I wanted to start walking on June 1, but didn't have the money to get the good walking shoes, and also, I was sick.
Hopefully I can get down to those "last few stubborn pounds" and get rid of this weight.
Ok, one thing I have to say I do very much disagree with at my job is the complete and utter lack of clarification on policy and procedures. I mean really. It shouldn't be rocket science. I provide customer service for a company that provides cellular phones and service for those phones. But frankly, their lack of clarification is just irritating.
For example, during my training class we grilled the instructor - what do we do if we get a call from someone who works in our call center? Answer: It will never happen, but if it does, treat them like any other customer. What do we do if a friend calls in and gets us? Answer: Highly unlikely, but treat like any other customer. Family member? Same answer. We went over and over and over this for at least 45 minutes, giving every possible scenario we could thing of. Answer was ALWAYS the same.
So tonight a call comes in from someone who used to work for our call center. They do not work there anymore, have not since last year. I get the call, I handle it, they want to speak to someone to tell them how good I did. Fine. So they tell the supervisor that they still work for us, etc etc. Supervisor tells me I didn't do anything wrong, but then starts talking to MY supervisor and the ops manager about it. Now wait a minute here. If I didn't do anything wrong, why are you making a big deal out of it?
First off, I knew the person didn't work there anymore - because they said they work on a Mac computer at work. We use HP computers. They also told me things about the iPhone that are not true, among other things. So after work I asked MY boss about it. She said the person left us at the end of last year, but that for future reference, if it appears to be someone who might work for our call center, they need to hang up and call back to get a different call center. Fine. But I did mention to her that it would be nice to have the training classes be told that.
Frankly, I don't know the person, and I treated them exactly like I would have treated any other customer. I spent 2 hours on the phone with this person trying to fix their problem for them. Now I'm still not sure if I'll lose my job over it or not. When I go in tomorrow, I'm going to tell my boss I want full clarification. Did I do something wrong and if so, what will be done about it. I don't want to go in one day next week and be told that I'm no longer employed by my job.
