i'm coming slow but speeding...

Saturday, August 13, 2005

okay, finally have an open opportunity to sit down and write about how disgruntled i am that chuck's leaving.

wednesday night, after leaving margarita's, i drove on down to bertucci's and chilled with john and chuck while they did inventory.
during this time, john and i commiserated about our similiar situations dealing with the gossip folk, and i was able to get some stuff off my chest about john's gossip without making it seem like i was approaching him and being a bitch. wow, that was a great feeling to tactfully tell someone exactly how i felt without being aggressive, and still having them fully understand the scope of what you're saying.

so anyway, around 1:30amish, john gets a phone call from dave and sean... apparently they had to "watch a movie" (cough go smoke a bowl cough), so john asked chuck if it was cool if he bounced. chuck was all "yeah, julie and i will crank out inventory in like a half hour!"

cut to 3:30am. a very strong uber-big margarita for each of us and inventory long since completed; chuck and i are still sitting in bertucci's just bullshitting. at this point, i was like "dude, you gotta get home, or lauren's gonna kill you" (lauren being his girlfriend, and not my little lauren). so he locked up shop, and we chilled in the parking lot for another 20 minutes or so and went our seperate ways.

it's been a while since i've had such a nice lengthy conversation with one person, and had to drag myself away from the conversation. (it was actually july 1st, if we must get into specifics.) i'm really going to miss chuck. he is the only manager at bertucci's that i can respect as a manager. he gets his shit done, and whether you like him or not, you had to admit that he was thorough and had respect for his employees.
aside from that, i'd say chuck and i grew to be good friends in the year he was at the southington bertucci's. i was one of the only people that was not only kind to him when he first started, but i didnt compare him to our old manager lemuel. granted, i was as pissed as everyone else that lemuel got transferred out, but it wasn't either one of their choices, so there was no sense in me harbingering any resentment. chuck is one of the few people that not only understands my quirky sarcasm, btu can feed off it and throw it back at me. he's a dork, quirky, and strange... but they all work in his favor. he's one of the few people i've met that is willing to admit they are a bigger dork than i am, and that's no small feat.

it's going to be extremely difficult working at bertucci's without him there. at the very VERY least, he helped keep me sane on the nights when i was pissed beyond all reason at sean but still had to work with him. some people just fed the fire on my side of things. chuck just kind of kept my mind off of it, and when it did come up, would crack a joke and make me forget about it briefly enough to get me out of the kitchen. i question whether or not sean ever noticed it, but there were more than a few nights that, had chuck not been there to keep a smile on my face, i might have just decked him. if nothing else, chuck proved to be a good buffer between the two of us. and much more.

it's a sort of disorienting feeling knowing that when i walk in to work tomorrow night, i won't have chuck at the expo window to joke around with me, keep my mind off certain things, and make the night go by a little faster. i guess things are going back to the way they used to be pre-chuck... but thats not neccesarily a good thing.
gah.

having a bad night at work tonight hardly helped the transition from chuck to no-chuck. shit just went wrong; there was a massive misscommunication between me, kelly r, kristen, dave, john, and sean... and shit just went all to hell. it was flat out a miserable night at work. talk about starting off on the wrong foot.

on a quasi-related note: sean should be getting a job at ruby tuesday's. as silly as it sounds, if he gets another job, then i'm going to stick around bertucci's. if he doesn't, then they have my two week notice. i cant stand working with him anymore. not just him, but having to deal with The Triumvirate (sean, john, and dave) is getting to be more than a pain. seperately, and/or outside of work, these guys are great. however, get them all in bertucci's at once and the three of them seem to feed off each others' moods and attitudes, and throw it out to whomever they feel like targeting. it's getting to be more than i can bear. and since her sheepish return from florida, lisa's been trying to be all buddy-buddy to sean, thinking i'm oblivious to the whole thing. kristen's immaturity and overabundant emotional outpourings are gettingto be more than i can take. kelley is simply a hormonal bitch. she needs to pop out that kid and stop letting everything ruben does/says affect her entire life for the day. liz is leaving to go to school in virginia. virginia. for the love of god woman, do you have to be so far away?! complaints about anyone else have either slipped my mind or the person is just that inconsequential. it's time for me to leave that place while i'm still on a good note.

2 more weeks until we're back up at uconn. 14 days. i hope this time flies.

jules was lost in thought at 3:01 AM

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